visuals are top tier here, and for some reason I quite like the floating tutorial text. is the game meant to be completely silent though?

I was enjoying the self-imposed challenge of getting through a combat encounter without getting hit

Visuals are great, and the art design is fantastic. Movement and Combat is very janky unfortunately.

On the combat in particular I have a few notes:

- Parrying becomes trivial when you spam.

- You can just button mash the boss to death. 

- Also not sure how exactly you are supposed to avoid boss attacks when the player's movement is too slow to avoid attacks.

Enemy AI also had a tendency to bug out or respond weirdly.

I was engrossed enough to finish because the world is nice to explore. The animations and character models are also great.  But I also had issues with her hang-time animation getting stuck on ledges.

Beautiful art, effects, and animations.

Movement could use some work. The current speed could probably be fine if areas weren't so huge and empty. Jumping up platforms often had my capsule stuck just on the edge or falling in place, either an auto ledge climb/run/jump, or other helper would ease this.

The camera's position would work better if that's where it sat during lock on, it gets in the way of exploration when it's so close to the player as it is. No More Heroes has a similar position

Getting stuck in place for so long while attacking with no real way to cancel out of it to dodge incoming attacks really sucks against the bigger tanky enemies. I wasn't sure if there was a better way to deal with them as they barely responded to my attacks but mashing through them took them out just as well.

Despite the game being linear the cave entrances being the same shade of gray as the sides of mountains makes it difficult to see where I should go, better signposting would be appreciated.

Controller support pls I love Dao 

The game looks incredible. That's all I was expecting, really. I will skip most of the redundant feedback.

If you are going to shake the screen with every jump, at least don't rotate it around the forward axis. But preferably don't shake it at all.

The performance issues, especially when you hit enemies, stink of some terrible optimization mishap. Are you instantiating prefabs from assets to create each of those particle effects? Do they have unnecessary components in them? Are you using vertex-based cloth physics? This game is running at least an order of magnitude worse than it should. For the immediate future this would benefit a lot more from a visit to the profiler than to a 3D modeling program.

Don't have anything to say that hasn't been said, so I'll leave it at

7.8/10, not enough monster girls.

God I really love the visuals, it reminds me of an upscaled PS2 game. It also has good character designs and animations.

Combat was okay but needs some work, some sort of doge or dash wouldn't hurt, also the enemies were too simple and easy. The visual effects looked cool though.

Performance definitely needs some improvements.

Very impressive for something that was put together in such a short amount of time, I can't wait to see it become a full game.

Am I missremembering something, or the game was supposed to be a first person action game about summoning monster girls to fight for you?

• I think the backgrounds and character models look great.
• I think the animations look a bit goofy, but I am sure you're going to work on them later.
• camera is too close
• running feels too slow, and Ruina doesn't really come off as powerful as I imagined her to be.
• l-lewds in future?

Glad you uploaded, was hoping for a chance to get my hands on this. The character models and animations are top tier, very appealing. But I think there is a lot more that can be done with the core movement and then especially the combat. The thing about having such polished visuals, is that they are sort of making a promise to the player about the level of polish in every other aspect of the game. Getting the core movement just right will do justice to the models, and then allow you to get the combat right.

Your closest neighbor here is probably Bloodborne, with the melee combat and gun based parry system. I think it would be very worth spending some time playing that and really observing how the camera moves and tweens to position. Your camera by comparison seems to be perfectly locked on to the character, which makes it feel very stiff. When you move your character forward, it feels like they instantly switch into their top running speed, instead of building into it, and the animation instantly snaps into full run. If I move left and then right, the character near-instantly flips their speed and character model back and forth. When I jump, I'm instantly moving up in the air (often doing a little glitch shift towards the top), then when I land its just right back into the running animation.

It's all these little things, added up, which prevent the character movement from feeling visceral and good and fun. Players might not be able to enunciate all these things, but they certainly notice them. Good player movement is a result of having hundreds of little tricks and transitions and effects and so on. If you strip away all the graphics, and just have a capsule collider moving around a bunch of boxes, what are you left with? A capsule that just perfectly translates control inputs to movements is not fun. The goal is to build the illusion of an actual physical thing, with its own constraints and mass and momentum and abilities. Something that the player can learn and master.

Once that is tuned in, then getting combat to feel good is its own process. But movement comes first, in my opinion. I hope this isn't harsh, you just have such slick models and concepts here (the player waking up when you click start demo is the kind of little detail that is fucking brilliant). The character design is the best in AGDG. I really want to see the gameplay be brought up to par with that, in which case I have no doubt this game will succeed. Good luck.

