also the room at the top right of the basement won't let me interreact with the machines i've killed all the monster i could see in the room unless there are more behind the orange crystals
There are four enemies in that room, three iron knights and the pale one. There are none behind those crystals, I wonder if something went wrong when they were killed. Did you loot the enemies after you killed them? I'll test this myself to see if I can get I run into the same problem.
Those are red crystals not orange ones. The red crystal to destroy those is in the same room when all four enemies are killed and you go through that sequence.
Loving the game so far! I've been following it for awhile and excited to play the full product!
I am having an issue with the first major boss (the one in the "mansion") where my character enters the room, says "Huh, I think I see something over there" then proceeds to walk straight ahead into a box. I'm unsure if I am missing something or there is a bug but it does not progress from here.
Been waiting for this for a while, but it seems a lot buggier than before. When initiating the scene for the pink slime, the new image just stay on screen while the game continues and blocks everything.
I ignored that scene and continued on. I have gotten all the way through to the mansion but am completely stuck. The only room that could be progression is the orb puzzle but I see nothing to figure out what to do. The help function is just '...'.
I backtracked to where the armoured guy comes out of the basement, the only place I had not been. And managed to run through him to access it. Now the help function says something like' you have done everything here, try going west from the gas station'.
I am wondering if something hasn't triggered or has gone in the wrong order?
I took a quick look and yes the slime scene was missing a line to erase that picture. It's been fixed in 1.2 which I hope to have up later today.
The help option goes silent during the mansion because I wanted it to be more challenging, I can add a better help section for the mansion if needed.
The orb room, there is a panel on the northern wall that actives the puzzle. Once activated, you have to change them all to one color starting with red, then interact with the orb on the southern room that matches the color. You only need to do red and blue to progress, yellow and green are optional treasures. The item you get for completing that will let you complete the other rooms.
Yeah, the mansion is suppose to be the last area. Going back to the east and completing that would mess up the help system, I'll add a fix to that in 1.2.
Ah, gotcha. I did try all one colour but did not interact with the specific orb. With the way it was worded, I assumed you had to interact with the switch to activate it and if it was wrong it reset it. Thank you for clearing that up.
Oh, a few other things now that I've made it through. After the bee girl, at least for me the screen goes black and stays like that. Similar to the problem with the slime. Also, the code you find in the safe for the Extra Folder D doesn't seem to work. Last thing is the herb seller didn't appear at all for me. Maybe the order I did things broke it but I'm not sure.
Not sure why the bee girl isn't working, if it's when you first meet her then I'll have to change how the screen darkens. If not then where else at is it bugging out like the slime?
The original codes for the extras folders don't work anymore, I thought I got rid of the old ones but I must of missed one. I'll get rid of it if I see it. The way to get the codes now is finding the secret scene during the escape sequence then talking to the blonde woman in the achievements room, beating the game and going into the achievements room to talk with Abby and extras folder B is locked behind the achievement where you escape trighbon in under 1 minute 15 seconds then talk to Shane in the achievements room.
The you did things seems fine, just some bugs I overlooked or with the bee the scene not fading back in properly. I'll fix these and get the new bug fix update out as soon as I can.
Oh sorry for being unclear. The bee girl issue is when you get back to the house and is after her scenes play out. I assume I'm meant to be back outside the cave and can bring up the menu but its all black otherwise, similar to the slime image.
Dang, its for the escape sequence? I saved over that immediately as I never wanted to do that again haha. Back round we go.
Hmm... I'll replay the entire game again and check out that scene. I forgot to mention, when it comes to the herb seller, was the key on the ground when you were there? If so you took too long getting there. Once you leave the van for the first time, a timer starts in the background.
After an hour, the sun sets and it gets dark, more enemies spawn and one of the chase enemies spawns far more frequently. This timer doesn't progress while in the van or while in the mansion.
Yeah, there are two codes that unlock in the escape sequence. One for beating it in under 1 minute 15 seconds, the other is finding the secret as I said. The secret is on the mansion map so it's easy to find, once you find it the chase enemy despawns for that map while it plays.
I don't know if I just skipped something crucial, but before the mansion and after being chased by the monster, he appears almost every time I interact with anything in any building. I pick up wine? I open the ATM? I find a book on the shelf? He appears and immediately game over's me.
Which monster? If it's the Iron Juggernaut it might be a bug and I'll need to investigate that. If it's the giant blue sludge, he appears more frequently the longer you spend in Trighbon. After an hour he has a 50% of spawning every time you leave an area and a 50% every 6 seconds.
If it's the latter I can reduce his spawn rate to make it more manageable.
The "Giant Iron Knight". After I found the key needed for the house in between the mansion and the town, he would appear almost every time I interacted with an item inside of any building prior to the mansion.
