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| ==Potential Tweaks to Battle Mechanics and assorted Ramblings==
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| The purpose of this section is to allow me a space to list off various critiques and potential improvements I'd like to implement in some of the older titles in the event that I spontaneously generate hacking aplomb or strike it rich and finance one. While I encourage anyone wasting their time reading this page to provide feedback, please do so on my talk page to avoid clutter.
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| ===Nightmare on Elm Street part Six===
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| '''For general battle changes:'''
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| *Restore the elemental resistances for the human characters. For those not in the know, Ashlynn had a 300% resistance to every element but Zap, Milly was immune to confusion, the Hero had a 30% resistance to Zap, and Amos 30% against wind.
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| *Speaking of elements, drop frizz and replace it with zam. Having two types of fire magic is stupid, and doubly so when they use independent resistance marks. Adding black magic would give certain enemies more thematic significance and allow for tighter strategy in terms of player abilities and armour. Off the top of my head, zam, kazam, big banga, and shade slash ought to be enough player abilities, along with perhaps magic burst. Enemies can use the same, along with dark breath and a weaker variant. The Hero would be the only character with an innate resistance to Zam.
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| *Wisdom increases the damage and healing power of spells. Not 100% sure on the max ranges just yet, but adding 100 to kasizzle's base sounds about right.
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| *Remove access to the bag while in a dungeon. That bottomless sack makes the game too easy, and the change can be justified by having extra items being stored in the wagon.
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| *synergize the resistance tables for elemental damage and the accuracy of status ailments for a unified table of 100%, 70%, 40%, 0%.
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| *Mark all floating enemies as being immune to fissure, stomp, tidal wave, and so on. This would require some tricky event tags in terms of programming, but I think it'd be worth it.
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| *Remove the falcon blade altogether; its too damn broken and has been the series' stupid button since 1987. Subsequently, tweak falcon slash to deal 50% damage per hit, with a chance to land a critical hit on each strike. That would boost the gladiator's rate to 25%, and justify using the skill.
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| *Give spooky aura its own resistance tag instead of piggy-backing off of whack. The skill is utterly useless as is. For damage spells, the new table used by the afflicted monsters would be 130%, 100%, 70%, 0%, thus giving magi a helping hand and making the skill worth while. The table for elemental slashes would also shift to 160%, 130%, 100%, 30%.
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| '''In terms of story and flow of gameplay:'''
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| I think 6 would benefit greatly from taking a few pages from the erdrck trilogy and allowing more player freedom. The story itself is good, but small tweaks to the individual scenarios would be nice:
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| *Change the upper world's map just enough so that the player can choose to go to either steven spielberg's tower or aridia first. This would alter only a few lines of dialogue at swanstone castle as miralda will recognize the heroes that saved her.
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| *Make Slimeopolis reachable as soon as murdaw is dead, and add at leas three additional battles per rank. That is to say, have the game randomly select the rank's opponents from three options per segment of the rank. Makes the sidequest more interesting that way.
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| *Add a "store" of sorts to the mermaid's den. Its a shame to waste all those sprites for the background and maids themselves, so let them sell a few bits of nautical equipment from 7 like the seacow sallet and bottlenose buckler, and some sea snacks for healing.
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| '''Party changes:''' much like the sixth installment of a certain other fantasy series, DQVI has too many characters. This results in player complacency to such a degree it rivals street fighter; meaning that each character is assigned the same vocation over and over. The system was designed to be fun and encourage experimentation, but harsh redundancies can't be avoided unless the cast is cut down.
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| *Give nevan the boot. This will be the most drastic change, but frankly I see no purpose in the twerp. In addition he utterly ruins the dynamics of the second seige on Murdaw's castle by destroying the parallel with the game's opening. He's boring, dull, and Kiryl already exists, thus rending his relevancy in the greater series null. Hell, even the Japanese fans dubbed him the least-liked character on their wiki.
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| *Amos is slightly different--he's an interesting character and his only real flaw is being an inferior carver in terms of stats and equipment. Instead of completely abolishing him, I'd leave him as an NPC who parts with the people of scrimsly on good terms and begins to wander the world, having small but noticeably beneficial effects on towns on hard times. He'd become an element to keep an eye out for.
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