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This game clearly has a lot of passion put into it, but...

A topic by CanYouDont_H created Mar 01, 2023 Views: 1,026 Replies: 5
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It's honestly a bit concerning having an itch.io game have so much access to your computer. A ton of people have asked if this game is a virus, and it's pretty understandable. Seeing that administrator icon next to this game makes me way more uneasy than anything a horror game could do. I'm cautiously trusting the dev to not sneak anything malicious into any of the downloads, as there's clearly a lot of time and love put into this game.

SPOILERS AHEAD:
With that out of the way, I'd also like to complain about the Luxia fight. I already commented (comments appear to have been disabled, most likely because the dev didn't want any more comments on how to reset your file on the free version) about how the fight comes off as incredibly unfair in a previous comment, but I can reiterate some of the points and more here.  The main gripe I have with this fight is how obnoxious and unnecessary the boss run is. If you have a save file for day 4, you still have to answer a whopping 35 questions just to get to the fight. Yes, spending less time fighting the boss technically makes them harder overall. But I'd also argue that inflating my playtime by making me do a bunch of mindless questions is the most artificial and stupid way to make a boss difficult. But that's not even getting into the fight itself. My god, the fight itself. It's like 8-10 minutes (not exaggerating, seriously). And the first 5 or so minutes are a slog too because it's just waiting through a bunch of really easy patterns that you'll curse yourself for accidentally getting hit by if you lose focus or jerk your mouse a little too hard. Then when you make it around the halfway point, you're greeted with some of the most god-awful pattern designs in a boss fight.  I cannot tell you how many times I've been dragged directly into a wall or projectile from the blue attack. You know why? BECAUSE IT'S NOT EVEN REMOTELY TELEGRAPHED! You have no way of knowing exactly when it'll come out or what direction it'll decide to pull you. It's luck, pure luck. Speaking of luck, that's what it'll take for most people to complete this fight! There's a huge gap between the difficulty of the patterns at the end, and you have to pray that the attacks don't overlap in a completely unfair way on transition. I could go on and on about how terrible this fight is, but it wouldn't even be as remotely as bad if I didn't have to spend an ungodly amount of time doing questions beforehand. Just give us a way to actually get to the fight more quickly, because making the trip to get to the fight is unbelievably poor design.

I just wrote something similar. I completely trust the developer, but a game being able to do something like this is a bit unnerving. I'm not a huge programmer, but it seems like you could do a lot of stuff to a computer if you're able to do this.

Developer(+1)

I totally understand that it's very annoying to go through the game again for a boss fight, and that the boss is incredibly difficult - but this boss fight was planned to be almost impossible to beat. But, given the fact that the player needs to replay a large portion of the game just to try again, I updated the game and added an additional effect to one of the artifacts, which will allow you to rely less on luck, and rely more on your skill during the boss battle.

I'm not really happy that it's much much easier to beat now, but I put the opinion of the player above everything else, so I hope you will be pleased with the new update.

Well, I didn't actually expect my complaining to have done anything other than me just venting my frustration in a discussion. But having now played the fight and finishing it with the maneki neko, I think this was a very good change. I think in particular it will be good for content creators who are going for endings, as they won't have to struggle as much to get this ending. Sorry if I came off as a little rude in my initial post, and thanks for making this change. I hope it doesn't interfere with the vision you had for the fight too much.

Its still impossible on my game? Same as on old version

ok for you it might just be a skill issue