The difficulty's a little bit on the high side. I can only beat the dog witch.

And I'm not a fan of beating dogs. :C

I have figured out the strategy for the pig witch, but the inability to attack your own party in this engine removes some of said strategy from it, though that is a really clever twist.

The difficulty being high is intended. As long as it doesn't feel overwhelming or unfairly tuned. Please let me know if you feel it's that way.
The idea is that you do need to make use of buffs and debuffs to get the necessary edge.

But yeah, couldn't find a way to target either enemies or allies with the same skill in the engine...

Yeah, I'm using the buffs and debuf, but it's always just a little bit overwhelming. Some of the stuff, like relying on the tfed characters abilities is interesting, but if they get your heavy hitters, you're basically going to lose no matter what because the other characters cannot do enough damage to make up the difference. I've come close on all of them, I think (give that they suddenly all seem to ramp up their difficulty just before they die), but that final stage is something I can't seem to get past.

It seems like it's almost right. For the pig's gorge, maybe you could make that do damage as well as remove the regen? I really do like the clever twist on it, though. The idea that she reduces you to 1 HP and instead of attacking heals you, and she beats you by overhealing you. That's really clever. The first time I fought her, I saw everyone was down to 1 and reacted by rushing to heal everyone back to full. Whoops.
The cat fight seems like it should require the use of the haste spell to really keep up, but haste doesn't seem to actually make them attack any faster. Unless I'm missing something.

And I have no idea yet what the strategy for the frog and bunny witch are, so I'm not sure what to suggest. Come to that, I'm not sure what the dog witch's strategy was, I just sort of beat her by flailing around. Maybe because I was having the dogs be constantly disobedient so she wasted her attacks whipping them? Only thing I can figure.

I'll send you a note to discuss those details to not spam here too much. Thank you for your feedback!

Okay.

Awesome! I was thinking in play some spooky videogames that Halloween night, and now i can play a TF one, he he.

It was a very good TF Week, and that good surprise is the icing of the cake. Gotta to download and play it that night.

Thanks you for all!

Thank you! Glad you enjoyed it!
Feel free to share any feedback you might have during your play, hope you enjoy the adventure! ;)

I was losing to see them transformed 😈
I'm with team witches on this one. Wished there was an option to choose sides.

Hehe, I get that. But you still might want to push for that win and see the ending though!
Just make sure you download the latest version. You can see the times and dates of the new uploads in the description. The link is the same.

Videogame finished!

Was quite a challenge, but the whole game was great, also, good final boss and great ending!

Congratulations! I'm glad you had fun with it!

The games really good, although I couldn’t beat any of them, I really enjoyed playing it and seeing everything it had offer, you did great on making it

Thank you! I really appreciate it and I'm glad you liked it. I've just made a balance pass and some bug fixes, it should feel a bit more manageable if you re-download it now if you want to give it another try!

Great game! Having quite a bit of trouble beating any of them 😅

Thank you very much! I rebalanced some of the most overwhelming encounters to make them a bit more manageable, since it seems to be a common problem. You just have to re-download the same version from the same link!

battle mechanics were really good. was very surprised how different each boss encounter was and how the post-tf characters played a big part of the fights. music was really good too and of course your art was as well. that being said, as a game that seems to be catered towards TF fans, it feels like the whole premise is backwards. losing is more rewarding to your target audience, i managed to beat 2 bosses but not the other 3 yet so maybe beating all of them has an awesome incentive that i'll try and aim to see but the fact that winning gives the opposite of what i am interested in, it does make it hard to want to persevere. If you could manage to implement TF as a reward for winning, I'd want to play nonstop, especially if the rewards for success were fed a bit more frequently. For this scenario though, i imagine it would be VERY hard to pull it off.

