Ah, right, gotcha. :slight_smile:

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I really like what you have so far it definitely has an X-Men feel to it

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Oh my god that’s my first play through

Oh no, it was my fault. I quoted the wrong person there, I actually meant to quote @Biotechie about the “They say “her” instead of “she” on the next page.” error

@Morphine forgot to round up something up there, thanks for the report.

About the ages, I purposefully kept from mentioning them, but time passes between segments of the game(you can see that the parts up to the point where you get the bus are actually narrated in the past tense). I think by the time you get to the Institute you should be anything between 12 to 17. I really don’t want to get into specifics because I like to leave room for imagination.

@Blattella Kappa

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I like to think I am 12 and my girlfriend 30…jk

I’m not too sure about that. The chick from the Rocky movies, her name was Adrian, or something like that. I think it might depend on the spelling, Adrian being the female version of Adrien, but I might be wrong.

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In English at least, it’s the other way around. For other languages, they may view it differently (particularly French, since they love having masculine names with e’s in them.)

If the name is a big deal though, we could always just go with “Alex”.

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I’d never heard it as a female name before, and my go-to name website lists it as masculine only: Meaning, origin and history of the name Adrian - Behind the Name
But I look a little closer and see that there is data for use as a female name on their popularity chart, peaking in the '80’s.

I am absolutely a fan of Alex :wink:

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As for certain powers being better than others, all the powers do is give us more selectable options, which to me, indicates that what is more powerful is the combinations that give the players more successful options among all the scenarios in the game.

Someone with telepathy and super strength can fight on two planes, one would assume, and can be subtle or blunt in problem solving.

Someone with both fire and ice can freeze and burn things. Okay, how many scenarios will freezing things be useful but burning things not? And how many scenarios will both powers be useless, and is that number the same, lower, or greater than the number of scenarios in which say the legal combination of telepathy and superstrength will both be useless?

I’d be surprised if in the completed game cryo and pyrokinesis prove useful in more scenarios than super strength and telepathy.

But of course, that remains to be seen, since the game isn’t finished.

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Seeing the future, I am quite curious: does invisibility evolves into teleportation/phasing? 'Cause that combined to super strength can do a lot of damage.

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I think is folding light and making us move a the speed of light.

No, you can bend space and do a “quantum jump” to apparently teleport.

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which it doesn’t have a logical train of thought for invisibility is basically the manipulation of light. for us to be able to bend space and do a “quantum jump” we will need the ability to manipulate gravity.

It probably appears to be invisibilty. Just like the flight/energy manipulation from Hero Rise that turns out to be gravity/nuclear manipulation.

I love the powers I have which are telekinesis and precognition! I really love this game and can’t wait for the update. This reminds me of sky high! :heart:

That’s not necessarily all they do. Telepathy, for example, gives you descriptions of people’s thoughts while you’re interacting with them sometimes, but for the most part you’re correct.

Telepathy is, at first, not that strong, because most people from the Institute learn how to protect themselves against it(or at least detect that such thing is going on) during their first semester. Of course, the stronger the Telepath is, the harder it is to protect yourself against their powers.

I’m not aiming to make it so that every encounter can be solved by all kinds of powers. There ought to be situations where one of them might not be effective. (Like, in the “Future” scene, where Telepathy is useless). The important thing is to balance it so that at least ONE of your powers will work, or at least provide the player with another option to find success. Not to mention that a single power can provide the player with more them one alternative as to how it could be used, and not all of those options might be the correct one.

As a fan of Iceman who always lurked the Crossover section of the largest comicbook discussion bulletin board of my country, I know how overpower Cryokinesis can be.

You have to remember that, on this game, you not only get to freeze or burn things, you can also get resistance/immunity to it. That by itself is really, really strong.

That’s not necessarily all they can do.

I do not have the Precognition necessary to answer that. :grin:

I think it goes without saying that I’m aiming for some sort of balancing between the powers and that they are currently that way because I can see more scenarios where fire and ice are overpowered. Of course, I’ll have to test my theories with implementation, and I’m already trying to find a way to please the audience without risking such balancing by offering the eventual option to have both powers in a New Game+ scenario.

It’s like you said, it only appears to be invisibility, it’s not just that.

The “Future” scenario is meant to be overpower, so you can see what your powers would be in an “end game” state, but that is not necessarily the future that will happen(even if it already happened). That’s related to one of the “really important choices” mentioned by the person you speak with at the start of the game.

