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VincentSIFTD149 days ago(+1)

Honestly, I didn't realize any of those options to spend money existed--I saw the other doors in town, tried to open one and it didn't open after pressing buttons (and it wasn't obvious it was interactable in the first place), so I assumed the buildings other than the main one were just decoration. I did find the one conversation with Frankie, but other than that it didn't seem like I could do anything in town other than talk to people.

Oh, so everyone was max level in the version I played? That would explain why I didn't have any problems completing it without spending money (my characters didn't seem to take much damage in the prep phase, and I started with more than enough characters to cover all six slots at once). Level 5 being max level also didn't seem blatantly obvious, between DSD being L99 (obviously none of my characters would get there, but a little advancement wasn't implausible) and each of the bonuses in the boss battle only being ~one bar.

The bottle seemed like it was doing something, but it wasn't obvious what made it better (maybe it was ranged?). The spatula didn't look like it was doing anything--I'm assuming it was a slow attack compared to the fast attack of the cleavers, but it wasn't practical to use since you're dodging all the attacks (and I don't like slow melee attacks in general). I think what made the cleavers the best is that they had an actual attack animation that was responsive--the bottle didn't really.

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WordsAndDreams149 days ago(+1)

I wonder if the doors thing was a bug. I haven't had that in my playtesting but I'll definitely keep an eye out for it, so thanks for pointing it out. It should be 'E' or left face button (which will light up on the bottom of the screen when you can interact with something). Could be I need to make the interaction box on the doors larger.

For levels my original idea was to have the max be 20 but I lowered it to 5 since it's only two rounds to keep it at 30 minutes or less (Schippie is 99 because he's just too powerful, haha!).

Yeah I tried to have it so the spatula was slower and more power and the cleavers were more nimble. Maybe I should make the damage disparity bigger or just rethink the spatula attack pattern. The bottle is meant to be a ranged weapon so I made the damage the lowest since it's easier to sit back at a distance with it.

I suppose a big part of it is also the boss itself, I was hoping to have different phases that favored each of the weapons (so like one is power, one is speed, and one is range focused), but didn't really have time. So I can see where they aren't all as effective as they should be currently. 

Thanks again for taking the time to play it and give feedback, it's already helped a lot.

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VincentSIFTD149 days ago(+1)

No problem--at the very least I helped correct an obvious oversight :)

I think part of my interaction confusion is that the bottom of the screen isn't an obvious place to look--I think I remember seeing that once on a character or something, but wasn't looking for it when I interacted with a door. It might just be user error combined with a lack of need for things--good to know there aren't a ton of systems that exist but don't do anything ;)

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