Hi,
I played a part of your demo yesterday (actually, everything except the guild initiation quest, 'cause I'm a disaster with real-time battle so Arietta died in the second random fight
:frown:). I love the maps and the overall atmosphere of this game!! Really good job creating a beautiful world there.
The story pacing is good, quite fast actually, enough to keep you going on.
I did encounter quite a few passability issues (npcs walking on (horizontal) beds, on the hedges with flowers, on trees in the second village, player can walk behind the crops in the NE corner of the first village) and thought it a shame most animals don't move. Some more thoughts on the game in the spoiler:
Spoiler
- I had trouble finding the entrance to the forest where you find Colette, because the path doesn't align with the exit. I'd suggest shifting the entrance to the east so people can just follow the path.
- Arietta already says her line about "there's a girl there" when the player can't see Colette yet. I'd think letting Arietta walk forward a bit until the player sees Colette as well would make the scene better.
- I was surprised by the way Arietta and Colette almost immediately treat each other as if they've been best friends since kindergarden (at least, that's how it came across with me) If I would find someone in the forest on a dark night, I'd be a bit more reserved with them at first, until we've gone through some significant trail together and I know what I can expect from that person.
- When you go to say goodbye to Arietta's grandparents, Colette is the partyleader. But everybody still talks as if they're talking to Arietta, that doesn't feel logical to me.
- I would have liked to see how many of an object I was supposed to collect in both fetch-quests. The wood (why were they pouches instead of the woodpiles, btw?) was pretty obvious, but with the "stuff" I didn't know if one was enough. I just turned it in then.
- And just one thing I would personally change: I would turn the remark of the girl with wings in the guild (leftside) into a joke (along the lines of "why are you staring at my wings, think you're the harbinger?? sorry to dissappoint you, everybody can see them")
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Good luck with this game, I think it has great potential!
