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huh i beat the game at level 5, it took really long since every attack dealt 2 damage. fun game

Haha dang, nice! I don't know if I've even tried doing that

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i think level 5 is the minimum since none of the other spells deal more than 0 damage, i basically beelined the boss, didn’t even realize that it was the last boss so i was really unprepared.

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How do I get the better ending? I think it has to do with the far right of the island?

You are correct! There's a certain item you'll need to find before beating the boss.

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Cool stuff man, it's like if Earthbound were on the Atari

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Cool stuff! I beat the boss on level 8. anyone do better? I think I could have done it on level 7 If I was better. I agree the encounters are a little too common. I also thought there should be different effects or mini games for the different powers. The way it is now I just used whatever my newest power was.

Thanks for making this!

Thank you, and nice work!
The idea with the different powers is that it's a risk vs reward system: the higher the strength, the easier it is to screw up the attack. So sometimes (especially if you've got the Panic status) you might need to use a weaker attack to try to ensure you hit at all. This could use some tuning to make sure it's working as intended, but that's what I was going for (I also don't really even have the tokens available to do something more complex than that). And yes, I'll look into tuning the encounter rate further.

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Awesome! I did actually notice the Panic status made things a little more difficult, and at one point I did turn to a lower power to guarantee a hit.

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Really fun game! I like what you have created with pico-8. The music and story was great and overall I enjoyed the game. Like some other people said, I also felt that maybe there were a few too many encounters, or too often. Other than that this was really great, keep up the good work :D

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Thanks for the kind words!
I can look into tuning the encounter rate in my next update.

Also I haven't heard of GDWC before but yeah, I could consider sending something in.

That's great! :D

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Pretty good! My only complain is encounters being too frequent, which interrupts exploration A LOT

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Thanks for playing!
And yeah this is long overdue for a quality of life update, and that's definitely one of the things I'd like to tweak with it.

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Very very cool game!  WATCH OUT FOR BATTLEBUGS though, and those shrooms that poison you. I AM KING OF THE BEACH!

Woah, thank you so much! That's awesome to hear!
(Those poor Ballcrabs and Grumpsnails never stood a chance!)

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Heya! Really good game, and fun so far. Encounters are a bit too common maybe? But great set up, and it works really well! :)

Looks very good RPG game made in Pico-8 after the Picomon.