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*Inhale* ... *exhale* (Spoilers ahead)

Welp. After hours of gameplay i can officialy say that i've beaten the game. And boy oh boy... do i have things to say. And as i promised - you'll have to read an essay, Mr NoseBecc. 

Now before we start, i want to make one thing clear: while i do have some constructive stuff to say about the game (suggestions and criticisms), THIS comment is NOT that. This will be a summary of my first impressions as an average player that went through the game at a normal pace, clicked what saw and missed what didn't. I just think that (as someone who played first Demo too) impressions on the game - are important. Gameplay is cool, but if the game doesn't cling to your heart - gameplay doesn't mean that much.

Anyway... let's get on with it:

1) The new story - wow, is it amazing. From the beginning, till the end, i was at the edge of my seat, wondering what's gonna happen next. Moments with angels felt intense and frightening, little gags here and there lifted up the mood and i really felt for Vuu's loss. Rose's (yes, i remembered her name) past being a mistery to us and other characters was done well. How did she end up here? Why? And why in the jail of all places? Why is Vuu in same jail? What on earth is going on?! A lot of questioms that remained unanswered (or may be i just didn't get them). And it's great - because i love theorising. On important note - jokes landed! ALL!! I'll confess and say that i at least smiled at every one of them and some even made me laugh out loud! Vuu's insult to Nightmare was savage as heck, though. I hope she'll recover...

By the way!

2) I love how we went from one location/story to another so fluidly. It didn't feel like characters were saying "okay, we're done exploring here. Let's go to the next set, the script demands so". Not a single part of dialogue felt 'forced'. It was like listening to a genunine conversation of a real group of  people - not actors.  And none of them felt over the top. Vuu is naive, but not stupid. Rose is serious, but she doesn't feel like a robot (as writers often mess up with characters like that). 'T', despite me expecting it, didn't cross the line between "goofy" and "annoying as hell". Really good writing.

About that...

3) Old characters - i'm so happy that they returned. You simply can't imagine how much joy i felt when i noticed that green little creature in the forest: "Lvl1 Golbin?! Awww, lomg time no see sunshine! Look at you - all big and strong now, aren't you? You've changed you appearance a little, yeah? It suiys you so much! Yeah, yeah, i'm very sorry, you are not lvl one anymore, you are level tw- ... Dear. God. You are level 4 now?! You were training all this time?! I'm... i-i'm so poud... *sob* No, Gobby, my eyes are not sweating, these are just tears of pure happiness." - absolute cinema. And it hoenstly didn't hit me until just now how good Imp's and Gobbo's new designs look. I look at old Imp and just think - wow, that's... atrocious. And there is no wonder that Mud Elememtal's design remained the same - it's peak! New characters look amazing too, don't get me wrong! They are absolutely gorgeous. Lamia looks full of life, Ghost/Wisp is great too too, Pirates are just as adorable as you can get (still, lvl1 4 Goblin keeps her first place).

Next one.

4) The 'resurrector lady' - such a great idea. Mainly because i can rest peacefully, knowing that every monster we've defeated didn't really die. I swear, i did NOT expect this turn of events: "Haha, that's right little pirate! You shouldn't just try and steal ones belongings. Let this be your lesson! Now, let's see what loot we have he- DID SHE JUST F-N EXPLODE?!" - cause my heart skipped the beat when i saw bones flying around. Back to 'resurrector'... it's unironically SO nice to play as monsters. Lore acuracy is cool and stuff, but what if i want Gobby to beat Nightamre to death, instead of Vuu? And now i CAN DO THAT!! (Although, Gobby's weapon of choice is... more unique that 'T' could ever dream of. Is she like 'shapes fight' exclusive character? Because i have no idea how to reliably use that circular saw in a normal battle.) Just the fact that you can choose is already worth it. Don't like Rose for some reason? Sure, swap her for Ghost, why not. T doesn't look curvy enough to you, huh? Okay, pick Imp, if you so desire. Vuu is getting a bit boring? First - shame on you. Second - swap her if you want, nobody is holding you (but i will judge).

And the last one: I like how new riddles are made. Sometimes you don't see how to do them emidiately, and then something in your head just clicks and you go: "i tried everything! I tried pulling, tried to find the hint, tried to- wait... what if i... just whack that stupid star?". Or these things that you need smash to activate. While walking past them you think - "press with force, press with force... but how? Do i need something heavy? IMP! Sit on that damn thing, please".  And when you get smash - it all comes together, and you rush to obliterate every button you saw earlier.

