Lost Isle Preview

Heheh, how many testers do you want to take? :blah: I'd gladly sign on. (I believe you and C are intimately familiar with my overexplanative visual testing method.)

I'm not going to say anything like "OMG THESE SCREENSHOTS LOOK AMAZING!!!" and start licking your shoes. You already know all these things (Both of them. 😞 ) and I would just be wasting your time. It's more DFW & Peteo action.

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Subscreen of Lost Isle. Lots of planning went into this one.[/center]

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Getting a major item gives you a text box and a nice fanfare.[/center]

(That reminds me: maybe I need to code it up so that Link holds the item up for as long as the message string is onscreen.)

I presume this uses those MSGSTRV codes which were recently introduced?

(That reminds me: maybe I need to code it up so that Link holds the item up for as long as the message string is onscreen.)

Ah, but of course.

(You mean there really is a quest called "Dance of Remembrance"? I should have suspected.)

Aye! And it's quite brilliant.

(Also read: How to steal Peteo's thunder.) Sorry. XD

Lol, no problemo.

And yeah, ST is right about that message box... it is made with graphics, no code involved. But Lost Isle is using a few scripts so at least it is taking some advantage of that spectacular feature...

The screenshots look nice, and obviously I'm excited about the quest - but surely you could have picked a screenshot without bad grammar in it?... 'You got Ocarina'? Maybe I'm just being akward, but I think that having good spelling and grammar helps to make a quest better - I just played HoD and it was amazing, but the spelling was one of the few things that made it seem not quite as good.

Sweet. After many months/years of vauge referances and mentions, the day soon approaches. Can't wait, can't wait! :kawaii:

Well Joe, I can assure you that the grammar and spelling in Lost Isle is not bad at all. darkFlameWolf and most of our testers are very fluent English speakers and they have gone through all the text in this quest many times. 😊

And what's wrong with "You got Ocarina!"? You got Link's Sword, you got Wooden Boomerang... I see nothing wrong with it. You got an ocarina? You got the Ocarina? O_o

Ah ok, sorry.

'You got Ocarina' is just wrong though. I think it's because it doesn't have an article. 'You got Link's Sword' is fine because it's a proper noun, but 'You got Boomerang' also isn't a proper noun, therefore it and Ocarina both need an article.
I think. Don't quote me on that though �_�

-The limited amount of Shields and Potions will give players some serious thinking and planning to do

Speaking of which, you haven't quite hinted on the difficulty of the quest... unless you're going to go by the testers' responses. And by difficulty, I'm referring more typically to the main portion rather than the side quest stuff.

One more thing: Is there any chance you might release some of those sweet custom tiles? Most particularly the cave tiles - been dying to have something better than the LttP ones... and my recoloring of the MC ones, although nice, aren't quite flexible enough.

... differential between "Pure" and "Custom" graphics seems almost too much... I dunno... not saying it's a problem, but it's as if Lost Isle is two different quests (then again, when made by two different people...). Tis cool either way.

Yes, the graphical styles AND design methods of each of the developers, I think, only adds, not detracts from the quest itself. The quest itself feels like a whole world rather than seperate, individual areas.

As for grammer: YOU GOT RAFT! XD

As for difficulty: It starts off relatively easy with a few minor tricky spots. For the most part, it eases the player into the quest, but the more you explore, the trickier the areas become and the more you will have to rely on the items you acquire to survive. (This is especially true with your bow and arrows) And Bait will have a more prominent strategic role in the quest, esp. since many of the enemies are attracted to it. The quest, imo, doesn't start getting rough until around level 3, spikes hard in level 4 and doesn't let up from there. Didn't feel a need to use a single potion until around level 4. As for the magic shields, I kinda needed a new one after every level. Those Grasps are evil.
Trust me when I tell you, only a perservering player will finally see the climatic end and beat the quest. Its taken me about 12+ hours so far to beat the game and I know what the heck to do!

WindStrike,

I know my previous quest Dr. Wily's revenge was very tough, but there's no need to worry about Lost Isle being as insanely tough. Lost Isle is actually a quite easy quest up to Level 3 or 4, but then it starts to get challenging. You need some perseverance and skill to complete the game, but to me games like Wily's Revenge and Hero of Drems feel more tough, so the difficulty of Lost Isle shouldn't be too much to handle. 😊

And what comes to tiles, I definitely have a plan to release the cool cave and dungeon tiles of Lost Isle. I really don't like the basic Pure dungeon tiles at all.