Ohhh I think I see what I messed up on. To break that, go back to the van location where you first started. In the little shack where it's parked a autorun event should play telling you to go inside the van. Once inside the van that loop should break. I was suppose to change it so that loop broke if you entered any other map but I must of forgot. I'll put that fix in and hopefully have 1.1 out within the next day or so.
Game was free, I guess you get what you pay for. I'm not trying to sound like an asshole here but this game is terrible as a game.
The Gameplay loop is un-fun and requires a lot of back tracking to the van to constantly save after every little thing you do because you don't know if some terrible gameplay of clipping up against the least scary spider of all time will just 1 shot this man who's made out of tissue paper and gum.
I get what you're trying to do it's clearly inspired by resident evil and there are some parts where yeah I really felt the vibe but it was just for a flash and then it was gone. It would've been nice if maybe the van travelled around as a mobile save station.Maybe if quests were a bit more guided properly you could use completion of certain parts as flags to move the van.
The Dialogue of this game is absolutely terrible, it's too long it's full of meaningless speech that isn't written with purpose so it just leads to alot of skipping through dialogue until you see objective based words. There are so many books to pick up from shelves and alot of them can't be read because they aren't finished and give an error for that.
I really don't think dumping exposition into the books is the way to tell whatever story you're going for here. You should do more showing and less telling. I mean even when it comes to the environment, the detective town before even going to the other area with the van is just a ghost town with no one in it and it makes you ask "Why is this guy even living here". Also the presentation of the detective apprentice feels hard to believe to be honest it feels like a mislead interpretation of what becoming a detective is like.
The game doesn't explain its self very well in terms of questlines, to the point it feels like there isn't any. It feels like a generic RPG maker game where you're wandering around a giant sandbox of stock assets until you hopefully do something to advance. But the gameplay loop just ends up being you slowly checking every single book shelf box and object one after the other in the least seamless way as possible it's a chore and kills the atmosphere.
The game feels like a test bench of just random systems that were being experimented with and just dropped onto itch.io one day. I mean you'll run into a guy and apparently he's just some addict dude on the street but he talks to you. Otherwise he looks normal, but the next guy you meet is a zombie for some reason?? OK, I guess we have those in this game now. It's now a zombie game, even though there's only like 1 zombie in this whole thing with red eyes.
Maybe being indistinguishable is intentional, maybe it's like the plant based bio weapons from resident evil or something but there just needs to be more guided, narrative establishment before throwing players out into the wild something anything.
It just has you thinking, "man, was this an adult game or like a weirdly empty visual novel thing?". Because where's the scenes, the only time I finally came across something was the mirror scene with the pink one and that was good but honestly the text was in the way like 90% of the time. Just add a wait section so theres nothing in the way for a bit before throwing more text on screen.
There was some random chick by a tree and it was suggested there's some kind of memory viewer or scene viewer but its nowhere to be found in the game idk.
I'm really not trying to tear you down on this one creator but, my honest feedback is. Localize the level design to smaller less sprawling expanses and make these compact zones more meaningful and communicate the intentions/player direction more clearly. Add a gallery, it would help a lot. The aimless wandering made me want to quit so many times. Not because of difficulty but boredom.
Give the player more options to save in different locations besides the van its too much back tracking. If the inspiration is Resident Evil I think you must be forgetting that RPD's main hall is a centralized area with zones branching off of it and the level design basically guides you in a big circle that at anytime allows you to easily navigate back to the center.
Lock in on what your themes and intientions are for your game, and deliver on the story based upon that. They just need to be polished (or exist idk if there really are any thematic elements here). What is the viewer/player supposed to feel at every moment. I don't think playing some sinister music and cartoonishly red screen tint is enough.
There was only like one moment where it seemed like the game was trying to introduce the player to these hostile enemies. Where it basically did an RE4 reference to being in a house and seeing some dude who seemed like a regular village dweller go hostile and try to kill you but that scene is practically optional and doesn't make things clear enough that everything is now a threat.
This is too all over the place. I recommend adding a plugin for omni directional movement or something too because shooting the gun can feel kinda jank and aiming the flashlight. Sure maybe restricted movement can help horror but I don't feel horror for this game just nuissance design.
Currently: 3/10 The Slime girl was the best part. Until she did that weird neck thing idk.
Going to break this down by each segment to give you a proper answer to this. But if you want a TL;DR...
The game isn't finished, this isn't a beta or an alpha it's a staple everything together, get the main story events working properly then go back to the beginning and start trimming and cleaning up. Money is tight but I spend what I can into it.
So don't complain about a game that isn't finished, or complain about a game that just isn't your taste.
With that said, let me break down each section in more detail.
"Gameplay Loop"
The gameplay loop isn't finished, many elements haven't been added yet either. The reason the areas are large in Trighbon is the first boss would chase you around the area similar to Ao oni but that got pushed back to the final release as I just wanted to get the basic story beats done. The save issue was brought up before and I already know of it.
