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Yeah.... I'm already burnt out.
Spoilers follow

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So I didn't get far. Reflect mini-game. Yay? 253 pairings later (yup, that's the sum of roughly 22 through 2) I tried to move on. It warned me that I might have 'missed' something. So I went through it again. Double-checking every single input to make sure that the game had not given me a faulty result.

Nothing new cropped out. Same warning message.

So I saved my file.

And loaded another seeing if maybe this was an 'warning' flag because I had missed an internal thought.

Technically, I had not. As one thought swaps with another depending on choices made. (I went empathy. Apathy gives 'fatigue' not 'advantage')

Upon realizing I had made no mistakes within the mini-game itself, I loaded my original save file.


Despite having a clear thumb nail that I completed as much as was humanly possible in the save file screen shot--the mind vault was in a blank state and provided a tutorial message instead.

I am livid.

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Oh, I'm sorry that you had a bad experience... Unfortunately, due to the Ren'Py engine itself, we can't let you save your progress in the middle of the mini-games. Our only option was to either not have saves at all at that point or to have them at the beginning of those mini-games.

Thanks for playing our game anyway!

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I'll likely play again after I've had some time to mentally reset.

Have you considered just having 'matchable' terms light up purple? This was probably a really cool concept when there were a handful of words. But the current design (unattempted are white, attempted matches turn gray) just isn't meant to be scaled like this. 

No, we're not planning on that. The mini-game was always meant to be like Little Alchemy. While we made the gameplay a bit more casual for convenience, we won't simplify it to the point where it loses its challenge. I recommend taking a more relaxed approach to getting traits and not trying to find every single thought