Have you tried using the digipad? It is handy on the world map, if there are mutiple "!" points, you can switch quickly between them using the digipad.
Doesn't look like anyone responded to this, so...
I suspect they don't do the portrait + speech bubble thing so they don't have to draw faces with expressions (normal, angry, happy...) for each character. Anyway, I would really apreciate they had them even if they don't emote.
Yeah, I found myself pressing that every time due to the number of characters in each conversation. Given that each description is literally a job title and a headshot, and that conversations can be long, it makes sense to just have that visable when someone is talking.
One pet peeve of mine with budget localizations are the horribly cheap looking typefaces. Most look like the first MS Word font that tops up when using the Japanese keyboard. While this is a step up, I appreciate someone who can point out bad fonts.Let me put on my typography nerd hat for a sec 🎩
I threw up a quick comparison, with ITC Barcelona serif font from Monotype (who appear in the "special thanks" section of the credits):
There's two main problems with Luminage:
I must say that for titles it's not so bad and choosing a font with a high x-height is good in this case, as you want to stay as close as possible to japanese characters, which lack ascenders and descenders (d,b,p,t,y...). That's why they are bigger using the same space. Just check "Serenoa" (a different font) in latin and japanese characters, it's around 60% smaller!
- General character width: d, g, n, e, u... are way to wide. t, f and i, really narrow. (the w is atrocious).
- Too much contrast between the strokes (thin vs thick parts of each character).
I hope there's a timeline option similar to Tactic's Ogre PSP version, so you can easily revisit scenarios.
Even though a low cost loc can be a problem too, the main culprit here is that many japanese devs all use the same set of fonts, which come with their own latin alphabets. I definitely understand this approach, as they pay for one font license and get to use it on every version, plus no need to worry about missing characters, incompatibilities, a single supplier et al.
My theory is that in both languages, the dialogue box is set to display at the maximum width of a single line of choice text, regardless of the length of its current contents. In this case, there's a significant difference between the maximum length of an English line and the actual length of the three lines displayed in this choice, creating the empty space at right. The disparity is lesser in the Japanese script for this particular choice, so there's less empty space.
yes you can, I don't know what happened when I wrote it, I just checked in the game too.
I'm assuming it isn't changing size dynamically for what's actually displayed and just a fixed size so it works regardless
I can't remember off the top of my head, but you can click the L or R stick to show turn orders without having to scroll. It made planing significantly easier for me.
I'm not sure I know what you mean by digipad? Do you mean the directional buttons, or...??
Yeah it's L3, but that can be kinda visually overwhelming when there are still a ton of enemies on screen and you still gotta wander all over the field to find the numbers. x__x
Damn well that'll definitely be something I'll have to keep in mind for the actual game, I had no idea. Woulda made a huge difference. x__x
The 2nd fight (defending the prince) took me 2h, so I wouldn't call that easy.
Oh, nice to know, I thought it would be something like the "put water in that area and then cast thunder on it" from the trailer and many other games!
i suggest this name on twitter and it got some traction so i went and mocked up the logo. couldn't find the exact font they used so i used something i thought was close enough.
EDIT: it's called Scales of Conviction.
Sorry pal, old habbits. Always forget that switch has directional buttons or a +Control Pad. Think digipad is not even the right term, but sound funny if you say it out load...
Now that you mention that, I think In the first map there is an enemy lurking under the bridge.
Cool, thanks. I burnt the one trap in the bottom left part of the map, but... despite my best efforts to try and lure enemies in the top area, it didn't work at all lol. So the rest of the map was just me scrambling for ice walls to slow down enemies while I chipped away at them and it took me 2 goddamn hours xD
Yeah I wrote a bit about how disastrous the other choice ends up being a few posts back. I do hope it won't be too "binary" in terms of obviously wrong vs obviously right choices.
I also didn't really like the battle music, I turned it off very quickly, which is a shame because the game has some amazing tracks in the 3 hour video.