Well. That concludes today' comment. It's mostly positive, because that's the impressions that i got from majority of the game! Cool story, art and mechanics - together they formed a perfect Demo.  But! That's not to say that i have nothing to criticise here! 

As i said before - i have a lot of constructive things to say about the game and i WILL lay all of them out in the next comment, because this is one is already too long already and i want to sleep. 

Oh! And the last one:

Please, PLEASE! I'M BEGGING YOU! Give Goblin a 4th, 5th star designs too, PLEASE!! I know that she's only lvl4, i know that she's just a goblin, but please with a cherry on top! No, make it 7 cherries! Just look at Gobbo! Don't you think she wants to evolve more?

                                                                         Sincerely

                                                                                  CorpusGreed

Okay, i'll have to do it quick, cause the game's so good, i can't stop playing. I'll go over the main few points that i liked since old demo, but you can expect me comming back with comments that have more words in them than most novels.

One, two, three, go! >>>

1) The "My Turn!" mechanic is so simple, but genious, i LOVE IT! It, honestly, was a pretty big issue in the first beta. I have two characters, but since i love Vuu - what's the point of using the HUMAN (i forgor her name T^T), if they are very much the same? Same abilities, same heart (i'll get to that later), same stats and etc. There was no reason, except for boredom. But now that i can do the same fight 2 times, not only to farm more XP, but to get more rewards from it - it makes me want to master each character! 

2) Different heart attacks - my GOD, that's so good! The fact that i'm (sometimes) FORCED to switch from Vuu to HUMAN (still so ashamed...), is a nice feeling. Lots of weak 'shapes'? Vuu is here. Tanky shapes - HUMAN got you covered. So good... And now a 'shape fight' doesn't feel as tedious, cause i can finally one/two-shot most of the enemies tgere. (I don't understand 'T's attacks YET, but i'm sure that there is a way to utilize her too)

3) I'm not even going to talk about amazing artsyle and story - you know you cooked there, i won't toot your horn TOO much. ... Okay, maybe a liiiiitle more.

4) Riddles... Wow. With every location they get much MUCH more complicated, and interesting. Right now i'm stuck in mushroom land/cave. These riddles are... hard. Now, hear me out! That's a very ME specific thing, i'm not sure how it goes for everybody else, but i - am not the _biggest_ fan of the "look closely at the map - you can miss a lever/button at ANY moment" part. Sure, it's cool to spot them and go "he he he, free coins", but my paranoia and feeling of "what if there was an orb i missed? Or two?!" - were and ARE eating me from the inside. And the riddle where "The hint must be somewhere nearby", where i have to pull up or press mushrooms, then activate a button to open the gate... I can't. I just can't find i! What does "somewhere nearby" even mean? Is it in this room? Is it in the room next to this one?! OR IS IT IN THE COMPLETE OPPOSITE OF THE MAP??? I have no way to know! *sigh* ... Except fot that part (right now) everything is great. 

Now that it's out of the way, i want to ask few things:

1) The part where i have to help Cookie - i am confused. I tried clicking on things, while berries are in my inventoty - nothing works. I tried dropping them onto the floor - nothing happents. I tried clicking and smashing things, giving berries to Cookie and cheff, tried putting them inside boxes - nothing is working. Am i bugged or do i just not get how to do it? If it's the latter - could you explain it to me?

And second:

2) If that's a public beta... why not put it on Steam? I don't mind checking itch.io once in a while, but won't it be better for 'exposure' and capturing people's interest? After all, won't allowing players to try the game increase the chance that they'll stick? 

In conclusion - this update was Massive! ... YOU KNOW WHAT ELSE IS MAS-

                                                               With love, 

                                                                        CorpusGreed.

I really REALLY like this game! 

Not often do i get so invested in a game that i feel like leaving a review on it. Just few minutes in and i already forget that it has NSFW in it!
But i remembered as soon as one of the hinst was "What is a result of ejaculation" - oh. I'm not making you that >:( 

And i like that all lewd stuff are optional. You want to? - Go ahead, be my guest. Not in the mood? Sure buddy, enjoy the mysterious atmosphere.

And it actualy brings so much joy to find "fusions" on accident. Like i typed "alien", left it like that, typed my hint "love" and got a unique combination (and i wouldn't have found it, unless this accident happened. Makes me wonder how many other combos i've missed)

Really, REALLY nice game. Can't wait for the full release on Steam <3

Wrong. People just agreed with my reply - that's why they liked it.

Nobody agreed with your explonation - that's why they didn't like it. 

