After playing for about an hour, I really like it! It has a strong gameplay loop and the writing is just as sharp as ever. The visuals are clean, so it's easy to tell things apart, but not so simplistic it looks like a crayon drawing. The audio provided satisfying feedback for each action and generally just made the game more fun.
However, I did find 3 problems, two of which were major bugs:
-The first (and least important) one is that when walking through uninhabited planets the framerate would randomly slow down. My computer is kinda terrible at running a lot of games so that's most likely the problem, but just in case it isn't exclusively my computer's problem, thought you should know.
-The second problem is a lot more complicated: So you can accept missions from the Galactic Federation through the ship's comms, right? Well I did that...but I selected the "TAKE JOB" option three times, which meant I had accepted the job three times. So when I arrived at the planet and got ready to take the cargo into my ship, I was greeted by not 5 crates of vivadium ore, but 15. I had also picked the "Speedstar Salmon" ship, so that was kind of annoying.
-After blocking off several doorways with cardboard boxes, telling myself "I'm sure this won't break while I'm flying" I encountered the third problem. Because it was so fast I can't exactly tell what happened, but what I think happened was this: I was holding the final box ready to put it in the cockpit because I had run out of space in the ship. I walk to the cockpit and, realizing it won't fit at the front, I walk back and I must have dropped the box on the doorway while the door was closing. The game froze and no matter what I pressed nothing happened. I tried alt-tabbing and then opening the game and all that did was turn the screen completely white. The game also refused to close unless I turned off my computer, so I did. However, when I turned my computer back on, the .exe file was missing from the folder. I tried downloading the game again and it seemed to work. Even my save file was still there. But after I tried opening the save file, the screen turned white and I got this error message:
############################################################################################
ERROR in
action number 1
of Draw Event
for object con_onboard:
Variable Index [0] out of range [0]
at gml_Object_con_onboard_Draw_0
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gml_Object_con_onboard_Draw_0 (line -1)
Overall, the game is great and I am really excited for the next few updates, but the problems I listed above, especially the last two, are quite literally game-breaking.
Best of luck with the development,
-A random stranger on the Internet