Even if there are no sounds how the heck did you fit all that in such a small disk space?

Animations are beautiful and elegant. The aesthetics look great. However the level is so repetitive it's easy to lose direction during combat.

Boss has some cool visuals. I gave up on avoiding boss attacks and just bumrushed her for an easy win.

Is there a way to deflect fire bolts? I tried to gun them down by intuition but it didn't work. It might be a cool feature.

Once I managed to launch myself way above the level by doing some kick and gun combo on an enemy. I couldn't replicate it though.

Looks promising overall, but it feels like it lacks any depth so far.

Really cool game! For anyone wondering about the whole quarantine thing, I ran the files through VirusTotal and Microsoft Defender and neither of them said there was any malware so if you held off on downloading this (like me) because of itch.io freaking out over nothing; it's safe, don't worry. That aside, here are my thoughts:

• I'd like to preface this by saying I only found out about big booba mode AFTER i finished the game. Why?? How can you be so cruel as to hide the best feature in the game in the bloody options menu?? Please keep it on by default next time.
  
• Ran pretty good. Never once had a framedrop or crash even during the boss, so idk what those other guys are on about unless they're playing on Brazilian Lenovo ThinkPads from 2007.
• Animations are 10/10. I specifically mean the player's animations and the boss because the enemies are just sorta "man bonk club". Fucking loved just jumping and doing the spinny twirl attack, looks so pretty and the follow up animations are great too. Also the ctrl+parry shot behind the back is insanely cool. The only sorta iffy one out of the bunch was the upward kick. Her feet just kind of glide back, plus I think the timing for it needs to be just a teeny bit more snappy. Also the gun animations are WAY too fast, which is perfectly okay but maybe have a little downtime after firing. I remember seeing the weapon models on a gamede/v/ thread some time ago and know for a fact the shotgun looks bloody awesome, so it's a little shame we don't get to see much of it.
• The artstyle is fucking gorgeous. Really stellar environments, texturework, models, particles, the whole shabang. Reminds me of something from (insert AAA game with an 8 figure art budget here), just really adore everything about it.
• Combat's not that bad. I can certainly see the direction it's heading but you're currently being held back with such simple enemy Ai. I 'want' to launch enemies into the air, do big combos into my gun, downlaunch them, fight tight one-on-one's with the assassins, the kind of stuff but there's no reason or way to when they just wander up for a smackdown and die in a couple hits. On that topic, is the shotgun parry supposed to kill everything in one hit?
• There was a bug where the player character moved in slow motion after dying from falling. This reset after getting hit by the boss but it at least let me appreciate the animations a bit more.
• Camera isn't locked in the pause screen. This isn't a complaint, just thought I'd tell you. But on the topic of cameras, I think the player camera is just a tad too close to the player. Makes it a little difficult during combat to keep track of where enemies are.
• Level design needs some work. Clearly this is just a demo and, hopefully, will be changed in the final game but please don't fall into the "arena -> hallway -> arena -> hallway" loop. Take what the player can do and accomplish that through the level design itself to solve puzzles or platforming. I really think you could do away with several of these hallways/arenas and instead had a more concise experience instead.

All in all, lovely game with a bright future ahead of it. Bloody well done.

Lots of nice art. Main character's animations and physics are great. 

I got lost a lot trying to navigate the different cave tunnels.

Fun little game. Probably one of the best looking agdg games I've seen in terms of just visuals. Here are some of the issues I noticed:

• The crossbow guys are kinda annoying to hit as they run away
• Character switching on the main menu isn't working for me
• Enemies are very easy to stunlock
• Enemies are generally very slow and non-threatening
• Player also feels pretty slow for this type of game
• the mid-air downward slam move can cause enemies to get stuck in the floor.
• Got to a dead end with one of the big guys and figured the demo was over. Only came back because I saw other comments talking about a boss.
• The shotgun is extremely overpowered, I felt the best way to deal with every encounter was just kill all the crossbow guys first and then stand in place and wait for the rest of the enemies to attack so I could riposte them, some of the other moves where cool like the upward kick thing but the game didn't really to experiment with the moveset.
• Sometimes the character just randomly changes direction when I shotgun or use the sword. It looks like you have a feature that automatically turns the character away if you attack facing the wall so I'm assuming that's the culprit for this issue.
• The doors are super fucked, sometimes they took a very long time to open, sometimes I see them close then immediately open again. The crossbow guys sometimes phased right through them and I had to bait them back out so I could hit them.
• Terrain is easy to get caught on
• I don't get the point of having empty hallways between encounters
• some of the vfx caused my game to lag (especially the riposte effects) and I have a pretty powerful computer
• In the boss fight I can't tell which vfx are just there to look cool and what's an attack, since it all has the same transparent reddish pink look.
• You can very easily just mash left-click on the boss and you'll kill her before she kills you (or at least I tried it and it worked first try).
• The most important issue: boob mode should not be an option it should just be how the game is

I hope this doesn't come off as too negative, the game looks like a very promising start and the character models are very nice.

