Don't take the kid into battles if he's weak or I didn't get her point
Battles were a little too long for even when it was just Mush Mush ;)
Expensive prices, too darkness if it couldn't go with a little brighter
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Thanks for playing.
Yeah, I should have made it clearer that you were supposed to use the Light Potion in the caves. I figured that the signs telling you to bring a light and the conversation about light stones and stones being long lasting potions would be enough for some players, but looks like nobody noticed. Also looks like nobody actually checked their inventory despite a sign telling people to do so. I might make it so that checking your inventory is mandatory in the future.
Prices are definitely a little on the expensive side, but the items you are supposed to buy at first are a bit cheaper. The shop is mainly meant to have you check your inventory for sellable items (also acts as a way for the player to see their inventory) or, in the case of salves, act as a comparison. I'm actually surprised at how many people sold items, but managed to miss the Light Potion and Enemy Repel Potion. I know I made them sellable, so players were expected to at least look at them.
It mentions at the start that Nol is dragging Nara along for training purposes and Nara mentions that she'll be fainting a lot. There is actually a bit of a trick to Nara where she is both the hardest to kill and does the most damage (short of Ults, but Ults are basically instant kills (2 bosses are immune to/resist most Ults)). There is a second trick where Nara can start each battle with an Ult (Nol can too, technically, but Nol's Ult isn't recommended except against the final boss as it is resource intensive and long).
Looks like you did kill the boss just before the buffs ran out, but didn't use the star in your inventory after.
I'm surprised you noticed the Tentacles skill, but didn't switch Nol over to the void side or use them more against the void enemies.
Wait, did you walk back to town instead of teleporting?
wow, there were a lot of things to notice.
Items are mostly used on characters or on events, like examining the crystal in the cave asking to use the light potion to light the area, not usable from everywhere. For being better to notice, maybe having an event of getting them and not just by having them in the inventory from the start. And for prices, I think for a short game it's better to make that every item would be purchasable before the game ends
There is an area that you might have missed that does allow you to easily farm for money. It is really close to the shopkeeper before the hydra, but it becomes temporarily unavailable once you kill the hydra. It reappears after you beat the star. It is kind of hidden, but is meant as a place to collect Tulu's skills if you missed them or as a way to quickly level or gain items to sell.
There was definitely a lot of things to notice and it did end up a bit harder because of the weird time limits (like I said elsewhere, if you speedrun the game and skip everything optional and ignore the story, you can potentially beat the game in maybe 15 minutes, but I also had the issue where if you took your time, it could take well over an hour, so I tweaked the game a bit. Unfortunately, that did also mean players had less reason to explore.
Originally, the plan was for the player to start off with Nara farming and setting up a way to use energy to farm, but having some trouble with the experiment because it was too inefficient for anyone other than Nol, then after a bit of farming, Tulu would show up and approach Nol. This would have made the player start with some crops already to sell. There were other things that were scrapped as well for the sake of the time limitation of 20~60 minutes.
While I still want the light potion to be used everywhere (it actually has another purpose), I do intend to make it a bit more obvious. Part of the problem was that I didn't want to use plugins or to use scripts in a manner like plugins. This will be fixed once I change to Unity/Godot so that even if the player doesn't use the light potion, there will be lights to guide the player towards their destination.