Your reply is like an April spring breeze, I mean it makes me feel the warmth running through my heart, I don't know if you can understand the metaphor. Thank you so much for your reply and advice. In fact, just at this time, I have just finished the initial scenario after the reset and some brief tutorials to help players become more sure of what they need to do in the game and what they might encounter. Regarding your mention of the story, I guess it's really something I hadn't thought about, and your suggestion made me suddenly realise the gaps in my thinking when I've been obsessively thinking about how to create a better puzzle lately. I guess I do need to hint in bold print at the beginning that this game may involve story or some elements that make the player uncomfortable, to avoid the player encountering them unknowingly. Thanks again, I don't know if this paragraph of my English will make for a relatively smooth read, I'll do my best.
Thank you very much for your long comment, you did mention a number of very critical issues. While I can indeed say that adequate time is crucial, this game is really only a half-finished product.
Like you said, the part about the Detective, he is just a judging robot at the moment, and you can only go to the next level once you have collected a certain number of clues in the room. So no matter how you try to talk to him, you'll probably only get a "pass" or a "die". He was designed to help you at the beginning, but that didn't happen, and his introductory speech may have been misleading, for which I apologize.
Regarding the hints, my friend, I have found this to be something that I really overlooked at the beginning of the design process, I was looking at things so much from my perspective as a designer that I forgot that the player might not know where to start when they enter the game. Now, I am completing an instructional level that the player will have the option to enter or not, where I will show the player how to explore the game through NPCs. That way, even if I don't mark the clues, maybe people will know where they will be hidden.
Of course, at the very beginning, this is only a linear narrative, so the presence of judgements might not be a good idea. But I will refine them, when you get different clues combinations, that will point to different answers rather than dying, so maybe this is an idea you will like.
Five stars, you deserve it, interesting monster synthesis with Rougelike, made me love it a bit, but I still have to leave the game and come out to give you, the bad guy who got me hooked, a good review to do so.
Thank you very much, you gave me great advice and what you mentioned is exactly what I need to do now. Speaking of translations, I used Google Translate (laughs) and that was really bad, I need to modify it with my fake English, which may cause a lot of problems with semantic expressions, I will try to use the translation tools you recommended and perfect them, after all, this is a detective game and needs enough information to become interesting. I want to thank you and appreciate your support. By the way, the passage you are seeing now is translated through DeepL to complete the translation, although some slang words do not seem to be accurately translated yet, I will try to find the right word or sentence with the same meaning expression in the foreign language.
Thanks your support. But I have to say that the design is not perfect because of some rush work, and I will try to add more content, not just some text. And finally, Hope you have a good time.
