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Hi! I'm part of the Feedback Quest and reviewed your game. The VOD is up if you're interested.

LINK: https://www.twitch.tv/videos/1821909169

To put it bluntly and to start off, I genuinely have not a lot to say about this game. Frankly... its Objectively perfect. I know my VOD may betray what I say but I had some time to think about it. Games like these take a lot of time and investment to play. There's build up, atmosphere and story. The small glimpses of story I got told a tale. I remember praising the visual story telling as well. The atmosphere and sound design, I literally can't praise it enough. Its so well done, so well thought out and so immersive, I just was in awe and felt dread a lot. Its amazing. 

Literally, the only gripe I had was the audio being too sharp for my ears and I got tennitis very easily. 

Overall, you shoudl be proud of what you've made. This I feel is a great game. A Platinum Standard for what a game should strive to be. I know I didn't get to the combat but I think from what I've seen the combat works well too but I doubt that's the big selling point. I feel the story, the atmosphere and such are the big sellers here.

Personal Score: 5/5. This game is perfect. I rarely say a game meets my Platinum Standard praise but I guess this does. Maybe I'm overestimating it but I still feel you have a Gem of a game. With the only real problem being its not for everyone. It certainly wasn't for me but I can see myself playing this on a Switch or something alone and just getting into it. 

Streaming has a bit of a problem where long, thought provoking games that take a slow burn to get, are usually harder to play and to display it in a way that's entertaining. This game is one of those games that deserves an investment of time to play and understand. Again do not let my VOD betray you. As a game to stream, this might not be the best but as a game to experience, this could hit something very very hard and I wanna explore that, not as Aurora the streamer but Aurora the gamer. 

Thank you so much for playing. I actually watched your VOD yesterday and really valued your feedback. It does have a pretty slow start, which I'm working on in my next update. I'm making quite a few changes to help build up to the action/combat a bit more:

1. Demo is getting cut back quite a bit. It's too long right now, so I'm breaking it up into two modes: Exploration & Combat. So, you'll be able to test and check out combat a lot sooner. Plus, less wandering and backtracking.

2. I'm taking safes out of the demo LOL And I'll be reworking them for the full version. The combinations are a bit difficult to figure out and they're spread out/mixed together. So, figuring out each safes combo is pretty challenging and frustrating right now. They don't need to be in the demo anyway, but they'll be in the full game.

3. I'm adding a bit more visuals to help with transferring the power from room to room. People get caught up on that part quite a bit. They don't realize they need to click the transformers per room, so I'm adding a small red light so those boxes stand out a bit more.

4. Setting Menu! I'm finally adding this so players can control the audio for music, SE, voice acting... plus a brightness setting, full controller support, and other features.

I also have tinnitus, so I understand how some sounds can trigger that and make it worse. I'm really hoping the audio setting will help. I might also turn down some of those higher-pitch effects. I really enjoyed your stream and loved the compliments you gave. I actually worked really hard on the audio and wanted to make sure that stood out, and you kept noticing that, so I'm glad it worked haha  I gave you a follow on Twitch and Twitter. Hope to catch you on stream again! Thanks again for playing and leaving feedback!! :-)

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Those are decent improvements. I feel like other streamers will be able to give more insight than I can. I personally don't find much fault in the game. Even the safes feel alright. I mean I couldn't figure out the code but given time or maybe some minor hint I could've. However I'm quite ok with a game like this so frankly just keep up the good work. Some of my chat have called your game, Soma but in 2D, which I agree. I consider that very high praise that you could achieve that. Frankly, please do hit me up sometime if you ever want me to try out the game more. I'm definitely waiting for the full game to play as well. 

I'd love that. I'll hit you up once I do my update when my demo is shorter and split up into choosing Exploration and Combat. Then you can give combat a try and jump right into it. :-) Appreciate those kind and encouraging words, too!

Quick question. I'd like to make a TikTok of streamer's reactions to my game to help promote it. Would it be OK if I took a small clip of your VOD? I'd be sure to give you credit in my TikTok, as well.

Honestly, feel free. A credit would be most appreciated ^^ ah but in the future for things like this or if you want me to help with anything on your game, feel free to hit me up on Discord. Its much easier and faster.

I wasn't sure what your name was on Discord and didn't want to randomly message someone. I didn't see a Luna Aurora or Luna on the server. I see an Aurora White... is that you? haha

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