its a shame this doesn't use a side view battle system. those battle sprites are pretty.

cant go full screen it stays small :(

olgas "vapor blast" skill seems kind of useless.

karnak and mabs lovey dovey relation ship is nothing compared to merel and Chisa :D! (if you can handle the abusive battles)

as most of this was battles i did not enjoy this experience.
and they can be tedious. each takes some time to win.
i did enjoy all the dialog when we did get some tho.
the humor was pretty amusing

on the bright side of the battles most of the skills were actually useful!
and whats better is that when you upgrade or learn new skills you get some dialog to go with it to add some flavor and personality! :D

the mapping was to the point so i loved it! but you could not use full screen
and i am glad it ended when it did.

> To start off with what's good, I love complex battle mechanics! A shame it doesn't really show until later on in the game. I liked the visual style of everything, but hey, crazy leen is pretty awesome. I like how you separated focus on combat and exploration so that the game doesn't feel too stressful or overly-reliant on preparing yourself with resources. The storyline was cute, but even that could have been better.

> The major problem with this game is that every. single. battle. takes. WAY. too long! This would be fine if there were constant interactions going on in each battle, but at the beginning, your pool of skills is extremely limited and you really only have one viable strategy to every fight: Buff your peeps with shields, buff your peeps with raised attacks, mash your only damaging skill at things and pray they die in a timely manner. Enemies simply have way too much HP for what little they actually contribute to a battle, and combined with the lack of strategic diversity, the game gets repetitive and boring real fast. This goes on for so long before you find your first gold slime, that I've actually started making mistakes only out of pure sensory deprivation rather than a lack of skill.

> In that regard, why not introduce those gold slimes earlier? Like, the game finally got interesting once I started to get more skills that interacted with the entire party in nice ways, yet before all of that you have a TON of encounters you have to go through (especially if you like to explore every nook to get bonuses/treasure) fighting streams of enemies in the same, boring fashion. Another idea: Why not let every party member have their entire skill book? The sense of progression is already made up for with the silver slime bonus, the equipment and EXP, so I don't think that aspect would be hurt much. Also, it would better sell your game that it's supposed to be played strategically right off the bat.

> To use one instance for context, you have a fight against a small scorpion and a big scorpion. I buff my entire party with Mab and Olga's skills, I take care of the small scorp easy, so next was the big scorp. All this dumb thing does is attack a single target, and with the buffs it felt kind of trivial, so I egg on it. Yet, the damn thing never goes down until about five minutes of me attacking, healing off its damage to a single member, taking a hit, attacking more, scorp repeating the same pattern, rinse and repeat. See what's going on, here? The only way I could make the fight go faster at this stage of the game is to use an attack buff, and the enemy isn't doing anything that's making me worth considering it as a threat. Thus, the battle feels like it overstays its welcome.

> Mab and Karnak's sex obsession was funny for the first two times, then it got old pretty darn fast. Keep in mind, I LOVE quirky sexual humor, but the problem here is that it's done so often that it becomes predictable, sucking away at the story's charm as a result. I'm sure these characters have more definable traits than their sex interests, so more expansion to that would have been welcome.

> I have mixed feelings about the final boss. The fact that he slept for a while before attacking allowed for an interesting change of pace, then... He just became a regular enemy with a predictable attack pattern and nothing else up his sleeve. I think my satisfaction came more from knowing that the game would be over.

EDIT: I forgot to mention there is an oversight:

This item is stated to give +20 MAT, but it increases attack and defense instead.