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Minor point, still looking forward to getting into the game, but here's the first path I followed:

1. Beat the first boss

2. In the hotel, decided to go to the basement first instead of the mission-suggested 13th floor, since I found the first boss rather hard, and thought the basement might have some powerup I could use.

3. Solved Orobas' riddle, fought him, and beat him, went to the restaurant, and left.

At this point shru shows up and tells me the game is basically over, but I believe I skipped a large portion of it, now that I look around a bit at forum posts and so on.

Anyway, thought you might want to know, I wasn't looking for a way to break the game or whatever, but this was left open as a possible path.  Maybe lock the basement at first, or allow for this in the dialogue with shru?

That minor thing aside, hilarious writing, you already got a few actual LOLs out of me at this point.  Also, entertaining enough that I found myself playing a shmup even though they're really not my cup of tea normally.  Cleverly done, my hat is off to you. :)

* * * Update after finishing the rest of the bosses (including the super secret one)

  • Did you get stuck or frustrated at any point? If so, where?
    • The first boss, even on easy, but that was mostly because I couldn't find the 3HP gear yet at that point.  After getting that it was definitely more doable.
  • Did you enjoy the combat? Were any of the mechanics hard to understand?
    • To some extent I did enjoy it.  I don't think I've played many shmups since Galactix way back in the day, which at some point I persevered through level 100 and actually beat, once.  It's not my favourite genre, for sure, but the combat was OK and the rest of the game held my interest through whatever I didn't like about the combat.
  • Did you enjoy the dialogue and story? Did you think it was funny? Did you think characters were too wordy?
    • Absolutely.  Frickin'.  Hilarious.  Didn't find them wordy at all.  Loved it!
  • What difficulty did you play on? Did you find it appropriately challenging?
    • Easy and yes (for me).
  • How did the game run on your computer? Did any parts perform poorly? (If so, it would help me if you could post your PC specs!)
    • Ran fine (via Proton on Linux Mint 19), specs:

Processor Information:
    CPU Vendor:  GenuineIntel
    CPU Brand:  Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-4210U CPU @ 1.70GHz
    CPU Family:  0x6
    CPU Model:  0x45
    CPU Stepping:  0x1
    CPU Type:  0x0
    Speed:  2700 Mhz
    4 logical processors
    2 physical processors
    HyperThreading:  Supported
    FCMOV:  Supported
    SSE2:  Supported
    SSE3:  Supported
    SSSE3:  Supported
    SSE4a:  Unsupported
    SSE41:  Supported
    SSE42:  Supported
    AES:  Supported
    AVX:  Supported
    AVX2:  Unsupported
    AVX512F:  Unsupported
    AVX512PF:  Unsupported
    AVX512ER:  Unsupported
    AVX512CD:  Unsupported
    AVX512VNNI:  Unsupported
    SHA:  Unsupported
    CMPXCHG16B:  Supported
    LAHF/SAHF:  Supported
    PrefetchW:  Unsupported

Operating System Version:
    Linux Mint 19 Tara (64 bit)
    Kernel Name:  Linux
    Kernel Version:  4.15.0-74-generic
    X Server Vendor:  The X.Org Foundation
    X Server Release:  11906000
    X Window Manager:  Metacity (Marco)
    Steam Runtime Version:  steam-runtime_0.20191210.1

Video Card:
    Driver:  Intel Open Source Technology Center Mesa DRI Intel(R) Haswell Mobile x86/MMX/SSE2
    Driver Version:  3.0 Mesa 19.1.2 - padoka PPA
    OpenGL Version: 3.0
    Desktop Color Depth: 24 bits per pixel
    Monitor Refresh Rate: 74 Hz
    VendorID:  0x8086
    DeviceID:  0xa16
    Revision Not Detected
    Number of Monitors:  1
    Number of Logical Video Cards:  1
    Primary Display Resolution:  2560 x 1440
    Desktop Resolution: 2560 x 1440
    Primary Display Size: 28.74" x 16.93" (33.35" diag)
                                            73.0cm x 43.0cm (84.7cm diag)
    Primary VRAM Not Detected

Sound card:
    Audio device: Intel Haswell HDMI

Memory:
    RAM:  15967 Mb

Hey, thanks for the feedback!

Did you solve the Orobas's riddle in the basement without going up to the library? If so: that's impressive, if not: then I'd argue did see most of the game. The boss on the 13th floor is designed to be optional, so you haven't really skipped anything that I didn't intend for the player to be able to skip.

It's cool to hear that you still enjoyed the game even if the combat wasn't super your cup of tea. 

Noted that you didn't catch the 3HP gear on your first pass. In the current dev build of the game I have that pretty much on the critical path, as I figure that it's too important to be something a player could miss.

It's cool to hear that it worked okay under Proton for you. Eventually I'd like to have an official Linux build, but in the mean time at least that's something I might be able to point people towards.

I did solve it before gaining access to the library (I hit Google instead), so, thanks.  :)  For my part, I thought the amount of challenge was just right on that one.  (I totally had no idea on the in-fight physics trivia from Orobas though, haha)  I guess I was half-done in the end.

Sounds good re: 3HP.  And I'd be glad to help test any early Linux builds.