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First impression, the game balance feels absolutely horrible to the point where it's basically impossible to do any progress. I've been grinding between the training yard and constantly failing quests for like 20 hours and I still can't clear the first non-tutorial story quest.

Heck, I've barely been able to clear two commissons from the guild board where I had to beat 20 waves, and I only managed that by constantly repeating them and beating 1-2 waves at a time. Other commissions are impossible at this stage. Stat increases and equipment seems to only give miniscule boosts in power, and it takes an eternity to level up, plus after buying all the wooden equipment there's nothing else but weeks or months of stale grinding to maybe perhaps be able to actually clear something and progress to the next close to impossible task.

I tend to enjoy grindy games, but there needs to be frequent progress to feel worthwhile. I'm sorry to say that this just isn't fun or rewarding at all. I can see some potential here, but for now, I'm out.

Missions seems to be broken. I've tried a few times with different objectives. Every time I'm sent to a floor 100+ battle, but nothing is happening. I'm just standing there. Pausing and unpausing does nothing, clicking on enemies does nothing, clicking on the object to gather if that's the mission does nothing, there are no apparent way to engage in battle, I can't select any other floor, and the only option I seem to have is to abandon the mission or wait until the time runs out...

What are worker skill levels and how do you raise them to max? Can't find anything about it anywhere except for the only locked achievement I have left and it being mentioned in the game description...

Also there seems to be a bug with morale which never exceeds 90% except for Drone Cleaners which are always at 100%. Only way to get that achievement seems to be to fire every single worker except Drone Cleaners.

Well, you're not wrong about the music being addictive... like, dang!

Some quick feedback after having completed everything so far:

- Some dishes have icons in the feeding area while some don't have icons.

- When unlocking the third set of ingredients (Tier 4), their icons will overflow over the fridge and slightly under the Depart button in the Kitchen. Maybe split the ingredients into two lines, one for proteins and one for condiments?

- T4 doesn't have its own button on the fridge after clearing Jakarta. Tier 4 recipes are only visible under the All button.

- The purpose of the stars you can gain in each level is very unclear, both how they are scored and what they are for. Like, I can feed every cat their favorite and it seems random if and how many stars I get.

- It would be nice to see how many I have of each dish while in the Kitchen so I don't have to go back and forth between the Vehicle and Kitchen to check all the time.

- It would be nice to see what each cat's likes are when you are feeding them (sort of like it shows in the wiki, but of course only after having discovered them, this could for instance be a purchaseable upgrade). I had to take notes of each cat's favorites and alt-tab back and forth which isn't very intuitive.

- I'm assuming the Pantry isn't implemented yet? I can't figure out how to transfer dishes from the Vehicle to the Pantry.

- Maybe add more kitchen helpers as you get further, example like a Cutting Helper that removes the click-to-cut action for proteins and at the endgame a Chef that lets you automatically complete a recipe by just clicking one button?

Ah, and then it goes from High to Earth to eventually Heaven you mean? That makes sense, I must have missed any explanation of that.

Not directly related, but in the vincinity, it would be nice if you could add a check when buying essence so that you either get a warning when trying to buy essence for something that's already maxed or completely remove maxed essences from the pool so you don't waste stones needlessly on that.

Anyway, keep it up, looking forward to what's next :)

Whenever a spirit stone surpass 100 in the reserve, it will restart from 0. Example: if you have 99 Mid stones in the reserve and get 3 more, your inventory will reset down to 2 instead going up to 102, thus losing you 100 stones. This happens with all grades, so idling in order to gain stones becomes completely pointless as you will lose out on hundreds of them while afk.