UMINOAOI'S PROFILE

author=Lookatyou1
I last played the game a few months ago, so my memory isn't that good. I have some comments on the gameplay parts you mentioned.

About the minigames:
* For the final robot battle. I tried that over 10 times.

The only way I beat it was through a combination of two bugs. First, I held down the Z (attack) key for a period of time. Somehow, the game continued to recognize the key press even after I released it. As in: after I unpressed Z, the game kept thinking I was pressing it like: Z Z Z Z Z Z (the attack sound was overlapping).

This helped me to win because in order to strike down a robot, I just had to turn towards it for a second, and immediately turn away. Instead of having to turn to it, quickly press Z (attack) before it hits me, andthen turn away.

Second, there was another bug that I don't know how I "activated". But on some of my runs, one of the attack-robots stopped moving completely, which made it much easier.

* The rocket one you mentioned you still can't beat: Yes, I found that one confusing as well. Even after I retried it to get the right sequence, I wasn't sure how the player was meant to come up with that order.

About the items:
* I agree with you, the Antidepressant (heals 1 life) item was most useful. But the way it was set up, there's no way the player would have been able to tell what was useful, before actually getting to the minigame where the items are useful.

Just like some of the minigame instructions (ex. find the crying girl), the items' gameplay use was cryptic and not really explained. So the player would feel a slight sense of panic, not knowing if they were doing/buying the right thing. Maybe that was kind of intentional.

** Also, I felt like there was some comedy in the way I would keep failing some minigames like the robot battle and some horrible thing would happen in response. Like "Aw, not again. Sorry dude, I failed you again".

* You said that the item that lets you save outside of save points is useless. I think there's one case where it would have been pretty useful for me—I wish I could have saved at the item shop, before buying anything, or before the minigames. By the time I got to the final Chapter 3 and ??? battle, I had spent my $ on the wrong items. I didn't want to go all the way back just so I could get more $ or healing items, to have a better chance of beating the battle. It would have been pretty useful if I had a save right before the final item shop or something.

author=Karmunism
I just finished playing, and I am absolutely flabbergasted by the quality. This game made me laugh, cry, and everything in-between. After act 3, I literally had to step away from the game for a moment because I was crying and needed a moment to pull myself together.

You did an amazing job of making the characters and dialogue feel real-- which I feel a lot of games completely miss out on. I felt for these characters and even related to them in many ways which made their successes and failures feel all the more real to me.

I will make a full review, but it normally takes a bit of time. I just wanted to let you know how incredible this game is in the meantime, though.

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Also, I don't know if this is top secret info, but what is up with the after credits scene?! I feel like I've been left on such a cliffhanger, and I'm so hungry for more info. Are you setting up for a potential continued story? Is it just supposed to be a mystery? I'm dying here!

author=Karmunism
Hey! I just wanted to say that I absolutely love your game so far. I settled on this game for my next game, and planned to just record a little today to test the waters. I ended up playing all of Act 1 and some of Act 2 in my first sitting!

Concept is amazing, and I really feel for the characters. Just wanted to let you know that this is game is a masterpiece, and I'm only a little ways in. Keep up the amazing work. :)

I do let's plays as well as game review videos, and I am super excited about doing it for His Fragile Mind! Once I'm done playing, I'll write a big fat review as well. If you would like to see my playthrough, the first episode is going to be published on friday (12/30)! You can find it here at that point if you want to see:

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