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I was seriously considering getting the full version since a lot of the storylines had interesting ideas and I wanted to see where you were planning to go with these. It also seemed pretty well made and thought through.  Then I  unfortunately decided to play the soldier storyline for completions sake. 

Not only does most of the stuff not make sense, at least not in a world that functions on even remotely similar laws of physics, the way she defeated things no one else could frankly seemed like an asspull most of the time. The attempt of adding a moral dilemma seemed like exactly that, an attempt. She is angry that people would harm her men after they literally invaded a city and goes from calling her own people vile monsters to lamenting their deaths in a matter of seconds. She watches women getting raped by her own subordinates and then asks herself whether she is a good person. The story goes from literal deathtrap to easy win to sharing the backround story of a character that only got lightly wounded in a few lines. 

But hey, I might have still considered buying it in hopes that the other storylines might be better. That is until someone thought it was funny to literally announce a mass raping on camera. I'm not saying that things like this never happened historically speaking, but as an author you very much have the freedom to decide what to include and what not. And if you for some reason want to include things like that, at least add a content warning beforehand, so that people who aren't comfortable with things like that can chose to stop reading beforehand

So please, even if you decide that I simply wasn't the intended target audience and that my complaints about the writing are just a matter of personal preference and that I'm taking things too seriously or completely missing the whole point, please add content warnings. It can ruin the entire game for people otherwise

And if the described problems are exclusive to the demo still consider fixing them, it's how you're trying to convince people that your game is worth buying after all

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Hey,

I definitely understand some of your comments relating to the story. Some of them I can't necessarily agree to, so for example Sarah's ability to do things nobody else can isn't written by accident or unintentionally, it all very much features into how the story grows and particular future revelations. So I agree, she can do things that seem to defy physical laws, but that's not written by mistake.

As for the content and the content warning, I understand and I agree with you. The story takes place in a pretty bleak world, and it's inspired by a lot of dark-fantasy, and I sometimes lean a bit heavy into those tropes.

There are some content warnings on other platforms, but I agree that perhaps it would also be a good idea to better reflect those in the Itch page and give an in-game warning ahead of time, for people who do not want to see such content. It was definitely never my intention to surprise people with those kinds of story-elements, so if I did and I caused any upset, I definitely apologize and I'll try to include some content warnings up front going forward.

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First of all, thanks for being so understanding. I know that my comment probably wasn't the nicest that you ever got and certain things probably simply aren't meant to appeal to me. But as I said I really liked some ideas and certain storylines seemed really interesting so I was curious what I have to expect from the story as a whole. And then there was of course the issue with content warnings. 

I've read dark fantasy before and I now that some people are okay with it but I personally am pretty uncomfortable with rape. And since up until that point most rape seemed to be avoidable one way or another I didn't expect something like this to happen, at least not that explicitly.

I already kinda suspected that there might be a reason why she is able to do certain things, it's just that in these scenes it felt a bit out of nowhere and even anticlimactic. That being said most things can probably be explained with her having some form of power in combination with me being too pedantic about what's realistic in medieval warfare.