Difficulty options.

[left hare]

I think there is a thrill to a zelda game when the damage is way more like a heart or more with enemies attacking. Also I really like trying to survive without hearts. Could you add a setting in the game where it is like this.

Easy- Alot of heart drops and sliver of heart goes down when your hurt. Enemies die in 1x 2 hits
Normal-hearts drop by 25-50? All damage = 1/2 of heart or 1 Enemies die in 3 hits 4.
Hard-hearts drop 10% of time all damage = 1 for every hit boss = 2 . Enemies die in 5-6 hits.

It would be nice to be able to choose what kinda settings there would be.
I really would love to play the game on a hard mode.

I dont want to play kaizo persay. Something in between what the game has.

Other than this I absolutely enjoy this game.

[hoary pumice]

If there is ever going to be a decision on difficulty, it'll be in the hands of the dungeon makers.

That said, having difficulty options WOULD be good to have

[left hare]

I think it would be better for player choice so people can choose how they want to play a dungeon.

I agree

[amber harbor]

I would personally really like options to make enemies stronger and a bit bulkier, like having more powerful recoloured Variations of them. But I don't know about difficulty options per se.

Hearts are placed by the maker as well 😅

[left hare]

Ah ok, I feel like im rewarded way to much and i cant die. But i do get stuck with what to do with puzzles. I am brand new to this game. And your idea is pretty sweet. It would be cool to add those 3 enemies that you have to line up the symbol to go into the next room.

[amber harbor]

I can definetely see your point. As a creator you really have to make an effort, to create a challenging enemie encounter that is not absolutely spammy/redicilous at the same time xD

[hoary pumice]

As I understand it, the main idea of the game is to have changes to the dungeon be diegetic, for the most part. If we can think up ideas in that vein of thought that boost difficulty, then maybe they'll be considered.

[left hare]

Yes, if you can control certain aspects of them = could change difficulty. Instead of being spammy rediculous. Maybe change rooms behaviors with enemies. I dont know what it is like to create.

[gritty lake]

Interesting idea, but we have rings for the most part xd

Who knows what rings we will get anyway.

[left hare]

It woud be cool, to have like maybe changing difficulty so its like a roller coaster in room? I am not a professional at this, i am brand new but see this issue already.

[gritty lake]

Also, I like to point out how odd having difficulty option is, you can even have a dungeon that we would have no enemies at all or one-hit challenges that made this idea a bit trivial or would cause odd problems, though like ring does xd.

[hoary pumice]

Having difficulty TAGS would be good, so folks can at least keep like with like in terms of challenge. In-game is a bit harder to quantify, sadly.

[left hare]

yeah i could see that as a problem. I also dont know what the ring does youd have to explain.

[left hare]

tags would prob solve alot of issues

[celest aurora]

Naaahhhh. I don't think this would work due to limitations.

[pulsar vapor]

There are rings that make the game more difficult FOR YOU

for example, the Hero’s Ring doubles incoming damage and prevents hearts from spawning

Im sure you’d enjoy that

There will also be new variants for all enemies, but I won’t spoil that just yet

[left hare]

Thank you for that but I think it would be more enjoyable that it wasnt a pickup. It was selectable off the bat. Also not getting hearts is to much like kaizo there should be like 10% drops like kinda like how link to the past was. I have not gotten the chance to get a ring id much rather prefer another weakness that i have to overcome on top of the extra damage. I still think double damage from the introductory dungeons is to low for me to be enjoyable. I want to make every single battle meaningful in the game.

with the changes i am suggesting people could create events like this which to me is the perfect difficulty int his game. Its just i wish that this was in the original zelda. It would of made the game so much more fun. https://youtu.be/zhNJ9yWshy8?list=PLg-OdYMgZU5yARhA97d98hg3B50rBBAaw&t=269 which is very rewarding and satisfying. Also if there is checkpoints in a level it doesnnt make the difficulty to overbearing. Atually it should make things more encouraging. Because if you have a checkpoint you can just retry without any punishment which might be to easy for this as well. Maybe lives should be a thing as well in this

[covert adder]

for example, the Hero’s Ring doubles incoming damage and prevents hearts from spawning
Spicy

[spark jasper]

It'd be nice to choose how much damage enemies / projectiles / traps do to the player.

[pseudo basalt]

guess thats what the rings are for

the ring that drops an extra heart for every heart that drops is already in the game for example

but yeah would be nice to have some options too as a dungeon maker

[pulsar vapor]

There will be more enemy variants and projectiles which are differently damaging

But you won’t ever set the raw damage

Reason being consistency

A red shellshot should always take the same amount of hits to kill

[spark jasper]

Yeah, that makes sense. Can't wait to see more variety though! 🙂

[pulsar vapor]

https://tenor.com/view/dragon-quest-weird-slime-metal-slime-fight-gif-15831053

[gritty lake]

SDM Fink trying to beat Metal Slimes from QM.

[covert adder]

Y'all remember the metal chuchus from minish cap

That turned into spikes

[pulsar vapor]

yeaaa

[left hare]

So I was thinking one of the ways that could be dealt with if damage goes up is if this is part of the game https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CpyruDoXBSA it would be neat to have little pickups that buff in the game even if its the template for something to be buffed.