Pre-development plan 4

"Encyclopedia & Balance Update"

The fourth pre-development plan balances the early-game gameplay and strategy while also made the Rebirths accessible only after beating the game.

Additions

Story

• Added 6 new dedicated story chapter names:

  • Prologue: In the Beginning...

  • Chapter 1: A Shooting Star?

  • Chapter 2: A Long Journey Ahead

  • Chapter 3: Suspicious Activity

  • Chapter 4: In Pursuit of the Phoenix

  • Chapter 5: New Journey and Realm

  • Chapter 6: Tropical Approach

  • Chapter 7: Into the Dynastic Civilization

  • Chapter 8: It's Vibrant Yet Prolific

  • Chapter 9: Her Outlandish Dimensional Thrones

  • Chapter 10: Transcending Beyond the Space

  • Epilogue: The End?

Encyclopedia

• Added an in-game encyclopedia called "Phoenopedia":

  • Features a comprehensive data of items, equipments, enemies, and locations.

  • Accessible by pressing 

Items

Primary weapons

• Added a handful of new weapons that are more powerful than the Morning Star (implemented for future plans):

  • Melee weapons (can be Ki-charged):

    • Chapter 5: Twilight Metal Axe (28 damage)

    • Chapter 5: Knight Metal Sword (35 damage)

    • Chapter 6: Dark Matter Hammer (45 damage)

    • Chapter 7: Enchanted Jadeite Bat (60 damage)

    • Chapter 7: Undergrowth Club (120 damage, also stuns enemies)

    • Chapter 8: Long Frostbite Sword (105 damage, also freezes enemies for 5 seconds)

    • Chapter 8: Volcanic Tectonic Star (153 damage, also deal an additional 30 fire damage/.second)

    • Chapter 9: Valkyrie Lightweight Sword (120 damage, also ×1.5 attack speed)

    • Chapter 9: Desolation Dagger (105 damage, also ×3 attack speed)

    • Chapter 10: Ultimate Mace (300 damage)

  • Ranged weapons (cannot be Ki-charged):

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Tools

• Added four new tools for four additional numeric keys:

Other equipments

• Added a few more equipments:

  • Chapter 5 (no key): Jetpack (replaces the Rocket Boots to allow flying upwards)

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Changes

Story

• Replanned to 10 story chapters instead of 12 to reduce the burden of planning by a fair margin. Also fitting with the 3× larger content on par with the existing Awakening version.

• Renamed "Far East Bridge" to "Iedas Bridge".

Items

• Renamed "Chainmain Armor" to "Chain Mail Armor".

• Slightly increased the Morning Star's attack damage from 20 to 21 to match the triangular number of all tools.

• Increased the bombs' damage to enemies/breakable objects to 45.

• Changed the Life Ring's regeneration and health warning thresholds to min(floor(max HP / 12), 12). For instance, if your maximum HP is 504, then the threshold is 504 / 12 = 42 HP.

Enemies

• Adjusted the enemies' attack damage to better justify the greatly higher maximum HP when compared to the original Flash version.

  • Bull Bee: 4 HP → 5 HP

  • Baby Sand Dragon: 4 HP → 5 HP

  • Desert Bandits' charged attack: 5 HP → 6 HP

  • Koi:

    • Contact damage: 5 HP → 6 HP

    • Water spit attack: 4 HP → 5 HP

  • Daea Guards: 6 HP → 7 HP

  • Guard Dog: 7 HP → 8 HP

  • Rollo & Flying Mines: 7 HP → 8 HP

  • Kobold: 6 HP → 7 HP

  • Acid puddle (from Zombots and Green Beetles): 7 HP → 8 HP

  • Acid ooze (from Zombots and Green Beetles): 8 HP → 9 HP

  • Zombot:

    • Contact damage: 6 HP → 7 HP

    • Slash attack: 7 HP → 8 HP

  • Cave Toad: 7 HP → 8 HP

  • Beetles:

