Some issues I found (note I ran it under wine, I don't have a windows machine):
From the manual it seems like a fun game, but I wasn't able to play. If you're not targeting Linux users then I guess that's fine.
Thanks. I realize that I was being a little bit passive aggressive with the last sentence (and that it's a bit self-serving to apologize only after you did the thing).
The keyboard worked this time, though there was still no mouse (intended?). I like that the layout is efficient, even though I didn't really make that much use of q/w/e/r. Having keyboard controls in non-combat menus might improve the flow further since I won't have to move my hands to the mouse. Some kind of skip input like common in VNs would have been useful too, since my main computer crashed during the last prologue battle so I finished it (and the new storyline) on my laptop and I had to mash space to get through the dialogue. My main annoyance UI-wise was that the character portraits when taking combat actions would cover up the action bar and status effects of enemies on the right side of the screen.
I've played RPGs a little bit and found the combat system easy to get used to. Since I couldn't get hard mode to work (see bugs section), I found it easy to keep everyone buffed / the enemy debuffed and found combat a little bit boring. I imagine that with hard mode working it would be more challenging, and the fights would be over sooner anyway since I would have to learn to play faster. On the note of balance, I didn't seem to need to mess with polarity very much to win the prologue encounters, other than keeping it near 0 to avoid surprises. Increasing overall difficulty might make it more important, but it could also be cool to have some encounters designed specifically to exercise polarity manipulation (this would also teach the player to use it effectively in future encounters). In the final chapter of the prologue the crew became less useful in the middle of battle because everyone was buffed, I didn't need heals very often, and the crew has low attack power. Even when I did need heals, I ended up with an OT surplus since Nostradamus was not needed often. Also, I noticed some attacks delivered "high" damage, and others delivered "large" damage. I wasn't sure what the difference was.
I like horny designs so that's a plus.
Bugs I noticed:
It's no problem. Thanks for taking the time to play the build and writing such lengthy feedback!
Currently there's no mouse control in combat, but for the next demo I'm planning to make battles playable with both/either. I'll try to make the other screens playable with both the mouse and keyboard as well. I'll try to think of a good way to remedy the portrait problem, whether it be moving the enemy UI further up or something else. I'll try to make it more challenging. There will be some enemies that can "lock" the polarity bar into certain ranges for a period of time. I'll try to think of some encounters that force you to use it as well. I'll also adjust the tooltips to be a little more descriptive/consistent in terms of damage.
Settings: Thanks for reporting those. I will check them out. I wonder if it happens on Windows but I never noticed because I hadn't wiped a certain player pref or something on my machine.
Battle: I'll check out those issues with hard mode and bar-manipulating in menus. Thanks!
Bleed: Was Bleed removed from the enemy after you attack it or after the Bleeding enemy attacks? When Bleeding enemies are attacked with a physical attack (either basic or skill), the attack does more damage and the status is consumed.
Since OT's textbox only displays the number as an int, if Jean gives each character a <1 amount of OT, it will still pass, but will not change what is displayed. I decided on that to stop too many flashing numbers from appearing.
There's no party member dialogue after defeating Mizar - maybe I should've added some to thank/congratulate the players though!
Regarding the sound effect when selecting skills... Thanks for pointing that out. It seems like each time you select a skill it plays the sound effect n+1 times... Very weird.
Thanks again for all your feedback! I'm glad the Linux build seems to work as well as the Windows one.
All the cases of bleed removal was on the enemy being attacked, so I guess that's working as expected. When I was trying self-care though I did it when Jean had high enough OT built up that I should be able to see the change (like 12 or so). I didn't choose actions very efficiently so it was common to get some OT buildup.
EDIT: Also I forgot to mention, I think Kamui and Avicenna's headshots have different OT gates and effects, which was unexpected for me. Another thing is that OT is consumed even if I use a skill when below the OT gate (the manual says it is subtracted if you use it when above the gate)
