Hey guys, the free version of Epic Battle Fantasy 5 is now live on Kongregate and Newgrounds! If you use either of these sites, please give me some good ratings and reviews! Tell your friends they can play for free now!

Even without all the bonus dungeons, it’s still a massive game that can easily keep you busy for 30 hours.

For anyone wondering what the Steam Deluxe Version adds, here’s a list:
• 8 new dungeons, including the Battle Arena for 1 player combat, the Library Dungeon with paper-themed foes, and the Temple of Trials.
• 20+ new bosses, including harder versions of story bosses, bosses from previous games, evil versions of the players, and completely new secret bosses.
• 60+ new equips, including a bit of everything, but especially flairs with completely new effects. There’s also some new skills, including 2 Limit Breaks!
• Collectable monster cards, which look cool and boost your stats.
• Custom Game modes, which allow you to replay the game with different settings, such as 1-player mode, or alternative monster encounters.
• Boss Rush modes, for some of the hardest achievements in the game.
• Newgame+ mode, which allows you to rush through the game again after beating it.
• Cheats and Challenges, which allow you to customize the difficulty to an extreme degree.
• Higher quality music and graphics, including more screen resolution settings, and an expanded art gallery.
• Many balancing changes, that make the game more fair to play.
• And plenty of other things I haven’t even mentioned here!

(I should also mention that the Steam version officially only supports Windows, but shoot me an email if you’re a Mac or Linux user, and I’ll send you a .swf file instead of a .exe file)

Hey guys, I’m finally getting round to putting EBF5 on Kongregate, and Newgrounds soon afterwards.

It’s gonna be equivalent to Steam version 1.5.2, minus all of the Deluxe features – which means no bonus dungeons, challenge modes, Newgame+, etc. Also all the recent balancing changes won’t be in there. Which may be good or bad, depending on how you feel about them.

Anyway, it’ll be out some time next week! Maybe Friday! Maybe earlier!
Sorry that it took about 6 months longer than I originally planned!

This is gonna be a pretty rare game – it’ll only work for 11 months before browser Flash is discontinued!

Hey guys, I added some stars to your medals.

I made some changes to the EBF5 challenge modes, and the game should now be beatable with all of them on.
If the last 39 medals are acquired with all challenges, no cheats, and epic difficulty, then you’ll “Ace” the medal and get a star.

Apart from the extra condition of challenges, these are activated exactly the same as normal medals – you can cheat a bit by only turning on the challenges for boss fights, waiting until the boss rushes, and you can even grind for some of them. Beating the entire game on max difficulty is definitely not required, and would take you a very long time indeed.

But anyway, that’s just another thing you can keep yourself busy with. You don’t get anything other than a star, so don’t bother with this unless you like painful difficulty.

For anyone who’s already tried the challenge options, here’s some major changes I’ve made to them yesterday, coming soon in the next update:

• 1,2,3P modes: Mimic chest surprise attack disabled, all enemy status chances reduced
• 1,2P modes: foe HP reduced appropriately in bunker
• Limited foes to one counter-attack to player’s AOE – order of foes in battle can be exploited!
• Challenges that raise enemy stats don’t have full effect in the Battle Arena
• Changed Foes Attack First to not affect the first wave
• Death works normally with Combo Cap on
• Genesis now revives backup
• Less Player Resistance no longer affects status resistance
• Nerfed some Foe Remix arena battles
• Many damaging boss summons made slightly cheaper, many other summons improved somewhat
• Some overpowered foe counterattacks and stats nerfed

Hey guys, here’s an amusing video by areaofmobeus about playing EBF5 with all challenge options enabled. I think he’s one of the first to attempt this, and he’s come pretty close to beating every boss.

I’m using his feedback to make sure the game is actually beatable in this form – some of the stuff in the video has already been changed, such as foes countering the weather!