MASQUERADEJACKER'S PROFILE

author=Dragnfly
I've been playing this and I think what you really need is a mentor, more learning experience or a design partner.

You've got some good ideas here. That intro was epic. I thought Blaze looked silly at first but once he started terrorizing the town with knock-knock jokes I kind of accepted him naturally. The dialogue is fun and the mapping seems good.

But the game falls flat on it's face and slides right into the latrine when it comes to the gameplay design choices.

-A/D system is terrible. I absolutely LOVE timing-based combat in games, especially for defense. Shadow Hearts, Ar Tonelico 2/Ar Nosurge, Mario RPG... I can play those fights over and over years later and still love the hell out of them. But your mistake was using A and D. I'm unfamiliar with the script used so this might be out of your control but why not just use the Accept button? The player won't need to quickly re-position their hand since their finger will already be on Accept from selecting their command.

-I second what others have said. Kudos on having Blaze be a spear guy (sword got boring unless it's a funky sword) but giving him all this magic seems weird. Especially since all it takes is a copy/paste and a rename to make it a cool-sounding (or considering him a dorky-sounding-that-he-thinks-is-cool) spear technique. Gust o' Wind Dance, ho!

-That is one insane random encounter rate. Averaging about 2-3 steps per battle.

-Set save points are good for event control but a real pain for the player. Anything from a game crash to getting overrun by your insane encounter rate will make players drop your game if they have anything else they could play, which they likely do because internet.

-Yeah, I also fell down a hole and died. Then died twice trying to get back up to the cave due to the encounter rate. A simple sign to watch out for holes works since most games don't let you call in them. Another good (likely more suited to Blaze's style) option is to put a 1-time event (all linked to the same switch) on all the holes so that Blaze almost falls in the first time but will fall in any time after that since by then it's the player's own fault.

-Then I got crushed by the minefield-esque falling rock trap about 4 times and stopped playing. That's the biggest danger to your game, really- people just saying "screw this" and never coming back. I'll give it another try later and just map the mine field path.

I'm also tempted to pop into Cheat Engine and see

Show

if that monster in the intro can't be killed. LOL I've always been a sucker for finding out those things.

EDIT: Actually ignore these comments for now. I just noticed I might have ver2.0 for some reason. Re-downloading now. It's always a great idea to put your version number on the title screen or at the top of the game window (along with the game name). Having at least the game name helps because I ALT-PrntScrn to show screenshots to friends to try and get them interested in games. With no name at the top and if lots of time passes I might not remember what a certain screenshot is from, especially if it uses RTP.

EDIT2: Yeah I had an outdated version somehow. Some things were fixed.

author=shayoko
Thank you very much for your honest feeback. I'll be sure to apply some changes to improve this game.
Also, I appreciate actually looking into all the details of the game, I've never had anyone giving me such big heads up and this is what I was looking for.

author=shayoko
would be great to play a horror game where your the villain :3
have choices to decide how to go about killing victims and multiple endings based on your choices and who lives and died :3

author=Kyubey
It was a fairly solid experience throughout. If I had to pick a favorite part, it'd probably be the whole final conflict. I also like how things resolved in the mercy ending, which is the one I went for.

If I had to complain about 2 things...

1. The ice cave escape was kinda cheap. There is no indication of where the boulders are going to fall, so it's trial and error to know which tiles are safe to walk and on which aren't. It's fairly minor though since it's short and rather easy to get out.

2. The frequency of world map battles was kind of irritating. Maybe you made it like this because the map is small, but I often got into battles every 2 or 3 steps, and it becomes but an annoyance by the time the enemies are all so weak they do 0 damage to you. At least the battles go by super quick, though.

That aside, good game. I like how you managed to mix comedy and horror elements, and actually make it work, while still giving a serious resolution by the end.