Appreciate all the transparency and detail! I do like the ideas for 3 different affinities rather than a sliding scale or morality, great stuff. Glad to see development continue, I'm excited to see what it'll look like on release!
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Played it for the first time today and had a blast!
I did run into quite a few bugs; many which were solved by just loading an autosave / recent save, others which were not
I ran into quite a few crashes from 'Failed to load' errors, I believe mostly from trying to load Red facial expression images? They popped up seemingly randomly. Fortunately reloading a save fixed all but one - the big slime that you run into as part of the bridge repair quest consistently 'Failed to load' for me. Per the crash screen it's trying to pull up the following directory:
"img/pictures/Red%20Busts/Reed%20Faces/Red%20Huuuh%3F.png"
Looking through the game files, that directory is correct for Red's facial expressions. There is a 'Red_Huuuh_.png" in there, but seems like it's not pulling it up correctly? Not sure if the '%3F' on the end of the file name is just internal jargon for the underscore, or if it's trying to point to a file with a different name. An especially rough spot for it, since that quest is necessary to fix the bridge and continue on with the game.
I had an instance while trying to work a way around that bug where Red's clothes were destroyed mid battle, and then after the battle ended the cut-in cutscene of 'Red's clothes were destroyed!' looped infinitely. Reloading a save just before it didn't fix it, so at that point I just decided to abandon the run. I was able to use the chapter select functionality to skip ahead to Chapter 3 and poke around a bit in the content afterwards, which was fun.
On the design side of things, I'm not sure how intentional it is for the gun regular attacks to be as potent as they are. Seems like they don't use ammo (or at least still fire even when you're out? I didn't actually try any of the gun special attacks TBQH). Putting a gun in my offhand made my regular attacks super powerful, to the point where it didn't really seem worth using special attacks anymore, since just regular attacking with dagger+gun was doing almost as much damage. Felt weird to get access to more powerful basic attacks without having to interact with ammo at all.
I also had no idea what a lot of the status effects that Red got were ^_^; Some of them like 'ATK arrow down' is obvious, others not so much. Would be nice if there was some way to figure that out ... I initially assumed that info would be in the Witch's books, but I wasn't able to find anything on them there.
EDIT: Also looking more closely at the preview images, I don't think the bottom left HUD is displaying correctly either on my end. I'm seeing the heart and circle, but no shield (clothes durability indicator?). The heart does change color, but I never saw any number in that or the circle, or saw any change in the circle at all, for that matter. (This is all in Windows 10, fwiw.)
Overall though I had a ton of fun with the game! Love the content, love how dangerous things feel at the start of the game. It's clearly made with a lot of love. Looking forward to future updates!