Hi! I really dig what is here so far, but the controls were very awkward for me. I see that I can move with WASD or the arrow keys, but J and Z are so far apart.
If I move with WASD, holding down Z is a little cramped, I wind up doing a weird claw thing with my hand. If I use the arrow keys, I have to completely lift my hand to hit J or Z, which is difficult when trying to be quick and stealthy.
Personally, I'd love a control scheme that utilized something like Shift or Control as secondary keys. Or maybe J and another key closer to J, like L or K.
Aside from that, the sprites look great, I love the facial expressions!
Also, after writing this out, I realized that controls can be customized, which is great! Maybe it's just me, but if anyone else struggles with the default controls maybe they could be switched?
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Thanks! That is great feedback.
Honestly, I have been doing the majority of my testing using a gamepad, and even when I have been using keyboard I had already customized the controls (which gets saved in local storage) so I can't even remember what the default controls are.
I'll play more often using keyboard so I can figure out some better default controls, but anyone can weigh in on here as well.
I think I was going for all the gameplay action keys on the left side of the keyboard and dialogue keys on the right. I pretty sure I chose Z though thinking that is a common option when using the arrow keys. Basically I just kind of picked something at first and forgot to go back and rethink it all once I had all the buttons/actions added.