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« Last post by scruffy99 on May 30, 2020, 08:17:51 am »
I played through your game twice and thought that it would probably be worth making a few comments. I figured it was actually pretty good, usually I wouldn't be interested in playing a game twice in a row, never mind an unfinished game at that.
I did run in to a few issues though:
- You can break the The Hourglass Crew quest by using the key on the bear statue before learning about it. Ideally this would either be prevented or handled in the quest processing.
- You can get stuck in the path to the palace library if you go to it again afterwords. I didn't check if it saved your location in there, though. You also can't go down this path before learning about it, unlike using the bear statue lock.
- The exit to the apple cellar cave in Ivystump is broken, it puts you in the bush and you can't move.
- In Isle of Thorns/Lobb Trail, the arrow target to open the path to the Veilwood is not hittable.
- The Eastoak stone switches and Ancient Groves mini boss defeated triggers are broken by camera shake not working and faulting out.
- Bomb strength is not listed in the options menu with sword, armor, and arrow strength.
- You can freeze the game in the mana oak tunnels by using the Abyssal Flame. I entered from the Veilwood, used the Abyssal Flame to destroy all the corruption blocking the paths, and tried to exit to Oakheaven. I think the script for Hazel when entering from Oakhaven crashed.
- Blue flames don't hurt you, since it faults on start_hurt.
- The quest notes for the mana oaks doesn't list the locations after hearing about them. Kind of annoying if you weren't paying attention and have no idea where to find the third one later.
As for playability or whatever you feel like calling it, the only problem I had story-wise was finding out how to get to the pirates at Ballast Harbor. When I finally noticed it, after looking around the town several times, I knew what it was right away.
I ended up cheating and using the quest editor to figure out a few things though.
- I missed the book in the phantom squid house in Oakhaven and couldn't figure it out. Also, it's kind of weird that there are two haunted houses in Oakheaven.
- I didn't actually find the path to unlocking the Abyssal Flame without searching for it in the editor.
- I couldn't figure out what to do with the crow feather, which I didn't even find the first time through. In hindsight, Crowfort should have been a give away though.
I ended up with 18 hearts and only the dandelion charm, so I'm not sure if I got everything that's available or if I missed stuff. The first time through I missed quite a few things. It was actually kind of disorienting on the first play through, with the names of a lot of places not being displayed on entry or listed on the map.
Hopefully this helps out and I didn't mess up anything too badly. I enjoyed playing it and hope you can get it finished and polished up yet.
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