Hi there!
First of all thank you for making this mod, its really great. I have now completed Arrange mode in 1.5, but I started before you added the extra planet materia at corel valley. I actually tried checking the npcs many times and figured since I already went past that point it cant be gotten. I did get one at north crater where it was orginally.
I had KOTR before I returned to Midgar - which means to you that - I had beaten
Bomb King
The cactuar boss
Shinry and Omega
And the 6 Tonberries
(these are known as the 4 materia caves)
Wutai sidequest, including mysteries ninja.
Junon league,
Ancient forest
Battle Square.
I did not have Planet materia, so I had to find strategies against Mysteries ninja and cactuar without hydro, which took some wipes before I got them down.
The extra bosses, as well as the tuned up version of the original, the strategy required to beat them is really great to the original gaming. I love how you needed to think, and sometimes not even kill the adds on the bosses to be able to beat them.
Theres a few things I would like to point out however.
You are way overpowered if you complete all or most sidequests before you return to midgar again.
But I did not like the fact the you had so much experience after most enemies and the bosses. I was in fact around level 80 before going back to midgar, and that was without grinding and just followed a regular playthrough including doing these sidequests.
The ap I dont mind since you need to plan with strategy and having extra for more people is nice addition.
Is there a way to make this a bit more challenging by turning down the exp, not necessarily the ap rewarded?
Even the extra boss in midgar went down in 2-3 turn, the curator , and both viridian, and carmine weapon didnt last long after you had KOTR. Only nemesis lasted a bit, but I was basically immune to status effects and used to wall for the magic and physical dmg to turn him into cakewalk, he did have alot of hp, but that was it.
I did find a bug though I did not like.
When you turn in the item to fight the white chocobo for pandoras box in Kalm , It never happened. It launched and spawned a cactuar and I couldnt get it to launch the proper fight no matter how many saves I reloaded, I even tried reinstalling this mod from scrath.
The Machine Engine for tifas final weapon, I dont know If I missed it in Dark cave, but after killing head of shinra I got warped outside and Only found Luv Luv item, but not the other one.
Thats it - just 2 bugs if it was bug , and to much exp was my 2 cents. Eveything else was really great.