Ha Ha, diagonal moves are cheating, that would be like the queen

It's how the game it built. The movement is basically tiled. If not being able to move diagonally bothers you that much, I can't imagine how you deal with real world issues. Must be a mess

Originally posted by PhoenixRisen77:

It's how the game it built. The movement is basically tiled. If not being able to move diagonally bothers you that much, I can't imagine how you deal with real world issues. Must be a mess

I can move diagonally in real life just fine, thankfully, so no problems over there. Kinda lazy to not put it in a game though.

Originally posted by clutzyninja:

Originally posted by PhoenixRisen77:

It's how the game it built. The movement is basically tiled. If not being able to move diagonally bothers you that much, I can't imagine how you deal with real world issues. Must be a mess

I can move diagonally in real life just fine, thankfully, so no problems over there. Kinda lazy to not put it in a game though.

Wow you're able to arbitrarily move sqrt(2) times as fast as normal half the time? Weird.

Glad this game doesn't just randomly do that. That would feel weird and unrealistic.

Okay so the real answer is that Freebird games are all built in various incarnations of the RPG Maker engine, which defaults to SNES era square grid movement. You can patch in diagonals but that comes with the usual array of potential edge case bugs you get from modding something so fundamental.

Anyway freeform movement is only vital in action RPGs, these are visual novels.