I thought I would share a few more general details and features. I can't get into specific details about the plot, because this is a continuation of events after Escheron. I would be spoiling too much! Still -- I don't want to leave everyone hanging. In the meantime...

 - A dark and dismal world set against the political machinations of demonic rulers. Face death and destruction at every turn as you attempt to fight your way through hoards of demons and undead, and dethrone the Four Crown Princes of Hell. Only then will the plot of the Rephaim be revealed, and the forces that have scourged mortal existence for centuries.

 - An expansive, open-ended world. Many maps sport resolutions as high as 128x128 tiles. The world is 1:1 to scale, with no icons representing towns and dungeons; instead, the player seamlessly moves from one area to the next. Vessels can move in and over entire kingdoms and dungeons. In some instances, it is necessary to use a vessel to travel to sections of dungeons that can't be reached on-foot. A single dungeon from the world of Rephaim is practically larger than every map from Escheron put together.

 - Approximately 40 hours of gameplay. Moving to and from areas will demand extended exploration.

 - The ability to call upon guardians to change the tide of battle. Guardians also function as a proxy between the mortal world, and the world of magic. A character who equips a guardian will gain access to an array of magical spells.

 - A revamped approach to combat: Fully-animated spells and effects, and the addition of background graphics to note scenery.

 - A traditional experience-level system that defines linear character growth, providing a strict, strategic role to each player character. Characters also learn a selection of personal skills and merits.

 - An extensive selection of equipment, and the addition of equipment "sets" that provide synergistic bonuses when certain items are simultaneously equipped.

Well it works fine now. However try to watch how you talk to others. Not everyone got a IQ of 2000 like you do and there's no point in trying to make others who somehow say something that seems to make not sense like retards

What on Earth are you talking about?

Got it. This will be yet another thing that I'll have to keep at the back of my mind when it comes time to programming the battle sequences.

At the moment, I'm going to spend some time putting in most of the textual and statistical data for things like place names and enemies.

EDIT: Under the "bestarium" section, would you further explain what each entry is supposed to mean? I mean, some of it's clear-cut and some of it really isn't. A better explanation of "rank" would be good.

Rank serves two purposes:

1.) To limit character growth from fighting the same enemy over and over, or fighting too many weaker enemies.

2.) To give characters experience points in their proficiency merits.

A character's attributes can only be raised to a certain point, depending on the rank of the enemies they're fighting. Each rank level indicates what this limit is:

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 1 star -  64 mHP / 32 for normal attributes
 2 star - 128 mHP / 64 for normal attributes
 3 star - 255 mHP / 99 for normal attributes
  n/a   - no growth
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So, what this means is that a character can only gain up to 64 mHP by fighting rank-1 enemies. That character would need to start fighting rank-2 and rank-3 enemies in order to increase his or her mHP beyond 64. This prevents the character growth system from being exploited, in that the player can't simply fight weaker enemies over and over to achieve endless status growth.

You understand the basic character growth system, right? Characters will randomly have their status increased after battles, depending on how their equipped items influence that growth. You pair this with the enemy ranks to determine how that growth is limited.

Secondly, each rank translates into experience points for each characters' proficiency merits. Whatever a character has equipped during battle, they gain experience in those proficiencies based on the total rank levels of all the defeated enemies. So if character-A fights a battle against two ruhks, that character gains 4 experience points (because each ruhk is rank-2) in every proficiency that applies to his or her equipped items. Remember -- experience for proficiencies counts down. Each proficiency level will have an experience requirement, like 20, 30, 60, etc. This means you need to gain that much experience (accumulated from defeating enemies based on their ranks) to lower the experience requirement until you finally reach the next proficiency level.

All right. I made a few changes to the statistics so you could swap the data out:

            | DAM | DEF | WIS | AGI | HIT | EVA | mHP | DMG. Redux
------------+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+------------
Kenpo-gi    | +12 | +10 | *** | +05 | +02 | +04 | n/a |   (n/a)
Dark Shroud | *** | +14 | *** | n/a | +02 | +02 | n/a |   (n/a)
Minerva     | *** | +14 | +12 | +05 | *** | +02 | n/a |     8%
Serpentskin | *** | +16 | *** | n/a | *** | +02 | +08 |   (n/a)
Brigandine  | *** | +14 | *** | n/a | *** | +02 | +12 |    10%
Cuirass     | *** | +20 | *** | -10 | *** | -02 | +20 |    12%
Flame Mail  | *** | +22 | *** | -10 | *** | -02 | +20 |    12%
Mirror Mail | *** | +28 | *** | -10 | *** | -02 | +20 |    16%
Ornate Ring | *** | *** | +08 | +05 | *** | +02 | n/a |   (n/a)
Murasame    | +18 | *** | *** | +05 | +64 | +02 | n/a |   (n/a)
Sylvan Bow  | +14 | -02 | +12 | +05 | +64 | *** | n/a |   (n/a)
Artemis Bow | +22 | *** | +16 | +10 | +64 | -02 | n/a |   (n/a)

I marked empty stat slots with three asterisks to give you an idea of which slots you could swap out. I completely removed the mHP bonus from the Minerva since it had too many statistical features, so now that shouldn't be a problem.

Though I don't know the project, I would believe it's a cheaper form of preventing the tilemap from overrunning its boundaries, since the player would not be allowed to see the outer edges in this fashion. If the tilemap were to be centered on the character, you'd have to make a larger tilemap in the event the character wants to go toward the edge of the map, where the tilemapper would have to then start displaying things outside of its original boundary.

Ah, that makes sense. Designing map-boundaries in Escheron was a pain for this reason, but I opted to do so anyway.

A little more propaganda couldn't hurt.

That's pretty impressive for being 1BPP 8x8 graphics.