January 2018 Kickstarter Update is Here!

I'm happy to see some sort of Shard crafting for duplicates and in general it looks interesting, i'm still hoping to find some cool equipment lying around though. Hopefully some stuff is uncraftable (as in it can't be made only found). Dismantle? Option could present some interesting opertunities, depending on how it's implimented. It will be interesting to see if you can take aspects of one item and put it on another, or whether you simply get back the crafting materials for the item that's dismantled.

Also anyone else think that looks like ?

I dunno if you been talking about the bat thingy, but its in Mana Ikedas art I believe. So its nice to see it rendered out. I have my ideas of what we will see in the next update, and it will just keep on rising with hype from here guys...

Must be getting pretty deep into development if the crafting system is up and running.

I imagine that High Potions taste quite terrible.

Ultimately, I guess I'm just left wondering whether Crafting will be completely optional or if you might need it at a few specific points to actually progress.

Wow, 2018 really flew by. I'm disappointed that the game still hasn't been released yet, but if they have started porting then it should be fairly soon. 2019 should finally be the year!

No! It is accurate, he came from the future, after the great castle war, to bring us this news and ensure it reaches release, instead of 3 patches from now when boss IGA encroaches on this world in a 2nd age of darkness!

My thoughts on this, from the details.

Red room on map
Saverooms are still in red. There is no confirmation or hint that these rooms will be used for anything other than to save. Having Johannes close to that room and not in it, makes that these saverooms goes either hand in hand across the map with similar things in them, being a multiroom, or it is just for save. The red rooms can be something else too of course.

Cooking Mama
Using alchemy to make food is a treat we have seen in other games, like combining 3 lesser of the same to get a normal brew of a potion, and so on. This crafting system seems however to have its own food apartment when you check the list. The first tab is about creating things out of material, but then we have this second tab with food on it. Does that mean, cooking is something else? I mean, it would be included in the first tab if we were to create it from materials and ingredients, no?

Johannes circle
There is a magical circle at the craftingtable with Johannes, I do not think it will have any function, but I could be wrong. It is a nice touch, since he care for alchemy and Miriam, that a protected barrier like a ring as such is a good thing to have, or if its a gateway to a safe location?

Johannes craftingstation NPC
We knew a while back that he would help Miriam, but all suggestions points toward him not being playable. While we have seen Zangetsu in action and we know the little girl Anne will help Dominique at the shop, I still believe Dominique and Zangetsu are the other characters you play.

No bullets
I can't see that they have fused together anything to make interesting bullets. I guess features like homing or spread-shoot would be a little too much Metroid? Anyway, I do think we can make a few different bullets that shoots straight, with different strengths and elements.

Shards
Combine shards? Very interesting!

Breakdown
Get back the materials, this would mean you might need materials only or more than an actual item if you want to upgrade. It really doesn't answer on which route it takes but at first glance it seems like you do need the main item where you want the materials to be fused with. That means, you keep the item you want, but you break down all the rest which you think you will never use. Perhaps you can only take apart the components of the materials you found on weapons, and get the basic actual weapon back along with the materials you used before? That would make sense.

The big question(s)
Will we be able to find any item and weapon in the castle? Or will all the interesting items and weapons only be viable through crafting? Maybe some will be able to be crafted, and others do not? Like for example, the Swordwhip? Or will they go with the alchemy exclusive route which means you find all the items in the game through adventures, then at a later date you can upgrade them as you please. It makes me a bit worried about the "breakdown / salvage" aspect of it. Maybe I regret smashing my hammer to bits? Many questions..

Nice update. Thanks!

(Sorry for the double post)

Enkeria

Red room on map
I believe saverooms are what they were before, nothing more, nothing less. The area where Johannes is looks like the village, so, the village probably has all the services. Johannes for crafting, Dominique/Anne for shopping, Saveroom to save, and maybe a teleport of some sort to get there faster.

Cooking Mama
I believe it is probably the same system, but they did it on a separate option to make a better organization.

Johannes circle
Inside the church in Order of Ecclesia, you had a NPC and behind him, there was a weird, dark-looking Amphora of sort, that was never mentioned until late in the game and it was actually really really important. I wonder if that magical circle isn't the same. At first, you look at it, and it's nothing but a "alchemy thing" to make Johannes room more "alchemy-like"...until late in the game when it turns into some kind of plot point.

Johannes craftingstation NPC
Agree. Dominique and Zangetsu are most probably the other playable characters. 

No bullets
Bullets will be crafted, they said that. I believe they will mostly have different elements and/or status effects.

Shards
That is also something i really wanna know how it will work out.

Breakdown
I don't think it will be like you said. The breakdown / dismantle thing is probably "lose your equipment in exchange for the materials that forms it."

The big question(s)
Those are the questions i also can't answer right now, only speculate.

Do anyone think Johannes is sort of ... uh... dull and absent light in his eyes? Besides, thin and wax-colored face?