November: Ambermoon

[SpellSword]

I found Father Anthony.


Is there some place that I can see the effects and damage of each spell?

[Watser]

Is there some place that I can see the effects and damage of each spell?

For damaging spells higher SP cost = more damage, don't think there's any nuance between earth/ice/fire/wind spells in the destructive school such as resistances. Otherwise it's just different flavors of single target/single row/everything.
Most status effects are self-explanatory, except for irritate which disables spellcasting.

https://www.oldgames.sk/en/game/ambermo ... load/1877/ has a very rudimentary description of the different spells, but more importantly lists the SLPs required.

[SpellSword]

Thanks these are great.

► Alchemy Spells

► Destruction Spells

► Healing Spells

► Mystic Spells

[SpellSword]

In the intro there was a second habitable planet, I wonder if we will be travelling to it.

Maybe this game will be longer than I expected.

► Looks like combat is going to get heavier from this point on...

I thought an enemy group of five was going to be considered a large battle for this game...

[Rand]

Also here is some information that may be useful about gold.
I noticed that the max amount of gold you can store in a chest is 65535.

it's stored as a single 16bit unsigned integer?
Lame.

[Watser]

In the intro there was a second habitable planet, I wonder if we will be travelling to it.

Turns out you do. Two from the looks of it.

[SpellSword]

I think I've found the ship that will allow me to get there, I just need to figure out how to make it take off.

► Also...

...and that Lebab's Tower's section with the moving holes was infuriating!

► Valdyn's origin

I was curious about the game Valdyn was from so I looked up Lionheart, it being a platformer was unexpected.

[SpellSword]

I think I'm approaching the end, I've made it to a place called Morag, where is everyone else at?

► The second planet was pretty bad...

...with its constant dangerous creature combat that yields no gold or EXP. Make sure you are stocked up and leveled before travelling there.

[Watser]

About to go to the rumoured ruins on the Green Jewel. Started using a walkthrough for this place to get the coordinates as traversing it is a pain in the ass and it's so easy to miss whatever it is you are looking for as you are only given vague directions.

[Kalarion]

What would you guys say is a good hit% for my hero and Egil to have before leaving Stannenberg? I've got them to 65% so far, the grinding is wearing me down.

[Watser]

Haven't done any grinding since defeating the undertaker/digger in Spannenberg at level ~5, just used all my TP on attack and it got maxed pretty quickly.

[SpellSword]

Victory!

► Ending Screen Spoilers

► A Few Random Thoughts

I don't think breaking equipment was a good fit for this game it made me dread every battle.

The first planet is pretty interesting whereas the second and especially third planet did not feel as polished.

I can see why Pyrdacor wanted to expand Ambermoon with Ambermoon Advanced, the scope of the game's world gives it a kind of epic feeling and would really benefit from more content.

Overall Game Rating For Ambermoon:



@Kalarion getting your character and Egil's attack stat to max as soon as possible will really help against most of the enemies on the first island. What starts tipping the scale later though is Egil's ability to drastically increase his number of attacks per turn.

You can access the information for how each class will level up by mousing over its name on that character's inventory menu:

► Egil's Attacks Per Round Increase Rate Screenshot

Also if you haven't already try going into the options and increase Battle Speed to +100%, you need to scroll the menu down for the option to come on screen.

► Option Menu Battle Speed

► Tip if you are going to grind for EXP in Spannenberg

If you are grinding using the necromancer in the cemetery's zombies instead try the bandits that randomly attack you in town. Just hammer the "Touch" key while standing somewhere they've already attacked you and they will strike again. They are easier to kill and don't poison you.

[Nemesis]

Victory!

Gratz. How many hours did it take you?

[maidenhaver]

Yeah, this game doesn't need random durability.

[Watser]

Specially frustrating when Spannenberg is the only town without a blacksmith for repair.

[SpellSword]

Gratz. How many hours did it take you?

I think it took somewhere between 35-40 hours with a few of those hours dedicated to grinding EXP.

Specially frustrating when Spannenberg is the only town without a blacksmith for repair.

Considering that equipment seems to break less and less the farther you are into the game them not including the ability to repair in the first town is pretty weird. It seemed the chance was higher for a weapon breaking when less damage was able to go through an enemy's armor, but I'm not really sure if that was actually what was happening. With a lot of the humanoid enemies dropping their equipment maybe they thought you'd use this weaker gear then whip out your strongest weapons and armor only for bosses?

► Other content gated by progression...

The first town's healer also only unlocks once you've finished some of the quests so if a spider (Or Zombie) tags you with poison you are basically just dead if you have no more cure poison potions, and with no way to resurrect your fallen party member as well.

Ambermoon was one of the last games released by Thalion and I've read they cancelled plans to port it to other systems, perhaps they didn't have a lot of time to finish setting up the world?

[Watser]

Alright where's my badge?

► Show Spoiler

Finally slogged my way through the endgame. At least Morag, unlike Kire's Moon, has coordinates for the places you need to go which makes it a lot less of a slog though the game takes a nosedive in quality.
Overall very charming game but the part on the Lyramionic Isle is by far the most enjoyable.

Also a non-official sequel has been confirmed once Advanced is done.

[rusty_shackleford]

The third part is Albion tho.

[Watser]

The third part is Albion tho.

Spiritual sequel.

[rusty_shackleford]

Rollcall on people still playing and not yet finished

[maidenhaver]

Here.

[maidenhaver]

I won't make it.

[Watser]

Not with that attitude.

[Rigwort]

I think my no-spoiler run coupled with being during November should've spelled doom for me far before... Still will keep playing to find more tunes, some of the music is really good.

[rusty_shackleford]

I think my no-spoiler run coupled with being during November should've spelled doom for me far before... Still will keep playing to find more tunes, some of the music is really good.

There's no time limit on a badge so when you finish I'll add it