Two things about this hack caught my attention.

• Optional Feature: No random battle level scaling

This, alone, is worth the price of admission, to me.

At the start of the game, I spent so long grinding my characters up enough to unlock all the cool jobs, like Dark Knight and Mime. As I did, I noticed that the random battles were scaling to meet my level, making the grind even harder than it needed to be. On top of that, I noticed that when I actually started to play through the campaign, event / story characters were still waaay down low in levels and skill while the randos were, as mentioned, scaled up to my highest level. To me, this really threw the balance of the game off and made me far less interested in actually playing the game.

What they should have done, in my opinion, is have story characters also scale to the player’s highest level. That way, there’s no ridiculously unbalanced engagements where neither the enemy has, like, Level 4 characters on their team. Alternately, something to completely nullify XP gain would work equally as well. While I know there are ways to level down characters, it’s really not an option in the early game, so…

The other thing that caught my attention was this:

• Gender equality - female and male characters have the same stats and equipment access

… why? If you’re gonna go for “equality”, make the Dancer job available to males and the Bard job available to females. If you’re just looking to “balance stats”, though, you may as well lock everyone’s Faith and Bravery stats at 50, then. Why should a rando recruit get less healing just because they happen to not be as devout as the person next to them? And why should a coward get less critical hits that someone willing to jump in the middle of eight Bomb-class enemies? Plus, the game gives females higher Faith and males have higher Bravery, generally speaking. That doesn’t seem very “gender equal”, to me.

Go big or go home. Commit or forgeddaboudit! Be equal in all regards, or equal in none! That’s how I see it.

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There are a few other things about this hack that I would like to see made optional.

• The “JP Boost always in effect” and “Treasure Hunter always in effect” things make leveling the Squire and Chemist up high somewhat pointless.
• “Quicker spellcasting speeds” is a little iffy, to me – I happen to like the occasional flavor text or the over-the-top battle animations.
• (Edit: This is already implemented!) Speaking of, I’d love to see the spellcasting text re-implemented, if that’s within Tzepish’s power. Of course… that would require actually translating them, then changing them into Elizabethan dialect, but I’m sure the work’s been done, already.
• Not sure Guest / story characters should be able to do errands, either, and I don’t think Guest characters should be controllable right from the first battle.
• And, of course, anything that outright alters the difficulty / challenge of the game should probably be made optional.

Despite all of this, I say that this is an absolute must-have hack for people who want to make a good game even better! I highly recommend it for the “no level scaling” patch, alone!

12/23/22 Update:

Tzepish actually has re-implemented and redone the dialect of the spellcasting text. Thank you for pointing this out, Tzepish! My apologies!