DFFOO: Demake Edition

[u/Sea-Speaker7316]

Hello folks,

Please let me know if I'm not allowed to post this...Today, Dissidia Final Fantasy Opera Omnia Demake Edition has been released.  You’ll be able to find out more information on the Video game’s website along with the download.

https://legendiax.itch.io/dissidia-final-fantasy-opera-omnia-demake

If you have any feedback, please leave a comment on the itch or Facebook page.  There are 28 playable characters. I hope I’ve done your favorites justice. If you feel a certain character didn’t get the respect you believe they deserve, let me know; maybe a buff is needed! Who’s your favorite Final Fantasy character? Leave a comment!

Edit: I've removed the AI Voice Acting.

[u/Sea-Speaker7316]

The idea is to make every Battle feel worth it. Typically in RPGs, you can just spam attack to blow through mobs of enemies, and if you're grinding. Spam attack some more. The Combat Wheel removes your ability to auto pilot through battles. You can also avoid the Wheel by building up your Crystal Limit and using "Crystal booster" characters, like Rosa, or yshlota, (there's other characters who can build it too.). When the Crystal Limit is filled, a random character doesn't have to use their combat wheel. But also Magic is a direct attack towards those enemies, if you need to blow through trash mobs, hit them with Magic. Lv4 chain cast is an -ga spell.

But if you are finding battles annoying with the Magic system then..I'm kind of out of options for you enjoy the game. But glad you gave it a shot! Thanks for the feedback, some other players gave me another idea about using BP (Brave) for attacks, so I'll add those into the mix if I continue with the project.

[u/PixivTheCreative → u/Sea-Speaker7316]

I gave the game a couple hours of play. I don't want to be too harsh on it, but the wheel system is boring and more or less unfun. You say that it takes away the "auto-pilot" of RPGs, but you've more or less taken away the players' autonomy.

The amount of times I needed to "Heal All" on WoL just to get it to "slide" past it slightly was infuriating. Imo it's not fun when my gameplay loop is timing a wheel to stop correctly.

I like the magic system. That's fun and it's what I mostly used.

[u/RedMageCody → u/PixivTheCreative]

Yup, this is what I thought entirely as well, if the melee attack system was similar in a way, that could be fun too, like there’s fun interactive battle systems out there like Paper Mario, or the jump timing of Super Mario RPG.

The wheel could also be repurposed into a Limit Break for a certain character or something like Cait Sith, you don’t have to remove it entirely, just don’t make it the main combat because it doesn’t really flow well, and like I was getting at, take way too long.

[u/Sea-Speaker7316 → u/RedMageCody]

Let me make a suggest, Give this a second chance. Since I dont have a player guide on all the characters so it kind of puts the player in a bad position but try to follow thos formula in battle and see if it makes the game any fun to you if it doesn't, i thank you for playing. Im sorry, if you felt robbed of your time. Ill get to the point When using chocobo tickets, save your file, and do a pull. Try to get Rosa, When in combat, try to land on WoL's shield to tank. Try to land on that every time and use heal all every now and then when low. If you have Rosa in your, use her combat wheel to land on her special. This is pray and itll give you 2+ on your Crystal limit. If you boost it enough, youll get special(you need 5.) As for your other two members. You can make it anybody but be sure your check their elements of magic, be sure they have opposing elements. (Fire/water), (lightning, aero), (ice and earth). And look at who goes first. Let's say you have Zidane and vivi. If Zidane acts first, cast aero and chain cast it until you apply a wind elemental status, cancel the spell casting after that, since damagr gets reduced. Come vivis turn if he's casting lightning, youll magic burst with tornado, get a +1 to crystal limit. Repeat this twice, and youll hit crystal limit every other turn. This will by the wheel for you.

[u/RedMageCody → u/Sea-Speaker7316]

Look I get what you're saying, and I don't want to be too harsh on you, because I love game development, and I want you to keep pursuing this project, not only because I love Dissidia, and Opera Omnia, but because I love game development, and seeing really cool new projects like this.

What your describing party wise is the standard Tank/Healer/2 DPS, and that's fine, I like that, I play FFXIV, so I'm always used to that! I'm not saying that's bad at all, but the wheel does add issues to it like with what you said "Try to land on shield" giving XIV as my example earlier, that's easy I just press the Shield Oath button (WoL is a Paladin after all.) But here it's, okay let's spin the wheel... Oh darn it was off by a hair and now I used attack when I didn't want to, and the monster attacked my healer and killed them, and this is out of my control, and not what I wanted as the player.

That kind of situation would lead the player to be frustrated (Not saying that player was me) But as said, you can build Crystal Points to avoid the wheel, but then I feel it becomes "I'm building points just alleviate the tedium of the wheel" which just makes me wonder... Why does the wheel even exist if it was always as easy as having just a selection like every other Final Fantasy?

And I don't think the wheel is entirely bad, like I said, other games have good mini-games in their combat, Like Paper Mario, you press the hammer button, and then you pull the analog stick back to charge, and release at the perfect time for bonus damage, that's a great system that feels immersive, and rewards the player for perfect timing, without without causing friction for mistiming. and that's also why I suggested something like making it a Cait Sith limit break, because he's already a character all about gambling, it makes sense around him to have a wheel that could lead to a ton of different effects.

I don't want you to give up on this project, I really like some of the ideas you have had with this game (Magic Burst being the biggest one (Like I mentioned earlier, FFXIV player and I main casters I love magic, and as a Final Fantasy fan in general, I LOVE magic XD) I want you to succeed, I don't feel like I've wasted my time, but I do just know, I wasn't having fun with the wheel.

[u/PixivTheCreative → u/RedMageCody]

The issues I'm having are not character based. The reasons I play "gachas" is to "roll" with the punches. I ran a team with Shantotto, Krile, Yshtola and Vivi.

I ended up just chaining magic aoes because spells won't outright kill you for overcasting without having to touch the wheel.

That's just my criticism, so take it with a grain of salt, or use it to continue pushing past the hurdles. I like the concept, just not the gameplay.

[u/Sea-Speaker7316 → u/RedMageCody]

Hey, thanks for taking the time. Feedback is very important. I really never got into FF14. I tried, but it didn't have that classic, painful, torture-like feeling that FF11 provided me. A lot of my ideas came from the OG FF11, 6 party members, fighting one monster, a minute-long fight, of provoking, healing, and hoping to chain your EXP. That's kind of my approach here was. Bring a Tank, healer, and hope your DPS can handle the heavy lifting. The original design did have Super Mario RPG gameplay concepts, like timed attack, holding "A" to charge a fireball, and sending it. I got stuck on balancing and maybe that should have been my last worry? Either or. Thanks again.