    • Contact damage: 7 HP → 8 HP

    • Whipping attack: 9 HP → 10 HP

    • Purple Beetles' explosion: 11 HP → 13 HP

  • Arc:

    • Contact damage: 8 HP → 9 HP

    • Axe attack: 9 HP → 10 HP

    • Charged attack: 10 HP → 12 HP

  • Harpy:

    • Contact damage and needle attack: 8 HP → 9 HP

    • Diving attack: 12 HP → 14 HP

    • Bomb drop (before obtaining the Harpy Backfire achievement):

      • Direct contact explosion: 15 HP → 18 HP

      • Free landing explosion: 16 HP → 18 HP

    • Bomb drop (after obtaining the Harpy Backfire achievement):

      • Direct contact explosion: 14 HP → 16 HP

      • Free landing explosion: 15 HP → 16 HP

  • Plant Dog:

    • Contact damage: 9 HP → 10 HP

    • Spore attack: 12 HP → 14 HP

  • Turret and Flying Sentry: 6 HP → 7 HP

  • Megalith (including lightning grounds): 10 HP → 12 HP

  • Bosses:

    • Great Drake:

      • Normal contact damage: 4 HP → 5 HP

      • Rolling attack and lava puddle: 5 HP → 6 HP

      • Falling rocks and lava balls: 6 HP → 7 HP

    • Big Robot:

      • Contact damage: 4 HP → 5 HP

      • Charged attack: 8 HP → 9 HP

    • Mercenary General:

      • Contact damage: 7 HP → 8 HP

      • Energy ball attack: 10 HP → 12 HP

    • Master Computer (all attacks except Flying Sentries' bullets and mines): 10 HP → 12 HP

• Enemies can now drop multiple distinct types of loot together.

Gameplay

Player mechanics

• Gale now have the ability to roll from the start of the game, to match both the Awakening version and the sequel.

• Now starts with 8 inventory slots instead of 10, and you can buy up to 12 bag attachments to increase your inventory slots to 20. The 10 additional free slots can only be obtained from Rebirths.

• Changed the option from "discard" items to "drop" items (will disappear once you leave the location).

• Slingshots now deal 3 damage to enemies instead of 1.

• Falling into the bottomless pit deals 6 damage to the player (equivalent to a single regular heart ruby) instead of 5.

• Bombs, rollo mines and flying mines now deal 8 damage instead of 7 to fit with the vastly greater HP capacity when compared to the original Flash version.

• Lasers now deal 7 damage to the player instead of 6.

• Changed the HP value of the golden hearts from 24 HP to 36 HP.

• Rewritten the stats of the armor: "DEF: +A + B% of the enemies’ damage" → "DEF: +floor(A + B% PBD)", where PBD stands for "per base damage"

Rebirths

• Now only accessible after beating the game by defeating the final boss.

General

Map

• Updated the Location Danger Index to be scaled rather quadratically and changed the values.

• Changed the design again and reverted from digital design.

Technical

Controls

• Changed the key binding to improve the quality of life, especially for consistency with many games that use both arrow key and WASD key mappings.

  • Old key binding:

    • Left arrow = Move left

    • Right arrow = Move right

    • Up arrow, Y, Z = Jump

    • Down arrow = Crouch

    • X = Use/attack/interact

    • S = Status menu (redundant with the S key as the WASD equivalent to the down arrow key)

  • New key binding:

    • Left arrow, A = Move left

    • Right arrow, D = Move right

    • Up arrow, W, Y, Z = Jump

    • Down arrow, S = Crouch

    • X = Use/attack/interact

    • E = Status menu

Display

• Changed the display from 900 × 600 to 1280 × 720 (720p HD).

Saving

• The stamina boost is now saved upon exiting the game.

Removals

• Removed the Rolling Scroll, as Gale now have the ability to roll from the start of the game.