SAILERIUS'S PROFILE

Hmm, is there a bug with the scroll that's supposed to heal all allies? There's no use animation and nobody gets healed, but the item was still used up.

EDIT: Now I'm stuck on the Nyxes ;_; I can do a bit of damage with the scroll that does holy damage but none of Laine's moves will do more than 10 damage to them.

There's a serious problem with this game.

The music is so pretty on some maps that I can't leave.

I hope you enjoy! Version 1.1 is locked in now but whenever we get around to 1.2 (which adds Android support), I'll be able to work in more feedback.

It's admittedly a pretty weird approach and I wasn't sure what people would make of it, but most of the "gameplay" isn't directly acknowledged by the game itself.

In the end, the protagonist expresses her disinterest in solving the true mystery ("the question of why"). The post-credits sequence where she indicates that the question is one only humans are concerned with was meant to indicate that if you want to uncover the mystery, it's on you, the player, to do it, because the protagonist (and therefore, the game itself) would not acknowledge or look into it for you.

My intention was to defy the standard convention of mystery games, which is to just explore every dialog tree and talk to every person until the game tells you the solution. Ars Harmonia's mystery gameplay is on a metagame level, where the clues to the mystery must be sought out and found by the player, but won't be acknowledged by the game itself, and the game provides you with no reward for solving it. You have to deduce what happened yourself, and solving the mystery is its own reward.

EDIT: Still, I'm glad you played it and enjoyed the writing. The game is still very much in a prototype state until we get all the features integrated that we planned for.

You know, every time I've watched this series, I've thought its mechanics would make for an amazing game. I hope you're planning to do it justice and not just throw generic RPG mechanics at it.