Petoe wrote:I know my previous quest Dr. Wily's revenge was very tough, but there's no need to worry about Lost Isle being as insanely tough.

Good. 😊 Because I can confirm of the difficulty of DWR (and IotW and Hidden Duality).

Is it me, or does it look like there are hidden words at the top of the subscreen, reading "Lost Isle" and "By Wolfie"? I'm just that observant. 😛 And I agree, the subscreen looks very professional. Much better than Minish Cap's.

And, of course, all of the screenshots look excellent. You may remember that I've been following this quest since the first thread that started it all, and coming from two excellent quest makers, I can wholeheartedly guarantee that this will be a very fine quest.

If only the QDB were up! 😃

Pineconn wrote:
If only the QDB were up! 😃

Amen to that!

Oh and you are probably the first one to interpret the secret message on the subscreen correctly. Congrats for that, lol. 😊

0_0

That's all I can say to this.

just plain 0_0.

I'm grabbing this as soon as I can. It looks awesome.

The Subscreens do indeed look excellent, but does Link's positional marker really have to be black? :shrug:

I mean, .. does it?

ShadowTiger wrote:The Subscreens do indeed look excellent, but does Link's positional marker really have to be black? :shrug:

I mean, .. does it?

Well... ummmmm... yeah, it has to be. The Link marker must be the same color as the subscreen background so that when there is no map, you cannot see Link's position. *shrugs*

ShadowTiger wrote:The Subscreens do indeed look excellent, but does Link's positional marker really have to be black? :shrug:

I mean, .. does it?

As opposed to a more appropriate color for Link, like, say, fuschia?

I'm not saying the difficulty will be a problem neccessarily for me, seeing as I did beat HoD and IotW (... I uhh... deleted my HD profile before I hit Level 9; I played HD Extreme and hit Level 7 before completely giving out). Just wondering on the general scale...

Petoe wrote:And what comes to tiles, I definitely have a plan to release the cool cave and dungeon tiles of Lost Isle. I really don't like the basic Pure dungeon tiles at all.

... although I did see the "hidden words" before then, I just never noted it, so for the record, Mr. Pineconn takes the interpretation award.

C-Dawg wrote:As opposed to a more appropriate color for Link, like, say, fuschia?

Pineconn wrote:If only the QDB were up!

if you can get up to level 7 of HD Xtreme, then you should have no problems with Lost Isle.

WindStrike wrote:
Fuschia as an appropriate color for Link? I dunno... that just seems... odd. I understand the reasoning for black, but that can be misleading on the position. Ah well - I'm sure everyone can figure it out when they actually play the quest.

It's sarcasm, junior.

WindStrike wrote:... although I did see the "hidden words" before then, I just never noted it, so for the record, Mr. Pineconn takes the interpretation award.

Sorry! 😛

(I didn't post everything I wanted to say about LI, I just didn't want to overload my message.)

I couldn't help but notice that the "more" icon is in the very top-left of the screen. Is this intended? I would think that it would be centered on the bottom of the text box, à la mostly all the Zelda games. (Or, perhaps if your message boxes appear in different places, then it would be impossible to keep a definite place on the box for the icon...)

I also couldn't help but notice that there is no Rupee counter... Will Rupees not make an appearance?

Joe123 wrote:'You got Ocarina' is just wrong though. I think it's because it doesn't have an article. 'You got Link's Sword' is fine because it's a proper noun, but 'You got Boomerang' also isn't a proper noun, therefore it and Ocarina both need an article.
I think. Don't quote me on that though ¬_¬

The simplest compromise, I suppose, is to slip in a colon after the word 'got'. "You got: Ocarina" perchance?

Agh, how can anyone seriously have a pet peeve with "You got Ocarina". >_<

_L_ wrote:The simplest compromise, I suppose, is to slip in a colon after the word 'got'. "You got: Ocarina" perchance?

Thanks, _L_. Not a bad idea at all. Have to think about it.

I'd do it, its only two dots on each graphic. :P

You Got Orcarina
You Got Orcarina
You Got Orcarina
You Got Orcarina
You Got Orcarina

naw, my personal favorite is: YOU GOT RAFT!

Well you two are havin' some fun, eh?

But whatever, you can make fun of my item boxes as much as you want, I don't care. 😛