Valiant Souls
A downloadable game for Windows
The current version available for download is a free demo of our in-development RPG Valiant Souls, including the first chapter of the game and has a play time of approximately 3~4 hours.
Utilizing the original "Soul system" in both battle and character development, Valiant Souls is a story driven adventure inspired by the classic JRPGs from the PS1 era with challenging battles, hidden secrets and tiny details for you to explore.
This game is an indie-RPG passion project made by two people from Austria, featuring professional voice acting in battle scenes and original music by Japanese composer Yoshino Aoki (Breath of Fire 3, Final Fantasy XV, Suikoden Tierkreis). Follow the story of the young knight Vine and his friends on their journey through a world troubled by the looming threat of war, strange natural phenomena happening all around the continent and learn more about the mysterious demise of an ancient civilization that vanished over 800 years ago.
Check out the music of our game here: https://soundcloud.com/valiantsoulsrpg/sets/valiant-souls-ost
CREDITS
- Game made by Rene Paulesich and Mario Posch
- Additional music by Yoshino Aoki
- Voice casting by Asako Sato
- Demo version includes voice acting by Shuma Hiki (Vine, Lucius), Asako Sato (Cain), MARS (Ors) and Elena Nishida (Themis)
- Battle Backgrounds by Kang Wang
- Plugins used apart from original scripts: VisuStella, Moghunter
Made using the RPG Maker MZ engine with a large amount original assets such as character sprites, battle animations, tile sets etc. and a number of purchased assets such as plugins or tile sets from other content creators and friends listed above.
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Development log
- Valiant Souls Devlog 20221230Dec 30, 2022
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Hello :)
Amazing demo of your game :)
Ors is my favorite character, I like his personality and he is strong in battle.😄 😄
I noticed a few mistakes which should not be too hard to fix, it happens to everyone 👍💪
This is the first one
There are a few walls and objects I could walk through them, there is a wall during the day which I could walk through in the academy but I do not remember where, other walls where also in the academy but during the night, there are crates or shelves or such which I could walk through, a broken pillar in the academy by night think.
Looking forward for more of Valiant Souls❤️❤️
Thank you very much for your kind feedback! Will look at all of these and fix them. :)
Played about an hour of the demo last night on my Twitch channel. VOD on my YouTube here. I enjoyed it a lot. Gonna play some more later this week. Amazing on job on this game so far.
thank you for playing, we are happy to hear you enjoyed it so far! :D
Hey! I just finished the demo and have some feedback!
First of all I already love the characters and cant wait to play the full game!!
Things that I noticed are:
When you use an Item in the inventory it would be great if you would stay in the inventory so you can use an item again on another character f.e antidote now it always leaves the inventory and you have to go back to it for each character.
I had a little grapic bug at the beginning but that was just while walking into a tree.
I had a little bug in the Mine when you drice the cart. When I had a second fight while in the cart I was outside of the cart while still on the rail after the fight. It still made the sound as if I was in the cart but the graphic was gone.
At the End of the Demo while fighting against the Lady in White her name was seen during the Fight but afterwards it said "????" again.
Again thank you so much for letting me play the game it´s really an honor for me!!
Thank you so much for your feedback.
I fixed all the issues you reported, especially the one where our Lady in the white dress' name is revealed in the battle text box is something I totally didn't catch. Thanks for spotting this. :)
LG
Rene
Hello!
Been playing this for longer than an hour now.
I quite like the way you earn traits. Them not being by level up but by interaction with your surroundings is fun. (Sad that the MC is not the main mage, but eh.... at least he is a magic swordsman. I will take what i can get. Though i still hope that he can grow into more of a spell caster than a swordsman over the journey lol)
It looks quite good.
Annamnesis does not work with Alleviate. (Had 10/11 and it never recovered any, not even after the battle was over, will try with others too., yeah doesnt work with any spells.)
Movement speed feels slow
Grinding is a bit of a chore, due to the low encounter rate. (Maybe there is a chance for an encounter rate boost in options?)
So far I am having fun, time to continue in the mine i guess lol
Have a good day.
Edit: Kinda sad we can't loot the "late night merchant" after his death. He had some decent items :/
Edit2: So I am done. So my feedback now.
I like it, i really do. Especially Vine failing his last stand and not pulling a last ditch win. (Tried everything to beat her, but sadly it is made in a way i will lose for sure :/ Guillotine Smash, poisoning, etc don't work and i suspect if poison worked i wouldn't live long enough to deplete her HP. Sad but fun.
Animationwise its good.
I had liked more traits and spells to be gained (especially from books... maybe the amount of books read will have an affect on spell count later? I dunno. I found 23)
Sadly the combat is still very straightforward, would look forward to more combos and the like (I mean that you could burn people with spells and abuse it with normal attacks/soul attacks, etc. Or maybe making enemies vulnerable to other magic spells trough it i dunno.)
