so far i'm having a good time! one thing though: the first dungeon is a liiiittle too hard in that it's 7 floors, your partners are loss conditions (all of them) and you have a single inventory slot. so, if for example, your ally gets poisoned by the poison fang users in said dungeon, unless you find stairs you're outta luck since you can't hold onto more than one cure/healing/throwable at once.
side note, this story seems very explorers coded, which is a nostalgia hit, but besides the initial explanation it feels like it leaves a lot of the same questions. like what is the relation between the monsters and humans in this world? are there more of them, are they feared, enslaved, a rarity like the intro seems to imply? i feel it's a good opportunity to patch some of those old plot holes the original had up. granted, i haven't gotten too far in, so maybe it does get addressed.
i'll update this more as i go, but i enjoy how it is so far. hope to see it finished :3
I'm glad you're having a good time! The intro locale is supposed to be something skill check for beginners- it's a controlled environment where you can't lose anything and you have plenty of allies that can help without much risk of losing because of them. The tooltips I give should help a bit, I let you know you can check out Guidance to learn some tips or lower your difficulty if you'd rather have a casual experience. It also was once the only content in the game (Chapter 1's release) so I had elongated it by 2 floors compared to Explorers (if we're comparing the two), but it's definitely not made to be as easy as Beach Cave lol
The game is very heavily inspired by Explorers at the beginning but turns away from its parallel story slowly. Though there's only two chapters in so far, I hope you can see that it starts veering off in an interesting way instead of clinging onto the same story beats- of course, there will be some mystery to the story since... it's the name of the game! We'll have to see where it leads eventually >vv< thanks