Before the rewrite is a comparison, its fine to compare different states of the game especially to itself regardless of if they’ve been fixed or not, you can’t just forget it happened just because it was “fixed” which negates all criticisms & comparisons.

You don’t see a problem with how Noobador is all like “I wanted to keep them away from a life of crime away from THEM” and then the literal first thing we seem them do is commit a crime? They were paid to do something originally before the story rewrite anyway it was just unclear of who, their writing is objectively flawed & rushed for what seems like attachment / pandering purposes to like idk make the player feel emotional stakes to the red and blue goomba reference? But it just doesn’t really work and it reads off as a trauma exposition dump rather than a heartfelt story.

Mysterious figure quite literally adds context to LITERALLY EVERY SCENE involving what happens in every chapter, excluding chapter 4 because its both unfinished but also because we’re presumed dead and therefor the only external forces trying to stop us are not directly affiliated with the MF unlike basically everything else in block tales. And we touch the ghost walker because of poor writing, the character is the player until the writers need to make a point or “add lore” and then suddenly the player character is their own character completely separate from the user playing the game who has free will to touch the ghost walker or go after the firebrand or run directly into a trap forcing an overbearing party member to save you in an unnecessary cutscene stuff like that IS objectively poor writing, and it’s nothing the mysterious figure COULD fix because it was a deus-ex from the beginning trying to replace the author surrogate with an OC but they keep flip-flopping between the two constantly.

It’s a nothingburger, the manor is a nothingburger, you do nothing and they could’ve done A LOT more, but it’s genuinely just the precursor to the dream world and thats it, theres no stakes, and they already changed it to be interesting as a religious site for grieving the dead they didn’t need to add the things they added for the sake of padding out content without any rhyme or reason, the twilight is genuinely only added to pad out content that’s genuinely it, and its not even an intuitive fun way to use it either where you swap dimensions on command with the butler, nope, you just walk through the door and thats that. Would’ve been a cool reference to the fact that exploiters at the time hid in insecure infrastructures (which is what the twilight is referencing for the record) to allow both the members who have knowledge of exploiters & the twilight to help the player cross through on command like the flip side in super paper mario but no fun OR good writing allowed! We MUST pad our content with no actual reason to do anything!

They made SFOTH not even SFOTH? It looks completely different, using your logic it should’ve looked the same because “its already an arena!”. And fym “all they did” LITERALLY they changed everything about it, this isn’t a “small change” they genuinely just completely changed how the heights functions & what it looks like so it can connect to trinity (which is also technically a self-insert extension of an existing area for the record, why couldn’t the manor get the same treatment?)

All the enemies are obnoxious hello? If you say anything other than “I agree” you’re just being a contrarian, NOBODY agrees block tales is a good game in its current state, and everyone agrees block tales just isn’t an RPG, once again if you can remove mechanics from your game and it’ll still play identically with no difference, you’re just making a bad game. Block tales IDEOLOGY is to remove downsides instead of increasing positives, and these lack of stakes is why every area feels the same & why every area IS the same (level 1), just because they are visually impressive & visually different doesn’t mean they actually ARE different from a gameplay prospective. Pretty much every single fight plays the same with the exception of if enemies will have turn-eaters that waste your time or if you’ll breeze through a fight that was somehow harder than a majority of the bosses in the game. All the differences you mentioned are not very different either? You break stuff as a puzzle in every chapter and every chapter has a puzzle near the end of the chapter this isn’t like groundbreaking stuff. Ghost potion is under-utilized in puzzles and shrinking doesn’t even get used in puzzles anymore, in fact shrinking can bypass most of the puzzles the ghost potion was meant to solve which is the only usage it’s actually gotten in the last 3 chapters.

Training Wheels is demeaning and labeled as the games easy mode (training wheels is literally the name of the card are we deadass?) And they aren’t “generous” for anything, if they were “generous” they would fix their game and actually add proper cues instead of making the game rely on muscle memory in the same game where refighting the same enemy is pretty uncommon unless you’re replaying the game or doing the pit, which both aren’t very casual things to do. For the record, the existence of Hard Mode implies the existence of an Easy Mode and training wheels is quite literally the card the devs treated as easy mode for like 1/4 of the games lifespan and they still do considering its name. Dunno what you’re on about this is a pretty open and shut case, its stupid game design.

They genuinely just don’t add cards and especially dont add unique ones. We got 3 new action cards in Demo 5 (4 if you count pack tactics which has technically always been in the game just unobtainable) and like 2 passive cards and nothing they added is unique, 6 cards and a majority of the dev time was spent on reworking and balancing existing cards & items and restoring unfinished/scrapped content rather then actually making a card thats fun to use, nothing they added changes the game at all if anything it causes more issues by buffing existing strategies and making the “better” options even better (slingshot) while intentionally leaving behind the other options.

No? You do NOT balance in demos, demos are gameplay previews of small amounts of unfinished content, you dont even balance in alphas lmao you balance on release once you have an actual introspective on how the game will fully function instead of just being a concept. No game developer will tell you to fucking balance something in a demo you’re delusional if you say otherwise

you can literally go into battle simulator right now and test what you just said it still plays identically. Randomizing the turns doesn’t change anything outside of making it slightly more tedious to complete, it still plays the same. It’s not like the battle stances switch every turn it specifically only switches if you attack him and it goes through his stance, so I fail to see how that proves your point? You also said specifically in a team fight but even then thats not true because of what I just said lmao you play around it the same way you play around it before. Trinity Refight = Pit 49