Only things I could think of is: 1: make damaging the boss rewarding by having it to where the witch slowly starts TFing into their feral form by having them gain a few more animal traits at certain health intervals. IMO, TF sequence / mid TF is vastly superior to poof TFs so the incentive to win would be through the roof. This would also double as a really interesting way of implementing boss phases as the boss, say for example the cat witch, loses her ability to cast magic because her new paws or size, but also becomes faster and more agile. 2: turning the game completely around and making the player the villain who turns the heroes into animals. any level of TF is always welcome, but i think if you're going with poof TFs, maybe add just a tad of personality to their TF'd forms. like different facial expressions or incidental poses like the knight girl struggling to stand on all 4's while the pink-haired mage is struggling to keep her mage hat on her tiny head with her new paws.

Overall i'd say this is a beautiful game and extremely well done so far considering it was born as a side hobby.

I'll let you know that beathing them holds a small surprise~

I get your point about catering to the target audience. That is why in each fight at least one character is going to get transformed. I am not a fan of the players having to force a loss in order to actually see any transformations, so I thought of that as a compromise, and paired with a moderate difficulty, thought it would cause transformations to happen organically as another part of the game, not just a lose condition.

But the objective of this project was to have the former submission made into a game, so the player would naturally control a group of adventurers a la classic Final Fantasy games. Doing multi-step tf's, while possible, was out of the intended scope of the game. Creating all the necessary assets that would require is a significantly bigger workload than I had time to put into this. Although you are right in that it would've been great. Making it the other way around would basically be an entirely different game, requiring of different mechanics and approach.

In regards to difficulty beating it, I rebalanced the most overwhelming fights so it becomes a little more manageable. You can download the updated version from the same link in the event you'd like to give it another chance!

Thank you very much for your feedback, and I'm glad you liked it!

Now keep in mind I am not a game developer...
Finishing and releasing a game is a lot further than most people get!

I still need to beat the Bog Witch, but I'll get to her tomorrow. So far, I think the balance has been in about the right place, at least playing on the 1/11/21 version. It's challenging, but definitely feels possible. Also, fighting each witch feels fresh since all of the witches are pretty distinct from one another.

If you want to get more people to play this, posting it to Itch.io is an excellent option! (Just remember to add the "transformation" tag to it if you do)

Thanks! I'm glad you find it engaging after the last changes. Good luck with beating the bog witch and hope you like the ending!
I didn't remember that itch.io even existed, but sounds great and I will certainly consider it! Especially since it seems there's an option for uploading it that would allow the game to be played on the browser.

Thank you for the recommendation!

Tried the mac version and it just said 'move game.app into different folder'.

...Which is a weird thing for it to ask. I ran it from a normal folder.

It also tried to access the internet through the helper.

Pretty fun, but it seems like the witches win faster if you do better against them!

Thanks! In regards to the mac version. Unfortunately I don't own a mac myself so there's little I can do to test it on the platform. RPG maker lets me export a mac version so I did it in order to offer the option. It sounds like you managed to play it after all though?

The witches get tougher and use different skills as you get closer to beat them, they don't want to be defeated after all!

Priest guy killed pig, cat, and final boss by simply beating them with bare fists. Like in that meme - im healer but...

in this case... *cracks fists* :D
Congratulations! I hope you enjoyed it.

Thanks - yes i did! that was fun!

This game is pretty cool, but for me it seems like the boss will just randomly TF a character for no apparent reason, like the dog witch just decided I didn't deserve a healer and transformed them while they weren't even the lowest on the party. Which is mildly annoying. It happens with the other bosses as well, but beside that it's a pretty good game.

Thank you. Yes, sometimes that can happen, and it's something I unfortunately wasn't able to find a fix for. Keep in mind that it can be somewhat random if two characters are at the same hp percentage, but that is rare. Were you on MacOs or Windows? I don't have the former so couldn't test it's performance there, but from the testing I did it should work as intended the majority of times.

Glad you like it!

That's unfortunate, I was playing on windows.

Just beat the game, certainly a good graft and the game can be pretty harsh, transformed one of my team and just snowballed from there.

Glad to read you liked it, thank you for playing!

Having trouble downloading. Is it compatible with Google Chrome?

What is the problem exactly? It's a Drive link so it shouldnt be any.

Hmmm. It keeps going into my download files but there's no option to play it. It's just read only.

Once you extract/unzip it, you should have a folder. Then you just have to launch "game.exe" from inside that folder.