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It's somewhat disappointing how often the game insists on referring to you with masculine pronouns or even saying you have a dick, when you don't. It could use some better optimization in this regard, other times it's obvious you were meant to have a dick for a scene but at least it's acknowledged that you don't. A whole lot of Lord and Liege as well where it'd be more appropriate to referrer to you as Lady, or something to that effect.

I don't know if Magic is even implemented yet, I only just got to Viv. Which is why I'm making a post, mentioning that you were an "Errand Boy", but it looks like there's a bar that's intended to be a magic / mana resource eventually and there was the nonfunctional magic training tab. If there IS, I haven't found it yet, though Viv utilizes it. I wish there were a means to have magic yourself as early as possible, even starting out... Magic and Alchemy are really underserved so far. All there seems to be is the Potion Shop and some quest scripts.

Unless there's still a WHOLE ton more I've yet to come across, even then it's still late in the game to be introduced to such things that would have been nice to be messing with early on to shape your character how you envision them.

Also, you miss attacks way too bloody often in this game...

It's not uncommon for your selection to be incorrect, I've noticed a few times that the action isn't what I clicked

With the General, both options result in heavy armor. Neither is Skimpy.

Mild non-issue issue, all the men are way too effeminate. There's no manly men to enjoy, as far as I've seen so far.

MaratDuoDev4 years ago (1 edit)

I apologize for the masculine or pronouns things, those are more often a mistake (Actually since we are different writers but, I personally avoid using any pronouns to refer to you, but other writers sometimes have a few mistakes) - if you have the chance to join discord and share these errors it would be easier and faster for us to fix them.

Magic is to a degree implemented, mostly in opening up new combat classes. You get there through the main story. You also use it in the main story, but there is no mechanic to corrupt or transform people with it yet.

We are also constantly working on rebalancing combat, in the next updates we'll be changing a few things to it, but we have done some stuff already, altho I am not sure if that is in this itch.io version or the most recent public patreon version.

There are 3 masculine men: Gedim (wolf man), the blacksmith and the trainer, and we'll be adding a few more, but yes the yare not the main focus

PressTheButton4 years ago

Pronouns- Apologies aren't necessary, I'm clearly just playing the game in a less intended way and the game IS named dick after all- I'd just rather chase it (as a woman, not trap or man) though either are fine too and I did use the potions to experiment a bit in that regard but it just doesn't feel quite right to how I like to play) than have it. I don't have specific references, but it happens really commonly. Sometimes in the same paragraph it could be talking about your nonexistent dick and then talk about your lady parts in the next sentence.

Magic- Yeah I eventually found the magic by continuing viv's quest line. It feels a bit late into the game imo, but I wonder how fast you can get to it if you had made a B-line straight towards it. After messing around with it, it definitely needs some good rebalancing. In general things should lean in the direction of making the player feel competent if not powerful. Magic costs seem pretty high but they all seemed to have an option for regaining magic in combat so that's fine I suppose. I do think it could make sense if you could use the starting background options to start out with your character meeting up with Viv while out in the wilds, and going through learning magic together more, before or after she makes the pact, and start out with a magic class. Just throwing that out there.

Manly men- Ah, I did find Gedim eventually after posting. For now he's pretty limited. I didn't notice options for the blacksmith or trainer, but even then they aren't quite what I'm looking for either. But yeah I get that it's not the main focus. Definitely seems more in the line of... well, lady boys and ladies. I only brought it up since it does seem like there is an intention to have some more diverse options for diverse interests.

Appreciate the reply, good luck with future updates.