FIDCHELL WILL STREAM YOUR GAMES!

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Can you do that?

author=Fidchell
Today I'll be playing Konae's Investigations and Touhou Fantasy.

Oh man, Chapter 2 is a huge mess! I'm hoping Chapter 1 will be at least "okay", though.

I'm wondering what you would think of Whisper, given what I've read here. It's not a demo, but, I'm all up for nitpicking.

Genre is RPG, though making sure grinding was not necessary was a design goal from the start.

Hi Fidchell! I'd love for you to play my game and to hear what you think of it: The Vendor.

It was made for the IGMC, but it's polished and thoroughly tested. I know that might sound a bit weird when I mention it, but a few people I've talked to have come to expect bugs due to the deadline, and I understand that it can hinder motivation to give contest games a try for some people.

A few responses:

I wasn't too keen on there being consequences for failing the lock-picking mini-game. Obviously, with the first door, well, you can't get very far if you can't open that. With the other doors, well, maybe there can be consequences there. I dunno.

I've been thinking I just want to re-do Chapter 2 entirely, and maybe do some different things in Chapter 1. Such as having our heroines do some actual investigating into what's transpiring. As opposed to having information, or seeming to have information, that the player does not.

Hooray! :D How exciting!

Alright, I've watched the archived version (I tried to watch it live, but it kept skipping and pausing), and I want to talk about a couple of things:


- I should have recommended Casual Mode for a stream. Survivor Mode dropped all tutorials, allowing the player to learn on their own. For a livestream, Casual mode should have been what you should have chosen. That was my bad for not telling you, though, so sorry about that.

- I see you missed the Wide Plank the first time. That is a weapon for Arya that boosts her defense, making the segment where she is alone MUCH easier. The Wide Plank also gives Arya a Drive that allows her to nullify all damage to the party for one turn. You picked it up in the Forbidden Ruins, but didn't equip it for some reason. You could have picked it up earlier, as the Wide Plank was also in the first map of the Village Perimeter, located on the only boulder in that map.

This is another reason Casual Mode was a better choice. The game would not have let you leave the map until you found the Wide Plank.

- Speaking of damage, I see you didn't pick up any rocks. Those are attack items that both Arya and Alex to equip to inflict a lot of damage during battle. Since Alex already does plenty of damage with his basic attack, those rocks were meant for Arya. I tried to make a rock stand out to the player by it's placement. When the children first fell off the cliff, did you notice the random patch of dirt right next to Arya? That's a rock. There are other rocks scattered throughout the Village Perimeter that you could pick up. Throwing a rock doesn't cost Stamina, so Arya could chuck rocks all day.

- Thank you so much for pointing out the glitches, like the layering problem in the village and the one monster in the Ruins. No matter how many times I test it, and have unity test it, there's always going to be something. *Grumble grumble*.

- Yes, the art in the Childhood Arc sucks. I'm glad you laughed at that, as it is definitely giving me the drive to redraw the battlers. This is why I used RTP for the monsters, as the alternative is hilariously bad. For what it's worth, the art gets better as the game goes along.

- You can run from battles. Just press left on the battle screen to bring you to the run command.

- There were two weapons for Alex you could have grabbed. The first one is in the Village Perimeter, by a tree in the second map. The tree is sparkling, so you can't miss it. The second one is a secret weapon that you can only grab at night in the village.

- When you get killed by a monster, you are not being humped. That is the monster eating you. Being humped does not have biting sound effects.

- Now I want to point out a pretty big issue I have with your video description:


I'm gonna be blunt: That was insulting. You have just implied that Soul Sunder is a hentai game. It is not at all. When you die, you are EATEN. Not RAPED. The description, as it is now, will definitely mislead many potential players and discourage them from trying the game. Please change it to something more appropriate.

I'm sure you didn't like the game, and I'm pretty sure you did not write the description out of malice. But not only was it not funny, but it was both insulting to the game and a big deterrent to anyone who watches this at a later date.