Very impressed with all the recent additions and developments.
One thing I think might be missing is a way to see what defeat effects each enemy has. I checked the Bestiary and couldn’t see anything of the sort, even for enemies I had seen the defeat effect for.
Anyone updates on when and where this will be available to purchase?
A solid foundation. I look forward to seeing more.
The mechanics are decent. Art is at least reasonably high quality for AI generation and the style is good. Difficulty needs turning up a bit. Would prefer a higher proportion of events to combat encounters. Card tooltips only sometimes mention corruption.
The plot armour doesn’t seem to work properly. If you have less health it heals you twice, but if the enemy has less health they are healed once and you aren’t healed at all.
Nice update. Some comments:
Only the enemies in the first act have a ‘defeat route’ option. Is this intentional or have later ones just not been added?
Vinetrap is insanely annoying. Feels like the sort of cripple an elite would use, not a basic mob.
The Collector is unfair. Not because it is hard, bosses are supposed to be hard, but because unless you kill it turn one with an infinite cheese deck it cripples you for the following floors because all your items are unequipped. You might win the fight but it near guarantees you loose the run.
Resin + Thorns is by far the most powerful build. It isn’t powerful enough to actually win in most cases but it looses later than other builds.
Possible bug: Items with ‘When first equipped gain max health” do not increase max health, but do heal you.
LPoD is up to the same high standard as SKA. Concepts look promising.
Two annoyances: 1) The elemental week almost but not quite matches the order of elements on the status page. Water and Thunder are swapped. Why?
2) Edgar only offers three options in negotiations, apparently at random and with no obvious way to guess when or even if a given option will be offered. This makes the game much more RNG reliant than SKA, regardless of whether you are going for corruption or progress.
Looking very promising.
Two minor annoyances: First is that the follow-up skills appear a screen length or more below the other skills, which is hard to notice if you don’t know about it. Second is that the ‘go to pub’ option needs to be more prominent, I reached the end of current content before I noticed the thing.
It is incredible how far this has come from those early builds. Amazing work all round.
Nice spread of achievements. Surprising number that I cannot immediately guess the unlock for.
Kinda meh on the two ending variations. The situation on Earth has always been by far the least interesting part of the game for me.
‘ "Implement a way to sell items for gold and mana" This is dumb, as you can make items infinite. ‘
Calling an idea dumb is not the way to engage in discussion, it gives the impression you are only interested in being insulting rather than improving the game.
As to the actual point, infinite items can be changed.
Expanded suggestion: Remove the current infinite items system. Add the option to dismantle items for gold and mana. Once you have dismantled enough of a specific item you get a blueprint that allows you to spend gold and mana to make new ones.
Haven’t gone deep yet but here are my initial thoughts:
Curios in general are good. But some are rather disappointing. Primarily the ones where there is no good outcome, aside from perhaps leaving. There are some with ‘X% chance’ which I would love to see more of. A lot of the appeal of rogue-lite games is calculated risk and cost-benefit. You have a chance of something good so you take the risk, rather than just having to brute-force discover which options are entirely negative. The idea is great but more work is required.
Quests in early game are just a tutorial, which is fine.
Personalities… take a long time to become relevant. The class rework likewise.
Not a new thing but the update has highlighted it for me: the way gear works sucks.
At present there is essentially no point in ever deliberately equipping anything or keeping gear over gold and mana. Most non-cursed items are marginal and many cursed items are crippling. It simply isn’t worth paying any attention to item rewards rather than development quests. And the risk of getting a ‘reach level 3 in [class] to uncurse’ abomination makes every equip a gamble with replacing your developed adventurer with a raw novice.
Suggestion: Implement a way to sell items for gold and mana. It will at least give a reason to try and gather items, even if they are cursed as it will eventually give some reward.
Side note: The ‘reach level 3 in [class] to uncurse’ items continue to be an enjoyment killer. At this point I just dismiss any adventurer that gets such an item because getting to level 3 with any class is a massive undertaking and it is genuinely easier to just start from scratch rather than try to uncurse the girl.
Good to hear that combat and exploration are getting a reword. Suppose this is what I get for playing games still early in development with a bunch of placeholder content.
It is fare to worry about overly complex combinations. However I don’t really see a need for that, it is fine if all the major transformations override rather than combine. The issue is more that 1) you will only get transformed outside of a bad end by deliberately using a transformation item and 2) there doesn’t seem to be all that much impact from being transformed. Or from being any particular race. At the moment it is almost entirely cosmetic. Hope to see more dynamic interactions in future builds.
Review: Decent for what it is.
Overall a good concept that must needs to be expanded more.
Seems the game updated the day after I downloaded, sorry for pointing out stuff you already fixed.
The cursed classes don’t need to be outright negatives, but having the same ‘power with drawbacks’ as cursed items is viable. And it lets you make them a bit more thematic. Examples:
Prisoners might give one damage resistance if they are wearing any locked gear, but reduce item durability by five percent. So they are stronger when imprisoned but more likely to end up in that position. Maid levels could give a tiny heal whenever a debuff is removed but slightly reduced resistance to debuffs, so they are better maids but worse every other class. That sort of thing.
(Intended for this to be a review but the review window doesn’t let you paste text into it.)
An impressive start. Clearly still WIP but the foundation is solid. Art is simple, but abundant and consistent. Gameplay is a little grindy but that might just be the current lack of content.
Couple of issues:
Don’t know if it is a bug or an unexplained mechanic but sometimes after a battle the party order gets randomised.
No curios spawned except for in the tutorial, yet you can still waste money buying curio-interacting equipment.
Suggestions:
Prisoner (and other force-class) gear should be easier to unlock, but also easier for enemies to apply. Have it so you only need to complete one development quest to remove, but only need one or maybe two (one for novice / adept, two for veteran+?) pieces to get forced into the class. And possibly have enemies apply equipment passively when they hit a low-durability target. That makes it an ongoing thing to manage rather than a straight ‘this character is now a prisoner for the foreseeable future’.
Have each level of a class provide some permanent benefit rather than just the last. And display what static benefits having a class active provides. This also ties into the above as you can have Prisoners, maids etc have negative permanent effects that characters would slowly accumulate as they are forced to learn the cursed classes.
Cursed items should stay uncursed. If you are going for a ‘powerful but with drawbacks’ approach rather than just having them but trash to get rid off then making them as swappable as other equipment once ‘earned’ will help a lot.
Related to something on the roadmap: Ponies giving more inventory space is extremely powerful. A good chunk of the game will be farming runs and even on novice level it is very rate to finish a run before running out of inventory. Consider either expanding the base inventory so one extra slot isn’t so powerful or scrapping ponies giving more space, unless you want 90% of teams to be three ponies and one healer.
Promising developments. Sci-fi isn’t something I seek out but the art looks good.
Changing the combat dynamics for the zone should be interesting. Keep things fresh during a play-through.
Futa content? Personally I have no strong feelings on the topic. I do however caution that getting bogged down in too much optional content, particularly the time and effort intensive art, will tank development speed.
An ambitious game to be sure. What content there is, is high quality. And if the map is anything to go by there will eventually be a whole lot of game.
Side note, is the Knightess art’s lack of collar deliberate or just a matter of
artwork limitations?
Ran into a bug, when I try to hand in the Engagement Ring I get an error. Specifically:
TypeError
Cannot set property ‘_status’ of undefined
Looks exceedingly promising.
Consider me hyped.
