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First of all, thanks for playing Bastard Sword and also leaving a comment.

The intro was fast. We probably should have made it more visual novel like and used more intervals between auto transitions the next text animation, while giving the player the ability to skip the current animation. Do you think that would be a good way of tackling this problem?

Regarding not being able to find your way in the map, we were hoping the bright lighting of the doors and the teleportation platform would make them stand out from other things in the scene, but apparently they were not enough. I am generally against the idea of introducing tutorials especially about visual things in the scene, because I think tutorials disrupt the flow of a game and generally bother players by forcing them to do certain things to teach them how those work while the player just wants to quickly dive into the game world and the actual gameplay.

Of course, certain game mechanics or elements can only be described using tutorials, in which case there should be a tutorial for those; others, I think should be described via convenient level design or lighting, convenient feedback, anything that can be incorporated into the gameworld rather than a tutorial. We tried to do it that way, and failed worse than we expected. Another aspect we need to improve upon.

Once again, thanks for the feedback and have a nice day!