Feature Requests/Tweaks

being able to save Todd the barber’s customizations to the shortcuts would be great.

I'd like to see some of the not-dullahammer familiars brought up in usefulness. Like have the fairy's beams fire more often, fire multiple in one cast, maybe make them course-correcting by rank 9, fired without moving into position, and have them pierce terrain. Buer is actually fine as-is, because its power lies in the shenanigans it lets you get up to rather than direct automated assault. And speaking of the heads, maybe switch the number of heads to being determined by rank rather than grade? Still vastly useful, but allows a slight limiter on the power creep by tying it to getting access to the materials to enhance the shard.

Some platform edges feel like they need a bit of tweaking(horizontally extended collision boxes). My instincts keep saying I've got a few more pixels to stand on something, but I end up going just a bit too far and falling.

In boss rooms, change the suspend feature to one for restarting the battle. It gets annoying having to go back to the title, reload, return to the room, and skip cutscenes again every time something goes wrong. People who are vying for the boss medals will thank you.

Sound effects from fire-based shards all have noticeable mic static/pop/something. I've noticed some sound effects in general are much louder than others for no apparent reason, that might be the problem here. Another little thing is that sound sourcing is based on Miriam's position rather than the camera, so there are a couple of times during the game(the easiest to repeat is at the very start when the seama busts in the window while you talk to Johannes) where the stereo sound will output effects that seem misplaced compared to what you're seeing.

Some theoretically common monsters are a bit thin in supply(or at least have no super-quick farm spot at a room transition). In particular I'm thinking of Simians. Only singles show up, only in a few places, yet they're the sole source of a couple materials needed for a number of items. I'd say try and pin down critters like this and find some emptier spots in the game to pack a few into one room. Note I've only played through the game as a cold-start Nightmare run, so if normal mode has the things all over the place I guess disregard; most people probably have the benefit of a NG+ item stockpile when they do Nightmare or Hard.

Shuffle the food availability around a bit. By mid-game you can have bonuses in the upper teens of every stat except STR, which you'll only have like +2 from food at best. So I'd say move some of the STR food to the earlier parts of the game. Doesn't even have to be the recipes, just stick a few of the completed items in chests here or there.

Hmm, this is a good thread, but it sounds like a suggestion sorta thing, so I moved it here

My main concern with Carabosse is that her skillset means she's intended to be left out all the time but has very poor reaction time on her actions and only situational use for her non-combat functions. If nothing else, speeding her up would go a long way to improving her. With Bloodbringer, it loses its worth as an equipped weapon during Nightmare because it's Lv1 just like you. You'd have to either very carefully change and rebalance it, or give it some kind of conditional Nightmare-only boon. The problem is that these familiars have to compete against one that can rapidly attack anywhere in the player's field of vision, hit for respectable damage, and hit five times in a go. And that's the other solution, of course; hard-nerf the heads. I'd much prefer that they be enhanced before dullahammer head gets nerfed, should the devs decided to reach for parity between familiars if they adjust things in the game down the road.

Letting familiars level up in Nightmare mode is not a good idea in my opinion. It reintroduces the option to grind, if only for familiar levels. It's better to change up their behavior, or to let their level be improved through forging them.

There's an item in the game that lets you see enemy health, so having boss healthbars would take away from its functionality.

On the other hand, I'm not keen on how it currently works. Which is replacing the damage numbers with health remaining numbers. It also comes a bit late into the game, IMO. If the effect of the Gauge Glasses was changed to showing health bars, and they were relocated nearer to the start of the game, I think that would do a better job of satisfying people's desire to see boss health.

What if there are two shards... one can be an initial shard and one can be created from the first shard through alchemy. The first shard can see the enemy's health and from that, we can create a boss health bar shard. once the shards get to level 9 they can be turned into white shards that can replace the options cause all you have to do it turn the shard on or off when it becomes a white shard.