Thanks for your patience, everyone. This is a major update!
🌱 New Victory Voice
A cool new voice is IN!
English voice actress Kira Buckland, known for many roles, has voiced a victory call for Banana Kingdom!
Her past roles include Jolyne Cujoh (JoJo's Bizarre Adventure), Qingyi (Zenless Zone Zero), 2B (NieR:Automata), and Mitsuri Kanroji (Demon Slayer).
I've made fan works of Jolyne and 2B in the past, so I'm truly honored to have this opportunity.
Her voice plays at random along with Run's voice, which was the first one I added.
Please give it a listen!
🌱 New Commanders: Lenifille and Sylka
And that's not all! An amazing collaboration has come true.
Two elves join the battle from "The Adventures of Lenifille", the original series by Kazuaki Ishida, one of the legendary creators known as the "Big Four" of the Dragon Quest 4-koma manga anthology.
I loved that anthology so much that I once spent an entire 5,000 yen book voucher on it, and I read every single volume, including the spin-off series and the short comic collections.
"The Adventures of Lenifille" is a passionate and really fun manga too. Every character is charming, and it makes you feel how fun it would be to go on a journey with them.
*It is currently available to read for free.
https://www.mangaz.com/book/detail/64101
You can see a video introduction in this post:
https://x.com/GamesMidoriko/status/2103801771881873594
I think their skills and BGM turned out great and really fit their atmosphere.
- Lenifille and Sylka also appear in the Campaign mode.
- Lenifille's partner Fafnir also fights as a unit in the Campaign mode.
Please give them a try! 🌱 Campaign Mode
I've added the Campaign mode that so many of you have been asking for.
Story
There was a golden banana said to grant wishes, and a lone warrior who lived alongside it...
The hero appears as a unique crew member. The commanders from the main game belong to five factions in an alternate setting and fight it out.
System
- The hero's level carries over, with roguelike-style growth
- Hire and dismiss squads. Your squads also keep their levels as they grow.
- Level up on Side Trips
*There are achievements for not using Side Trips
- After clearing, you can carry your data over (New Game+) and play Hard mode
It's reasonably challenging, and I think it turned out to be a fun mode you can really dig into! 🌱 Other Changes
● Balance Adjustments
- Production: Farmer x4: 40C → 50C
Farmers were extremely cost-effective. Mass-producing Farmers and gaining an advantage with a few ranged units had become the best strategy on almost every map.
Farmers are still strong at 50C. If they're still too strong, I'll keep an eye on it, for example by lowering the cost of Fighters, who are strong against Farmers.
- Commanders
- Narcier "Explosion": Cost 4 → 6, Damage 15 → 20
- Takanashi Ringo "Heart Steal♡": Cost 10 → 9
- Yan-chan "Underworld Snack": Removed the Max HP increase based on the number of crew absorbed
- Yan-chan "Gate of the Underworld": Removed the Max HP increase based on the number of crew absorbed
- Mimingo "Scavenge Run!": The number of damage hits to all enemies is now "half the number of bases (up to 5)"
● New Achievements
- 3 achievements for the Campaign mode
- Raise a Banana Soldier to MAX level
- Defeat an angel with a farmer
● Rule Change
- Captured castles now turn into forts of the same level.
● Plus responses to feedback, bug fixes, CPU improvements, and more 🌱 Planned Features
- A results screen for production, eliminations, reinforcements, and more, also viewable during a match
- Online matches (ranked matches are a high hurdle, so it will be a lobby-style system where you meet up with other players)
- New unit: "Crystal Train"
- New unit: "Prop Plane" Thank you for your continued support.
Happy harvesting!