Nice. I really like the theme. Controlling the car is way more fun than I thought it would be. It has that good balance of not accelerating too hard to be uncontrollable but still being pretty speedy. I wish there were some extra features though, like coming back if you fall off the track, or being able to flip yourself over if you are upside down. Those feel kind of essential I think.
I don't like that all the dialogue is gone. I really liked the guy talking about "bentos" and inserting random french. It had a unique charm.
I REALLY don't like that you can no longer freely look around and are stuck to turning 90 degrees, it feels rigid and uncomfortable. Idk if you were trying to make the game feel more claustrophobic, but it does, but it also feels less like I am actually in the game since I have no freedom of movement.
I don't like the objects just levitating in the void as the "shop". I know you wanted to make the game look more unique (because the last one was so similar to CloverPit), but the old one worked way better. Something about the way they are now lacks visual clarity and them just spinning in an empty space feels unfinished (they are not presented in any aesthetic way. I think it would be better if they were on plates, or hanging from hooks...). Also I find the restock lever kind of hard to notice on this version - I think some people could miss it easily.
Smaller nitpicks:
I don't like the little "whoosh" thing you added, it makes the scoring take even longer. Though I guess I can try speeding up the game. Haven't tried that yet. Maybe I will get used to it.
I kind of don't like that the dark square background was removed from the ingredients. I think it would look better if the black square bg was kept and you changed the color of the "aura" around it to a dark red or something similar. This one is just a nitpick.
Just feels like a lot of these changes made everything come off more sluggish and unfinished.
cool game, but please fix the performance. i used to play this on a laptop and could play it just fine. idk what you did with this newest version but my pc becomes a ball of searing heat. i tried to beat it twice and always god a bluescreen before i got to the end because my pc was so hot. i never get a bluescreen. that sucks when you can't save (afaik). i don't get how it's melting my pc from looking at a hallway and three enemies.
this is pretty cool but after defeating a bunch of enemies, my controls just freeze, every time. i tried restarting like 3x. first it was with the room with two goblins to the left of blood fountain, and then the big golem guy after.
when i defeat one of those guys, i stop moving. i cannot attack or move. i can still pause and go to inventory and do inventory stuff, but controls are FROZEN!
i don't understand what to do. i am in the first minigame, i press the key that appears, the character jumps, and then it just stays on that screen with the letter in the middle.
love the new additions!! any chance for a downloadable version still? dont wanna lose this in the future in case itch goes down or something. its such a nice piece of surrealist gaming you can only find on sites like this that host so many different schools-of-thought projects & games.
Ahhh so I did miss some stuff. That's on me then. The difficulty jump is rough, but I also thought the jump from case 2 to case 3 in The Case of the Golden Idol was rough. If the puzzles keep being good it will be worth the difficulty. Good luck with the game. LOVE both Golden Idol games :).
i am extremely confused. some of this feels less like deduction and more like pure guessing. i had problems right from the start. without the easy beginner levels golden idol had, i had trouble getting into this one. in the very first puzzle, you have to:
SPOILER ALERT!!
guess that the thing under the bench is an earring (though it looks like a ring) and that it belongs to the bully girl (i just assumed she wore one earring to be cool), that is already very leap-of-logic.
second puzzle, i have no idea how you were supposed to guess which camp they were going to. i think it's something about the driving directions? driving on the left side of the road or something?
and the third one is just a mess, i have no idea how i am supposed to deduce almost anything. who does each bag belong to? the only one i am certain is the girl saying she left the camera in her bag. that one is obvious, but the rest? who does the briefcase thing belong to? it has a magazine with what looks like the black girl from the story, is it hers? there is one bag with an inhaler and a flashlight, and there is a message on the camp lady's phone about asthma, but that could have been sent to literally anyone. there is one bag with crayons that belongs either to the black girl or the bully from the first part, but i can't determine who that could be!!
no clue what the burnt note in the fire is supposed to be either.
i feel like i've been given an impossible puzzle and i'm going insane. maybe i'm wrong and there's ways to guess everything easily, but dang.
i love this so much. the artstyle is so COOL, it adds a great atmosphere and surreality. i love it so much. i wish the menu theme played over the whole game, its really cool (or maybe some other music??). any chance for a downloadable version please? :) YEAH BABYYYYY
the second boss sending the armored knights got me, im not sure how he works mechanically exactly. maybe ill play again and figure him out, i only did one run of the game, i thought that was the final boss so i saw everything hahaha. is there any chance for a downloadable version btw? :-) if you dont mind. would love to save this with my other itch downloaded games and bust it out at the right moment.
