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Ashe, *heavy coughing sounds* years experience in TTRPGs, they/them! Originally planning on writing a fully original one-shot RPG; now working on a systemless (possibly 5E? ToV?) setting. This started as a two-page implied setting in the background of one of my player characters, but I've always wanted to turn in a character sheet with a complete city and culture document stapled to the back of it! *evil grin* It is definitely a scary place suitable for a Hallowe'en game, though the monster at hand is nontraditional ...
I'm in the "no precision platforming" camp. The concept of the game is about being clever, solving puzzles, and exploring every nook and cranny. Precision platforming is a pure twitch skill, and the mere presence of it excludes non-hardcore players.
(It's especially bad when a switch happens partway through the game, like when Hollow Knight suddenly turns into Super Meat Boy after maintaining a high but reasonable difficulty until that point.)
I guess my viewpoint is that precision platform players will generally prefer to play a game that's all precision platforming, while anyone else is likely to be turned off by its presence.
I was able to find a doctor who'd give me a "zero-depth vaginoplasty," i.e., just a vulva. It works for me and requires no maintenance besides normal showering.
You do, however, have to make sure that you never mention any desire for one unless it's with a surgeon you know for certain performs them, because there's the "lack of commitment" again. (And, I mean, it means you can't be penetrated, but it's up to each person how much that matters to them.)
SPOILER
I was right there with you, right there with you almost all the way through. I was just waiting for an explanation of what the flip was going on with Echo's special ability ... I was waiting for the explanation for that and it just never came.
I feel like it could have been completely justified if the explanation for Ultimate Memory had been something else -- like, this only even requires a change in Gaia's dialogue at one point. There's already another Ultimate with science-violating powers (Ultimate P. from the Epilogue) so Echo being (ROT-13 encoded) Hygvzngr Cerpbtavgvba wouldn't break the story and in a cockeyed kind of way it fits with "Ultimate Memory."
(Yes, they did it in Zero Escape, but it made sense there and it was the central conceit. It didn't just, like, happen.)
I am also *completely* in the dark about what's going on in the post-credit flashback.
It happened again and I captured it!
Error
rpg/adventure.lua:352: attempt to call field 'setAreaFlag' (a nil value)
Traceback
[love "callbacks.lua"]:228: in function 'handler'
rpg/adventure.lua:352: in function 'onTypeDeath'
rpgenemy.lua:162: in function 'onDeath'
rpgview.lua:1150: in function 'onEnd'
rpgview.lua:1374: in function 'update'
main.lua:113: in function 'update'
[love "callbacks.lua"]:162: in function <[love "callbacks.lua"]:144>
[C]: in function 'xpcall'
I managed to get past that part on a re-play, but I'll keep an eye out and keep trying the Cultist until it happens again. Worst case scenario I can just screencap it.
Yes, I guessed that they were all real place names. Still probably worth removing that specific town from the database, though, or adding a line of code to exclude it.
I'm getting a consistent blue-screen crash (just the program, not the computer) whenever, as the cultist, I successfully commit murder.
Oh! Also, one of the town names contains a racial slur -- the one that refers to the Roma, starts with a G, and has no vowels other than Y. The game correctly identifies it as a slur if you use it (it's in the Profane Book) but it also showed up in a town name, G***yville, which it shouldn't.
*Mesmerizing.* Not only didn't stop reading, but didn't even take a break. This quality of writing and artwork and intricate mechanics are the kinds of things I'd expect in a $39.99 Spike Chunsoft release, not a fully indie project.
Once TIS the visual novel is complete, maybe consider TIS the roleplaying game?