"Got one shot"
The spider boss is one of the easier in the game. The reason you got one shot is either: It hit you when the sprites were active or you didn't have enough HP to survive his basic attacks.
One part of gameplay here is exploring and gathering materials + herbs you find in the environment, another is building armor to reduce damage taken. The armor needs buffed and more sets need added, which is being worked on. Again the one shot or high damage issue has already been addressed and being worked on.
"Inspiration"
Resident Evil 4 was one inspiration but not my main one. If I said what the main inspiration was it would be obvious what your fighting so I don't want to spoil that. Having the van move sounds like a good idea on paper but there's not much tension when you have a safe area and save spot you can go to regularly. A few new saves were added and some are being planned and there is a journal system that's being worked on and it will give you basic directions of where to go I just haven't finished it yet.
"Move the Van?"
Completion of certain parts to move the van happens in a few select areas already. The other saves are near the salesman or book trader in select areas only.
"Terrible Dialogue"
Dialogue was already planned to be reworked but it's not as bad as your making it out to be. Most dialogue will be the same as the beginning conversations with Abby and Shane where you can just choose to progress story instead of listening to it all, but you didn't bring this up for some reason? Not sure if you thought it was mandatory but I can tell you it's not.
Books are primarily for trading to the book trader for rare items. There is no exposition dumping in books because the "lore" in those books is optional and not important to the main story of this game, just an optional read for those who care.
Ignoring the "show don't tell" section. Games not finished, NPCs have already been made to the town and just need to be added. Again, games not finished not even in alpha.
"Detective Apprentice"
Glad you noticed the detective apprentice is arrogant and only in it for the money and entertainment. Almost like he was given the job by family and only looking to get a paycheck. This was partially explained in some dialogue but you either skipped over it or it wasn't implemented. I would need to go back and look to make sure.
"Game doesn't explain itself"
I already know the game doesn't explain much, this complaint was made before and I answered this further up when I said games not finished, just trying to get main story beats done before additions,trimming and polishing.
"Generic Sandbox"
The game is focused on exploration, when entering a new area you are told to explore to see what you can find, your even told this in the intro area. So yes wandering/exploring the area is part of the game. Your also told EXACTLY which buildings to go to or which direction to go during briefing, the only problem is in Trighbon where the one house door is locked for no real reason, I need to leave it unlocked so people can go straight to the mansion if they really choose to. If you don't like these types of games that's one thing, but don't claim it's a problem when multiple times you are told to explore your surroundings. On top of skipping dialogue I'm not surprised you got lost or stuck.
You don't have to check every area. I can only think of one key that is under a table with no real explanation but that key was moved in 0.8 which isn't ready yet.
"Bunch of random experiment systems"
Wrong, I wanted to make a shooter game with puzzle elements which is what I'm making. I chose to make a shooter after seeing an older game use it and I knew it'd be fun to make one and RPGM is the easiest engine to use and the only engine I know how to work with.
"Just some addict dude"
Wrong. You missed an event explaining that, you'll find him again in the slums area and he tells you something interesting that I won't spoil here for others who may read this.
"Zombie?"
Nope. Not a zombie, won't spoil what it is but it hasn't been explained well in the story as the dialogue needs reworked as stated above. A majority of enemies in the game have red eyes but it's hard to see with the pixel art and areas being dark.
"Indistinguishable?"
Nope. Not bio weapons. In this game you are a detective, I'm not going to spell out the answers, your suppose to explore the area and figure it out as you progress. But again can't say much here because game isn't done, story needs work, main story beats work first etc etc.
"GAME Novel?"
It's a game, not a visual novel. I've said on other sites don't think of this as a typical adult game, scenes are more spread apart then in most other games and some are hidden.
"Scenes?"
The slime scene was one of the first I had made and it's one I like the least. It was on the chopping block even, it's not that good and the thing never appears in the game again after. It came out of the sink, not the mirror but I get what your saying. The text was moved to the top of the screen rather than the bottom which makes watching it easier.
"Random Chick"
She isn't suppose to be there until you've completed the demo and the recollection room unlocks so, whoops on that.
"Tearing down and level design"
Really odd way of saying that, like you only made this to attack my game and bring my project down rather than just say you didn't have a good time with a game that isn't finished or even in alpha. I doubt you did, but it comes off that way. Levels are based around exploration as stated before, the reason the mansion is a large map is because the lower section used to have three buildings but I ended up removing them for reasons.
"Aimless wandering"
Again, other people who have played this never had this issue or made a complaint about it being an issue. Maybe you skipped through the text that gave you basic directions, I don't know.
"More save locations"
Already addressed.
"RE Inspiration"
Nope. Only the RE4 Plagas and a small section of the intro were inspirations. Never played a RE game in my life, only seen playthroughs of RE4. So I have no idea what your talking about when you say RPDs Main hall.
"Themes"
Already answered this above, game not finished, story plans etc etc.
