BAREFOOT_INDIE'S PROFILE

I'm just getting started, but so far here is my impression. The game is solidly built. The battle/ magic system offers room for strategy without being overly complicated. The monster and characters sprites are great. And you have obviously put a lot of time into the maps and cities.

The biggest problem with open world exploration games, is having players feel lost and unable to keep track of quests and storylines. But you solved this brilliantly with your helpful informants.

I feel like I have put in a lot of play time but I don't seem to be making much progress.
I lost an hour or more of progress when I got to the magic school and realized that characters can only learn one type of magic and that they have magic affinities. Was that mentioned in the 'Read Me' file tips? Maybe I overlooked it.

And I lost more progress, after reading your note about the increase in monster strength every 5/10 levels. I decided to start over and try a new strategy. This is an intriguing idea, but it creates a sort of catch-22. We need to fight monsters to get money, but we need to avoid fights so we don't raise our level too high.

By the time I could afford some second tier equipment and few spells, I was at level 25 and the the monsters are too strong for me to get in (and back out) of the first dungeon.

I have two suggestions on how you might improve the situation. 1) You could tweak the balance, upping the gold and/or lowering the experience per battle. But this might make the early part of the game even more grindy.
2) Provide an alternate source of income. The easiest way is too simply scatter more money caches in chest/furniture/pots around the world. After all the best part of any RPG game of this kind is finding secret treasure chest filled with loot.

Hints on the side quests and Saint Selena's relics. There is a NPC in the eastern part of the town (near the cave) who will give you hints. You will need to backtrack to the south forest and the lab areas and explore the forest and cave systems around the Spire.

To find the missing cat.

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Great game. Excellently written story and enjoyable gameplay. Thanks for including the Auto battle option. Do you write stories as well as make games? These characters (and your 'I object' demons) would make a great graphic novel or web comic.

I did run into one bug, the game crashed but worked fine when I restarted. When I got the error message:
"A description violation of adress 00000348 occurred in address 004986DF of module 'RTP_RT.exe".

The walkthrough file that came with the game downloaded from this site did not contain the whole walkthrough, just game controls and credits. I downloaded the game from the Climbing Cat website, and that version did have the walkthrough, so I was able to see how to make the toy without the nail.