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Endiewitch · 2024-05-13T03:51:56Z

Hello! Firstly, wanted to say this is easily my favorite 3D RPG game I've played in AGES, most (especially in this style) tend to be "wait for the cooldown, press a skill, then watch a cutscene before moving to the left to dodge the least involved attack pattern ever created, repeat at step 1." This game actually makes you dodge, aim, and all in all actually play a videogame more than most 3D RPGs, and it feels like a fun mix between an MMORPG style combat system and a 3D platformer in the best way. I also want to make it clear that this is all shared out of a place of love for the game, and as constructive criticism, not just picking out little things I dislike. Now, onto the proper feedback! Gameplay: - Combat is fantastic, as mentioned above. Having more weapons be slightly more differentiated from eachother (Like the flame and ice staves dealing different debuffs, for example) by more than just stats would be a nice touch, but isn't needed. There's only two major gripes I have with combat, and both are pretty much just small balancing/hitbox issues that can easily be changed, besides that I really only think that swapping weapons could be slightly faster out of an attack, as I've noticed myself trying to swap weapons before the cooldown ends because it looks like the animation should have ended already. - Movement feels great until you need to precisely platform. The dash is just a tiiiny bit too fast/far for most platforms, so all that really needs to change is making the platforms a bit bigger on average. It's not really a difficulty thing, more a mild annoyance when you zip over your intended platform and have to run all the way back up. - Some drop rates for items feel oddly high, and others feel way too low. For example, the cat ghost enemies drop some really cool gear but you only need to really fight five of them, either expanding the first dungeon to have more of them, or giving them higher drop rates would be great! - Enemy and NPC designs are great, literally no flaws whatsoever! (except that you can't have little slime pets, they're so cute) - Character customization is obviously still early in development just like everything else, so more options is a given, but to echo another post and what I shared there, wider waists without larger bellies and more muscular male chests would be nice! Balancing/nitpicks: These are basically just small balance tweaks I'd like to see, and besides the two major changes they aren't really necessary at all. - Invincibility frames are very harsh, you can be shredded by multi-hit attacks incredibly quickly in this game. I actually like how bouncy and knockback/combo-heavy the enemies are in this game, it makes combat feel very back and forth, with you knocking down the enemies and stunning them, then you being juggled around like a basketball in return if you miss your dodge. However, some attacks (Slime diva's "booba" attack is the best example) just shred your HP, without knocking you back or giving many I-frames. Just increasing the number of invincibility frames from some attacks would make a lot of enemies feel more fair. This isn't a major issue, but is a small difficulty tweak that could make combat feel a lot nicer for Melee characters. - Arrows feel WAY too small and inconsistent. Sometimes I'll be aiming dead-on at an enemy, point blank, and the arrow will just pas right under them, through their model (at least, visually). All this really needs is for arrows to have slightly larger hitboxes, methinks. - Now, for a final minor gripe, I think that charge attacks feel really awkward, as trying to perfectly time releasing your charged scepter shot as you jump up over a ledge or get out a heavy charge attack (hammer or bell) in general feels a bit too slow and clunky. Some weapons, like the sword, feel fine, but it's still a bit too long of a windup in my opinion. And those are all of my major thoughts worth sharing! Sorry for the wall of text, but if you read through this, thanks for making such a cool game, Kissef!!! I eagerly await the full version.

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