SGTSTEFFI'S PROFILE

author=Housekeeping
Hey, I finally got around to giving this a go. It was an interesting little game! That said, I did find a number of bugs and stuff:

Aaaaaand, here's some actual feedback:

First of all I just want to say thank you for how in-depth this comment was- it's honestly a review in itself and I appreciate the time you took to make this feedback and consider everything in the game so carefully, so thank you. I'm going to try and go through the comments I wanted to make in order-

First of all, thanks for the bug reports, they're super useful, and a lot of them I hadn't actually had anyone spot yet so that's an extra. Your experience with maxing out your stats and getting loads of the armour was actually due to an embarassing bug I left in that i'm patching as we speak that's tripped up a couple of players- it's a test event i made to test the bossfight i forgot to take out, a really silly oversight on my part. It unfortunately also seems to mess up the ability to hand in the challenge keys quest too, so that's what that was. That also is what was stopping the battler sprite from showing up (don't ask how!) but I fixed everything now. As for the other little bits of feedback there I'm going to run through all of them and see what i can implement tonight.

As for the story/art feedback, thanks so much for your kind words <3 It was very helpful to get some honesty on what could have been better without it being biased against progressive material, and i'm going to take the advice on board next time I write a game or a story for what I could have presented better. I'm still learning how to present a narrative in general and knowing what hit a sour note is good, as you can get really tone-deaf to it when you've sat in front of the same project for a couple years.

There's definitely a gap between the final conversation with Amaury in Nosht, and the bossfight conversation, that's for sure. It's something I noticed in one of my final edits that needed work- and i attempted to pad it out with a short conversation that shows Amaury trying to hide from the player and not wanting to speak to them, as if reconsidering her morality, etc, after commenting on Sevrin helping everyone so modestly. However this was more of an easter egg and I realise now that was a mistake to make that a 'findable' thing instead of an obvious thing. I think i'm going to move that one to a more blatant spot, even if it doesnt entirely fix the original issue.

Overall i'm really glad you got a positive experience in general with this game! That's all i could hope for and thanks again.

author=nhubi
No problem, and I did dither a little between 2.5 and 3, but I think that was due to my reaction to what happened in the throne room, it's a strong one for me, so I had to try and be a little more impartial and see it as others would.

I'm glad you can take away learning points from this, that's one of the reasons I write them. You are most welcome.

That's fair enough, it is your review after all. And yes, the points were very much acknowledged for a new game i'm working on.

author=AislingCait
I just finished it. The story may having been a little too fast paced, but it is understable since it was your first game. Also you are definitely getting better were it comes to bug free games.
My only suggestion would be adding a reset option in this puzzle.

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Can't wait for whatever you are going to do next!

Thank you for following my games as closely as you have, i'm very thankful for it! :) I'll take that suggestion into account. And yes, unfortunately some things like pacing I tried my best to fix but there's a certain point where the source material becomes limiting. Thanks again for playing!

author=Anonyma
It reminds me of Homestuck in a few ways- which is a compliment, by the way! Very enjoyable, lovely graphics.

As a homestuck fan myself i'd definitely find that a compliment! I was probably heavily influenced by it. Thank you so much :)

author=drenrin2120
Subbed. I really like the setting; at the end of a sun's life cycle. The artwork is great too. I'm curious to see how you handle battles in a game that seems mostly centered around exploration and other mechanics.

Thank you friend!! I wish I could say I was doing some sort of custom script for the battler, but afraid not. However, when you attack a ship as another captain, you're firing the cannons at targets placed on the ships themselves, rather than 'battling' as them. :)