Seemed like a straightforward jrpg, with at least a few little things to help it stand out. Custom art was pretty cool, and the depth of the karma system at least made me think twice about my decisions (I chose evil) and added some replay value.

Personally I felt the limited skill uses detracted from combat, as simply wasting a turn in combat to refill was all it seemed to contribute. When other skills are noted not to be refillable, that also disincentivizes players from using them, even when they should. Items weren't that hard to get, so there wasn't meaningful resource management as far as I could tell. I'd definitely suggest a different way to use limited skills, or abandon that mechanic altogether for future jams. 

Lockpicking was just a bit of simple memorization (and a notepad made it trivially easy), so perhaps an alternative would have been nice there as well.

Thanks for another cool Harold jam entry!

I got the hapless sinner ending. The lockpicking mini game was fun and interesting. Battles were nice, not too hard with the exception of the goblin kings (but that's also because I started with the wrong ones). One thing I would suggest is to allow the orbs to be used outside of battle. It made it feel like a chore. The doors of the houses weren't set right on the grid, so it looked weird to see Harold enter a wall.

The custom battlers were great and the title screen looks amazing.

Some of the spelling and grammar of the dialogue needed some work such as typos and the wrong use of apostrophe or commas. A proof read was in dire need here.

The custom art was lovely, one of the things that made me want to play this entry was the lovely thumbnail with the cool cape! However there is disparity between the quality of some battlers such as why the fire goblins were so pixelated and a different style compared to the thicker style of others.

I also found it weird that the thief just had goblins with him with little to no explanation.

The ‘choice’ aspect of this entry is really underused and basic, it feels like no choices have any immediate impact or weight to them to make it feel like they matter or give any weight to my decision making.

The lock pick system was interesting but the tutorial should have been given before you can just out right waste your lockpick without knowing how it works.

The mapping is not great, it’s a lot of square shapes of grass and random pathways with the same rows of trees. It’s the most uninteresting part of this entry is the forest maps between the towns.

Some effort was made to build a relationship between Harold and Claire but I feel it could have gone further.

Battles were a bit iffy in terms of balance and could have used a lot more work.