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Yatch3 years ago

I had some fun with this, however, I think it’s a bit too long for a game jam. I totally understand the difficulties with English as a second language, but it can mess up immersion with a lot of grammatical errors.

The story was enticing, but the grammar got in the way. The music at points didn’t make sense, as it was more fantasy-themed than a dystopia. I thought the combat system was cool, with ammo being tied to the weapons, but I did NOT enjoy the fact that I couldn’t do a basic attack when I ran out of ammo.

Too early into my battles I ran out of ammo and had half my party just sitting there and blocking. A lot of thought went into the item system, and I like it, but I think maybe make things a bit cheaper, or healing a bit more would help a lot. It’s also a lot for a game jam where the game is supposed to be under 30 minutes.

Final critique is that the anomaly is WAY too hard. I mean I barely did 5% damage on him, using healing items, reloading ammo etc… and that’s with my playtime being over 30 minutes.

Solid effort and I think with some work done to the dialogue you’ll have a really solid game. I’d definitely do some tweaking to the difficulty, or at the very least tweak it for a game jam designed for 30 minute play time.

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Zabelnov3 years ago

yeah im sorry about the grammar.... to be honest english is my 3rd language. and i made this game from my novel, so the translation is  akward.


and about the surviving  in early game, you can just escape till you got 4 people in your party, and be sure to take 3 important box in the parking area. one of this box give you zp to buy highest weapon in the game. (theme - hidden cheat or exploitation)


and the theme about survival i put some cheap price and expensive price for player. so they can figure it out how to use item wisely because some item has a same amount of healing but give different effect. and there a situation where they can save their ammo just by avoid trouble fighting random encounter. 


the anomaly will become go berserk if you didn`t kill it in 25 turn or more, so the best strategy is to equip the best satchel to increase your max ammo and using the 2nd grade weapon or ultimate weapon and spam ultimate skill on it. believe me,,, even me as creator find it very hard to survive when anomaly goes berserk.


many player maybe think, satchel just some useless equip. no..... satchel is your breath when you fighting a boss or super boss. because to use ultimate skill, you need a lot of max ammo, if you don`t had much max ammo, you can`t perform ultimate skill.


and the most important thing is  when you fight boss or anomaly. when you see them has aura. fast use juvia skill called spinner to stun the anomaly.

the aura you see on the anomaly means they want to use special ability. and this ability is very deadly if you didn`t stop it.

about the 30 minute rule, i already cut some cutscene and put the exploit. and hope it will go smooth with 30 minute. cuz i beat this game in 26 minute with reading...... . i was wrong miscalculated this.  but what is done is done.

i can`t fix the game now while this still in rate peroid. when the jam is over. i will take all the feed back and launch the demo plus....
and i thank you for your feed back. i will make it better.

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Yatch3 years ago

3rd language is impressive! I think for a full game experience, the length and the item system will be a benefit. It will add a lot of complexity to the story and keep players engaged. I just meant for a game jam designed for 30-minute games, it was a lot to process.

Playtime is always hard to gauge. As the creator of our game, we already know the best paths and techniques at defeating enemies. I had some of my friends play through my game to see how long they took to beat the game. I also made it so I was able to beat my own game in under 10 minutes, which allowed a lot of “fluff” time to compensate for new players to the game.

Overall, I think your game has good foundations. I wouldn’t worry about time for your full game, as that was just pertaining to a gamejam. The main concerns would be with fixing the translation, tweaking game difficulty, and allowing the battlers to attack if they have no ammo.

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Zabelnov3 years ago

thank you... now im still looking for plugin that let me equip melee and range weapon at same time without stacking the atk between melee and range weapon. the translation still in progress along with the balance of the game difficulty.

and all of this is good experience for me for the next game jam i would join.  to be honest this is my first time participate in the game jam.

so i think i will make it better for the next jam.

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