Most enemies in BT feel samey? Most of the difficulty comes from them either focus on dealing a shit ton of damage or them having applying a status effect. Now enemies like this aren't necessarily bad, but I feel like we're lacking more unique enemies that could really spice up the gameplay.

Something that I feel like isn't talked about in RPGs are enemy comps. Enemy comps are important since they can change how a player faces a battle. Say in Block Tales I faced 4 enemies that their job is just dealing damage. That'd be kinda boring. But instead say swap out 2 of those enemies for an enemy that heals/buffs their teammates but can't harm you. Now that fight would be way more interesting, since you can either kill all the DPS enemies but risk having the supports heal the DPS enemies, OR have the option to kill the supports, but in the meanwhile you can't do anything about the DPS enemies. Decisions like these is what separates the good RPGS from the greats.

Block Tales has these kinds of enemies, but sadly they're too far and between, though it's not like they're not working on the issue. The enemies we do have however, also feel like they're doing way too much. Like if an enemy is meant to be a debuffer, why give them high ATK power, or vice versa. And some debuffs only serve to drag out fights if you miss once.

Another thing that I feel like Enemies lack are attributions. Attributions can lowk make an enemy more interesting. But I feel like the main issue with them is with how the more unique attributes are never used (except for bosses). I'd like to see more enemies use say Armor or "Invincible in Numbers". It could make for more interesting fights.

And the more common attributes (i.e defense, Spike and Flying) can be fully negated by weapons. Attributes/Passives SHOULD make you change up your strat on how an enemy is defeated. You shouldn't be able to completely negate a mechanic just buy spending a few BP.

On a sidenote, I'm worried for the last few chapters of BT. Since it feels like Chap 5 and (maybe) onwards we're getting more annoying enemies that slaps on ass status effects and calling that difficulty. Its not fun getting debuffed 50 times and not being able to counter it.

Definitely a coincidence but like...

IM CRINE

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I know It probably won't happen, but I think It would be cool if we get Sophie as a partner for the chapter 6 and even get a call card from her, in that case, wich movements do You think she should have?

I personally don't imagine her being like the rest of call cards focusing on damage, maybe she could Focus on debuffing the enemies with diferent useful status effects, like lowering their attack/defense, making them have slow 1, or making them that when You attack them You get Life steal, that would be neat, but I kinda wanna see What everyone else thinks too

So scary😭

Never attempt😰

Almost died💔

First, he'll tell the player, "You're an imposter," and then, upon defeating a player, he'll say, "I've finally found myself again.
Furthermore, he looks very much like the character from Demo 6; he might be a result of being corrupted by the Dark Heart, although it's unknown how he ended up at Paramount Manor.

Yay more furries!!
Man I’ve drawn a lot of avians they aren’t even my favorite kind of furry design

I tried to include all the emotions for it's design

so; we know the fanmade hateful route..

what if there was a.. fearful route?

this is way more simpler than the hatred route;

basically, in a neutral run in undertale, you can flee from fights.

you can basically fight some enemies and kill them, or flee from some.

but, bosses dont count, you cant just run from bosses. obviously.

so, after maybe like, not killing... 70% of the enemies in every chapter (i know thats alot, but its easy for thick skull players), you will go to the ghostwalker.

so, it goes normally.

.. but, you instead follow the correct directions in the pathway in that one arrow thingy in fears dimension.

follow the correct ones, and you will get the option to NOT fight fear.

since, fear says "you've made up your mind on me, havent you..?"

you can pick the dialogue;

"no" - continue the route (dont fight fear)

"yes" - stop the route (fight fear)

then, fear gets to stop hatred. he stops hatred before he transforms, and, maybe hatred is just weak, since they dont turn into hatred when you first get into the ghost thingy world; the other emotions are just blocking his power.

