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ive finished chapter 1 through the download, took about an hour, i also completed all the quests including the hidden. found a few bugs, but none that caused freezing like last time.

the characters have a pretty "anime-esque" way of talking, i guess the word "theatric" might be good, im not saying this as a negative its just something to note. (the green haired one kinda looks like Zoro from One Piece)

chest placements were good, i managed to find them all, the lilypad one had a creative sequence to get there and back.

Judging from the history class section you're eager to present your worldbuilding, make sure to take it slow, sprinkle the details to get players interested enough to become invested, a lot of rpg maker games struggle with holding back big walls of text and too much info mentioning random names of random places and random people will dissuade players from becoming invested in what they're reading.

I'm curious how many rpg maker projects you've made before this one, if this is your first successfully published game then its pretty good.

onto the bugs:

- the event that triggers when entering the academy talking about chickens can repeat if stepped into again (before the chickens are all collected)

- the first overworld music that plays is louder in my right ear than left

- walking up and down the top stairs of Catapla Mountains changes the music or replays it if already playing, and the music doesnt return to its original track after playing

- the game cant find the file Close1.ogg in the rat place, i can click retry and continue playing but the error will pop up every few seconds unless i close and reopen the game

found the clown, the EX enemy area with GOD, and the "Narrator" enemy, were they all?

played for about an hour so far, im liking the combat, the timing wheel thing makes it at least more engaging than default rpg maker battles, ive also used an identical Timed Attack Wheel plugin in MV made by SumRndmDde.

a big thing i think to avoid for any future rpg maker projects is very big maps, condense their content down a bit so its less of a walk to get anywhere. The world map didn't seem too bad, but the castle, town, and wilderness trail could've been a bit smaller i feel. I didn't mind the random encounters at first but eventually they became distractions where i need to press Escape every half a minute. this isnt an issue apparent only for this game, many rpgs have these issues with too frequent random encounters, and my advice would be to avoid the inclusion of random encounters in general - instead have enemies be events that the player touches to trigger a fight, the events could chase the player or respawn or have random spawns etc, point is that it makes each encounter more personal and gives players more agency. It might not be the kind of game where this works, so i think if random encounters are your preferred way, you could make them happen in specific regions like tall grass, like in pokemon maybe, just so they aren't unavoidable.

big maps and random encounters are my only issues right now, the rest is good, i like the inclusion of a bestiary, and the world does feel big, you just gotta make sure to not stretch it out too thin, it might just be a personal thing where i prefer more compactness 🐈

this truly is a game of all time 🐈

nice parallax mapping. games that account for choices can be very challenging to make and keep track of, I'd know from my own experience trying to make a similar game and never finishing it, so good luck with the rest of the chapters.

main point of feedback i'd give is a few inconsistencies with some character dialogue being in "" quotation marks and others aren't, and a few spelling and grammar mistakes. (Sometimes not capitalizing first letter of a new sentence (i'm doing that right now but thats just how i type messages 🐈))

I do like the use of text codes for changing text size and colours, makes dialogue more interesting to look at, and having pauses after full stops and commas make it flow better.

a few sound effects, like the chicken bwark, mute the music while being played, are you using ME sounds for them instead of SE?

unfortunately the game froze upon damaging the battler during the first combat encounter, it might be an issue solely with the browser version, so if you'd like further feedback i'll try downloading instead. 🐈

super quick prototype, theres a Yanfly plugin that lets events have a "line-of-sight" i think would work well here: (http://www.yanfly.moe/wiki/Event_Chase_Player_(YEP))

the enemies were very easy to avoid, so giving them a line of sight and maybe making them chase you faster after spotting you will add more strategy if you were to expand on this prototype. 🐈

i beat the captain before he had a chance to attack more than twice with that skill that hits 4 random targets, which'd be 4 hits straight to the captain + 2 of them were crits so i just got lucky

played through up to defeating the tower dragon and getting the golden flame books, i assume thats where current progress ends since i didnt know what else to do afterwards.

my advice is to condense the size of the maps down a lot, so theres less empty space, since players wouldnt wanna play a game where they just run around for most of it. If you want players to explore areas i'd add more interactables like chest loot or secrets hidden in places, like something behind a tree for example. The large maps also made it hard to navigate the town and find where everything was easily.

for combat, if you have the right character sprites i think you should have the enemies be events that move around on the map you fight by touching, instead of random encounters.

I found 2 bugs btw, you know the 2 neighboring houses below the player's house? i enter the left house and go upstairs, and i go back downstairs and im now in the right house. The second bug was the event that displays "Welcome to my Game," text at the entrance of the witch's house can repeat, i assume you forgot to do Self Switch stuff with it.

this looks to be your 2nd game you've released? it aint too bad, and i know its very WIP, keep on improving and dont let my critique get you down, theres a few youtube videos on making rpg maker games you could watch to help too 🐈

mmm slop yumyum....

surprisingly pretty balanced i think, if not on the hard side, but healing items and rests make up for the high damage. i got very lucky with the captain fight with 2 crits and him missing his attacks, the knife guys that could triple attack were more spooky than him.

funny thing, i accidentally found the "SKIP!" event on the first map immediately because i be snooping around; i exited and restarted though cos i knew that aint intended.

the twist at the end i saw coming, just cos the whole flashbacks and dialogue was suggesting something sad was gonna happen.

decent experiment, i dont usually like enemy rush/grindy combat type of games but i managed to finish this 🐈

felt like looking through rpg maker games and this is the first one I've played so far, theres a certain charm I find with these games that use the default assets, maybe because it reminds me of my old silly games I made when i was 11 using VX Ace.

I dont have much to say, as im not sure how much critique you'd like or feel is necessary, but its a decent 2nd try 🐈