Forgive the train of thoughts-style writing, I'm typing as I play since I'm sure I'll forget everything otherwise.

I'm unable to swap character models in the menu. Dunno if I'm just retarded (I am retarded), maybe it's just me. That aside, I love the art and graphics. The character art is cute, the environment is pretty. "Boob mode" being optional is pretty cute. I hate titties so having a flatty MC to play as is nice.

My frame rate is really inconsistent. Looking toward the start vs forward through the level causes some pretty huge frame rate discrepancies. Performance is fine though, all things considered , although my PC is pretty modern, so older PCs might have trouble..

The controls are good. The animations are well-done. Currently just screwing around comboing stuff right by the floating tutorial text. The combat is really fun and satisfying. I ran into a bug with one of the axe guys where, after hitting him once, he stopped doing anything. More enemies throughout the level might be nice, but I don't know - having lulls between action is important too.

The level itself feels a bit padded out maybe. Trekking through caves into clearings into caves into clearings into... etc. gets a bit old. The set pieces are pretty though so I don't care much personally. Giving the player something to do during downtime might help a lot. You might consider adding sprinting out of combat for that purpose - even if the speed boost is only minor, I feel like having a button to press that does something fun when you're not in combat may help keep player's minds occupied. Sprinting in particular may also backfire and cause players to become more impatient over time, so I dunno.

The boss fight looks pretty cool, but in the end I wound up just brute forcing her. I initially tried to avoid damage and play it safe, but I wound up dying twice. Third time I brute forced her and got her down.

I know it's really early in development, but I think you've got a nice game on your hands here. These kinds of games are like crack for me, so I'm looking forward to seeing more from you soon. I'll be keeping an eye on this.

Very interesting Discord virus. Anyway, some thoughts:

• Am I correct that there's no dash/sidestep?
• The level design is very uninspired, it's just long tunnel - open combat arena. The only exceptions are the very start, and the stonehenge at the end. The combat isn't strong enough to carry such boring level design.
• I feel that the parry window is way too large, especially since it is shown with the red circle above enemies.
• There's a lot of places where you stay floating in the air as if falling while jumping on ledges and stuff.
• Walking between the rooms feels too long, might be fine if you plan to add dialogues there.
• Please don't make me walk up to the stongehenge every time I have to retry the boss.
• All in all the boss isn't very well designed, all attacks can be avoided by walking. However, you need to stand still to hit her but her attack speed is faster than yours. There doesn't really seem to be a way to do it damageless. I eventually just rushed her down and damagetanked everything. The actual boss is that round thing she's standing on, since it's hard to jump on there correctly especially since all the jumping attacks will just propel you higher.

Made it to the tree level, after that no matter how many times I pressed restart from checkpoint the next level wouldn't unlock after I killed everyone.

While the combat is really well made it kind of gets a little stale since there is no sound or anything to do besides get to the next level, have you thought of adding a shop or a ranking system like DMC or Ultrakill?

Can't wait for you to add sound.

Also there aren't any monster girls.

Unfortunately, I'm struggling to run the game. My computer's not the best but I don't think the computer's the problem. The third time I tried to start it up I saw the character on the title screen before it crashed. I have had unity games that have crashed my whole PC before, maybe it just doesn't like Unity.

Windows 10, downloaded the build that says "10 hours ago". I'll try again later, it looks very nice.

EDIT: Now it's 10 days later I tried again. I can't provide screenshots because the crash seems to disable the ability to take screenshots, the game gets past the "Made With Unity" screen and loads up about 180 MB of memory. The main menu starts dark as you load up the game and only once has the screen ever had time to run long enough for it to brighten. Given other people don't have issues, I can't begin to wonder what the problem is, it's likely a Unity-specific problem, maybe my graphics drivers are fucking about. I was going to replace my graphics card soon, anyway.