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I was thinking about something…

If you make a NG+, would it be possible to beat “”“Johan”""? Because telekinesis+super strength might be enough to block him. Cryo/pyrokinesis are apparently too weak at that point, but combined with normal telekinesis…

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So I played it and my favorite combination is super strenght and precognition. Further in the game would the powers be more developed ect the player using precog to see where a speedster is going to attack or avoid a powerful punch and counter with a deadly smash that sends them flying or breaking bones

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I could see pyrokinesis and cryokinesis being used in conjunction much like Todoroki from My Hero Academia, you could use it in combination to create rapid heat expansion after freezing an area to create an explosion, also telekinesis combined with one of these 2 powers could allow for better control and new abilities much like Jean Grey and the Phoenix Force.

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I have many more minor comments (listed below), but I wanted to start with the big one. Overall, I really like the world, the characters, and what we’ve seen of the story, but I do have one major problem: how the powers are handled. You have too many, too diverse powersets to actually make any of them interesting, as is seen pretty clearly, since the only times you can use your powers, the choices are basically “use your powers” plus maybe something else. I understand why you’re doing it; there’s no way you could realistically balance out all these powers without it becoming horifically complicated.

Likewise, there’s no synergy between the powers. I played a guy with invisibility and foresight, which got an amazing quote (“I can see the future and hide from the present”), but beyond that, there’s no places where the powers actually overlap. Again, I understand that it’s far too much to have extended scenes for each possible power pairing, but it does make it feel less as though I have a complete powerset, and more as though I simply have two completely separate powers.

If this story was not as far along, I would recommend that you only stick to a single powerset, since this not only makes it easier for you, but also lets you make the story and choices far more personal to that powerset (which you can’t really do here), but I guess it’s probably too late for that. Anyway, good luck with the game. :smile:


Other comments:
Note: I haven’t read most of the other posts, so sorry if I’m repeating any.

Manifestations of Lee and Kirby nature do not occur on their own.

Lee and Kirby but not Shuster and Siegel? Lee and Kirby may have been more prolific, but Shuster and Siegel began it all. (Or Falk did… :thinking:)

So, dodging the missiles will make them hit the Earth below, but if they miss because you turn invisible, they don’t? :confused:

Surely someone with precognition would be able to tell that the bus was going to fly? :thinking: (I guess we’re not quite powerful enough yet, right?)

The people chat and whisper amongst themselves, but then there is a sudden quietness:

The Headmaster arrived.

Should this be “The Headmaster has arrived”?

Ted now is a tall young man with broad shoulders and a short trimmed beard.

Wait; how old is Ted? How old are we? Until now, we’ve pretty much acted as a young teen (at oldest); unless Ted was several years older than us to begin with, this description is rather premature. :confused:

“How did you manage to get alcohol?”

Do I have to ask this question? :unamused:

“A problem? Is the math’s class being ministered outdoors now?”

Should be “maths” or “math”.

“Actually… Why the fuck I’m telling you that? Listen, thanks for the “help”, but I need to get going.” She says, quite irritated, and leaves in a haste.

The inner quotation marks should be single (i.e. ‘help’).

Asynchronous Conscience

I’m not certain if this is the word you mean. “Conscience” is the sense of right and wrong. Do you mean “consciousness”?

Metahuman’s Maganize

Magazine?

This device will now automatically translate anything spoken in a foreign language directly into your earl.

Should be “ear”.

“Professor Roberto is the utmost authority about metahumans in the world. He has practical, personal and theoretical experience that is invaluable to us as students. I really enjoy learning from him.”

Who said this? All I know is that it wasn’t Beach Boy?

“There is not a problem that cant be fixed, given time.”

Should be “can’t”.

Psychical Education & Teamwork

Is that a typo? If not, I like it. :thinking:

How someone like you is repeating Physical Education, Beach Boy?”

Should be “How is someone like you repeating…” (or “How’s…”)

“I say the same.”

Presumably that shouldn’t have the quotation marks… :thinking: I’m not actually saying “I say the same”, am I? I’m saying “Sorry if I hurt you”.

“Can anyone try to guess a reason for that?” He asks, now with an academic tone.

Can I reply that it’s because the hitman was a complete hypocrite? :unamused:

Is KC non-binary? Because they’ve been referred to as “he” and “it”. I’d suggest not using “it” at all, as it’s generally not a very polite pronoun to use for a human.

It’s strange, because you theoretically are just some kind of astral projection, but this feels as if it were real life, probably because he wants to.

Should that be: “…he wants it to?”

For someone who possess so much natural psychic potential, escaping the Egregorium would be too easy

Should be “possesses”.

“You been here before too, Beach Boy?”

This option is available before I asked Thelma what she had done, so it doesn’t make sense.

He’s not even japanese:"

Should be “Japanese”.

I also noticed several times when quotations ended incorrectly, as in the following example:

“This is incorrect.” He said.

“This, however, is correct,” she said.

(Finally, I hope that all the "deceased"s in the prologue are more representative of a single potential future, rather than a definite outcome. If you make Gamerboy a dead boyfriend, I will be most displeased. :unamused:)

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