im a huge fan of this game mechanic and i absolutely cant wait to see more! i played through the whole game and i am completely stumped where to put the "cheat code." how am i supposed to know??? ive never even seen where i could type in my own text in any of the menus!
what i like: the art and the sounds, and the subtle detail of the music getting more instruments the larger you are, very wii tanks or mariokart level selector vibes, and it also adds sections of calmness and crescendos to make it not repetitive! tho some more variety would of course be welcome. the building was good! i wouldnt say its very great but it works well enough. i love the detail of the animations, apart from.. dex annnnnnd.. (i fuckin forget her name, the other small one), not having much of any idle animation when small enough. must be so much work to do each and every amount of weight for all the movement! something these weight gain sprite games do to the motivation i bet, its gotta be so teadious. and for the sound, i love how may layers it has! slosh, groan, suit creaking, stomping, and it all changes slightly for each weight level! tho one thing, i wish the frequency of groans would get slightly more often the heavier you get. like, once every 1 or 3 seconds instead of the 5 or 8 seconds, just for the larger sizes. and more sound variety to make it even more organic and immersive! i also liked the dialogue, its got character and depth, each character has a personality, and its not super long and word vomit.
what i dont like: the power system. above all. it is so irritating that accumulators cannot work when they have overlapping s.o.i.'s i wish they didnt exist altogether. i wish each building would run power to each other all as one total power subgrid, separated only by gaps in buildings. as boring as that may be, that is the most effective and most convenient to work with. anything else just makes base building irritating, apart from using wires, either placed on a separate build layer or as one power pole that has a range to connect to other poles, and a range to connect to buildings, can act the same for a wireless concept as well. something i really think should be a building is an auto repair defence tower, because god forbid i have to rush back and forth and back and forth to make sure nothing is fucking breaking. speaking of, i never got the chance to use the energy based wall, because i couldnt be fucked to find a way for it to get power. another q.o.l. thing i would love to have is a building upgrade that unlocks automatically sending resources into the player storage. AUTOSAVE, PLEASE. WITH A CONFIGURABLE SAVE FREQUENCY, and naming save files. (thats where i assumed to be able to put the cheat code). A WORLD MAP, with enemy indicators would also help lots, if you dont decide to impliment an auto repair tower, and would be useful if both are added anyways. a faint building grid when about to place a building would also help a little.
all in all, this was a great experence regardless of the irritations. i really want to play more, see more map detail, more character detail, more story, more buildings, enemies (that mmmperhaps make you chonky? like a debuf fat amount, fat that isnt the bio energy? which also makes you more gurgly ~//v//~... ahem), more events! fuckin flesh it out man! im invested! i'll support on patreon if you have one!
edit: i think ive found where to put it!!! but.... what does it do.... lmao. i opened my save thats about 3/4ths of the way through the game and idks whats different lol
OH I SEE NOW LMAO
WTF HOW DID I ONLY NOW FIND AN UNDERGROUND AREA