I absolutely love the presentation, great UI, sweet color palette on textures, low poly (not that low but you know) models, those text animations, it's marvelous, coherent, you just want to play more and more. Maybe something could be done with lo-res filter as it might muddy the graphics too much and does more harm than good but I don't hate it. I like the introduction with cleaning the room, picking up items and doing some magic. "Q" for picking up isn't natural for me though, I was constantly trying to pick up stuff with "e". Are mouse buttons utilized at all?
Initial level is very fun, in a place like this I just want to have a lot of things to pick up and plenty of unique looking areas and it's been done very well, if somewhat on the easy side. If I could add two cents, barn could be a nice addition to the level, you have plenty of chests but they're out in the open unguarded.
I really enjoyed picking up different objects, silver plates, scepters and so on, unique loot adds to the thievery extra spice. I'm not sold on the bag though - you have to bring it with you risking making too much noise, big items can't be placed inside and you have to walk with them all the way to the chest, and you can pick only one smaller thing even though you have two hands. It adds unnecessary layer of micromanagement. In my case I was either dropping bag in a strategic spot and bringing other items to it or sneaking all the way to the chest with goodies. I think it's unnecessarily tedious but I'm guessing you'll want to keep it. At least add option to hold two items at once :P
Bugs - closet in Yark's room has no collision, I can walk into it no problem. Camera doesn't like tight spaces, the far away chest surrounded with hay was making it spazz out. I couldn't pick some items, the bracelet in the hidden area was out of reach even though I was standing next to the chest. I was caught once when sitting in a barrel, after that the hidden vignette was having an opposite day - visible when in the open, and clear when hiding.
I found that pesky fairy bothering a toad. Add fairy eating animation too.
Overall, very good! I had a blast even though it was pretty short. Got1.9 stars but only because I couldn't pick all of the items! At least I looted scepter and I think that thing alone is worth more than 100 gold coins. In my headcanon the debt is paid. Looking forward for more!
