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