I recalled some of Eight Powers when heard science(technology), nature, magic, religion words.
God you killed Eight Powers in BB3 once, then revived some of them in Valami universe.
Do you have any reason for it?
Actually, those words don't refer to the Eight Powers. And I don't fully consider Rhapsody canon to the Valami universe.
Those words resemble the Eight Powers for you because the Eight Powers were named over such fundamental things in a fantasy world.
So, now...
Moosh finished the true final boss and MAN, it became the best content in the entireity of the quest!
It incorporates things I didn't even think to be possible. Moosh is much magnificent and perfect not only with the coding part of zscript, but also with planning and designing bosses.
While FWSC didn't come out as non-ZC-ish I planned half a year before starting it, with Moosh's additions, it actually goes beyond the line I was lamenting about it wouldn't go over. At this point, I'm pretty sure FWSC will beat Valami in quality. And that... means something!
By not being that non-ZC-ish, I mean:
-the boomerang still acts like in LoZ (besides bringing back placed items), you don't control its flight, it won't break to smaller parts, it won't sometimes halt on the ground to be picked up, etc.
-the hookshot still extracts and contracts (with one small extra function at places), it's not like for example the grapple rope in WW or anything completely new
-it's still a top-down action RPG without excessive amounts of functional sideview
Even though it has some new great things that are getting usual in nowadays quests:
-warp is instant after last string of a scene, you don't need to press a direction
-items can't be used during scenes
-animation is set where animation is due (Bell enters a dungeon via falling in there (animated) instead of instantly appearing on its floor)
etc.
And has some great things, some being unique to either FWSC or simply to my newest quests:
-functional shovel, also with animation (thanks to Lightwulf for the actual animation)
etc.
Now, the beta testing period will last well into 2016 to ensure quality and because hardly anibody of the initial wave of testers has time to test nowadays.
When the first, closed wave is finished, that's when the first public beta (the "final beta") (public to a few selected people) is sent out and when that is over and done with, then is the last wave of testing ("Release Candidate").
I can do all that, since I don't plan making another quest, because the reasons mentioned above. This version issue is what seems the most biting now. If I knew that each thing I made will be playable only till a new wincrap version comes out, I wouldn't have bothered making them.
That is why I tried to sew up all plotlines and made the BB series truly end with FWSC, but in the effort of doing so, I made a quest (FWSC) that could be continued in many different ways, plus with a few more kind of sequels. The quests springing off from FWSC could be an entire series in themselves!
That's because although I was so happy for Avataro's suggestion that any alternate scenes eventually should lead to the same final scene, but I see now that this only extends what constitutes as ending and if players were hardpressed to get all endings, now they will be hardpressed to get all ending combinations. Many scenes/conversations differ, with 2 main differing lines before the very end and then 2 possible true final scenes. And that's not all that could be said about the case...
And although ALL possible ending scene combinations end without cliffhanger and with stressing the word "end", there are many things that refer to possible sequels ingame. Many. To the sequels I didn't know they wouldn't come.
In fact, the replies under my comment under MeleeWizard's last IoR LP episode were that finally made ma decide that no more quests should I make, but the 4 main points I listed up above (trolling, inconsistency, spoiled players, versions) seals it. Bell would need to travel to 4 dungeons to break all seals.
So, maybe now I should get on with drawing concept art? I haven't been drawing for so long and FWSC related things (characters, etc.) would be fun to do...