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I think except the enemies all art is AI generated but that's fine, they look good. I like the old school art and feeling of the game. Movement controls are unresponsive, you need to  hit w at leas two times for the player to move and it moves with a slight delay. The enemy sprites on the map an battlescreen are different, i don't like that. Their artstyle is different too.  The enemy art is not consistent with overall artstyle and it's sticking out too much. You could have make the battles random like JRPGs. Battle system is fine. But characters like cleric earned  the healing ability later on after i did some fights. Is there a levelling mechanic in the game bcs there is no sign of it in anywhere on UI. 

Time loop mechanic is interesting but i think unncecessary, it could be incorporated in a better way. Also it makes the game more repetetive and tiresome.

Overall it's basicly a working  and good looking Dungeon Crawler game which needs some fixes and improvements. Ah some other posters mentioned it too, closing the entire game when pressing escape is very annoying. You should fix that too. Imagine players hit escape by mistake and their entire progress gone :)

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Thanks for taking the time to give your in-depth opinion, there's a lot of useful feedback here!

I agree that the controls need more fine tuning and the graphics could use a good dose of unifying paint, I had to stop somewhere to make progress on the actual game mechanics and progression, but I wasn't fully satisfied either. For the time loop, I also agree with you there, it was an afterthought to fit one of the themes, but I won't keep it if I create a new and improved version. 

About making the battles random, I could have done that but I think it would have made the game more tedious, honestly. I placed the encounters so that some are mandatory but you don't have to fight all the time to get from point A to point B, I think the pacing of the game is better for it.

Yes, there is a levelling up mechanic, that's how you unlocked that healing skill for the cleric. The level of each character is displayed at the bottom right of their portrait in both battle and exploration, when you level up there is a popup that appears on the portrait, and there are lots of tooltips. You probably never saw them if you played only using the keyboard, but you can hover most UI elements with the cursor and a brief explanation of what it is will be displayed. To be fair, I'd say there are lots of signs on the UI that the characters can gain levels.

About escape quitting the game, you don't actually lose any progression if you accidentally hit. The game is saved automatically after each battle and each time you collect a shard. I take player  time very seriously and wouldn't dare taking their entire progress away 😉

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Sry i haven't noticed the level up notification. One more thing to add. I think cleric should start with healing magic enabled at level 1. Mage character too should start with a lvl 1 magic ability as well.

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The mage does in fact start with a magic ability, he’s the only character whose base attack consumes energy points (it’s also stronger than a basic sword attack, for instance). 

For the cleric I think I will do that, but I will have to carefully rework the game’s difficulty progression (it will take way more than the few hours I took just for that Saturday night). The basic idea for not giving her a heal spell immediately was to make the beginning of the game a little bit harder but make her more useful as the game progresses.

Also she needed a base attack in case anyone wanted to play with 3 clerics. One of the earliest ways to play Final Fantasy 1 in “hard mode” was to pick 4 white mages for your party. That was my reasoning 😁

Thanks a lot for detailing your thoughts, I’ll use this game mostly to improve my new dungeon crawler engine, so your feedback is very valuable!