MV - (Moving)Shadows of the Earth: The Vrila'an Legend

Shadows of the Earth: The Vrila'an Legend tells the story of a fallen god, looking for revenge against a human who, because of his power, was able to attack his realm, and kill all of his peers. But why did this happen?
Travel as Joseph, the God of Courage, in order to find people who can help you fight this powerful foe, and find your siblings who you never got to know while in Efgartha, the realm of the gods to uncover the mystery that unleashed this war.

Being a game heavily focused on battles and inspired by the Tales of Series, Shadows of the Earth: The Vrila'an Legend uses a special iteration of the Linear Motion Battle System

Completed Evolved Legacy - Linear Motion Battle System​

• Control a character in real time battles against groups of enemies both in ground and air.​
• Unleash amazing attacks with inmense power known as Elents (You can spam them, don't worry).​
  • Maximize your combos with Chain Elents: Follow up Elents activated by a single button.​
  • Skyrocket your damage with Altered Union Elents: Special Elents that are a force to be reckoned with.​
• When the enemy is too powerful, activate Overflux to gain knockback/stun resistance and no cost for Elents.​
• Ascend into Spirit Force as your last resort to win the battle.​
• Fill your Limit Gauge and unleash one of three Limit Elents: Elents that are the culmination of elemental mastery of the characters.​
• Seamless character switch mid-battle.​
• No Spell-pause: Spells never stop the action from happening!​
• Mobile Casting: Mages can reposition at any time to avoid damage.​
• Skill Cancels: Cancel any elent to begin another, and keep your enemies in the ropes!​
• Target Lock-on. Start the battle ready to cast spells at a single foe, or change your target at any time.​
• Blink Chase: An special ability that allows you to pursue enemies during a combo, no matter how far you launch them.​
• Guard Counters: When you break a boss' shield, it will try to one up you with a special move, block it on its face then combo them into oblivion!​
• Multiplayer: Join forces with up to 3 friends to bring an end to this war.​
• Battle up to 8 foes with in-map encounters on. World map has random encounters.​
• Fight against massive bosses with a single objective: decimating you.​
• Engage human enemies that can also perform combos and Limit Elents: May the strongest win.​
• Not enough of a challenge? Face off against Wandering Bosses: Powerful monsters that roam the entire country of Angorian looking for a showdown.​
• Difficulties: From Training to Chaos, change difficulties to learn the gimmicks of the battle system or empower enemies to challenge yourself.​
• Customizable AI: Choose from AI presets, set up specific targets, a general tactic and the use items to coordinate your allies' movements!​

• With 16 characters to choose from, create formations up to 4 characters in battle. (Plus 12+ Collabs!)​
• Equip up to 16 Elents per character (2 Sets of 4 Ground + 4 Aerial ) to engage.​
• Increase your combo potential with Fluxites to increase your FLUX Capacity.​
• With many accesories and armors, turn your characters into Glass Cannons or Steel Walls. Customize them as deeply as you want!​
• Equip weapons and improve them via Boost Stones!​
• Skins! Characters have access to more skins to customize their aspect slightly! From tuxedos to armor changes!​
• Earn titles by doing specific actions. All characters have access to titles.​
• Upgrade equipment with augments: Special Parts that increase stats, grant bonuses and even allow you to learn new elents!.​
• Craft augments with monster parts, or find them exploring.​
• Spend Potential Energy Shards to activate special effects upon equipping Passive Elents​
• Or even better, trigger C-Skills to help your allies any time in battle!​

• Explore Angorian: Many locations await adventurers to find treasure, or to free them from the claws of evil.​
• Join the cast in exploring their lives, and how their fates connect to each other.​
• Cooking! Cook dishes that offer healing, battle perks such as stat increases, resistances, and permanent bonuses!​
• Save the world from a second threat in Echoes of the Rift: An event that reunites many heroes from the RPG Maker Community!​
• Skits!​

• Efgartha: The Realm of the Gods.​
• Terraquia: The Mortal Realm​
• Neviliham: The Realm of the Demons.​

• Ether: The elemental energy that exists in everything and empowers Ether Elents.​
• Flux: The physical energy that envelopes every living thing, and allows superior feats.​

Echoes of the Rift is an already included content expansion where 13 Cameo characters reunite, and fight alongside the characters of Shadows of the Earth.​

• Its own set of moves (~11 or 12 Elents)​
• One Limit Elent (For a total of ~12 or 13 Elents)​
• Access to Overflux​
• Their game's origin weapon, and some of their original skills​
• Access to SoTE:TVL's Passive Elent System​
• A specific mechanic of their origin game. (Or adaptation of one)​

The characters reunite after being brought by a mysterious force to Angorian, where they'll have to forge relations with other heroes to fight this new menace that threatens to not only damage Terraquia, but all of their worlds. Will these unlikely heroes be able to fight against this threat?
Current Mechanics adapted​

• Fidel's Elemental Stack (Referred as Elemental Impulse in-game)​
• Takeru's RNG Skill Requirement​
• Allannia's Input Chain (Integrated as Chain Elent Ability)​
• Nick's Boost Command (Added as Elent Boost in-game)​

• - Chain Elent Skill
• - Alteration Elent Skill
• - Limit Elent Skill
• - Overflux Skill
• - Blink Chase Skill

• - Makeria Cameo Battle (These will almost literally kick your ass)
  • -> Rook Valorie (GenericFantasyDev's Cameo Character)
  • -> Black Mage (Black Mage's Cameo Character)
  • -> O'Donell (TRIDIUM's Cameo Character)
  • -> Holder (Holder's Cameo Character)
• - Normal Rank Arena Battle (These not so much)
• - Easy Rank Arena Battles (Neither those)
• - 2 Wandering Bosses (These might kick your ass)

