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Divergent Paths: The 3 Scenarios

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I thought the patch was broken but I've discovered it's meant for a headered 1.1 ROM. 1.0 is the norm, but I suppose it's fine if you aren't planning to add patches that were made for 1.0.

Anyways just played through the scenario, very well done! I enjoyed the dialog/interactions for Edgar & Sabin and the event work all looks good with no bugs to report. The only small issue I saw was in the Phantom Forest, you could go outside the intended map boundary, I think it's not like that in the original anyway: https://imgur.com/a/X9soc
The circled part is where you can go past and move down into that area, the very bottom of the circle actually. I don't think there's any bad tiles there though that cause the player to get stuck forever on, and it's kinda fun to walk in those trees anyway lol. I thought it may be intentional and you hid a treasure there or something, but I don't believe so.

Oh and the party merge after the train switch flipping event looks a little rough I just noticed:
https://imgur.com/a/SnI4F
Those can be a bit tricky to make look perfect I do know.

I was a little sad you moved that semi-secret treasure in the Imperial Camp, that one you need to jump down and go into that tent. If you're gonna remove that I'd say remove the event trigger that has the player jump down to access it. Or just put a chest back there...unless I missed something that was there still...?

Feedback and suggestion wise, to me it felt like Edgar took a little bit of a backseat once you board the train, kind of like Edgar was just replacing Shadow in some of those scenes, imo. For instance when Sabin boards the train he says nothing. I mean he doesn't HAVE to, but I think it would be a smart move to have Edgar say Cyan's lines there more and have him be the one who's afraid of ghosts and getting on the haunted train. Cyan he pretty much just met so it would make sense to me to have that interaction be between the Figaro brothers instead, and good for this hack. Also it'd be cool to have Cyan not act like a pussy this time around, as he is an old battle-tested warrior and of course just lost his family and everything he ever cared about, so I would think he could care less about getting on a haunted train/dying, in fact he'd welcome it. But Edgar being afraid instead would be just plain funny! Once inside he could say something like: "If i die who will take care of the world's women!?" or, "I'm much too handsome to die!". One scene change I did admire greatly was the flipping of the switch event. And it'd be cool if when Sabin is eating the ghost food if he splits out from the party too, instead of just Cyan, and maybe says a line or two. I figure you'd wanna showcase Edgar's presence as much as possible. And one tiny request I have would be to have Edgar on the map after the train when Cyan is sad, and able to talk to him, well like Shadow was I guess lol. It just gives the player something to do and another opportunity to have Edgar shine.

Keep up the good work, I'm really looking forward to playing more of this hack! The new dialog definitely fits right in with the original, which is great. And that's nice you tackled the hardest/longest scenario first, should be downhill from here on I'd think unless you got some major twists in store.


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Divergent Paths: The 3 Scenarios - by PowerPanda - 05-24-2017, 10:07 PM
RE: 3 Scenarios Hack - by madsiur - 05-24-2017, 11:23 PM
RE: 3 Scenarios Hack - by B-Run - 05-25-2017, 08:29 AM
RE: 3 Scenarios Hack - by Gi Nattak - 05-25-2017, 01:52 PM
RE: 3 Scenarios Hack - by PowerPanda - 05-25-2017, 09:25 PM
RE: 3 Scenarios Hack - by Tenkarider - 05-25-2017, 03:14 PM
RE: 3 Scenarios Hack - by Subtraction - 08-08-2019, 04:27 AM
RE: 3 Scenarios Hack - by C-Dude - 08-08-2019, 02:44 PM
RE: 3 Scenarios Hack - by PowerPanda - 08-08-2019, 06:24 PM
RE: 3 Scenarios Hack - by PowerPanda - 07-03-2017, 10:06 PM
RE: 3 Scenarios Hack - by madsiur - 07-06-2017, 07:00 PM
RE: 3 Scenarios Hack - by PowerPanda - 09-14-2017, 10:14 PM
RE: 3 Scenarios Hack - by PowerPanda - 09-16-2017, 01:47 AM
RE: 3 Scenarios Hack - by CrumpledMedal - 10-06-2017, 10:38 AM
RE: 3 Scenarios Hack - by PowerPanda - 09-17-2017, 02:55 PM
RE: 3 Scenarios Hack - by Gi Nattak - 09-17-2017, 03:27 PM
RE: 3 Scenarios Hack - by PowerPanda - 09-17-2017, 09:29 PM
RE: 3 Scenarios Hack - by Gi Nattak - 09-20-2017, 12:56 PM
RE: 3 Scenarios Hack - by PowerPanda - 09-19-2017, 11:21 PM
RE: 3 Scenarios Hack - by PowerPanda - 10-06-2017, 02:23 PM
RE: 3 Scenarios Hack - by PowerPanda - 10-09-2017, 04:58 PM
RE: 3 Scenarios Hack - by PowerPanda - 10-15-2017, 12:38 AM
RE: 3 Scenarios Hack - by Gi Nattak - 10-16-2017, 05:22 PM
RE: 3 Scenarios Hack - by PowerPanda - 10-16-2017, 11:28 PM
RE: Divergent Paths - by PowerPanda - 10-19-2017, 11:09 AM
RE: Divergent Paths - by Warrax - 10-19-2017, 04:48 PM
RE: Divergent Paths - by madsiur - 10-19-2017, 10:22 PM
RE: Divergent Paths - by PowerPanda - 11-12-2017, 02:47 PM
RE: Divergent Paths - by Dev J - 11-13-2017, 03:54 PM
RE: Divergent Paths - by PowerPanda - 11-13-2017, 05:56 PM
RE: Divergent Paths - by Dev J - 11-13-2017, 06:17 PM
RE: Divergent Paths - by C-Dude - 03-28-2019, 12:04 AM

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