Love to the developers

[wanton plank]

First of all, I can see that this project has a lot of love and effort put into it.
So, that said, I want any reader to know that my message is written with love for that effort, as an amateur developer it's my dream to make something like this myself so.
Secondly, I am by no means an expert critic, but just someone that has been gaming for over 25 years now. 😂

I really love the character art style in this game, and I can respect the choice of having the character creator in the way it is. I do not need to see new armor pieces on my character, having a character set makes it recognizable, and transmog can always alter that later.

The characters fit in well with the world, and the enemies fit in well with both as well. Art wise, this game doesn't do under compared to big names like for example the Zelda series.

The feel is lacking though. I think the sound could use some touches. There are very loud abnoxious horns, which are okay, but those could for example be replaced to be used when you start an encounter with an enemy and be set on a cooldown, so it doesn't fire repeatedly. Besides that I am missing footsteps, and ambience. The space whales could have actual whale sounds which are always mesmerizing for example. I do love the drums, but they lack balance, the regular beat is fairly continuous, and then they suddenly smack your ears unnecessarily loud.

There is no real tutorial that gets you familiar in the start of the game. Things like this are often seen as hinders by players, but the lack of it is seen as incomplete.

There is also very little communication between the game and the players. There is no rewarding queue for when you beat something, the harvesting takes long and has no real pings for what you're actually gathering. For example some of the first missions have you craft weapons, and when you actually get those there is no satisfying ping for completing the quest you have done. Then you wear that weapon, and you're not told clearly how you change your items back and forth. You're left in the dark quite often, you're not even told that you have an inventory. Which is trendy in general survival game, but I feel like it's a necessity in a game with this specific style to feel more like other games have made us feel before.

I am writing this post very very early after just opening the game and playing for about an hour with it, because first impressions matter. 😁

Again, all the love to the devs, I normally do not write posts like this but I think this game is under rated and could be a real jewel if it adresses a few minor points like the ones I wrote about above. ❤️

[wet siren]

A lot is either try and error which isnt that bad but understandable that some will not like it or just reading carefully. I never looked at the pause menu in detail so I never read that the stockpile is accessible to it like 7+ hours in. The stockpile not being accessable through the storages is another part. I even havent realised that you can craft a small health item until I was like 10+ hours in

[wanton plank]

yeah with no communication to the player I really aim at very small improvements, could be a sound cue when you loot something, or text from NPC that is more interesting to look at, background music that changes pace or adds an instrument when you enter combat, these are all very small things but they put the dot on the i and finish things, I think it would do this game great..

more or less tutorial can either be a hit or miss depending on how the game is still developing, because remaking a tutorial over and over because of new or removed content is a waste of time, so I can't really judge that 😂 but if the first 3 sentence conversation with an NPC feels boring, then no one is going to read anything in a game.. a big splash screen whenever you find something new with a bit of explanation, and maybe a guide book where that info is gathered would already be great.. ?

sorry just ranting about my opinion 😂 hope we're read some time