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Fairly good, but...

That last line is far too cheesy.

Heh.

I'm suprised this made it through, usually people don't enough of a sense of humor. Anyway, good job.

Good art, and the base of the game is solid, but everything takes too long. I'd suggest a universal health reduction, and more high-tier enemies with decent payouts. Also; the shield line is game-breaking: Once you can use it to regenerate health the only reason to die is if you want to

I like the idea, but the execution leaves something to be desired. Some particular issues:

1: Needing to spend upgrade points to get the party members is inane. Especially when they start with no experience

2: The game is glitchy. Enemies will get stuck on obstacles, each other, and occasionally nothing at all. Sometimes they get their turns skipped. And, worst of all, I've had them suddenly start taking 1 damage from all attacks (2 from criticals)

3: It's too slow. Strip out the transitions, and speed up the sliding

4: The item system really discourages you from using it. You have to upgrade items to make them worthwhile, they're temporary, and equipping one eats a turn

5: The level curve is broken. Having the experience to level double each level is okay, but only if the XP you get keeps up. And it doesn't

6: There needs to be a way to zoom out. With high speed, it's not uncommon for the camera to be a real problem

7: The double turn system is broken in several ways:

7.1: It's not terribly uncommon for pushing an enemy at full force to not really be a good idea, but you'll try to anyway because an extra turn offsets the loss and then some

7.2: It's just kind of broken, steamrollering the difficulty if you have good timing. And really frustrating if you don't

8: The whole idea of knocking enemies into things doesn't really go anywhere, since it's rare to see damage values above 1 pop up

9: The block and counter options would be more useful if it wasn't so very easy to completely outstrip the enemies' move ranges

Pretty decent

Not entirely interesting the third time around, though. And you seem to have confused Touhou and Ikaruga