Hey, so I beat the game on Type B and replaying Type A now.
I believe one charge for all summons isn't gonna work for a full game that is not an abridged-playthrough.
https://finalfantasy.fandom.com/wiki/Summon_Materia_(Final_Fantasy_VII)
At least set it so that summons can be 5 charges for Type A Mode, else New Threat would not be friendly for normal player.
Especially with Emerald and Ruby weapons in standard game, there's no way in hell anyone can defeat them without using cheats and not level 99.
The summon commandcounter-mime trick requires you to be attacked to counter with the summon, and you can't do any other actions except wait to use the same mime action... (and if vs. Ruby Weapon, ur dead after 1-2 hits, can't keep miming... without having to heal in between...)
And this 1-charge setup forces the trick in order to summon more than once.
(You could maybe change it to 5 charges for ChocoMog, Ifrit, Shiva, and Ramuh; 4 for Titan, Odin, Leviathan, and Bahamut;
3 for Kjata, Alexander, Typhon, and Neo-Bahamut; 2 for Phoenix, Hades, and Bahamut ZERO; and 1 for Knights of the Round, on Type B.)
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In Type B Mode, the Golden Chocobo can be obtained easier, that means KoTR on disc 2. (turn off all mods temporarily before entering so the materia caves don't crash.) However, KoTR only has 1 charge... which makes the great WEAPONS impossible without the mod that allows invincibility.
With the classic 5 charges, you can't use KotR until late disc2 anyway, and with high MP cost, noone really uses more than 2 charges,
with this current setup, even if you're on disc3 and there's enough MP, you still can't use more than 1... of any summon.
It forces a player to have to obtain all summons before getting Master Summon for the possible multiple charges, and by the time someone gets all summons, it's already almost end game. It's very limiting and counterproductive.
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Next conflict, the altered locations of the materia placements are very odd in early game and late game. (except for the unchanged ones like Alexander)
For instance, why put HP-Absorb in the restroom in the slum, (a ghetto joke?) (and it's on both modes too)
HP-Absorb is late disc1 or disc2 in Wutai iirc, having it at very-early game is kind of op yet ineffective, and why in the bathroom...?
Are there no other dignified locations to place it?
And then, in Type B, Ultima Magic is right before final boss... So a player would have to backtrack all the way up from the end of the Northern Crater if they'd just want to roam in the world map testing out Ultima or do side quests...
Why not switch Ultima's placement (in the green glowing area in Northern Crater) with Pearl, and have Ultima materia appear earlier;
with that it would make more sense lore-wise to have a Holy magic like Pearl appearing right before the final boss.
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Also, gone is the thrill of grinding 2x-attack into 4x-attack,
you'd have to farm everything until the end and manage to beat the two great WEAPONS in order to get 4x-attack.
By then however, there is really no point for it, because at that time for the most part, there's only... final boss left.
And players already have had turned on invincible cheat with NT in order to beat those two WEAPONS, lol...
Moreover, if players have to cheat to beat the WEAPONS, they're not going to need the multiple charges on summons, and it defeats the purpose of that Master Summon's multi-charges exclusivity in the first place.
So yea, it's like a series of loops that screws itself...
Just constructive feedback for polishing because I really liked the mod and it has great potential. Hopefully these things are solved in the next release...
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- No monster has ever used Trine in the whole game in TYPE B, except one in the Battle Arena.
- If possible, Flash should be reworked to do [a percentage of high dmg and/or k.o. while sacrificing character HP to do it, like "Darkside" in FF8]
Currently Flash is supposed to only work on weak monsters during random encounters... (if the character with Flash equipped would attack first to even use it) (and if most players don't already have Enemy Away materia equipped while going through non-grindable areas, lol... and in grindable areas, the current Flash don't work.) x_x
Finally, the cheapening of entry costs in-game by a whole decimal screws the finance-scarcity-challenge quite a bit, you just took away one zero from the big fees iirc.