"What does the player feel?"
No idea. Your suppose to slowly put the pieces together but the story/game isn't complete.
"Music and red tint"
The music is perfectly fine, the red tint is the sunset brother. Not sure what exactly you thought it was but it's sunset. It's an orange tint, not red by the by.
"One Moment"
Yes, because that first town was the entire game at one point and was going to be it. As I said, the iron juggernaut was going to stalk you and chase you around the area along with other enemies sprinkled in. That enemy intro was the last thing I made before deciding to A: Make the game longer. And B: Get all the main story beats in place and functional before adding, trimming and polishing.
"Too all over the place"
Games not finished, I hate beating this horse but that's why it feels empty/unfinished.
"Omni Movement"
Never liked that, it makes things very janky because of how RPGM is designed. The flashlight looks awkward and the gun gameplay wouldn't work properly. I've tried it before and I have no intentions of rebuilding my game around it when it's this far already.
"Shooting the Gun"
Shooting works fine, the flashlight issue has already been fixed by adding a better flashlight and two lantern items which illuminate an area around you.
"Nuissance Design"
I won't beat the dead horse anymore.
Originally there was two more scenes but those were cut and pushed back. I work on this game when I can and put money into it when I can. Tilesets are expensive and not worth putting money into, anyone using RPGM will tell you this.
Sorry you didn't enjoy it, if you put money into it just ask for a refund. I'm not going to ask you to stick around until it's done, if you don't like it then that's that. Just know that what you played was an unfinished project with many of your issues already being worked on or plans have been made to work on them while others aren't problems and are simply not your taste.
Didn't mean to dump text here and I apologize if I came off as antagonistic.
I keep getting a bug where Aaron's sprite gets stuck facing a certain direction. It seems to happen after dialog. Whatever direction Aaron is facing when the dialog starts is the one he gets stuck in.
EDIT: Nvm seems like that's actually one of the controls.
If you press the E key it will lock your current direction, try pressing the E key and see if that unsticks it. If that doesn't work, which dialog is this happening on?
I wanna say thanks for giving this game the attention you have. Not bailing out and vanishing off the face of the earth is a chad move. Big ballin man.
Why is the main character so fast at random times?I fighting a boss and for some reason ,i keep speeding up without holding shift.It makes the game very hard
The speed issue might be a coding problem, I've started combing through the different events although I believe it's the speed not returning to normal after getting hit by an enemy. I can fix this rather easily, although I'm currently pushing for a full release as the next update. I might add some bug fixes if they get too numerous.
The bosses are the main challenge in this game. Each one is more difficult than the last although they can be stunned. The first boss can be stunned by having him run into the broken pillars all around the room. Bosses also take increased damage from the knife, so once their stunned you can spam knife without getting hit and this will take out 40% or 50% of it's health each stun cycle if spammed.
On another note, each boss has been getting nerfed. The first boss might get another damage and health nerf is he still too difficult.
Oh .here i was thinking the shotgun was doing more damage but i didn't have enough ammo for it. my main problem with the fight is it's impossible to know when he is going throw out his attack were you have to dodge it and most of the time i am hitting it because t happens at random without warning.Once he starts speeding up ,i have to as well and sometimes i go way too fast i messed up making me miss my chance to hit him.I will try the knife and see how that goes but the moment he starts booking it ,i won't last long anyway
The biggest mistake I made with the first boss is killing him without ammo. Honestly you don't need to shoot him at all, just keep your distance. Wait for him to charge at you, lead him into a pillar. Rinse and repeat until he's dead. The second boss still has a phase like this but after those two I did away with that, at least I hope I did. The newer bosses are still in late testing phases.
So far so good I really like the game so far, bosses are difficult but pretty enjoyable to defeat the nsfw scenes are also good so, keep up the good work (I been fighting mark for 2 days now I *JUST* beat him)
Just damange him until he goes into his full spider phase then just run around until the fire orbs shows up, Don't remember that if you must touch them when they're moving or stopped moving. if you grab all the spider's damange lower and you can just corner spam bullets at him then move back with the R, i recommend starting with the rifle until 3rd phase (if it shows too difficult grab pistol for 3rd phase) if you can, then continue damanging with pistol until you grab all fire orbs, then shotty, the boss will sometimes by sound alert you he will start running. try getting him hit against the fire to stun it and bullet spam again
Slow but steady. At the current pace I'm working it should be done by the end of this month or first month of November depending on how long bug testing takes.
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think i found a bug where the orange crystal does not remove the orange crystal blocking the paths in the mansion basement
also the room at the top right of the basement won't let me interreact with the machines i've killed all the monster i could see in the room unless there are more behind the orange crystals
There are four enemies in that room, three iron knights and the pale one. There are none behind those crystals, I wonder if something went wrong when they were killed. Did you loot the enemies after you killed them? I'll test this myself to see if I can get I run into the same problem.
yes i killed all four and looted them and it won't let me use the machines
Alright. When I get back from work later I'll upload the fix.
thank you
Those are red crystals not orange ones. The red crystal to destroy those is in the same room when all four enemies are killed and you go through that sequence.
oh my bad
Loving the game so far! I've been following it for awhile and excited to play the full product!