There is no conspiracy, where the whole world is against you and just hates you for no reason. You are just delusional. Ta-ta~

You give your opinion - people give opinion to your opinion. Why are you so surprised?

You can dislike whatever you want, as well as others are free to dislike you... disliking something. You say that the game is bad and people that don't agree with you dislike your comment. That's how WORLD works

GET OUT-

This has to be the weirdest thing i've played in my entiere life.

17/10

Окей, окей, это было забавно) Печально, что не важно какой вопрос ты задашь, реакция одна и та же, но ладн

lET'S GO GAMBLIIIIIING!

That's such a GREAT game! So much effort put into animations, neat mechanics and pretty much everything else is spot on! 

Really hoping for new updates, or have a number 3 appear

I am not really the potion mixing type of gamer, but this one was pretty fun! Especialy the art. So many details here and there, cat and Kobold are soooo cute :3  27/10

Man, is the game NOT easy... whew. But i liked it. Didn't complete fully yet, but i'm trying

Owww, that's great! And based on waht i've seen so far - i don't think there is a reason to doubt that it'll turn out PERFECT.

But how few are "few months"? 2? 3? Or should we be waiting for it to release next yaer?

Thank you too, kind gentleman!

There is one thing i will say this game: I.LOVED.IT.

And no - i'm not exaggerating, i'm not making it up or anything. This was actually such an amazing experience. And i can say for sure - my expectations were, god damn, subwerted.

I honestly didn't expect much of it at first: "Another BE game, nothing special". But man, was i wrong! Character design, cutesy graphics, neat dialogues, such a nice attention to detail and more. It's obvcious how much love and passion was put into it. All these little details (just like i love), puzzles and secrets. So cool. And even though sometimes said puzzles feel a bit TOO complicated - it's still a nice feeling to try and solve them. Who knows, maybe i'll "wisen up" at some point and will come back to solve them. Combat is as unique as you can get too - i've never seen anything like that before, so i was uh... let's just say "confused". But that's probably a ME issue.

Oh oh oh! Almost forgot!

COMBAT OST! Man, the soundtrack during a fight is FIRE! First few seconds i was thinking "Man, it's not that bad..." and just in about a minute i was nodding my head to the beat! "Baaaaaam~ Pa-ba-da-ba Baaaaaam~ Pa-ba-da-ba ---- Bda-pa-pa-pa-da-pa-pa-bap -- Bda-pa-pa-da-pa Ba-badabum!" IT'S INSIDE MY HEAD FOREVER! I love how jolly and energetic it is! Pumps up your mood much better than you would've thought. "Ta-ta-ta-ta-" - okay, enough.

But, yes. Even though i absolutely love this game (and already added it to my steam "wishlist")... I can't deny that there are few issues:

1) TURORIAL. Man, was i banging my head against the wall for around 10 minutes, trying to figure out how the hell I am suposed to deal damage. Yes - it IS possible that some of it was on me and my lack of brain, but just in case - it may be a good idea to look into this issue.

2) LEVELING UP AND EVOLVING. So... I love chalanges. I usually don't farm stuff and prepare for battles, but instead just rush to the next enemy. By the time i beat final boss i was level... 11? 10? Something like that. So imagine my surprise when i coma back to "Evovle" and see that i'm requiered LEVEL 20. I'm barely half way there! (IMPORTNANT - i didn't lose once, so all my progression was as it would be if you don't farm) So i had to sit there and farm all these monsters for a whole hour... Result was worth it, but it was NOT a pleasant experience.  Maybe lower requierements? Or rework them in some way? 

3) EMEMIES TOO MUCH/NOT ENOUGH. Also a pretty annoying issue when you try to simply solve puzzles, or are on your way home. "I don't have time or energy to fight you, you silly LVL1 Goblin!". Losing is not an option - you lose levels. Running is not an option too - enemy is BLOCKING your path. So you HAVE to fight - and it's not always what you want to do. Here also comes lack of enemies when trying to level up (did i say that a solid 25% of my time on lvling up was wasted on simply walking around and searching for foes to fight?). There has to be a way to ALWAYS find a fight when you need one, but NEVER fight if you have something else to do. How? I'm not game dev, why asking me? You silly goose...

Khe-khe... Wow, that was a lot of text, huh? I hope you uh... won't get tired of reading it. Last thing: good luck with your project. It's filled with love, genuine care and talent, it's so... beautiful to see. I'm waiting for an open beta and even more for a paid release on steam. "SHUT UP AND TAKE MY MONEY!" - as one ginger man said. Love to all of you, guys <3

With love - from me.