Hello,
Yesterday I tried this game for the first time after successfully packaging it for ArchLinux.
Here are my thoughts on it:
- I failed to make my gamepad work with it, I had to use the keyboard. (my gamepad works with supertuxkart for instance, so I'm not sure what the problem is)
- I found the game a bit ugly, portrait and landscape pictures are really pretty but the render of the sprites seems blurry. (I play in 1024xsomething). The light effect on window is nice but a bit out of place as the only «seeable» advanced effect. It also seems like there are problems with textures as they are not matching as they should at some places (meaning we can see the line between two sprites).
- The animations on characters are a good idea but the «water drop» effect seems often misused, it should only held one meaning, not be the thing that appear each time a character feels something. Same problem with the yellow exclamation mark, it's used as a quest indicator, as in some other games (regnum online does that for instance), but it is also used at some place that have nothing to do with quests. You should user an other color in this cases, a red one seems ok for showing the angryness (or surprise?) of a character.
Finally, I can't get past the green blobs in forest, all I'm able to do without dying is fighting the first ones and go back to the healing fountain. Characters reached level 2, I bought them clothes and they still seems too weak to go into the forest by themselve, it's kind of annoying me. (The game feels like a one-button one at this point.)
So, good job on releasing this game, I was happy to play it, sorry for all these bad comments but I guess it's better to point out things that does not work in a game. My main issue still is this «I feel terrible as it seems I'm not able to find a stupid child in a forest» problem, but I'm working on it :-D
PS: I had trouble finding my words in english there, fill free to ask me to rephrase any part you would have trouble to understand.