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a guy who exclusively uses anime girls as his pfps

also a beginning godot developer who's on a long-term contract to make a game too hard for his current skills (help me)
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Hey, turn-based game fans! Do you prefer your character actions menus in combat classic (lists) or modern (each action mapped to its own button)? Why so?

#JRPG #videogames #gamedev
A screenshot from a JRPG game "Trails in the Sky 1st Chapter" depicting a fight. It is Estelle (an ally character)'s turn. Player can choose her action for the turn from a vertical list of following buttons: Attack, Move, Art, Craft, Item, Run (defaulting to "Attack"). All of these actions are selectable both by keyboard, mouse and controller. A screenshot from a JRPG game "Trails of Cold Steel 3" depicting a fight. It is an ally character's turn. Player can choose his action for the turn from following buttons: Attack, Move, Art, Craft, Items, Order, Swap, Exit. The actions are placed in two circles of 4 buttons, resembling the PlayStation controller layout. Inner part of the circle contains control hints corresponding for every action on the screen. There are two smaller control hints in the corner of the screen. These correspond to two lesser-used actions. All of these actions are selectable both by keyboard and controller (I didn't play it, so can't say for mouse. For sake of the question, let's assume it's also selectable by mouse — by hovering over button and clicking it). A screenshot from a JRPG game "Persona 4 Golden" depicting a fight. It is Yosuke (an ally character)'s turn. Player can choose his action for the turn from a vertical list of following buttons: Analysis, Tactics, Guard, Attack, Skill, Persona, Item, Escape (defaulting to "Attack"). All of these actions are selectable by both keyboard and controller (I didn't test mouse inputs, so can't say for them. For sake of the question, let's assume it's also selectable by mouse — by hovering over button and clicking it). A screenshot from a JRPG game "Persona 5 Royal" depicting a fight. It is the Player Character's turn. Main actions available to the player to choose for the turn: Attack, Guard, Persona, Item, Order, Gun. The main actions are placed around the main character. Four of them are in a circle, resembling the controller layout, and others are on the left of it. Next to them are control hints corresponding for every action on the screen. There also are additional actions, such as Analyze, [change] Target, [show whose is] Next Turn, Rush, Assist. These are tucked into the bottom-left corner in the screen. They have control hints next to them. All of these actions are selectable by keyboard, controllers and by clicking them with mouse.
November 15, 2025 at 2:16 PM