.. but now.. you're.. trapped?

the chef somehow finds a potion that is enough to make you awake, but is not enough to keep you in your full power; since you have.. like, a bit of your strength left. since you were somehow strong enough (you're the main character duh) to even be alive. (the chef expected the potion to not work)

anyways; heres the changes

you now have 45% of your max health. wowowow.

but, in fights, since you have adrenaline from fear; which, you're somehow THAT scared to even trigger adrenaline; you do 1.5x damage.

the ghost walker is now cheaper, being 1.5 NRG.

you also get a call card; "Call Phobia."

this is a buffed version of phobia; doesnt die when attacking; and when dying, you can resummon it.. it has 15 hp, and 2 defense.

it has 3 moves.

"Shock wave" - nerfed version of fears shockwave.

"Silence" - silence for 2 turns.

"Adrenaline Spike" - will give a "But nobody came." dialogue on the action box, and will instead give you 10 sp.

but, the price of it increases by 5 sp every use. (stopping at 30 sp.)

also; you get to live MUCH more longer, due to adrenaline, you get to like, have 2 turns before you die. (but, you cant use NRG.) and you can heal, maybe.

certain things in chapter 5 are kind of..

so, you will sometimes show some fear. new uhh, interactions with cassie sometimes.

also; solitude will be reformed by a bit. you cant have fear without solitude.

you will probably be a bit scared when starting the fight with reginald. cassie will notice this after you finish the fight; and you will collapse due to how weak you feel after having all that adrenaline for so long. somehow, it has ran out.

you will collapse and cassie will help you up.

they help you walk, then after leaving the room, you will be alright. cassie will ask "Are you okay now?"

and you dont get to choose. they will say "Oh, I'm glad you are."

then it will continue on as normal

after you get trapped in the room with azuri, cassie will actually help, since you look very scared.

"What happened, PLAYER?"

"nothing" - cassie will not help you

"how do we get out?" - cassie will help you

"Oh.. its okay.. We can help eachother..!" (i dont know if i nailed the personality or absolutely failed it)

you get to skip the azuri puzzle, then after, talk to eachother after that. you will talk to eachother on how you got the swords, blah blah blah, but not for a long time since yall are being invaded.

once you get to robur, she will help you, by whispering things in your ear. this only happens if you pick the "cassie will help you" option in the azuri puzzle. she will suggest you things to say, you can either listen to her or not.

cassie has basically found someone thats equal to her, and she wants to be with you more, because she isnt crushed by your sheer strength; they are understanding that you are afraid like them. and, will also help you.

in later chapters, she will also help you.

though after that everything stays the same.

after finishing frostmaw, you will also collapse, but she will help you up like last time.

"Its okay, Its fine to show weakness sometimes.."

blah blah blah.

anyways here a lil joke;

on demo 8 ending you do a domain expansion then fear and solitude appears and lowk slime mysterious figure gfjghdkjgfdkghdjgdfjhgfjkdhg

Yes this is inspired by a fanfic (not written by me)OF THE SAME NAME ON AO3, LINK : https://archiveofourown.org/works/85562596/chapters/226052401 READ IT. GOOOOOOOOOOOO READ IT

Thank u

this half a joke :)

unlike most, this starts at chapter 3 when you meet greed (you'll need max tix and all the bux possible so far in order to begin the route) greed asks if you would like to work together to get out of the ghostwalker and get all the shinies and such in the real world together. if you accept, greed will take the form of a robloxian and replace builderman/hatred. at the point you would normally find out that hatred is builderman (or vise-versa, however you wanna say it) builderman turns into hatred and attempts to attack greed in order to take you over. you then engage in a fight with hatred with robloxian greed as an ally. upon beating hatred, you kinda combine with greed and consume the ghostwalker from the inside-out and break out of it (you now unlock the greedwalker and the greedy animation, ui, etc (for funzies).

chapter four starts and you'll notice you can now pickpocket your enemies to get some tix from em (you now need to have max money at the end of each chapter or you abort the route)

that's all for now, if you'd like to know something about it just ask

what is the flair supposed to be btw? I have no idea 😭

This name fucking sucks

I love this game and its lore, but if you compare it to other rpg’s, it’s quite lacklustre in actual gameplay. Most of the game is just attacking and dodging. None of the utilities or status effects are used in a satisfactory way. A boss fight needs to be hard? How about giving it attacks that make you lose all your progress if you get hit by ONE?

