I just said SAPI as I was copying what someone else said somewhere else but yeah, that’s the TTS. What’s interesting is the TTS doesn’t start at the start, only a bit into it, not sure what triggers it. I’d have to try some QA testing to exactly find out how to trigger it.
In the gameplay and tutorial what’s overstimulating is what is happening doesn’t match what I’m imagining. What I understood (wrongly I guess) is that the joystick would point me to a cardinal point. So I would be standing in a single spot, and if I “look right” with the joystick I hear what’s to my east/right. Then I would Interact with the left button (X) or confirm the interaction with bottom (A). Instead, what happened is I could keep using the joystick down and down and down and new things keep showing up. If I press down once it reads me something and tells me to continue pressing down, before I chose to “interact” with it. This was quite confusing and also makes me confused. What happens if I press down then? Am I walking? When am I walking, when am I not? If I press down right then and then move the joystick to the right, what is going to happen? Am I looking at the cardinal point again as if I were in the first spot, or is this in the “submenu” I just opened because I pressed down twice?
This may give you a gist about how confused I felt, but there’s a lot you can see about my experience in a VOD: Edit: VOD here for a few days: https://www.twitch.tv/videos/2712855875
Trigger warning: I get a little bit defensive when people mention some problems might be with my screen reader (because I reset it). This was a bug that was reading “dot dot”, I’d look into that as well because I had NVDA set to “some” punctuation, not “most” or “all”. I had to set it to “no punctuation/off” to not hear the dot dot but I don’t think that’s right. When I do daily stuff with “some” punctuation, it doesn’t typically announce punctuation, so I don’t know why it did here, and why two dots. I wonder if you meant to add an ellipsis somewhere and instead of doing “…” did “..”.
You can check my VOD, I rambled a big lot about it, and continue to do it even after “playing”, almost up until I start the next game. VOD here for a few days: https://www.twitch.tv/videos/2712855875
I hope this helps, because I’m very curious and eager to play this game.