MV - Vanguard Redemption

The current version has been slightly updated to make some of the enemies in the penultimate area less frustrating to deal with.

I played your game for the forum’s Web Feedback Festival.

As I play it before and again, I play it a bit differently on this latest demo.
so I start with the issue-ish?

when I skip till the bandits, I get levels and JP and choose Fahn to the party,
but it's also on the table (which should not, why on 2 places at the same time?


as the NPC can help you skip, even if you go back and to the bandits and walk
through with the quest journal command, it still give another one! while I hoped this one
is disabled if you skip it (maybe failed the main quest for skipping!)

also keep selecting this give mass levels and JP, so I could be level 50, than continue
to make it is, which could be selected only once, not multiple times, or at a cost to "rewind"
to set a specific level to start from there?

Even on normal game play, it is still nice and challenging till the cave I played, but
the new area on the left side border was soooooo empty (as I know its under developement).

I keep an eye on this game as it's has replay value to test different classes.

I can also say that some HP gauges (on elemental and bandit's) doesn't show up,
than it does, than it doesn't and cannot tell why it does that.

also fleeing when not touching the OK button jumps away, but if you flee and press OK
button fast or holding it down, you don't see it at all, just fade out.

it might be tiny bugs or glitches the default works, but it didn't ruin the gameplay.

keep up the good work.

That's not an issue - I'm not concerned with making things look perfect if you're using the Playtest Goddess to skip parts of the game.

Same with the next stuff you talk about. I'm not sure why you're reporting problems with skipping portions of the game for playtesting...that's not the actual gameplay.

Can you describe or show a screenshot of where this is? I'm not sure if you're talking about the incomplete world map or some other area that I should improve the mapping of.

You don't see the HP gauges until you've defeated that kind of enemy once. That's a setting built into Yanfly's HP Gauges.

Hm, I'll have to check that out, I thought I had disabled the fast forwarding through events. I can't image what else you might mean.

Thanks for giving it a play!

this on the world map border left side (where one said something on relations.
but in overall, it is kind of empty in overall, like placing some mountains/trees to fill up
or obstacles somehow?

it did show up after defeating it, but also hide it again when you run into it,
same thing with bandits and other enemies having it as it like to toggle on/off
for some reason.

bandits => no hp gauge
bandit killed and re-encounter => showing
bandit after 4-6th encounter (kind of random) => no gauge
next bandit encounter it does etc.

so it's kind of buggy if you ask me as I see it often when testing, as the gauges
failed to initilize somehow.

I did both playTest NPC and normal, just to see how the NPC plays out on skipping parts.
but could be once activated. (thats just a suggestion as I don't see why multiples can happen).
if they struggle, they could skip it or reach a certain point.

the but when you do the last trial to become an officer though, it says something:
"you need to do this mission on your own" while he calls out 2 helpers anyway,
which isn't a solo mission, maybe slightly rephrase that line as you have a party of 3.

Howdy, I played your game for the Feedback Festival!

Thanks a lot!

Argh :stickytongue: I'll check it out, but you don't remember which side you talked to him from, do you?

Fricking seriously? Oy.

Good call, I have credits accumulated but not put into the plugin parameters for that yet - I should remove it until it's ready.

I just kind of ran in there and wasn't paying attention but I think from the top. I snapped a screen shot after it soft locked, not sure if it's any help.

Thanks - I just uploaded a fixed version. If you care to try any more, your save should be compatible.

Nice, I want to do another run as a different character to see how it plays. It'll probably be in a few days though.

Heya man! Played the game for the show, but also for the feedback festival. So here's ma write-up:


Overall, the game was not frustrating and was quite serviceable... just too simple for our tastes. Good luck with dev'ing! And feel free to rip my game apart in return :hswt:


PS. Here is a video if you care to watch us play it.

Thanks for the feedback.

If you didn't get to "the twist," then it sounds like you didn't get past the prologue of the game - but as soon as specializations unlock after the first dungeon, you would already see level progressions increasing different numbers in different parameters.

But even then, that's to make the classes more specialized between each other and growths of 1 are common - this is not a stupid-huge-numbers game.

I'll look into the agility buff; I do see it causes my actors to take turns more frequently, but obviously it shouldn't double their turn count or anything.

Oh, interesting. I didn't keep track of number of turns. I was just looking at turn order.

