I've never played an anomaly hunt game before, but I've watched my kids play a bit, so this was a cool experience. I liked the idea of this genre fusion and the office setting. The boss combat was funny with the corporate buzzwords to change things up if you get caught.
No real issues. I feel like I only saw 2 anomaly's so might have just been poor RNG in my favor and the boss hits through walls. That's about it!
Good entry, here's my gameplay
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Thank you so much for playing and recording a video. I really like how you were repeating “Was there always X here”.
You got really lucky there one time, or perhaps unlucky, with the stacked coffee cups. They’re always a pile on that desk. So there must have been a real anomaly somewhere you didn’t look. You figured out that they weren’t an anomaly later though.
If you are interested you walked right by one too around here https://youtu.be/IMZG3yGqzog?t=900 but I saw that you later spotted the same one. (Since you missed it / took the wrong exit, it was still in the pool of non-resolved anomalies).
You also, on one day said several times “I don’t think there’s an anomaly today” and then went for the fire exit and got progression because there must have been one somewhere!
These lucky breaks probably is part of why you only saw two anomalies. Also, of course, using forgiving mode shortens the game to where you don’t encounter as much of them. But I’ve also since improved the random rules for it to hopefully give a better experience / frequency of anomalies.
I took some great notes from your video, so I’ll get to work on some of the stuff right away.