Hi, i played the demo for the game recently. All in all I like the game and I will buy it when its released. The art style is great, especially the blue trees in the beginning and the view when you go on top of the watchtower! However, there are a few little things that I think could be better:
- The controls. Sometimes it feels like I'm not really in charge of the character, and I have to fight my way through every single step to make him move. I noticed especially when jumping and landing, that there's a slight delay while the landing animation plays where you cant jump up again. This probably looks better, but it is so annoying, as it feels like the game is refusing to do what I want. I'm also a fan of jump height based on how long you hold the jump button, but I understand that it's not for every game, and the game works fine without it.
- The map design. All in all its really good, but some of the areas where you have to use the spiders to jump are just too hard. I'm probably not the best players, but there are areas where I realize what I have to do, but I still have to repeat the same move like 15 times in order to actually make it (especially the jumps where you have to wall jump and then hit a spider). Also, in the part where you have to hit spiders to get a cross the gap under the bridge, there is this one place where you have to jump up and wall jump before hitting a spider. I spent a good half an hour trying to figure out how to to that jump and I almost deleted the game out of frustration. I would love to see that jump being signalized better in the map design, by making the wall you have to jump on more eye-catching or something like that.
- The fighting system. It is fun and I love the dodge, but I had one little problem. In a lot of fights, especially the boss fight in the library, I easily forgot how much energy I had left. I would love to have some sort of player feedback when you are low on energy, so that you don't end up accidentally overspending and having no way to defend yourself.
- The librarian boss fight. Great character and fun fight in general, just a bit to hard in my opinion, considering its the first boss. The flying books got me every single time.
Yeah that's basically it, can't wait for the full game to drop!