Insane Difficulty: Fallen Star EX Progress Report - Insane Difficulty

Just figured I would give everyone a heads up on what's been happening with FS EX. The mod is progressing smoothly. The bulk of the difficult work is done which puts the mod at about 50-60% completion. I am currently going through the game right now making enemy encounter changes and balancing the psynergy. I am still debating on if I will have leveling up as it doesn't really provide the player with anything else other than stat increases. For the time being I will keep it in the game. All Psynergy will only work via equipping Gems or stones. Their are some rare ones that you will only be able to get once so look at for those and keep track of them.

As a heads up the more powerful psynergy will not add any stat boosts so expect many of the stronger Spells to cost you precious stats. Weaker psynergy will have boons for stats on them so it is important to balance strong psynergy with weaker ones for a balanced build.


Here are a list of things I am currently working at this time or that are planned or would like to implement if possible:

• Area Bosses in the late game
• Crossbone Isle Bosses for the doors
• Revise Colosso to be challenging provide reward for winning each round
• Adjust classes to mesh better gem equips

If you have any questions or recommendations for the mod please sound off here and I will see if it is something I can do.

So you no longer get any Psynergy by leveling/classes? It's all from equipping items?

The changes sound interesting Vanish, and i'm glad to see you're still at this! I do, however, have a couple of questions. If all synergy is equipped, what is the importance of managing your summoned/set Djinn? Previously, Set Djinn would alter your stats and your Psynergy, and without the latter of the two i'm curious to see what you've done to compensate.

Maybe you can have the Djinn just boost stats depending on what element it is? Jupiter for instance would raise Speed and PP. Mars would increase Defense and Guarded Defense. Mercury would increase HP and Luck. Venus can raise Attack and Psynergy power (healing, support and offense) and then the 7th Venus, Mars, Jupiter and Mercury can carry an extra boost, Critical Hits. Make those the hardest to get as they're the most beneficial when you're near the end of the game. This way us players can really try and balance the stats without....say making Ivan the fastest or Mia being a hell of a healing machine. This could maybe impact enemy encounters and bosses and we would really have to strategize. Just an idea, since you're re-balancing and all

Vanish Mantle, I've been following your GS romhacks for a while, since the partial release for Risen Star that went up to Poseidon, I believe. Glad to see you've been working on EX, albeit silently until a few weeks ago, at least according to this forum. I finished Fallen Star and loved it, but it wasn't too much more difficult than vanilla GS1; however, Risen Star is another matter. Being stuck at level 50 really makes the first half of the game a good challenge the ability to grind would negate (currently on the Avimander, but I'm missing the Venus Djinn from the Kibombo Catacombs and Islet Cave because they keep one-shotting my White Mage, Sheba, with Charon or Haures most of the time), but I can't speak for Poseidon and anything after. Because of this (and in spite of not knowing how difficult it gets later on), I vote for levels only being given after boss fights, if they're even given after every boss fight.

In an ideal world you'd make two patches, one for those who want to be able to grind, and one for those who don't want to grind (Please let there be no Tempest Lizard madness this time around!), but I doubt you'd want to expend the time and effort to do nearly the same thing twice when people would be happy enough with either one.

LyokoNinja, on 19 May 2014 - 04:03 PM, said:

I added up how many times I'd have to kill the tempest lizard to get to 50, and I think it was around 400 or so.

It's why I never finished the mod, which is why I never started risen star.

Kjata, on 19 May 2014 - 09:04 PM, said:

I truly Apologize for that everyone I think for sure I can take the grinding aspect out. I just don't want the game to be "Too Hard" I don't think I will be doing a Tempest Lizard this time around. I will Probably set a low level cap this time that is easy to reach by end game or make it so players can only level off of bosses. It is a bit tricky to manage But I think I can make it work.

LyokoNinja, on 19 May 2014 - 04:03 PM, said:

The main reason for the Kibombo Catacombs Djinn Destroying you is because it is an endgame djinni you can get. As for the leveling I plan to not do that again. It was met with little praise and offered very little in the means of anything valuable to the player. As for the difficulty I focused more on showing off the mechanics of the game where it is more like a learning process on turn, djinni, psynergy and inventory management. I can easily do 2 patches for sure I plan to have everything documented as far as what does what.

Please let me know how you like everything after poseidon It is something I am still working on I just need feedback to make the needed changes.

Kjata, on 14 May 2014 - 02:22 PM, said:

You equip stones which add some buffs to your character. This allows for a lot more customization over what skills you bring into battle.

TytoCorvus, on 17 May 2014 - 12:24 PM, said:

Djinn will be reworked and so will summons. I have some ideas as to what I can do with them But I may hold off currently. Thank you for your feedback.

would it be worth it to play FS or even RS before FS: EX an RS: EX come out? ive played a little bit of FS but stopped after a while because I was thinking that the game wasn't getting any more updates and now that it is I wanna know

Vanish Mantle, on 26 May 2014 - 09:25 AM, said:

So you will get items that contain all the stat buffs and spells available? I like it.

Sounds interesting. I really looking forward to it. Until then i will keep playing Fallen Star and Risen Star. I have to say that Risen Star is really challenging and more fun to play then the original. There's one thing I noticed when fighting against the tempest lizard in Fallen Star. If he uses storm tempest, there isn't any animation of it, for example when he uses tempest you will see three tornado's, but when he uses storm tempest there isn't anything.

LongSword25, on 27 May 2014 - 10:33 PM, said:

To answer your questions FS: EX is just a harder mod altogether and a very different experience. I would say keep playing FS as the main reason why there haven't been any updates is because the current version is pretty much the final version

LinkaMeister, on 28 May 2014 - 01:06 AM, said:

I will have to look into that and see what is causing that to happen.

There's another thing i noticed. When you defeat Deadbeard the description of the bone anchor says Deadbear's in it. Isn't it supposed to be Deadbeard's instead of Deadbear's. I'm still enjoying Golden Sun Fallen Star. Gonna complete it for the third time already.

LinkaMeister, on 02 June 2014 - 10:40 AM, said:

It is; a lot of grammatical errors fall through the cracks. If it's that important to you, you can always fix it through the editor.

I don't mind. I only knew about this rom hack for the two golden sun games since a couple of weeks ago so i didn't really know about the grammatical errors and probably most things i don't even noticed cause i'm not english i'm dutch so yeah.

I apologize for the grammar errors. I will have someone proofing the FS EX mod so I hope things will be much better this time around.

Something weird just happened in Fallen Star. Ivan leveled and it said that he leveled to 99, but he was already level 99. I have no idea why this happened.

I know why Ivan leveled. For some reason he wasn't level 99 yet, he was still level 98 even though everybody else was level 99 already.

This post has been edited by LinkaMeister: 18 June 2014 - 11:07 AM