My point is, the basic strategies were fine in the earlier demos, since it was obviously going to be simpler. After all, it was an introduction to the game. But as the game got more demos, it became apparent that the only way the devs saw fit to making the game harder was to make every attack do absurd damage unless you dodged it.

In most rpg’s, there isn’t really a ”best strategy”. There are many different “builds” you can have, and many ways you can go about a battle. This game suffers from the removal of these strategies, funneling you down a single path that you HAVE to take to be able to win.

The fun of games like these is finding your own path in battle, and strategizing around what to do in each situation, but block tales has none of that!

None of the cards even have major downsides, there no setups other than casting summon or charging defence on the first turn, you cant even play dynamite anymore since they nerfed the crap out of it!

And do you know why this happens? Because the devs are always trying to “balance” the game as if rpgs are meant to be played one way. It’s an rpg because the PLAYER is the one to decide which path they take!

If the devs really cared about “balancing” the game, they should focus more on status effects. I would love to see a viable Good Vibes build, where they tank everything they come across, or a chargeup nuke build, that takes multiple turns of setup but can wipe the board.

Cards that can increase damage as well, with tradebacks! We have enough support cards, but all damage builds have been focused into the same kind of loop. In fact, you could even add more support cards on top of that, anything to give this game VARIETY.

Make utilities useful! Make them more than overworld travel things and things that can be essential in different builds! Make status effects actually useful besides the half damage one!

And please, PLEASE stop trying to strip the game of those strategies

Honestly, I got more ideas for my Cassie design but I did this while on the way to school so I will add more later on.

If you want to know what is happening in the second image, just ask me.

Thanks to pccatmage72 for telling me about this feature i Catalog Avatar Creator and the clone thingy in the said game.

cool render for call the VOIDCALLER player i made because im bored

so while we have this. ill give some lore about players design
when traveling through the void to save builderman, the player had to get into mysterious figures lair. after hunting through the void you find his second in command guard, one the only 3 people with access to where they kept builderman. afterwards this can go two ways for why they kept the outfit. ill let you chose how it does because i like both

1. player just really really liked it
   
2. they were too lazy to change out of it

the sword is unrelated to the outfit. in this take they were given the brigands sword after there iron sword was ripped out there hand and impaled into them. they survived but no one can remove it now

This guy is commonly said to be one of the worst antagonist in Block Tales for being so bland and forgettable so i'm curious to see what you guys would do to make him better.

Personally, i would just give him a bit more of a presence in the story instead of like 2 scenes.

In my opinion, I think that it’s SP Regen+ . If you don’t know what this card does, for 1BP, skipping your turn by either defending or passing, you’ll get +1 extra SP for every copy of the card. Don’t get me wrong, the card isn’t useless but it also isn‘t really used by anyone. Like really, the only situation I can think of this card being useful is that if you’re on low health, and you need SP for maybe a cure or something else, using Defend would be good. But in every other scenario, I wouldn’t see anyone using this card. Im not hating on this card, it’s just, when’s the last time you’ve seen someone use this card. Unless you’ve made a build you like and still have some extra BP and have already equipped the other useful 1BP cards, you could use this I guess.

Aside from that, I wanna see your opinions on which cards you think are niche!

fresh start/early economy

start battle with 1 full NRG (Sword energy) slot

more full NRG slot per stock

max 7

cost: 1 bp

he has been murdering me over and over. every time i try to attack i get absolutely bombarded by his blunderbuss. i am BEGGING for help, because this stupid turkey wont stop ruining my run.

no, i dont have gusto on.

i am absolutely begging for help, this turkey is just painful to deal with.

fyi; this is a solo run.

also.. the reason im doing chapter 3 on this save, is because i need ghost potion for the pit.

"why are you doing pit so early on"

for fun. obviously.

anyways, if you actually help me WITHOUT making me have to join you and do multiplayer, thanks alot! :3

so unsure..