SHEPPLE'S PROFILE

Thank you for the review! We're really glad you enjoyed playing the game as much as we enjoyed putting it together.

DIALOGUE SKIPPING:
You can actually skip dialogues but I guess we hadn't mentioned it in-game. To skip dialogue, simply hold down the W key (or Q? one of those). It'll make the text go by blindingly fast so it's useful for boss fights you gotta re-do.

MONSTER BOOK:
There used to be a Monster Book in the game but we took it out since the text didn't appear properly. Looking back on it, we might be able to re-implement it again. I'll have to ask pringle about it later.

SCAN ABILITY:
Klein used to have an ability called "Cat Scan" which allowed her to view enemy's weaknesses/resists/full names for bosses/total HP but we took it out for the demo since we didn't have time to re-do it all for new troops (it was all evented). We were debating on whether to bring it back or not due to time restraints, but I think it's possible to squeeze some time in for it.

MISC. BATTLE ISSUES:
And yes, we are planning on fixing Rex's shock move. It didn't hit 4x before we launched the demo. We're planning on lowering the shock chance significantly in the full release! So good catch on that. Also we might tone down the HEART regen rate as well. We're still in the process of looking through skills so we can add that to our to-do list.

I've already mentioned the battle animation issue in the latest blog post as you can see here.

GUIDE BOOK:
The guide is experimental for now since it was implemented rather last minute... We'll fix that, of course!

QUEST LOG:
We didn't really have a quest log since text messages will cover those, and most of the sidequests besides Choi's are not mandatory for a good ending and are more out-of-the-way secrets than anything. They're also much simpler, so I didn't think it'd be a problem. As for main questline things, selecting "Chatter" will have dialogue that will tell you where to go/what to do. We're also too close to release to implement it now... so maybe we'll consider something for a future patch.

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Why does Ice beat Earth and Wind beats Toxic

I thought of snowfall covering the earth for the first one, and Wind beating Toxin was more of the idea of blowing away fumes. I didn't want to copy the general idea of elemental weaknesses/resists from existing games, so we made our own reasonings for a lot of them. For example: Shadow beating Flora is because of the idea that plants need sunlight to grow. I just personally like the weirdness of it all. There are RPGs where water beats fire but fire also beats water, so I figured it would be okay to do something odd like this. We spent a while trying to fit the elements together and not just stitching them together. We almost considered Toxin to beat Water with the reasoning being "pollution" but we decided against it.

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And why there are so many girls. Like SO MANY. You like designing girls?

Short answer: I like girls. Girly girls, boyish girls, girls that happen to be giant shark monsters... I just think they're neat :3c

Weird answer:

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And why call the runaway princess Rex. Thats what I would call my male dog.

Yup! It is addressed further into the game from certain dialogues, heh heh. Someone mentions that Rex is "a dog's name," but I won't say who since it'd be a spoiler.

In general, the Mogwai tend to have more non-conventional names (mostly) since they don't follow the same "rules" as humans do. The world of HEARTBEAT follows different rules, I guess!

But yeah, thank you for the review. I don't mind nitpicks since it does give us insight on what we need to fix up. We don't really see it as a negative since it is constructive criticism, which helps us along the way!