3d main menu has nice layout, but I think the dither transparency on the leaves looks bad
normally stuff at the bottom of the screen is like this
but then if I toggle windowed mode (alt+enter)
then the bottom becomes like
So i think that on alt+enter the game should reduce its rez by a little % from whatever the FS rez was to account
I get about 119fps in some scenes but only 45fps in the tutorial combat
this game looks pretty cool
parrying the slow attacks kept throwing me off at first i only noticed I could do slow attacks myself afterwards
Thanks for playing! The early bosses are a little more forgiving and let you mess around a bit, but Nia's the first main filter to make sure you know what you're doing.
Thanks for playing!
For parrying, enemies are also capable of parrying, and in Nia's and the tutorial's case they have a specific effect to show that it's a parry from their end. But I agree that the current priority system for parrying is kinda nonsensical because I haven't made any proper guidelines or standards thus far, and having specific attacks beat out other attacks is really hard to convey when things go this fast, especially when some attacks are always interrupted on any parry for sequence reasons rather than the intuitive power of the attack.
The tutorial for parrying is tricky, because if I don't slow it down, then players might get stuck and never be able to get past this, and if I skip it, then they miss out on a core mechanic. But slowing it down also means it's not representative of how actual combat will be, which is why I settled for having an effect that only shows up during this stage of the tutorial, while using attacks that you've already seen and have established the timings for.
There's a gap currently where projectile deflects and parries don't count towards the tutorial. Probably should just remove that attack from those stages tbh. I guess I should also try and update the tutorial text based on that too.
As for skills, there were plans to make dedicated skill tutorials in that section, but I couldn't come up with ideas for all of them in time, and implementing them is also not that straightforward. Also, players aren't going to sit in the tutorial to slowly go through each one of them. It's pretty much the other major cursed design problem of this game, because the bosses and combat system are made with the expectation that you know how to exploit your skills, but there's also no good way to guarantee that without being exceptionally hand-holdy.
Some other notes I had watching the video (more so on things I need to somehow teach players about):
Also, if you've got time to revisit the demo, I'd like to hear your thoughts on the ??? boss at the bottom of the list. It's supposed to be an optional boss just before the final boss, so it'll serve as the ceiling of difficulty in the game to test the limits of this system.
Thanks for trying it out again.
Yeah, there's like 2 or 3 more bosses that you're supposed to fight before that last one, and it's also meant to feel impossible as part of the story.
I also realized I haven't updated some of the skill selection text in a long time, and that one about impurities was back when I was trying to give it more of a lore description rather than a gameplay one, although it's also not a bad idea to make it recover status effects since there aren't any options for that right now. Apart from the tutorial, there's no place where the player is forced into being exposed to the descriptions, so I'm thinking that I can make the player have to select their slot assignments manually first to let them know that the descriptions are there.
Slide kick is meant to be more for mobility, so the damage isn't great. But the recent changes to the camera and directions also make it impossible to line up.
For the charged skills, you only need to hold it until the twinkle effect shows up, then you can release it early. This fuzziness lets you hold attacks out a little longer for timing parries.
That parry at the end of her spin wasn't intentional, turns out I forgot to set the flag for preventing that. Sorry.
Also, here's a video of me beating the last boss. The reactions get pretty absurd towards the end, so I'll still need to tweak that logic some more, but this is how the skills are meant to be used.
Thanks for playing!
No, you really do just have everything from the start. It is a major problem that I genuinely have no idea how to approach other than just hoping players play around with it or tell each other how to use it lol
I do plan on completely reworking Louise in the near future, though, since my skills and knowledge have improved a lot since back when I first made her over a year ago. The concept will likely remain the same, just that the attack animations and general strategy will be reviewed.
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