NireBryce

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in reply to @SketchyJeremy's post:

The Mega Man Battle Network games sort of do something a little bit like this later on with all your passive upgrades like HP being done in a grid system like this. But it's a static rectangle that gets bigger over time and not a more specific shape like this

Ah I miss the Navi Customizer. It even had fun quirks like putting two colors together that matched or on an important line could produce glitches with unintended effects. I really loved that system.

Oh, this is kinda how it works in Kingdom Hearts 358/2 Days! It's not class-specific shapes though: IIRC I think it's more just Resident Evil inventory "Fill the grid" style. But your levels are also part of this loadout!

It was sort of done in Infinite Space, where you configured your ships with various configurations of suspiciously tetronimo-esque blocks, and the license grids in Final Fantasy 12 and the updated versions sort of conform to shapes that need to be filled out to get class benefits. Can't say I've ever seen it in this specific form, though.

Yeah it was i think meant to evoke the feeling of being the captain of a ship where you're trusting your crew to do the actual fighting, but it just ended up being kind of weightless. It's a shame, because it is honestly i think one of the most interesting games Platinum ever released

my girlfriend has played a touhou fangame called touhou gensokyo survivors that has a similar grid system with better items being shaped weirder but i haven't seen it with the funny shapes like this!