You can save manually at your bed when you make your new campsite.
Also, please try redownloading the demo in about ten minutes. We're pushing a new update that'll hopefully fix some of these errors.
Make sure you're on the most recent game version, if you aren't already. Also make sure you aren't running the game off of an external harddrive or a USB or anything like that.
In terms of grapples, if it helps at all for the left-right one, try not to spam the buttons super fast. You want to go at a rhythm, about 240bpm or so.
Otherwise... we're really not sure what to say. We've been wrestling with the game's node webkit version, trying to find the version that is the most performant, but what works for some is worse for others... really sorry about this, truly.
We may be able to create a machine translation, but we don't have any volunteers to help us for a more bespoke translation...
We're a little reluctant to release ONLY a machine-translation version of a language, as it feels a bit lazy and unprofessional, but we will at least consider it if more people speak out for such a thing.
Thank you for your comment!
It sounds like a stupid reason, and it's a quirk of RPG Maker as an engine and not something we've done ourselves, but yeah... the game doesn't want to run if you have multiple issues of the game running at once.
I'm sorry that it was a nuisance for you, and I'm sorry it's something beyond our control and a bit unpredictable, but hopefully the game now works smoothly and you can enjoy it nonetheless.
So instead of being a reasonable person and asking for help and giving feedback in the itch.io comments like so many other people are doing, you decided to drop a 1-star review of the game? All because you couldn't join a Discord server where we want to keep bots and bad actors out, and have almost six-thousand other users who are there giving feedback, praise, critique and more.
Thanks man, real mature.
I can tell you the issue you're having with your problem with the left-right QTEs can be solved by pressing the buttons rhythmically as opposed to spamming them, roughly at the pace of the on-screen icons flashing. But if you've given up on the game all because of that one issue, there's not much else anyone can do for you.
From a quick study into the EPERM issue, it seems having the game in the main program folder causes this problem. If you haven't already, try completely reinstalling the game and putting it somewhere else on your computer (putting it in Programs first before moving it can cause some read-only issues to persist)
Another potential thing to just check is... have you made sure to unzip / extract the game first? EPERM relates to not having permission for the program to 'write' changes, in this case to the persistent save file. It sometimes can't do this if you haven't unzipped the game first.
The only other thing I can think of that may cause such an issue would be, worryingly enough, some kind of malware or issues on your computer... so if all else fails it may be worth trying to do some computer cleansing.
Hopefully some amount of this is useful for you!
Braided Rope Bundles can be crafted at home, using Scaletree Bark Chunks. You can also find some Braided Rope Bundles in areas and treasure chests in the Glistening Stream locale.
The other material you need to create the ladder is called Flexwood. It can be found in the Shimmering Savannah locale. It looks like a small 'forked' tree.
Whoa, that's a big review. Thanks for taking the time to play through the game and tap up all your thoughts like this.
As the writer for the game I can answer some of these things. I can tell you that Chief Maku absolutely had his personal reasons for choosing Kivuli to be next in line, reasons that may become more apparent as the story progresses.
I can also tell you that there's a bit more explanation to Kivuli and Sumari's relationship if you take the time to 'accidentally' walk into all three of the net traps during the prologue.
Finally I can say that I did have the desire to add some conditional dialogue to the NPCs regarding Kivuli's status, but the amount of background programming it would take for just small pieces of dialogue, and that I'd have to make said dialogue both flavourful but not get in the way of character relationships and important instructions, it just ended up being way more work for the comparatively minimal gain from it.
IF you're running into issues and you're using Windows 11, follow these steps:
1. Download the latest 64 bit version of nw.js from here https://nwjs.io/downloads/
2. Drag the contents of the nw folder into the Prowler folder
3. Delete the old game.exe, and rename the newly pasted 'nw.exe' into 'game.exe'.
4. Run the new 'game.exe' file