• - Fixed load game bug
• - Fixed weird crash related to YEP_AutoPassiveStates
  • To avoid this, you might have to eat an extra cutscene during boss fights. Thankfully, losing a random encounter will only throw you out of the fight. (Unless you're at the... i can't say yet :) ).
• - Fixed event after defeating Miner Orc
• - Fixed Font being unreadable
• - Fixed Incorrect Gamepad Buttons
• - Changed Tutorial overlay to reflect the correct control schemes
• -> Tutorial prompts now are split for Keyboard and Gamepad: The game will try to listen for any gamepads during the tutorial, and will display only the buttons for the gamepads. Else, it will display keyboard keys. (Currently under test, you can select your preferred device on the Basic Demo)
• - Fixed A.I going dumb after selecting Easy as difficulty
• - Slightly improved A.I Decision making in increased difficulties
• - Small fixes to various Elents.
• - Fixed Takeshi and Perla having the wrong starter Elents equipped.
• - Slightly improved performance thanks to NW.js update
• - Fixed Normal Attack Chain not working in demo.
• - Fixed warning about encounters not appearing correctly after leaving the Bridge
• - Fixed Guard button not working in gamepads.
• - Fixed some events going too fast, so fast that the event reposition and dissapearance was shown
• - Fixed some Elents having Spanish Translation that should not be available yet
• - Fixed "ENEMY" HP Bar appearing also on "ALLIES"
• - Fixed wrong spell casting reductions and calculation
• - FOCUS no longer affects casting time. Instead, effectiveness has been raised towards affecting Status Effects, FLUX Reload amount, and Critical Hit Strength. A high FOCUS count will grant increased critical power and stun duration
• - Added an extra menu after losing a boss fight: You can retry the battle, load your saved game or go to the main menu
• - Added Learn Potential tab to the main menu. More info in-game
• - Added the first shop in Berdem. Starter Kit is still given to players (5 Ether Apples, 5 Ether Oranges)
• - Added Spellcast Bars: These bars show the progress related to spells. Appear for both allies and enemies
• - Added Sound Test: Allows you to listen to the songs you've heard at least once. It may contain spoilers.
• - Reduced enemy attack regularity
• - Reduced Enemy HP
• - Normal attacks have been overhauled. Takeshi explains the new mechanic before entering Eidolon Mines
  • -> Each character has access to 4 base normal attacks. Can be extended up to 7 with the Combo Plus skills
  • -> Mage Characters have only access to one normal attack.
• - Increased Duration of Dodge
  • Now displays the text PERFECT! when sucessfully dodging an impact
• - Replaced Rising Strike (Joseph) with a stronger version.
• - Changed Rising Strike usability type from Aerial to Free
• - Replaced Burning Edge (Joseph) with a stronger version
• - Ally/User Spell time slightly increased.
• - Certain team skills are now available during the basic demo.
  • -> All Team skills are available in the advanced demo
• - Takeshi's Union Elents have new knockback properties.
  • -> Chain properties have been tweaked.
• - (Not on Demo) Wendy's Elents have been tweaked
  • -> Lunar Rondo reworked
  • -> Sapphire Spear Sigma reworked
  • -> Tearing Moon's hitboxes adjusted
  • -> Riptide's hitboxes adjusted
• - (Not On Demo) Mike's Elents have been tweaked
  • -> Thunder Crescent's knockback increased.
  • -> Decreased damage on Power Wave
  • -> Increased Movement Length on Sonic Strike
• - (Not On Demo) Ryan's Elents have been tweaked

• - Wyrm Hurricane
• - Hurricane Orb
• - High Impact
• - Palm Strike
• - Lightspeed Strike

- Finished new mechanic -> Blink Chase​

• - Updated Sprites / HUD's / Animations
• - Chain animation added
• - Alteration animation added
• - Battler Visual Updates
  • >Most Battlers now have their weapons out during the fight.
  • >Added animations for enemies
  • >Some bosses have improved animations (They're still somewhat static)

• (+) Opening theme, it's beautiful.
• (+) Art, your drawings are really nice and the art is consistent. By the way, you did not encode your files so you may want to do that.
• (+) Battle system is chaotic, crazy, and most of the time I had no idea what was going on, and yet it's kinda cool. Seeing characters doing attacks, and everything moving and numbers flying around the screen, it's certainly different from other things I've tried before. With that said, I was only pressing "d" and playing on easy mode. I'm not sure what it would feel like on harder difficulty.
• (+) The amount of experience I was gaining (especially at the beginning) was nice. I quickly leveled up to level 8 I think. And it's cool that enemy levels also adjust as you level up. Although if executed poorly then it becomes a pain - like Skyrim and Final Fantasy 8.

• (-) Mapping. They are bland. A lot of empty space. Would like those to be prettier. I've been spoiled by seeing pretty RPG Maker maps lately.
• (-) Menu. I believe you are using MOG for main menu, and those grey icons just don't fit with the beautiful art. I know MOG doesn't play nicely with Yanfly, but I'd still like to see different Equip, Item and Skill screens. Status screen looks cool though, here the color and the art match pretty well.
• (-) Some phrases and item finds were in Spanish. (And I really wanted to know what they were saying).
• (--) This one was a big one for me. For a demo, I've no idea where the story is going and characters feel very un-natural at the moment. I did not feel a connection with any of the characters. I think you were concentrating mostly on the battle system for now and not as much on the story?
• (-) Think about adding a quest journal.
• (-) Thank you for making visible encounters inside dungeons, but it was impossible to avoid certain enemies for me. I'd like more choice to the player of whether or not to fight. And because I was running into battles so often, the battle system became tediously repetitive rather than enjoyable.

• Map JSON file was missing for the Torre Gotjin
• What do we do here Joseph? We become one with the wall, Perla.