I am having an issue with the first major boss (the one in the "mansion") where my character enters the room, says "Huh, I think I see something over there" then proceeds to walk straight ahead into a box. I'm unsure if I am missing something or there is a bug but it does not progress from here.
Thank you, glad your enjoying it! I'm hoping to have chapter 2 ready and updated in early November.
Getting stuck in that box was a bug and the fix will be uploaded shortly.
Been waiting for this for a while, but it seems a lot buggier than before. When initiating the scene for the pink slime, the new image just stay on screen while the game continues and blocks everything.
I ignored that scene and continued on. I have gotten all the way through to the mansion but am completely stuck. The only room that could be progression is the orb puzzle but I see nothing to figure out what to do. The help function is just '...'.
I backtracked to where the armoured guy comes out of the basement, the only place I had not been. And managed to run through him to access it. Now the help function says something like' you have done everything here, try going west from the gas station'.
I am wondering if something hasn't triggered or has gone in the wrong order?
I took a quick look and yes the slime scene was missing a line to erase that picture. It's been fixed in 1.2 which I hope to have up later today.
The help option goes silent during the mansion because I wanted it to be more challenging, I can add a better help section for the mansion if needed.
The orb room, there is a panel on the northern wall that actives the puzzle. Once activated, you have to change them all to one color starting with red, then interact with the orb on the southern room that matches the color. You only need to do red and blue to progress, yellow and green are optional treasures. The item you get for completing that will let you complete the other rooms.
Yeah, the mansion is suppose to be the last area. Going back to the east and completing that would mess up the help system, I'll add a fix to that in 1.2.
Ah, gotcha. I did try all one colour but did not interact with the specific orb. With the way it was worded, I assumed you had to interact with the switch to activate it and if it was wrong it reset it. Thank you for clearing that up.
Oh, a few other things now that I've made it through. After the bee girl, at least for me the screen goes black and stays like that. Similar to the problem with the slime. Also, the code you find in the safe for the Extra Folder D doesn't seem to work. Last thing is the herb seller didn't appear at all for me. Maybe the order I did things broke it but I'm not sure.
Not sure why the bee girl isn't working, if it's when you first meet her then I'll have to change how the screen darkens. If not then where else at is it bugging out like the slime?
The original codes for the extras folders don't work anymore, I thought I got rid of the old ones but I must of missed one. I'll get rid of it if I see it. The way to get the codes now is finding the secret scene during the escape sequence then talking to the blonde woman in the achievements room, beating the game and going into the achievements room to talk with Abby and extras folder B is locked behind the achievement where you escape trighbon in under 1 minute 15 seconds then talk to Shane in the achievements room.
The you did things seems fine, just some bugs I overlooked or with the bee the scene not fading back in properly. I'll fix these and get the new bug fix update out as soon as I can.
Oh sorry for being unclear. The bee girl issue is when you get back to the house and is after her scenes play out. I assume I'm meant to be back outside the cave and can bring up the menu but its all black otherwise, similar to the slime image.
Dang, its for the escape sequence? I saved over that immediately as I never wanted to do that again haha. Back round we go.
Hmm... I'll replay the entire game again and check out that scene. I forgot to mention, when it comes to the herb seller, was the key on the ground when you were there? If so you took too long getting there. Once you leave the van for the first time, a timer starts in the background.
After an hour, the sun sets and it gets dark, more enemies spawn and one of the chase enemies spawns far more frequently. This timer doesn't progress while in the van or while in the mansion.
Yeah, there are two codes that unlock in the escape sequence. One for beating it in under 1 minute 15 seconds, the other is finding the secret as I said. The secret is on the mansion map so it's easy to find, once you find it the chase enemy despawns for that map while it plays.
I don't know if I just skipped something crucial, but before the mansion and after being chased by the monster, he appears almost every time I interact with anything in any building. I pick up wine? I open the ATM? I find a book on the shelf? He appears and immediately game over's me.
Which monster? If it's the Iron Juggernaut it might be a bug and I'll need to investigate that. If it's the giant blue sludge, he appears more frequently the longer you spend in Trighbon. After an hour he has a 50% of spawning every time you leave an area and a 50% every 6 seconds.
If it's the latter I can reduce his spawn rate to make it more manageable.
The "Giant Iron Knight". After I found the key needed for the house in between the mansion and the town, he would appear almost every time I interacted with an item inside of any building prior to the mansion.
