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Hello, thank you for your feedback! 

To address several of your points here, there is currently a way to view in-depth descriptions of the items you collect via the Monocle accessory. It will show a detailed breakdown of items you stand near, as well as giving you the ability to hover over items in the menu to view descriptions for items you picked up earlier. This is something that I, for a long time was very intent on keeping the way it is, which I understood was not a popular viewpoint. After reading your comment, however, I'm more inclined to remove that feature from Monocle, and turn it into a toggle in the settings, or something of the sort. I will have to think on this.

A lot of your questions can be answered by just not knowing the Item functions. The Crown item allows you to queue Gags in any order you want, Spider Legs allows you to carry two Pocket Pranks at once, etc. For the intro, after your first victory, the settings menu should display an option for skipping the Cog building segment and getting directly into the game. 

Overall, I'm very glad to hear you're enjoying the game despite a few issues here and there, and thank you again for sharing your thoughts with us.

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Hey there! I appreciate your thoughts here, but wanted to mention a few points I think are important to mention here. Firstly, the point about game length is probably fair. We've had a lot of internal discussion surrounding the average length of a run, and have made a few changes here and there to make the experience a little quicker. On the whole, though, we're pretty happy where run lengths are at. An average run being somewhere a little over an hour is just about the standard we were looking to reach just with how slow Toontown battles are. In practice, I feel it's allowed the slow, but constant progression of your Toon to feel more natural. To get to an average run time of about half an hour, we'd need to give the player items at potentially double, if not triple the current frequency, which already feels pretty fast in my eyes. It's also worthwhile to mention that making a faithful adaptation of the Toontown Online battle system meant we had to preserve the fact that the battles are incredibly slow. They always take up the vast majority of your run's playtime, and as such, we give you the option to speed them up as a bit of a workaround.

As for the lack of information, I don't entirely disagree here. We've been talking a lot about having a legitimate tutorial in the game, especially for people who may see this game on itch, and not have much experience with Toontown in the past. Right now, the game does a very poor job of giving those players an understanding of the mechanics at play, and that is something we should work to circumvent. For items, though, I don't agree with your stance that the effects should be immediately visible. We have an item, Monocle, that will display item effects before they are picked up. Part of the game design is meant to be some trial and error, where you don't know exactly which items are maybe not the best idea to pick up. Letting the player slowly build their own knowledge on the items is almost like its own invisible progression system. Though, I should mention, for status effects specifically, those aren't hidden and you can hover your mouse over them to read exactly what they do.

Finally, I want to highlight is that as a benefit to being an open source project, we understand we may not always make the best calls on the game design end of things. But we greatly encourage modifying the game in any way to suit your own tastes. And while I understand that may not be a satisfying answer, I do promise to keep an eye on the issues you've brought up here, because we may always end up coming around to your perspective on things later. 

Game releases at 12PM EST today

I did recreate a lot of mechanics as closely to the original game as I could in the new engine. As for multiplayer, unfortunately, I don't intend on including it in the game. It would pretty much require a complete rewrite of the entire game to be networked properly. I do plan to make the project open source, though. So if any particular developer wants to try their hand at adapting it into an online game, I would strongly encourage it.