Destination Alpha 1 (Blog #11)

hey everybody, sorry this blog is a day late :p

I wanted to get a bit farther on some of the stuff featured in this blog before I showed them off, so that's what was going on yesterday lol. Instead of the next blog being on Friday I'll be posting it on Saturday, next week it will go back to Monday - Wednesday - Friday.

anyways, I got some things to show off today!

New Victory Screen!

It seems your story has brought you to me… But are you worthy of what I offer? Hmph- we shall see~

You now get a rank based on performance after each Breakout level! The quicker you beat the level, the less damage you take, and the less balls you drop- the higher your rank! There are 6 ranks, with a special P rank only obtainable if you beat the level before the first Attack cycle.

Depending on the rank you get, you get bonus points that go towards your next Persona unlock. This adds a sense of purpose and progression to every single level, and it's quite fun to get that Persona unlock to happen.

There will be 8 Personas in Alpha 1 unlockable in story mode, with the 8th one being only just barely obtainable if your performance is really good throughout the mode. In freeplay, all 8 unlockable Personas as well as 2 more will be automatically unlocked at all times.

Speaking of story mode and freeplay, after I determined this was the best way to present the content in the game, I had to revise my plans for the main menu following the title screen I showed off a couple weeks ago.

This screen will be directly after pressing any button on the title screen, shifting the camera and showing the main 2 gameplay options along with setting and an exit button.

Story mode is more focused on accuracy to the vision of the final game, and tells a connected story throughout the events. Freeplay has all the content of story mode and more, but less constructed in any clear order. Here's concept art for the Story mode screen

Another feature of Story mode will be the context button in the bottom left corner, designed to give information on subjects and characters for people who have not played P5R.

Due to the lack of saving, all content in Story mode is freely accessible at any time for ease of picking it back up. Still, the hope is that having this more direct and linear way of presenting the story has players playing the game in the structure envisioned for the final game.

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OK THATS ALL FOR THE SHOWCASE ON THIS BLOG!!!!!!!!!

I GOTTA WORK HARD TO MAKE THESE THINGS ALL DONE UP AND USER READY!!!!!!!!!!

I've also been working on lots of voice lines to send off to VAs... Victoria and Bathyal need new VAs and Nym has a pretty large talking role in some events. Hoping to get those in before long bcuz they are already way bigger than i thought they'd be lul

I hope you guys have a great 4th of july tomorrow and remember to shellebrate Nymdependence day by taking a picture of an egg and posting it into #nymdependence-day in the development server! the best egg picture gets to have a line added to the lines I'm sending to Nym's VA...

ok xoxo bye - metrack