heh, I wasn't breaking the shop by reloading until I got what I wanted. I merely wanted to see what kind of stuff the shop gives in general, saw it, then reloaded. If I was going for an actual game, I wouldn't have spent any point as all anyway. Alas, I'm just seeing stuff for the first time.
I just hit the forest on my hard run, and so far it seems about the same difficulty as Normal. so I haven't been able to re-test Yamame at level 4 yet. As I said though I'll re-test her at the same level as Tewi, so I'll find all of Tewi's events first this time before I attempt Yamame, I'm not sure if I'll even reach her by level 4 if I try (might be 5, not sure). Last time I found her before I even found Tewi's 2nd event IIRC.
I never really thought you accused us of deliberate overleveling, I just though it should be stated that it wasn't deliberate in case you, well, thought the game was balanced in a way that (new)people would finish all of floor 1 by level 5 or 6 or something, because I honestly don't see it happening without maps or experience (real life player experience I mean) or something..
I played some mystic square for gags just now, and grinned after hearing Romantic children and Maple wise (still reminds me of the fortress of doom in Lufia lol), great songs. You have any plans on using either of those tracks in game? Also I mentioned it, but I'm not sure if it's overlooked or not. But was it intentional that Yamame is using Yuugi's stage-track? Everyone else in the party seems to have a song associated with their boss theme or stage (well honestly I'm not sure about kana, haven't really played PoDD at all), but I'm not sure if that's really a "rule" so much for your game or just a casual rule of thumb so to speak. Not that I dislike the song, Yamame's track herself is fairly weak IMO anyway. The stage track is quite good though, but maybe you have that reserved for Kisume.