Ohhh I think I see what I messed up on. To break that, go back to the van location where you first started. In the little shack where it's parked a autorun event should play telling you to go inside the van. Once inside the van that loop should break. I was suppose to change it so that loop broke if you entered any other map but I must of forgot. I'll put that fix in and hopefully have 1.1 out within the next day or so.
Game was free, I guess you get what you pay for.
I'm not trying to sound like an asshole here but this game is terrible as a game.
The Gameplay loop is un-fun and requires a lot of back tracking to the van to constantly save after every little thing you do because you don't know if some terrible gameplay of clipping up against the least scary spider of all time will just 1 shot this man who's made out of tissue paper and gum.
I get what you're trying to do it's clearly inspired by resident evil and there are some parts where yeah I really felt the vibe but it was just for a flash and then it was gone. It would've been nice if maybe the van travelled around as a mobile save station.Maybe if quests were a bit more guided properly you could use completion of certain parts as flags to move the van.
The Dialogue of this game is absolutely terrible, it's too long it's full of meaningless speech that isn't written with purpose so it just leads to alot of skipping through dialogue until you see objective based words. There are so many books to pick up from shelves and alot of them can't be read because they aren't finished and give an error for that.
I really don't think dumping exposition into the books is the way to tell whatever story you're going for here. You should do more showing and less telling. I mean even when it comes to the environment, the detective town before even going to the other area with the van is just a ghost town with no one in it and it makes you ask "Why is this guy even living here". Also the presentation of the detective apprentice feels hard to believe to be honest it feels like a mislead interpretation of what becoming a detective is like.
The game doesn't explain its self very well in terms of questlines, to the point it feels like there isn't any. It feels like a generic RPG maker game where you're wandering around a giant sandbox of stock assets until you hopefully do something to advance. But the gameplay loop just ends up being you slowly checking every single book shelf box and object one after the other in the least seamless way as possible it's a chore and kills the atmosphere.
The game feels like a test bench of just random systems that were being experimented with and just dropped onto itch.io one day. I mean you'll run into a guy and apparently he's just some addict dude on the street but he talks to you. Otherwise he looks normal, but the next guy you meet is a zombie for some reason?? OK, I guess we have those in this game now. It's now a zombie game, even though there's only like 1 zombie in this whole thing with red eyes.
Maybe being indistinguishable is intentional, maybe it's like the plant based bio weapons from resident evil or something but there just needs to be more guided, narrative establishment before throwing players out into the wild something anything.
It just has you thinking, "man, was this an adult game or like a weirdly empty visual novel thing?". Because where's the scenes, the only time I finally came across something was the mirror scene with the pink one and that was good but honestly the text was in the way like 90% of the time. Just add a wait section so theres nothing in the way for a bit before throwing more text on screen.
There was some random chick by a tree and it was suggested there's some kind of memory viewer or scene viewer but its nowhere to be found in the game idk.
I'm really not trying to tear you down on this one creator but, my honest feedback is. Localize the level design to smaller less sprawling expanses and make these compact zones more meaningful and communicate the intentions/player direction more clearly. Add a gallery, it would help a lot. The aimless wandering made me want to quit so many times. Not because of difficulty but boredom.
Give the player more options to save in different locations besides the van its too much back tracking. If the inspiration is Resident Evil I think you must be forgetting that RPD's main hall is a centralized area with zones branching off of it and the level design basically guides you in a big circle that at anytime allows you to easily navigate back to the center.
Lock in on what your themes and intientions are for your game, and deliver on the story based upon that. They just need to be polished (or exist idk if there really are any thematic elements here). What is the viewer/player supposed to feel at every moment. I don't think playing some sinister music and cartoonishly red screen tint is enough.
There was only like one moment where it seemed like the game was trying to introduce the player to these hostile enemies. Where it basically did an RE4 reference to being in a house and seeing some dude who seemed like a regular village dweller go hostile and try to kill you but that scene is practically optional and doesn't make things clear enough that everything is now a threat.
This is too all over the place. I recommend adding a plugin for omni directional movement or something too because shooting the gun can feel kinda jank and aiming the flashlight. Sure maybe restricted movement can help horror but I don't feel horror for this game just nuissance design.
Currently: 3/10
The Slime girl was the best part. Until she did that weird neck thing idk.
Going to break this down by each segment to give you a proper answer to this. But if you want a TL;DR...
The game isn't finished, this isn't a beta or an alpha it's a staple everything together, get the main story events working properly then go back to the beginning and start trimming and cleaning up. Money is tight but I spend what I can into it.
So don't complain about a game that isn't finished, or complain about a game that just isn't your taste.
With that said, let me break down each section in more detail.
"Gameplay Loop"
The gameplay loop isn't finished, many elements haven't been added yet either. The reason the areas are large in Trighbon is the first boss would chase you around the area similar to Ao oni but that got pushed back to the final release as I just wanted to get the basic story beats done. The save issue was brought up before and I already know of it.
