Another issue was balancing the classes, specifically the Knight. For the Knight, I wanted to add a parry system. I absolutely love parry mechanics in games. Sekiro, The First Berserker: Khazan, and Dark and Darker have some of my favorite versions of this mechanic, and it has always been something I wanted to make. In Mythological Hunt, though, it was difficult to get it just right. I had to play with the parry window a lot, and add a minigame after a successful parry to land a riposte attack that deals massive damage. The main problem arose when I began implementing flurry attacks from the bosses. A successful parry would give you damage immunity until the minigame and reposte animation were completed, so a knight could ignore a full combo. Fixing this required the implementation of being able to parry multiple times in a row while resetting the minigame instead of just resisting damage. Overall, it made the parry-and-riposte much more intensive and dynamic.

Finally, scaling the monsters through difficulties and player counts was an interesting balance and design challenge. If something worked well in solo (like the riposte staggering the monsters in one hit due to its damage) would not work as well in a team where the health and stagger thresholds were larger. This required me to pay careful attention to damage numbers and exactly how each class would function solo or in a team.