Its a solid start. I wish you luck. Even if it seems like a typical story (what isnt with how much is out now?) it is well executed. But maybe make the alleviated casted in the cutscene work and decrease the count and so on, also could have killed like 5-6 of those foes so that they had so much trouble with them in the cutscene is weird. The tree was so much stronger.
Edit3: Forgot to mention, starting level 1 as last year knights and 0 battles is.... weird. lol
Thank you so much for your insightful comment! We are glad you liked it so far! And you even found some nice little glitches ;)
Thank you for your feedback, we will take each and everyone into consideration!
-Mario
Hi Fooljastic,
First of all thank you very much for playing our demo of Valiant Souls, and for taking the time to write such an extensive feedback. This version is kind of a "stealth" release for our close friends, and we were surprised someone found the game and incredibly honored you took the time to play through it.
Thank you for the feedback especially regarding the encounter rate, this is something we've been working quite hard on balancing (many games with RPG Maker tend to have battles every 3 steps... xD) but I agree it could be a few battles more for each area, we'll be trying to balance that a bit more in the next version.
Also thank you for your feedback on traits and spells. There will be a lot more to gain in the main game, but traits are usually learned through executing special events in towns (e.g. by triggering dialogue events with NPCs or among the main characters) as well as progressing through the story, as all traits and spells are based on the 8 emotions in the Skill Tree. We don't have a nice UI for that yet, and the traits you can find in the first chapter with the Rune Knights act as a "tutorial" for that system, that's why the number is fairly low in the demo. Combat will be the same, there are some examples of enemy weaknesses or things you can do with Soul Arts in the demo, but there will be much more in the "main" game - the Rune Knight chapter is just the start.
Also thank you on the feedback regarding start with level 1, never thought of that, but it kind of makes sense to not have them be Level 1 indeed. The battle counter is for the player though. ;-)
Also thank you for reading through all the books, I hope you found some of the side quests and hidden content as well that we've placed in the first chapter, we aim to have a lot of short events or little hidden things here and there to find for players apart from the main story, which definitely is a straightforward classic RPG story, thank you for your comment regarding the feel of the story as well, it's exactly what we wanted.
Sorry for not making it able to beat Themis in the last battle of the demo, you are definitely not supposed to, but kudos for trying so hard. There will be a time when you might be able to get a second chance against her. ;-)
It will take a few years until our game is ready, the first chapter is only about 5~10% of the whole story, but thanks for following our page here, we are doing our best to finish the game and hope you will also play the final version once it's done.
Have a great day and thank you again for your incredibly kind feedback!
Rene
Hey there you two,
I would also like to mention, unless there is a very high count of traits, that the stat boost and the like are rather... negligible.
2% HP boost from one trait is really nothing
0,5% cnounter rate? math would say you need to be very, very lucky to execute that.
1% EXP? Also the same
Though if you can stack them with others they might be useful, but as you said this is far from completed and i assume a lot are placeholders.
Can't really say if i found hidden content, though i would give you guys the tip, if you want an immersive world, you can make some comments when we look at say barrels, that they are closed, give of a certain smell, etc. Its a lot of work to do that, sure, but at the end many would like that i would bet. (Beyond the sparkles that indicate there is treasure)
Additionally a dash option would probably be good as well, though you probably took that out for a reason.
Visually the game is really appealing as well. (Well done maps there. Though the mine cart thing felt like a chore when i went back there to gather those last two chests.... lol but that was the only time it felt like a chore ngl.)
Furthermore, i hope we get a way to get those nifty shields the monsters have (kuddos that you didnt forget to take them from the cultists and themis, so i assume we won't get them anytime soon if at all.. ).
And i check itch.io daily and follow interesting looking projects. Only pays of every few months, but i am glad it did today =P
Additionally.... the prices seem to be all over the place. And its... also weird how little those 4 have available. Cause everyone should have had 10 roots (10/4 = 2,5 and i doubt you get half a root) at the beginning.... maybe have them say they used quite a bit of stuff going there. Or that they left most of it in there room (To claim later... or maybe it was stolen? Who knows.) But this is nitpicking on small details. haha
Have a good day again. I expected way more bugs for a demo but i didn't get to cliff out of the map yet lol
Thanks for your additional feedback! :)
Many of the things you have thought about we've actually also had on our mind before, so im feeling like we are on the same page about a few things :)
The dash for example, as you suspected we took it out, that was because it just neither looked nor felt good and we wan to improve on that drastcally before we add it.
We were also already thinking about inserting more flavor by being able to inspect interesting stuff in the world.
I am very happy that you played it to the end, and that you find our project interesting :)
We will keep working hard to make the release day be reasonable (we a re mostly a two man team after all)
-Mario