INDRA'S PROFILE

-Introductory choosing stage options are a bit long and random, making starting the game a bit “ehh” sort of feeling.
-Text, which seems it would be important to tell what the heck is going on with battle (with the “special” nature of the skills) goes too fast and I can barely catch anything.
-Well, the second boss is already a pain. It seems a lot of the questions assume I should know things I obviously do not. If it’s asking me about philosophy…I honestly can’t be arsed to look it up, honestly.
-After losing a couple times I just answered mostly at random till I was allowed to fight him.
-At the third boss (cowboy) I made it past the synonym test and lost the battle. I’m not too interesting so I’ll leave it there.

Well, honestly it was okay for what it is, but I’m too disinterested at the moment to THINK (much less boot up google and search) to keep playing.

A few things that generally damage the experience: skills have no real descriptions to their effects, which leaves me wondering what the fuck is it that they do, besides damage.
Text dispays in combat also go too fast to tell what the heck is going on, so that doesn’t help at all to make combat engaging (it wasn’t, I had no idea of what I was doing, basically).

Mapping was sufficient (more like non existent but I understand the game wasn’t going for great maps), sound was…slightly grating, but nothing intolerable. Writing was amusing (it had some weak spots but nothing that bad), but sometimes the jokes went way over my head as I had no context or knowledge of what was going on. Granted, this could be simply because I’m an idiot.

All in all, an amusing game. Had I more brains or an interest in the subject I would have enjoyed it more, but as it is I wasn’t really in the mood and lost interest quite quickly.

In any case, good job on finishing this! It’s a pity it was not within my interests, but that doesn’t make it a bad game. Some aspects can definitely be improved, but still a good job within the time constraints and all.

-Right away after character choosing problem with sprite cropping: A black line appears at the top of the player.
-The graphics are…odd. The mix is mismatched with resources from all over the place, which makes the overall style disjointed and a bit odd. I’ll suppose this was just as placeholders and not really intended to be the real material of the game (or simply no time due to deadline)
-I have absolutely no idea of what I’m supposed to be doing. Are mushrooms “mp”? Why can’t I pick up more things in the room with three numbers? What is my goal?
-I died and got a BAD ENDING on my second fight. Okay…?
-I’m building “Sp”, whatever that is. What does that even DO? There is no instruction to the battle basics at all.
-Went another way with the guard class and…died after finding a glove. I think I’m about done.

What can I say? I’m not entirely sure of what was the INTENTION of the game. It lacks any sort of direction, combat advice, or, heck, a save feature or any direction at all. If this was done for “challenge”…it does not work. Challenge is not the same thing as a hideous lack of information.

Mapping is inexistent, resources are mismatched. I had no idea of what the effects to skills actually were 90% of the time, so combat was not really enjoyable. Lack of health restoration (when I needed it) did not help.

I can’t tell what this game was aiming for. If this is supposed to be a very raw prototype, that’s one thing I could accept. If it’s supposed to be this way to be “hard”, then it goes about it the wrong way. At east some bare explanation of combat basics is needed, otherwise you’re just stumbling around in the dark for no reason, since there’s no plot or anything else going on either.

Now after writing these notes I saw your actual game page (I’m playing them all brind so no biases arise) and…well, the plot in the demo certainly does not exist, and it’s nowhere as exciting as you plan it to be. For one, dungeon randomization is pretty baldn when all rooms are basically squares with a thing in the middle. Havign to choose between different chests when you DON’T KNOW what the contests are: never fun.
Overall I understand the general direction you wanted to go, but it just…doesn’t work right now.