Secrets of Grindea » Weekly Recap #163: Call to Arms

For quite a while we’ve been going full steam ahead on the main story, focusing all of our effort on the Temple of Seasons. With the temple being more or less completed, we are taking a short vacation from Story Mode to focus on its beloved sibling: Arcade Mode!

Vilya has been busy puzzling together an array of graphical assets for Teddy to use for the upcoming Temple of Season-floors. The Season Change orbs will make the perfect Arcade Mode hazards, setting the stage for some beautiful chaos!

While Vilya have had her hands full with the temple-floors, Teddy have been making sure that the Winterland-floors are up to par with the previous ones. Below are a somewhat graphical WIP of a Toy Factor puzzle turned Arcade Mode challenge!

While it’s not exclusively Arcade Mode, Fred (who’s finally back after his trip to Berlin, wooho!) have been in the animation workshop, crafting a bunch of new weapons for you Collectors to farm your hearts out with!

SummmerHammer FrostSpear Staff Icicle Vine

I know a lot of you will be disappointed that the spear isn’t being handled like an actual spear. Since introducing a whole new weapons class would be too much work at this point in time, swinging spears like an uneducated fool will have to do for now.

We’ve tried to compensate this by creating the first Twohanded Staff (2H-weapons that boost MATK), something that have been requested for a while!

Posted by Secrets of Grindea at 2015/03/10. Tags: animation, arcade mode, weapons.

Sogomn wrote at 10/03/2015 03:23:

That’s pretty awesome! I love the arcade mode but unfortunately I haven’t got further than the pumpkin forest…
Those weapons look promising, too! Since I’ve tried one of the hammers I’m definitely more the two-handed type ;)

Hadig5 wrote at 10/03/2015 08:37:

cool

ShockMonkey wrote at 10/03/2015 12:36:

spear should poke not swing

J wrote at 10/03/2015 12:52:

I’m fine with spears being used as swords, visual variety in weapons will help diversify the game. =) I hope you guys branch off from swords even more with cool two-handed weapons like the Monk’s Spade. https://www.google.com/search?q=monk's+spade&num=30&safe=off&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ei=

claudekennilol wrote at 10/03/2015 13:51:

That’s alright, just call it a glaive. Which is basically a slashing spear.

Matthews wrote at 11/03/2015 00:47:

It will be railroads and trains at the rooms of the seasonne floors as well? It would be quite like the spikes at evergrind forest and the missile shooters at flying fortress, giving an unique aspect for these floors

Theodore (administrator) wrote at 11/03/2015 02:08:

@Matthews: Currently, the “traps” in the normal rooms are ice spikes, patches of slippery ice and gusts of icy wind (like those used by Winter)!

Having trains as a fourth one is not a bad idea at all, though :D

Matthews wrote at 11/03/2015 06:04:

Oh! Having trains as a fourth would make the rooms too hard when together with those others traps i guess.

Maybe if another area has trains, it can be saved for that one. Thanks for answering :)

Antar wrote at 11/03/2015 22:20:

Nice! I can’t wait to give arcade mode a real try!

jusef wrote at 11/03/2015 23:33:

I feel like weapons should have swing trails if not unique to weapon, then at least differently coloured.

Sogomn wrote at 12/03/2015 08:17:

@jusef: Some weapons do. This lantern thingy, for example.

Fred (administrator) wrote at 12/03/2015 15:00:

@jusef: The weapons do have different swing trails in game. Teddy changes the colors using code so I won’t have to change the colors manually for every weapon :)

NintendoCapriSun wrote at 15/03/2015 02:15:

I’ve finally gotten around to catching up on what I have missed, and what can I say? The game continues to impress! It’s been a while since I’ve felt that unique sense of challenge from a boss fight, where I didn’t feel like I had to just grind up and spam my best moves, but rather I actually had to study and learn the patterns. I probably died at least five times to each of the 3 temple bosses, but the thing is that I got better each time and it never felt too overwhelming. I’m a hard person to please when it comes to boss fights because I’m quick to jump to the “I don’t think I can do this” point. The desert and cave areas look just as promising. Keep up the great work! -NCS

CATS wrote at 25/03/2015 03:44:

spears can be used for sweeping strikes just fine IRL. people who think spears only stab don’t know much about the subject, methinks.

easy compensation to the folks really bothered is to add in a thrusting attack to the 2h weapon skill list. then they can use that for all their spearpoke needs and everybody can be chill.