Journal

Save Menu Update

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We’ve made some minor updates to the Save Menu based on game testing that we hope will improve the player experience. The two changes are i) adding the party member HP and MP bars to the save menu and ii) adding the actual time of the save file to the display.

The first change was prompted when, after creating multiple save files at the near the same location in the game, we couldn’t easily determine the state of the party (e.g. full HP or almost dead?). To fix this issue, we added the HP and MP bars which required some new information to the preview files (which are mini-save files) that allow nearly instantaneous loading of the save menu display information.

The second change was prompted by playing other games and realizing that sometimes knowing when a save file was created can help the player remember what was going on in that particular save file. There are likely still updates that need to be made to the Save Menu, but we hope that it just got a little bit better.