Oh wow, thanks so much for the in depth feedback! It's much appreciated! I'll look into fixing those bugs but I'll try to respond to the rest of your thoughts here for now.
1. Using the basket in particular is actually going to be necessary for unlocking a gag ending in the full game.
2. This is a bug! Or maybe a quirk. It's supposed to have unique art like the other Evocation but since I never made it the event is unfinished and doesn't trigger properly in combat. Once the games story content is completed this will get cleaned up as well.
3. Hmmm, And you're playing the most recent version correct? I just double checked the game files and the Intel option is listed alongside talk and ask for work. I'm not sure how it would have happened but it's possible the demo was exported with an older version of his event? I no longer have that build on hand but that'd be my bad if that's indeed the case! Sorry about that!
4. Crafting was pretty last minute so yeah it's lacking in some quality of life features. I expect the full game to have a much more user friendly experience. In regards to bullets though...I must confess somehow the idea of converting existing bullets to silver ones just didn't cross my mind haha. Maybe I WILL add that.
5. Sold items are indeed lost forever, though I try to make it impossible to soft lock yourself by making important items impossible to sell.
6. Yes I completely agree with you. I won't go into much detail here but a major overhaul to combat and related mechanics is already being worked on. The new systems that are planned will greatly shake up the way every encounter is approached along with adding tons of new variables to consider. Please look forward to it!
7. If you sold them all and also used harvest on the corpses then yeah you're kind of cooked lol. However that quest line doesn't really conclude in the demo so you're not really missing anything. Maybe just one scene with two more lines from Red? I definitely don't think it's something you need to reload to see haha.
Again thanks for taking the time to leave your thoughts! I'm glad you're enjoying Project Red and hope you'll look forward to future updates!