Hi there!
I played your game last night on Stream. I really enjoyed the writing and art, but really felt like things began to fall apart once combat began. Regardless, I hope to see more games from you! I had some good laughs out of this. You can use the chapters to skip to when I play your game.
Oh wow! Thank you so much for playing my game. This has to be the first time someone plays it on stream (at least to my knowledge) and it's fulfilling to see that someone laughed so much at the silly jokes/puns or writing overall.
I cannot say anything in regards to battles, except that I'm sorry. There are major issues in that aspect. Gameplay is definitely a weakness. And, on another note, it is zero percent your fault regarding tutorials. There are actually no tutorials, except for the 'controls' section of this page.
The good news are I'm going to make this a complete game, and battles will be heavily reworked. Also, yes, I WILL include keyboard configuration, which in fact is not something I overlooked, but discarded instead. When I built the battle system, I hardcoded the attack and dash keys. When I wanted to implement the keyboard configuration, it was already too late and time was running out. Definitely, it is going to be a feature in the future.
Again, thank you so much for taking your time to play Faded Blue, and I'm super glad you liked the rest of the stuff besides the battles.