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Hi, I got a bug in the ending when Darling in supposed to enter the shop but he's stuck outside so there's nothing I can do besides closing the game. I think it happened when I was pressing the arrow keys during the cutscene and I happened to move Darling so he wasn't on the usual path into the shop which is why he's stuck.

Just wanted to let you know just in case someone else is stupid like me and starts mashing buttons during cutscenes. I really enjoyed the game a lot! But I didn't actually find all the pages.

I was missing page 5 the lance dude I believe and I KNOW I need to find a princess doll or something for the "hero" to save from the dragon (just a gut feeling), but I really don't know where I can find it. I'm also missing page 12 but I'm assuming I can find that monster after the room with the lance dude. So any hints would be helpful!

Also, I'm just curious where Bennie went. I didn't die so I assumed none of the characters went missing, but I've only found Bennie once in her cave and I couldn't ever find her again. I'm curious as to what happened with her because I managed to become good friends with everyone else too.

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Hi curtmc!

Thanks for posting your experience with the game here. The bug you found is a known issue, and I usually see it happen most often during the introduction scenes of the game, but it's sadly possible during the ending cutscenes too.

Included in with the game download is a Help & FAQs text file, and in it I explain the issue you stumbled upon in more detail, but the gist of it is, it's an elusive bug that seems to happen with the RPG Maker MV engine itself, and as far as I am aware, there's really no way to fix it on my end.

It can happen when players are pressing or holding down buttons when the game takes over control of moving the character (during cutscenes or etc.) Doing this speeds up the text and events on screen, and sometimes RPG Maker seems to skip some movement instructions in its haste. Then the game gets stuck and you just have to close it manually as you observed.

Basically, the only real "solution" I've found is the same conclusion you came to, just try not to press or hold unnecessary buttons during parts of the game with scripted movement, and the scenes should play out normally without issues.

For those reading who wish to avoid spoilers, kindly ignore the remainder of this comment.

Let's tackle your other questions:

Pages 5 and 12 as you've no doubt surmised are optional, but I can understand wanting to experience them all (5's encounter is especially fun if I do say so myself.)

You are correct that there is a princess doll involved with Page 5 (good instincts!) and to find it, you'll want to search carefully on the shore. There's a somewhat hidden stretch of beach that you may have missed.

Page 12's encounter is indeed in the part of the mansion beyond that. It's a bit of a tricky one, but it has a nice reward that makes it easier to progress in the mansion without having to backtrack to recover. Probably not much use for you at this point since you've already finished, but perhaps as a convenience for a future play through, or just for completion's sake.

As for Bennie's location after you first get acquainted, she likes to spend time on the beach, getting nice fresh air and some time away from folks for awhile. Search the shoreline areas again and you'll find her.

Hopefully that helps! Thanks again for reaching out, and I'm glad you had an enjoyable experience with the game overall! If you need any further clarification on the hints, just ask.

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Thank you so much! I’ll make sure to check all these stuff out.

I forgot to mention that I found the hidden testing area early on that you used as well! It was interesting to see how you tested everything as a game developer myself. I’m still studying, but I hope to be able to start releasing games soon too!

I also found the 3 ways to get into the mansion and I have to say that it’s smart on your part for having a fail safe way, because as I understand, other characters go missing each time Darling dies and if the player hasn’t completed the other quests, then they’re stuck besides the ship way.

Thank you for taking the time to reply! I’m sure I’ll get all the pages now :D

Edit: I found bennie and became good friends with her too, but now I’m confused because I found the princess doll and I can’t seem to use it while fighting the toy soldier. He slays the dragon every time I try, but the princess doesn’t appear. Is there something else that I need to do or something that I’m missing?

You're welcome! And congratulations on finding that little secret!

That's what I think is nice about the RPG Maker software is that anybody can do it. All it takes is a few months getting comfortable with using it and then once you are used to working with it, you can start making things pretty well. Don't be surprised if it takes a few years though to make a decent length game, especially if you're going at it by yourself rather than with a team of folks. A lot of hours creating goes into even short game experiences, and it seems daunting when you try to look at the whole thing before you start.

I'd say the important thing though is to enjoy your time creating whatever you envision, and just focus on what you're enjoying in the moment! String enough days like that together and before you even know what happened, you'll have a game. Passion and persistence are really the secret ingredients for making it all come together. Keep it fun though too! It doesn't have to feel like work, though some days it might. Also remember to give yourself rests too, especially on days when you really aren't feeling motivated or creative enough to make progress. Forcing yourself too much during times like that will start to come through in what you create, and you might feel unsatisfied with the end result in the long run. It's okay to rest, even for long stretches of time if you need it, just stay the course and keep at it little by little! That'd be my advice in a few paragraphs at any rate!

Anyway, back to your comments. I had to make at least one way into the mansion that didn't require any condition to be met so it could be used no matter what took place in a given playthrough. The way this game was designed, because each person is able to play the game a bit differently, there were a lot of possible ways to experience the sequence of events. Possibilities also include things like skipping characters entirely if people just happened to miss them, and other situations where your options for entering into the mansion become restricted. It goes without saying that it would have been a bad experience for players and a poor design oversight to get stuck in the game with no way in or out of the mansion from no real fault of their own.

That last bit of your comment sounds a bit unusual... it might be a bug and I'm curious to know more about what exactly you're experiencing there. Once you have both the Princess Doll and the Tiny Dragon curiosities in your possession, it should play out the scene properly when you pick up the toy soldier using your sense abilities during the encounter. It sounds like it's not doing that for you however. What are you seeing after the dragon disappears? Does the game act like you haven't gotten the Princess Doll curiosity at all?

Off the top of my head, I'm wondering if it has something to do with the fact that you partially progressed the scene before having the Princess Doll, then went back to get it, and now it has perhaps messed up the event's usual progression somehow. I was fairly certain that I accounted for that sort of possibility in the way I set it up, but it's possible some issue eluded my testing. Any other details about what exactly you're seeing and doing during that encounter would be helpful for me to try and narrow down the possible issues.

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No, you’re right. It just plays out the scene as if I didn’t have the princess doll. So the hero defeats the dragon and then it says something is missing. 

I did try it before when I didn’t have the doll so maybe that’s why? But I’m not 100% sure that’s the reason either. Could be because of the story progression or the page collection progression? I can’t help you much because I don’t actually have a save file from before all this, I just saved over the same slot.

I tried a few other stuff though, like exiting the room and coming back in and trying again. I also tried touching multiple times, but that didn’t help either.

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Okay, thank you for the additional details. That clarification was helpful. I will try to see if I can reproduce the issue, and if I can find some way to fix it so it works like it's supposed to. I apologize for the inconvenience but I appreciate that you've let me know this is happening. I don't think I'll be able to resolve it for your particular save file though unfortunately.

So in the meanwhile you may wish to start a new file and just get to that point of the mansion again, but get both curiosities before engaging with the encounter this time, and it should proceed like it normally was supposed to. There's no grand reward for collecting every page or anything like that, so you don't have to worry that you missed out on anything terribly important in your original file. On the plus side, once you've already experienced the game, subsequent playthroughs go much more quickly when you already know what to do.

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I was able to find the issue and fix the errors that I had made in setting up that particular encounter. I released version 1.2 of the game today and it should fix the issue you were having with not being able to collect page 5 for any future players at least. Thanks again for bringing it to my attention.

That’s great! And no problem :D