I've played your game for two hours, Turan. Here's what I have to say about my time with it.

@Sword_of_Dusk Thanks for the feedback!

Improving maps is definitely on my list of things to do, it's just...mapping...

A few bits for your knowledge:
- Did you go to Galer before you were told to? There absolutely is a purpose to that lady. But I'll fix her blocking the door.

- What was loud to you? All of the volume levels are at less than half the default. (there's a cool plugin for that :wink: )

- I actually recoded the hitting because I also hate the RNG - it's a true 95%, that is, out of every 100 attacks that require hit rolls, only 5 of them will miss. There is still the slight chance for evasion to randomize that.

- Defensive Stance needs to be fixed :guffaw: I actually changed it in my notes to decreasing a percentage of damage, which is more effective than increasing that percentage of defense, but I didn't remember to change it in the game.

That's hella weird. I could've sworn they did not start at half. Must be tripping.


It was on the way to the fort. I see a town in my travels, I'm checking in.


Good to know. I don't know what it is, but the base RNG feels off as hell.


Oh, cool. I knew something seemed real odd with only a 5% decrease.

Yeah, that was an early version before I finalized on my parameter values. No one's noticed before you :wink:

I recently did a marathon stream in which I played 8 games for the Feedback Festa. Your game was the first game I played, so thankfully that means you got my most sober opinion.

Vanguard redemption seems to take the steps in the right direction for a pretty good CRPG/JRPG with a strong foundation, but I do think lacks a compelling hook to grab the player.

Over my short time with the game (I allotted 40 minutes for it) I didn't make a lot of progress, but got to at least experience picking the starting class (will come back to that) some basic story set up, and then combat.

I was very happy with how you had decided to handle the class selection screen. Although it's really minor that I think a lot of people would not think twice about, the language used makes the class selection very low-pressure by clearing stating that the player is simply learning more information about the class, rather than being told they are making a choice. (I can't tell you the number of games I have played where the class/character selection was final without much of a chance to redo my choice, or was presented in a way where I thought the choice was going to be final).
It's small bits of clever word choice like this that I think goes a long way.

It's hard to give much critique on the rest of the game given my short time with it and how these facets may evolve over the length of the game.
From my short experience I felt like I had gimped myself in the early game by picking the caster (enchanter? mage? That dude).
This is due to the fact that any real damage from them requires a limited resource and once that limited resource has run dry, they become useless. Couple this with the fact you also get a healer in your party from the start, that basically means 2 of my members will be useless when it comes to damage.

I am sure as the game goes on, managing your MP/TP to make the mage very powerful would offset this short-coming, but at the start, the mage is basically useless when their only skill takes 10MP and they only get 70 max MP basically meaning they get 7 shots before becoming useless.
I would find some sort of way to help balance their effectiveness at least in the early game; perhaps their default attack could do more than pitiful damage, or maybe they could have a way to recharge MP easily (kind of like the healer), or maybe they could have a higher MP pool + a mid-damage (but low MP cost) skill. I don't know, the possibilities are endless, but for sure it feels like picking a class that can rely on their default attack skill is going to give a better starting experience than picking the class the necessarily requires resource management (beyond HP, obviously).

I did find that nothing really gripped me from the start, it does feel pretty low stakes in the story, and without custom art or music or anything else stand out, I think it will be tough to grab people's attention. I think this is the one problem with relying on mainly RTP or RTP-styled art; this art isn't inherently a problem, but it does mean you gotta make something more captivating elsewhere to make up for it, otherwise I think it might be easy for people to bounce off it quickly.

If you want to see my experience playing your game, you can find it in the link below. All the games have been time stamped, so you should be able to quickly jump to about when I start playing your game.
- YouTube

Hm. It might have been a build since I did it, but I most commonly play tested using that class.

I recall you should level up by the time/right around when you'd run out of MP (assuming you didn't waste a spell on a target with a tiny bit of health left), and then you should be able to afford a TP skill before you'd run out again.

I'll have to double check that progression.

Thanks for the feedback.

Was the download link taken down? I was going to play this as my 5th(last?) entry for the feedback festival.

Yes. Between some of the posts here and other people playtesting, I got a good amount of feedback for the current build of the project.

And since several of them said similar things, I felt I had more than enough to work with until the next version.