Omigosh. Best Turn based RPG on the site.
And I'm not joking about that. There are a few things I'd like to bring up, though. First the "not so good", then the "good".
Not-so-good:
-Yeh, the water element. I'd like to see some water magic. Not a big problem though.
-Swastika on Lance. I wasn't offended by it, but I think it makes it hard for people to ***spoilers*** think of him as a good guy during EBF3 after he turns over a new leaf at the end (if EBF3 is going to be made; I assume it's planned as it seems to be hinted in the ending). ***end spoilers*** Maybe in the beginning of EBF3 you could show Lance taking the patch off, or something.
-Story was...weak. At least there was one though. However, if EBF3 does see the light of day, I'd like to see something a bit more engaging to go with the great gameplay.
-Minigames were very difficult. My best after about 20 tries was only 2500 points. Maybe I just suck though XD If EBF3 is made maybe you could tone down the difficulty and/or mix them up a little (rather than the same minigame twice).
-No legs the cat never brought me anything good -_- I blame you, the designer, entirely. Okay maybe I don't...I blame the damn cat. =p
-I miss the pichu summon power. Seemed to work really well. Probably better you got rid of all the pokemon though.
-I miss the chargeup moves, like goku's light ball. That made a lot of the battles really intense. There was the cannon and the nuke on the valkyrie, but the cannon only hits one person and the nuke doesn't even show up unless you're dumb like me and focus on killing the attachments on the valkyrie rather than the body itself. lol. (That satellite dish was killer)
Good:
-Loved the new statuses. Auto-regen (or whatever the green plus sign is called) saved my ass more than a few times. Paralysis was annoying, except when it was on the enemies XD One thing I wanted to ask though, I used flare a number of times for example on undead dragon but only the far dragon was blinded. Do they each have different status immunities or is the move random? (I only scanned one, and it didn't list a blindness immunity) The wing status effect (where it automatically revives you) was cool too, but it was a tad annoying that it went away relatively quickly.
-Of course, the skill/"level up" system was a great addition, and you managed to get it so that it didn't break the game. Kudos, that's not easy.
-THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU for the switch turn order command. I really needed that in EBF1 but didn't have it. For example, both players would get sealed by (iirc) the eyeball monster and then Matt would move first so I basically had to waste his turn (very bad since he seems to carry most of the power). Now I can switch to Natz, purify, then use a power move from Matt to deal good damage.
-Nice outfit for Natz. I kind of like the old one a bit better for....certain reasons lol...but the new red one is still a nice choice.
-Love the power attacks. I forget what the "actual" name for them is, but I'm talking about after a character takes a certain amount of damage they fill up a bar and then matt gives about six power slashes and natz uses like uber magic or something. Saved my ass a lot. Matt's power attack seemed a bit underpowered at times, but maybe I was just using the wrong sword.
I think this review is getting pretty long now so I'll leave it at that. There's more I could list but I think you get the point from the other reviews. Congrats on releasing this, hope to see yet another sequel. I'd give this a 9.5, but since there's no way to do that, I'll just round it to 10.