killergermel

Hello. We'll its my first time reviewing a game on this site, and the first impression is BAD. I don't mean to be offensive, but there are so many flaws in this game, that when I wrote advantages and disadvantages, the advantages column was almost empty so I took some of its space for the disadvantages... Bummer. Well, what's wrong with your game? well, here we go: I entered the game hoping to see its name in the title screen but I saw NOTHING, no title in the title screen. If there's no title in the title screen, why is it called a TITLE screen? As soon as i entered the game, there was no intro, you immediately had to choose a name for your character. It was a bit blunt and empty, not saying anything even as simple as "Please enter your name:". It just bothered me. The face pictures in the left at the dialog when Larinda and Rinn are talking, are so alike and its hard to tell the difference between them at the beginning. There are many typos in the dialogs, Rinn says "prescence", and that's not the only one. Also, in the dialog you sometimes write the name of the character who is talking and sometimes you don't. You talked there about faeire fire or something. What is that? what does it mean? he just says it like its something he sees everyday, but I have no idea what's that. Another thing that I didn't like was the notebook. Do you seriously believe that someone will use this feature? its hard and tedious to use it and takes about 20 seconds to write a word. It's better to just write it down on a REAL notebook or in word... You should erase it, a very strong recommendation. Also, the key B which is supposed to function as 'Back' does nothing. Something that I did like, although, was the bestiary, I will hope to see how it functions and whether it will help you or not in the complete game. Another thing, YOU CANT SAVE?! how is it possible?! why wouldn't you let people save their game, especially when its so hard?! And that leads me to another thing, one of the biggest flaws of the game. The monsters. The battle system is decent, I have to say, but the monsters are so hard!! well, they are not so hard, but you do encounter them WAY too much, like every 2 steps. I died 3 times because of this and I had to reduce their hitpoints via your project file to 30 instead of 75, and even then I died, only later in the game... You encounter too many of those monsters and before you know it, you're dead, sometimes I couldn't even get to the village which was like 30 meters away, how did he survive through his childhood and adulthood until the beginning of the game?! he couldn't leave his tent without dying!! And the prices of everything in the town are so high! Potions cost 50GP for one if im not mistaken, and I didn't even look at the other items. If I want 1 potion it means i need to kill 5 slimes in order to get ONE potion, but I can't survive 5 slimes!!! Ill die way before that. This is messed up, im sorry. The village is empty (like someone said before me), so that's something I guess you are aware of. A thing that made me laugh was the sign- "East: Tent". A sign which directs you to a tent with no name, obviously. >< Another thing was that after you talked with the weapon dealer you couldn't talk to him again about your mission. If you accidentally miss what the weapon dealer says you can't go back and ask him again where to go. That's why I think you should have an objective system or something like that. The guard in the entrance of the town says nothing: "...", why? is he a fish?! The guard south of the crossroads is standing there and you can't pass. I thought to myself, well if i cant pass him ill go behind him, but I can't, because the small flower bush blocks my way... A small bush is blocking my way, makes sense. I know you want the player to not be able to go to the next area here, so shouldn't you place the guard just at the exit and not 4 blocks away? I liked in the combat that monsters could escape the battle. Why cant YOU?! I am going to die and I want to escape, why cant I escape?? After a while some pervert mage joins me, and his fire spell is pretty lame, while his ice spell is WAY too powerful, about 11 times more powerful then the fire spell. I didn't check the other spells so I don't know about them. After a while in the cave the screen suddenly turned red for some reason and without an explanation. Also, when I died in one of the times there was an error message and the game terminated. Overall, the game, as I summarized at the beginning of the post, is BAD. I listed many flaws I found and many can be easily fixed, but you on top of that, you should improve your mapping skills before attempting to continue with this game, the caves mapping is horrible and the fields look like you took a sample part with trees and bushes and just copied it to fill the whole screen. Also, you should add lore and more story to the game (as someone said before me). I didn't know what I was doing and why, who am I, where did I come from etc... The story looks banal and a cliche but I would still like to see where it's going. Also, if you can choose your hero name, don't write in the characters section here on the forum, that the hero's name is Ryan, because its not, its the name of my choosing. Hope I helped even if its a bit. I invested a considerable amount of time writing and reviewing this game. The game has a potential, but you werent ready to release a demo. Work hard on this game and you could very much change my opinion around. Good luck. :shifty: