Re: Battle Royale Demo
It went pretty good, we only got a single demo in and that lasted 2 hours, about 2-4x as long as I had wanted. I learned that I need to streamline it a bit and one of the suggestions was to pair up the characters to make it a 2v2 battle.
I don't have a full blow by blow account and the pictures that were taken haven't been posted at the stores site, yet, but I can give a quick overview:
Each player started at a board side and raced to the middle, except the wizard, who hung back and maneuvered behind the dwarf, attempting to hit with spell after spell. The dwarf ignored him trying to close in with sword&board.
Sword&board went straight after the crossbow lady, who overestimated her durability. She danced around, just out of reach of sword&board, but left herself open to the dwarf's surprise move through attack. He slammed into her, sending her flying 10m and killing her (the only actual death in the game).
Immediately after that, the wizard finally managed to nail the dwarf with his chains spell, locking him up for most of the rest of the game.
Sword&board left the dwarf to rot and ran after the wizard, who kept trying to cast his chains spell on him, but sword&board kept reflecting it with his shield as they moved around the board. Finally sword&board was able to reflect the chains spell into the wizard, locking the wizard up.
Sword&board KO'd the wizard just in time for the dwarf to free himself. Sword&board waited for the dwarf, taking recoveries every phase until he got there.
The dwarf did his bullrush maneuver to close the distance, and sword&board dodged, sending the dwarf smashing through the building behind him.
Sword&board turned and waited, taking another recovery as the dwarf bullrushed him again, this time connecting. But sword&board took the shot and slid back nearly 10m, remaining standing (straight out of an anime). From here the two just came to blows. The dwarf kept striking with his hammer and Sword&board kept blocking, triggering his riposte maneuver, finally the dwarf was tired of not connecting so he hit the ground with his earthquake power, KO'd sword&board and launched him 7m back.
That shot dropped the dwarf to 0 END and was his hail mary play.