RONOVE'S PROFILE

If you're going to be toasting Gluten Free bread you gotta make sure to cast Heal on the toaster first to get out all the other crumbs in there from bread full of gluten! Otherwise you would probably get sick anyway!

ISRIERI SHOULD WE TAKE OUR TOASTER DISCUSSION TO THEM? I CAN DO THAT.

author=Sailerius
Minority opinions are the most valuable when trying to decide whether or not to play a game.

But if the minority opinion is whether or not you plugged in your toaster or read the manual beforehand to understand how to toast things... how can you think that is valuable to buying a toaster or not?

I mean sure, it's good to show players hey, some people have a really hard time with this game, take it with a grain of salt, sure (but I'm pretty sure other reviews elsewhere have shown this and actually reviewed the game in full?). But there's a fine line between that's the game's fault or if that's the player's fault and that's a really hard line to distinguish. I don't really mind that this review is here, really, I don't. I just have issue with all the analogies thrown around, the idea that I need to take this review to heart and remodel my game (I mean if this was a demo, yes, I totally would, but it's been finished for over a year now, I'm not going to overhaul it when I've had countless people think it's fine and that doesn't mean this review shouldn't be here).

I mean many people have already shown that they will come around and say hey, this review isn't indicative of the whole game, I enjoyed it, I thought the difficulty was just fine and there is more to the game than hard battles, etc. so for this to be here isn't that bad. People have other reviews to get a fuller view of the game in any case. I just hope they don't just read this review because it happens to be the lowest and decide that's the truth of what the game is at its core because that's not true for everyone in the least.

But I will say this... I think the worst thing that can happen to an artist of any kind (writer, game maker, graphic artist, etc.) is that they come to the point where the only words they can or would accept, are those of praise. At the point where any of us refuses to hear what may be wrong with our works, we stop growing, there, as whatever kind of artist we are. If you aren't even willing to entertain the idea that you might have made a mistake soemwhere, there's no way you're going to learn from whatever you messed up, and if you can't learn from your mistakes, then you can never advance.

Excuse me? I have not come to a point where all I accept is praise. It has been a while since I finished this game and I do not need someone talking down to me saying "oh you will never learn from your mistakes." What version of the game is this? It's over 3.0. I have been refining this game since the day it came out and I have been refining to keep my original vision but still making it easier for people and you cannot say I have not. My vision was to make a game which difficulty reflects the one I want to play. If that's too hard for you, there's not much I can do. I will not nerf this game just to let people play it without a thought in their head on how to take advantage of the battle and how to decimate the enemies. I give players all the tools they need and if they cannot think to use those tools, there's nothing I can do.

Hell, I had another review from someone I didn't have a good opinion of, but I listened to him. And I made changes because he was right and he spread his opinion in a manner that was him understanding the game and not just hating one aspect of it and flying off the handle with how enraged he was.

I haven't even spoken to you and you act like I am beyond your criticism? I agree with none of this and you are fully within your right to tell the world of your opinion, but you are spinning it as though it is fact. But then you say later it's your personal experience. Average people have played my game. People who had trouble figuring out the controls because I forgot to show them the controls at the start of game could play my game and figure it out and play and die very rarely.

I, random player, ended up in boss fight after boss fight, which became immediately never ending circles of curing and being reduced to near death state. Those are FACTS, not feelings, not fanciful fabrications.

That is NOT a fact. That is your personal experience. The FACT is that there are tons of people who have played my game and never had an issue. The FACT is there are tons of people who have FINISHED my game and enjoyed the difficulty. What you have there is your Personal Experience. The FACT is that my game is playable. The FACT is my game is hard, I will give you that but it's Personal Experience if you lose and don't think of another way to approach the battle so you may win. The FACT is that you can beat my game just like tons of people have. Your Personal Experience may make that difficult than others depending on how you approach the game but it is a FACT you can beat my game.

You spin yourself, as a random player, a random personal experience, as the only one that matters. That you are shining beacon of how everyone feels when they play this game. Yes, you can give me a 2 star review, that is totally your right to do so as my game has enraged you so much you put pen to paper, more power to you, but you cannot act like you are the sole voice of reason to tell me my game is too hard. Yes, your voice should be heard, but there is no reason to act like I think myself as such a god that I am above your criticism. What we feel about my game differs a lot and that's fine. However, like you say, you are a random player in the vast sea of players, a lot of which have played my game and have beat it without issue. Some have even played it dozens of times and know the game better than I do myself at times.

If I feel my game needs to be rebalanced, I will do so in a heart beat. However, as you are one player in a vast sea of many and in many of those players, many have completed my game just fine, I can say thank you for your words and move on. I know not everyone will like my game and that's a fact of life.

There is so much more I could reply to but I feel it's a wasted effort. Either the RM gods will make mods come yell at me for defending my design choices or this will simply fall by the wayside no one giving it a second thought.

Enjoy your day in the limelight, I'm not changing my game radically because you (and anyone else) couldn't beat it. That decision is mine and mine alone and I have made that decision to open it up and tweak it many times. In any case, I hope you find a game you do enjoy playing and have a nice night.

Well, it is there I just tested it. Are you trying to play it right out of the .zip file? If so, extract it somewhere and play it that way.

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