"Got one shot"
The spider boss is one of the easier in the game. The reason you got one shot is either: It hit you when the sprites were active or you didn't have enough HP to survive his basic attacks.
One part of gameplay here is exploring and gathering materials + herbs you find in the environment, another is building armor to reduce damage taken. The armor needs buffed and more sets need added, which is being worked on. Again the one shot or high damage issue has already been addressed and being worked on.
"Inspiration"
Resident Evil 4 was one inspiration but not my main one. If I said what the main inspiration was it would be obvious what your fighting so I don't want to spoil that. Having the van move sounds like a good idea on paper but there's not much tension when you have a safe area and save spot you can go to regularly. A few new saves were added and some are being planned and there is a journal system that's being worked on and it will give you basic directions of where to go I just haven't finished it yet.
"Move the Van?"
Completion of certain parts to move the van happens in a few select areas already. The other saves are near the salesman or book trader in select areas only.
"Terrible Dialogue"
Dialogue was already planned to be reworked but it's not as bad as your making it out to be. Most dialogue will be the same as the beginning conversations with Abby and Shane where you can just choose to progress story instead of listening to it all, but you didn't bring this up for some reason? Not sure if you thought it was mandatory but I can tell you it's not.
Books are primarily for trading to the book trader for rare items. There is no exposition dumping in books because the "lore" in those books is optional and not important to the main story of this game, just an optional read for those who care.
Ignoring the "show don't tell" section. Games not finished, NPCs have already been made to the town and just need to be added. Again, games not finished not even in alpha.
"Detective Apprentice"
Glad you noticed the detective apprentice is arrogant and only in it for the money and entertainment. Almost like he was given the job by family and only looking to get a paycheck. This was partially explained in some dialogue but you either skipped over it or it wasn't implemented. I would need to go back and look to make sure.
"Game doesn't explain itself"
I already know the game doesn't explain much, this complaint was made before and I answered this further up when I said games not finished, just trying to get main story beats done before additions,trimming and polishing.
"Generic Sandbox"
The game is focused on exploration, when entering a new area you are told to explore to see what you can find, your even told this in the intro area. So yes wandering/exploring the area is part of the game. Your also told EXACTLY which buildings to go to or which direction to go during briefing, the only problem is in Trighbon where the one house door is locked for no real reason, I need to leave it unlocked so people can go straight to the mansion if they really choose to. If you don't like these types of games that's one thing, but don't claim it's a problem when multiple times you are told to explore your surroundings. On top of skipping dialogue I'm not surprised you got lost or stuck.
You don't have to check every area. I can only think of one key that is under a table with no real explanation but that key was moved in 0.8 which isn't ready yet.
"Bunch of random experiment systems"
Wrong, I wanted to make a shooter game with puzzle elements which is what I'm making. I chose to make a shooter after seeing an older game use it and I knew it'd be fun to make one and RPGM is the easiest engine to use and the only engine I know how to work with.
"Just some addict dude"
Wrong. You missed an event explaining that, you'll find him again in the slums area and he tells you something interesting that I won't spoil here for others who may read this.
"Zombie?"
Nope. Not a zombie, won't spoil what it is but it hasn't been explained well in the story as the dialogue needs reworked as stated above. A majority of enemies in the game have red eyes but it's hard to see with the pixel art and areas being dark.
"Indistinguishable?"
Nope. Not bio weapons. In this game you are a detective, I'm not going to spell out the answers, your suppose to explore the area and figure it out as you progress. But again can't say much here because game isn't done, story needs work, main story beats work first etc etc.
"GAME Novel?"
It's a game, not a visual novel. I've said on other sites don't think of this as a typical adult game, scenes are more spread apart then in most other games and some are hidden.
"Scenes?"
The slime scene was one of the first I had made and it's one I like the least. It was on the chopping block even, it's not that good and the thing never appears in the game again after. It came out of the sink, not the mirror but I get what your saying. The text was moved to the top of the screen rather than the bottom which makes watching it easier.
"Random Chick"
She isn't suppose to be there until you've completed the demo and the recollection room unlocks so, whoops on that.
"Tearing down and level design"
Really odd way of saying that, like you only made this to attack my game and bring my project down rather than just say you didn't have a good time with a game that isn't finished or even in alpha. I doubt you did, but it comes off that way. Levels are based around exploration as stated before, the reason the mansion is a large map is because the lower section used to have three buildings but I ended up removing them for reasons.
"Aimless wandering"
Again, other people who have played this never had this issue or made a complaint about it being an issue. Maybe you skipped through the text that gave you basic directions, I don't know.
"More save locations"
Already addressed.
"RE Inspiration"
Nope. Only the RE4 Plagas and a small section of the intro were inspirations. Never played a RE game in my life, only seen playthroughs of RE4. So I have no idea what your talking about when you say RPDs Main hall.
"Themes"
Already answered this above, game not finished, story plans etc etc.
"What does the player feel?"
