Hi again! Since it seems like the latest update for Verloren was about the new UIs and writing, I'll be focusing on that this time, loaded some previous saves  and went around talking with NPCs, checking stuff and reading all the menus I could.

Good:

-Really liking the new changing portraits in battle!

-Yay can loop around the main menu to reach the right side faster, thanks!

-Sword cursor is nice too.

Random suggestions:

-Several enemy battlers show up at the center of the screen while the party is at the right, leaving the left side of the battle empty which isn't very aesthetically pleasing.

-Most monsters have long bestiary descriptions filling all the space and describing their main attacks, but a few like the frog have just a couple of lines and no mention of their skills.

-Could we have some way to reset the skill points to relearn skills? I find myself facing decision paralysis on what to learn, in particular when this time I completed the valkyrie bracelet quest, but if I had spent all my skill points then the reward wouldn't be doing much. Or is there already a method for that and I missed it?

Typo:

-Green Bird bestiary entry has "Preperation", shouldn't it be "Preparation"?

Anyway overall more polished than the previous version, very nice work, looking up to what comes next!

Further feedback:

• The student who says. “Oh Edwin! I ran into Arthur earlier…” Since Angel is the one that engages him, shouldn’t he greet Angel first?
• Scan spell name and especially animation seems more Sci-Fi-like than Fantasy.
• Change weapon is a bit unintuitive. I have to click on "Change Weapon" and then on the character I want to change weapon for. You could consider having the "Change Weapon" just for the character whose turn it is now. Also the character selection has to be done even when there’s only a single character on my team. And the menu goes back to the higher level. Tech, Magic, etc. So initially I thought the screen had got stuck after clicking on "Change Weapon".
• After finishing a combat, or using teleport etc, Angel and Edwin appear one behind the other, which seems a bit odd. Upon clicking to go somewhere, they become separate again.
• Quest text needs a darker panel background as well, for readability.
• In the interaction with Professor Slominsky, the font size keeps changing between small and big.

I was delighted to find a small card game: Monstrocards. I’d like to know about it and play more :) Did you design it as a mini-game for Verloren?

(This is a partial review… Will spend more time on this.)

• The game looks good! Can’t point out all of the changes, but there definitely seem to be a lot of enhancements over the previous version.
• The new cursor is nice. (Although maybe it’s a bit big, especially compared to the character in-game).
• The zoom in for the hidden passage in the first scene is a good touch. Can’t remember if it was there earlier.

Again, game feel is great as always. Lots of stuff going well here, won’t repeat myself from the FQ7 feedback. I’ll focus on points of improvement:

• In the menus, I have to click twice, once to get the cursor onto an option, and then again to register the click.
• There should be some hover indication for the menu options.
• “Here we’re, sweetheart, we’re finally out of…” I think the first “we’re” should be expanded: “we are”.
• “encode your name” => “enroll your name”?
• When you click on a location, the repeated square expanding effect until you reach there is a bit jarring. Maybe reduce the size of the square (or circle may work better?), the intensity of the effect, and make it happen only once.
• You should consider adding some idle animation for the character, even if it’s very minimal.
• History of the Tower of Knowledge excerpt: hard to read as the text colour is similar to the background colour.