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I really liked the game story, but the back and forth you have to do in order to experience it is very annoying, i wish the player was a bit faster... (And the text, too)

Also, the puzzles aren't the best: you have to memorize pretty much everthing you see, in order to find the solution, because if you don't it's more back and forth... Some sort of "hint system" it would have been great... (Maybe talking to the wise man after you completed the first puzzle??)

And let's not talk about that equation: i spent 2+ hours of (hand made) calculation and trial and error, only to find out later that the "letter" that i need in order to resolve was... well, i don't want to spoil the solution to the other people that will play this game (I've already given a BIG hint, for that matter...), but i'll say that i've tried every possible letter that there is... at some poin i even tought that you had done the calculation wrong.... now, my brain is tired... 🥵

Since you've shared yor ratings, i wanted to try to do the same, i usually don't do that because i don't really like doing that, but for this time i will make an exception:

  • Game Design 3/5: Overall a well around designed experience...
  • Fun 2/5: Like i said, gameplay too slow, and too much back and forth made the experiece quite annoying
  • Innovation 3/5: A guy travels back in time to save the world. not very innovative (thematically and not)... It's not 2/5 only because of the cool story
  • Theme 4/5:  It fits, but it dosen't stand out enough to recive a 5 star rating 
  • Graphics 4/5: i personally don't like the aestethic of the game (it feels like it made some collision junky), but i certainly see the appeal of the art style...
  • Audio 2/5: There are some sfx in the game, but other than that...

PS. I'm sure you already know that, but you know that leaving out a category it's like not voting for that category, and not like giving it a 0/5, right?? (I'm referring to your vote of my game: I'm writing it here because i feel like is more appropriate to write it here)

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Thanks for trying it out! We understand that it has quite a jump in difficulty from the first quest to the second with the passwords and such, we intended to implement more quests (about 3-4) before you even got to the keypad, which at that point you would naturally memorize things, so we understand your frustration (a lot of the playtesters were also frustrated with this, but yknow time constraints :d)

Also sorry about the "letter", we're not native speakers so there's a lot of errors in the text, but it's okay if you didn't finish it, it's a brutually hard game and most people wont complete it just because we couldn't implement the "easier" quests

I completly agree with your scores though! I would've given it the same, the graphics are kinda fun but the actual gameplay is very slow, repetitive and grindy. We'll try and make our scope a bit lesser for our upcoming titles. 

Thanks for taking your time to write this detailed review, we appreciate it a lot

But i did, in fact, finish it... 😶

Btw, i know my review make it feels like i didn't enjoyed the game at all, but that's not the case at all... Execpt for the grind and stuff i liked the game a lot, especially the story!!!

Also, don't worry about the letter error or the native speaking problem (I'm also a non native speaker) too much, when i writed the comment i was frustrated so maybe i've kinda exagerated

The only thing that i want to point out, because i feel i haven't espressed well enough, is that the equation one isn't the only one puzzle that suffers from trial and error/memorization, in fact i think every puzzle suffers from trial and error, but i think the ploblem relies in the way the problem they're presented to the player, which you already ardressed in your answer

Thank you for taking the time to read my big chunk of text, and, of course, for partecipating in this jam!!! 😃

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Oh damn you did finish it? Congratulations! You're the 5th person to have completed it, and don't worry we don't feel bad from constructive critisicm, it's a lot better to get that sort of feedback instead of "good game :happy_face:"