No idea. Your suppose to slowly put the pieces together but the story/game isn't complete.
"Music and red tint"
The music is perfectly fine, the red tint is the sunset brother. Not sure what exactly you thought it was but it's sunset. It's an orange tint, not red by the by.
"One Moment"
Yes, because that first town was the entire game at one point and was going to be it. As I said, the iron juggernaut was going to stalk you and chase you around the area along with other enemies sprinkled in. That enemy intro was the last thing I made before deciding to A: Make the game longer. And B: Get all the main story beats in place and functional before adding, trimming and polishing.
"Too all over the place"
Games not finished, I hate beating this horse but that's why it feels empty/unfinished.
"Omni Movement"
Never liked that, it makes things very janky because of how RPGM is designed. The flashlight looks awkward and the gun gameplay wouldn't work properly. I've tried it before and I have no intentions of rebuilding my game around it when it's this far already.
"Shooting the Gun"
Shooting works fine, the flashlight issue has already been fixed by adding a better flashlight and two lantern items which illuminate an area around you.
"Nuissance Design"
I won't beat the dead horse anymore.
Originally there was two more scenes but those were cut and pushed back. I work on this game when I can and put money into it when I can. Tilesets are expensive and not worth putting money into, anyone using RPGM will tell you this.
Sorry you didn't enjoy it, if you put money into it just ask for a refund. I'm not going to ask you to stick around until it's done, if you don't like it then that's that. Just know that what you played was an unfinished project with many of your issues already being worked on or plans have been made to work on them while others aren't problems and are simply not your taste.
Didn't mean to dump text here and I apologize if I came off as antagonistic.
I keep getting a bug where Aaron's sprite gets stuck facing a certain direction. It seems to happen after dialog. Whatever direction Aaron is facing when the dialog starts is the one he gets stuck in.
EDIT: Nvm seems like that's actually one of the controls.
If you press the E key it will lock your current direction, try pressing the E key and see if that unsticks it. If that doesn't work, which dialog is this happening on?
I wanna say thanks for giving this game the attention you have. Not bailing out and vanishing off the face of the earth is a chad move. Big ballin man.
Why is the main character so fast at random times?I fighting a boss and for some reason ,i keep speeding up without holding shift.It makes the game very hard
Why is the first boss so strong?He's too hard
To answer both of these.
The speed issue might be a coding problem, I've started combing through the different events although I believe it's the speed not returning to normal after getting hit by an enemy. I can fix this rather easily, although I'm currently pushing for a full release as the next update. I might add some bug fixes if they get too numerous.
The bosses are the main challenge in this game. Each one is more difficult than the last although they can be stunned. The first boss can be stunned by having him run into the broken pillars all around the room. Bosses also take increased damage from the knife, so once their stunned you can spam knife without getting hit and this will take out 40% or 50% of it's health each stun cycle if spammed.
On another note, each boss has been getting nerfed. The first boss might get another damage and health nerf is he still too difficult.
Oh .here i was thinking the shotgun was doing more damage but i didn't have enough ammo for it. my main problem with the fight is it's impossible to know when he is going throw out his attack were you have to dodge it and most of the time i am hitting it because t happens at random without warning.Once he starts speeding up ,i have to as well and sometimes i go way too fast i messed up making me miss my chance to hit him.I will try the knife and see how that goes but the moment he starts booking it ,i won't last long anyway
The biggest mistake I made with the first boss is killing him without ammo. Honestly you don't need to shoot him at all, just keep your distance. Wait for him to charge at you, lead him into a pillar. Rinse and repeat until he's dead. The second boss still has a phase like this but after those two I did away with that, at least I hope I did. The newer bosses are still in late testing phases.
How do I use the codes? Like I have B and C
When you go to extract the folders with say 7zip, it will ask for a password. Just type in the password and the folder will extract.
Thank you very much!
So far so good I really like the game so far, bosses are difficult but pretty enjoyable to defeat the nsfw scenes are also good so, keep up the good work (I been fighting mark for 2 days now I *JUST* beat him)
I cant beat him still
Just damange him until he goes into his full spider phase then just run around until the fire orbs shows up, Don't remember that if you must touch them when they're moving or stopped moving. if you grab all the spider's damange lower and you can just corner spam bullets at him then move back with the R, i recommend starting with the rifle until 3rd phase (if it shows too difficult grab pistol for 3rd phase) if you can, then continue damanging with pistol until you grab all fire orbs, then shotty, the boss will sometimes by sound alert you he will start running. try getting him hit against the fire to stun it and bullet spam again
Hows it going?
Slow but steady. At the current pace I'm working it should be done by the end of this month or first month of November depending on how long bug testing takes.
Thats fair. Good to see you're still working on it. Thanks for putting in the effort my man
It actually quite good game and i know there lot more to improve and smooth it a bit but yeah good game , can't wait for next updated.