I'm trying out the legacy build, seeing if I want to purchase the game. I've had some problems thus far but, not anything too bad. I have one large issue though. How do I actually enter the tavern? I see a bunch of portraits inside it but, I can't for the life of me figure out how to actually enter. Clicking on a lot of the portraits does nothing but circle the building.
Other than that I have a few small critiques, though I don't think it's anything new from what others have noted. If something I've listed here is actually covered in the game and I just missed it then, please forgive me for my tone and ignorance.
So far the writing is pretty good, if um... ridiculously long-winded. I love the characters but, it honestly does feel like some of the dialogue is just unnecessary. For example, a good bit of the bickering amongst the amateur adventurers that are at the tavern just feels like a chore to get through. Even though it does a great job of setting up the characters, showing us their personalities and relationships towards one another, and I love each of them, it's still all way too much. I think the biggest suggestion I'd have is a bit of writing advice (which I know is completely unasked for so, my apologies): Not every character in the party needs to respond to everything. Cutting down on some of the characters' responses would go a long way towards addressing the issue.
There needs to be a proper tutorial for what each of the symbols is. It can be as simple as highlighting each of the symbols on the map as you walk out of the Captain's Quarters, or even just giving us a list of what each symbol does, but it definitely needs to be more than what it currently is.
I'm collecting all of this stuff and I have no inventory to access any of it. Some of it seems to be actual equipment, while some of it seems to be trade goods, sellables, resources, and more? I'd love to have some way of looking at my inventory to see what I'm actually collecting.
An Esc. menu would be good too. Just something to let us access the options and have a way to exit the game. Alt + F4 is not a proper way to close a game, and over-use of it can actually hurt the files. It's an emergency shutdown for the current program and it's not meant as a go-to for closing your regular work.
