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Yay bugs!  Next time I'll take pictures :)  These are bugs for the PC version of the 2021 Battle Demo release:

  • As Player 1 in a battle, no matter which pony I had fighting, the name would show up as Epona in the upper narration.  The name always showed correctly in the bottom left hand corner, but never in the narration.  Always Epona.
  • The computer Player 2's Oscina's name showed up as Ditzy in the narration once during battle.
  • The swirls that came with my pony being attacked with Daze stayed even after my pony had regained consciousness.
  • Sometimes my bottom left attack option would disappear and only 3 would be available as opposed to the 4, then it would randomly show up again later in battle.

And not sure if this last item is a bug...  But is there a limit on how many times you can use certain attacks?  Where does this show and is there a counter so show when you're out?  Some of my attacks just stopped working in the battle and I was stuck with using Tackle for the remained of the battle until my pony fainted. 

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  • Each pony partner has a name like "Epona" or "Ditzy" that you can change on the Team Select screen. That's you pony's real name. Now each form it can turn into has a species name like Simber or Orscina that you can also nickname to be whatever you want. 
  • The leftover swirlies is indeed a bug and we'll have to clean that up next patch. 
  • When a pony runs low on Gem Power it can't use expensive moves like Heavy Attacks anymore. You can see how much GP you have using that diamond bar underneath your health. The number displays how many layers you have left underneath the current row of 10 on display. You get some back each turn so you can eventually use those lost moves again.

In the final game all these abstract concepts like GP, nicknames, and having a single shapeshifting partner will be explained in a tutorial, but for now we're just taking notes on what needs to be explained, what's intuitive enough, and what do players assume when they see something new. 

This post was super helpful and we'll be taking this feedback into account to make a bigger, better, clearer BGP!