"I PITY YOUR SOUL, FOR I WILL DEAL WIT YOU MYSELF! - And I will do this by hanging around down here in the corner where you can't get a good shot in, slowcasting easily avoidable orbs and occationally summoning a handful of bats..."
...Sorry for the sour puss. I'd like to point out that I still think this is a very fitting last chapter to a decade-long series of very excellent games.
This is the only game in the series where you can't go back and see the secrets after completing the game. Are you seriously telling me I have to go allll the way through this damn long game again, just to get to use my secrets? What a sour pill to cap off an otherwise excellent game series...
Present your vision to the world, only to be laughed at and cast out - sell your dream to faceless and uncaring people so you can afford the proper work attire to go to a repetitive and depressing job - dream about being repeatedly injured in the attempt to attain your dream - wake to find the dresscode has been arbitrarily changed, so you have to steal something to sell, in order to afford the new work clothes, just to be let back into your soulcrushing job - then go sleep in a bare and empty cave, dreaming about the things you love. I'm not sure I like this metaphor :(
So... Developer Response for the two guys praising the game, but the one with constructive criticism and twice as many upvotes gets radio silence? Hmm...
What, no Hall of Heroes? (Or List of Stupid Ways to Die?) I thought all Rogue-likes had a place you could see how far you came on all your previous characters and how they died. I would also have liked some mechanic in the game whereby you could win or find permanent bouses or changes. That way you wouldn't feel cast back to square one everytime you die.
Death tracking is definitely on my list of things to do. I want to improve the system that detects exactly how you died so that peoples death lists have more variety than just 'you died on level 11'. I really should at least show your fastest win time on each class, or deepest level since both stats are already tracked, so I'll add that to the list as well. I'm not a big fan of permanent upgrades in short roguelikes, as it adds an entire extra layer of balancing and detracts from the core idea of the roguelike being about player skill not grinding experience. I am considering for the future however to have unlockable classes, items, monsters, possibly whole branches so that the game grows as you play it more but that's way down my list right now. Thanks for your feedback! Always appreciate thoughts and suggestions.
STAY AWAY FROM ME! FOR FOX' SAKE STAY AWAY FROM ME! You don't understand, I'm not afraid of you. Killing you would be easy! But I don't want to kill you, I want the pacifist bonus! I'm trying to save your life here, but if you keep jumping like that I - GAAAH! HOW DO YOU KEEP SPOTTING ME EVERY EIGHT SECONDS??!!
Money = 19466; All available upgrades = bought; All bosses = vanquished; Highscore = 9765; Having to start over for the third time with "Shoot brown dude - Wait - Wait - Wait - Shoot brown dude - Wait - Wait..." = not going to finish this game. :( Pity.
I think items are disappearing when you hold them in hand and press the "X" in the corner of the open menu. Happened by accident with the dart, then reproduced the result with a thorn.
"We reclaimed the schoolhouse. Maybe we could put it to good use. I for one always wanted to study entomology - You know, the study of bugs" -Peter Parker
Thank. You. So. Much! My apologies for resorting to punctuating each word but I want to emphasize this. It is so gratifying for an artist like you to take one's comments to heart. You responded calmly, and better yet: Your tweaks and changes have made the game not only more manageable, it has made it more interesting. I have now replayed the game and enjoyed it a lot. Thank you.
Some fundamental aspect of this game must be eluding me. I really want to see the rest of the story, but when the opponent does about half of my max life in damage, while after ten turns I have just about removed a tenth of their life, I simply get bored out of my skull. I don't know if the cube is end-boss or not - unfortunately I probably never will...
"Casual pirate wear this summer demands a 79kg Tunic with a 162kg Shiny Brooch pinned on. As accessory we suggest a 96kg Exquisite Necklace and by your side your trusted 131kg Antique Sword."
Damn! How big are these pirates?
(Also: 468 kilos clothing, jewelry and weapons for less than $300...)
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Death tracking is definitely on my list of things to do. I want to improve the system that detects exactly how you died so that peoples death lists have more variety than just 'you died on level 11'. I really should at least show your fastest win time on each class, or deepest level since both stats are already tracked, so I'll add that to the list as well. I'm not a big fan of permanent upgrades in short roguelikes, as it adds an entire extra layer of balancing and detracts from the core idea of the roguelike being about player skill not grinding experience. I am considering for the future however to have unlockable classes, items, monsters, possibly whole branches so that the game grows as you play it more but that's way down my list right now. Thanks for your feedback! Always appreciate thoughts and suggestions.