High quality aesthetics, and I like the concept. As it is, I'm not sure it's even finishable; I swear I've been everywhere on this map but no special key. I even defeated what could be considered a boss (two headed-ogre?) At this point, I'm calling that the victory.
I noticed several bugs:
- The sound of combat seems to be delayed by a very long time. I'll be walking around about a minute later and start hearing what I am assuming are the combat sounds from long ago. - It seems the round system is a little broken or exploit-prone, or else I'm not sure I understand the combat system. Defending seems to do nothing, and I can attack much faster per "round" (or what I think is a round?) if I press the button quickly. The "Item" is evidently supposed to light up once every 3 "turns" but it seems that if I wait long periods of time between commands, it's once every 2 "turns", but I also can do upwards of 10 attacks before it cuts off my input, and then "Item" is ready again. - Random encounters deplete? Unclear if this is a bug or feature, but the game became pretty empty after a few encounters and it seemed like the encounter rate fell the longer I stayed in an area. If intended, it's actually kind of cool. - The battle status bar keeps interrupting itself. I eventually just ignored it. - You can pick up silver equipment after gold equipment and downgrade yourself, requiring you to visit the gold equipment tiles again.
All told, this has all the ingredients to be a pretty fun game. I hope you flesh it out more!
