Played through act one, was going to play through everything before saying my thoughts but I really want to let you know the music is very, very good. Especially the battle music. The intros for the characters and the weapons are also very cool, I particularly like how the gun puts itself together when you get it. Winter has a lot of charm, love emo guys with oneitis.
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Thank you, you have plenty more content to go! Chapter 1 is four acts, act 3 alternates between two vastly different options depending on your choices, act 4 has three different variations.
If you want to check out all the content but not replay everything at the end you can use the cheating room. I will make it more user-friendly at some point...
I ended up finishing the neutral and bad ending for chapter one. Liked it quite a bit! Billy is by far my favorite character, I like all the development he gets and the fact that he's humanized despite all his shortcomings and past actions. Neutral ending Billy feels like a really bittersweet conclusion to the turmoil he's faced and it makes me glad he and Sarah can manage to contact each other after everything. Arthur joining in the Rotten Tree story line wasn't something I was expecting, but it was entertaining to see how heinous and evil he is. Beef Wellington's a cool looking guy and I love how bluntly Arthur explains him existing. Winter's dad is cool too. I wanna know what's up with Velouria so badly.
Again, the music is great. Favorite was the song that plays in Sarah's hotel room.
I played on an old version so I'm not sure if I should share any glitches I encountered, I don't know if they've been fixed yet. The most notable one was opening the menu during the party sequence and removing the filters from the screen. Jungian Shadow can also be infinitely rebattled in Rotten Tree if you go upstairs.
>I ended up finishing the neutral and bad ending for chapter one. Liked it quite a bit! Billy is by far my favorite character, I like all the development he gets and the fact that he's humanized despite all his shortcomings and past actions.
Yeah, Billy really is the heart of the story in chapter 1, he is my favorite too, although Arthur comes close...
>Neutral ending Billy feels like a really bittersweet conclusion to the turmoil he's faced and it makes me glad he and Sarah can manage to contact each other after everything. Arthur joining in the Rotten Tree story line wasn't something I was expecting, but it was entertaining to see how heinous and evil he is. Beef Wellington's a cool looking guy and I love how bluntly Arthur explains him existing. Winter's dad is cool too. I wanna know what's up with Velouria so badly.
Thank you for giving my game this amount of time, not a lot of players get to view the nuances of the story. Velouria will be further developed as the chapters progress, last one is Winters own chapter where it all comes together.
>Again, the music is great. Favorite was the song that plays in Sarah's hotel room.
Thank you, more music to come!
>I played on an old version so I'm not sure if I should share any glitches I encountered, I don't know if they've been fixed yet. The most notable one was opening the menu during the party sequence and removing the filters from the screen. Jungian Shadow can also be infinitely rebattled in Rotten Tree if you go upstairs.
Bugtesting is hell, any reports are appreciated, I did not know about the ones you reported.
Yet again, thank you. Anything in particular you want to know you can just ask, I myself do not really care about spoilers, if you are likewise inclined I do not mind laying stuff out.
Alright, found the list I wrote for bugs:
- When Sarah gets her package from Billy, you can activate this event twice and reap x2 amount of the items he sent her.
- In Chapter 2's intro, you can open the menu and save your game before the phone stops ringing
- When going to the shooting range where Sarah gets her first kill, I interacted with the sign as something that looked like a soul sickness demon came out of the ground but I went back to the room before and it was gone. I'm unsure if this counted as sequence breaking and didn't retest it when I did Rotten Tree because I used the cheat room.
- Like Jungian Shadow, Underwater Billy's fight can be redone over and over again if you revisit the area.
- The 3-Eyed Jack you get in the area across from Sarah's hotel room changes its sprite if interacted from the sides
As for spoilery questions I'd rather wait to see the story unfold, a lot of the intrigue for me comes from not really knowing where anything is gonna go next.