I'm just glad the entire thing wasn't designed as a serious platformer because I suck and will always suck at them. That said, I thought the tentacle chase was harder than the actual boss fight--normal difficulty, and ymmv obviously. I did spend time between attacks clearing out as much as possible on the ground, and the double-jump skill was invaluable in that fight (and everywhere else.)
You can either start it afterword by clicking on the heart icon with ???? after it, or in game you need to be killed specifically with the grapple move (this is a common theme for most of the h-scenes). The bottom left isn't just 'die to specific enemy', but often has conditions.
Well said!
Full disclosure, I was lazy about upgrades and had more or less played up to Chapter 16 with the bare minimum (1/3 in the magic wings and each of the basic swing combos), so I won't rule out that a lot of my frustration was my own fault because I wanted to get through the game, not figure out what upgrades were good and what weren't. The dev definitely has a great sense of how to design hack 'n slash/action platformer bosses well, but the bosses after Chapter 12 give an extremely strong "Dork Souls knockoff" vibe with the seemingly arbitrary addition of some new attack, buff or ability every 10% of their HP they lose. It's only the execution that falls flat because of how many of those unexpected attacks are one shots or screen-wide multi-hits that punish you excessively for even a slight slip-up.
Just progress far enough through the stages. You don't need to do anything special.
Wait, you can use the holy skill in the shmup section of the stage?
Haha, I mostly breezed through the entire game on hard but that was one of the few stages where I have to repeat the entire stage due to a game over. Insta-kill platformer chase at the start and a boss that you need to wait to attack so you can attack. Anyway, it taught me how to manage my ice and lightning skills properly so I kinda felt it was fine afterward. Even in the boss rush stage Poseidon still manages to force me to eat a life gem.
You get this as you progress through the story. I think the tattoo gets bigger too as the story progress, and once unlocked, you can customize the size of the tattoo in the character customization screen. Its effect is mostly only relevant in the story but there are in-game traps that activate it and give you a temporary DEF debuff and prevent you from using magic.
Hello. Just wanted to let you know you were very close to getting it done. You want to download the latest nightly build of UABEA. Which allows for plugins to work.
Hey there! I had been trying this the other day, but the actual final step still stumps me: I had found out about the nightly build, too, and everything was intuitive, but during the compression step UABEA only creates a 349MB (using LZ4) or 400MB (using LZMA) big file and then crashes. When trying to feed the game the uncompressed unity3d bundle, it'll start, but only show an empty menu, so I assume the compression step is necessary. Manually compressing it doesn't work either (critical error: "failed to initialize player" when starting the game); I assume a certain file structure (UnityFS?) is needed, which I wasn't able to figure out.
Thanks so much for this! Got it working on Linux using Lutris and Winetricks and I wanted to share (and didn't see any posts regarding this in this thread):
Were you able to just compress the bundle after editing the asset? I'm still stumped at that step. UABEA simply crashes during the compression step and leaves me with an incomplete bundle file.
I'm doing it a different way that circumvents recompressing anything.
Is there still a plan for a way to import the new texture without Asset studio or UABEA?
At the moment... No.
It's complete in the sense that you can play the entirety of it through from start to finish and there are endings. The game has also officially been released and is on sale. However, the dev is still working on bug fixes and content patches as far as I'm aware. But I'd say this is a "finished" game.
