5 star review

I just wanted to leave a quick Q&A here for version 2.3. I'll update this whenever we get an interesting question in the "Dev Questions & Updates" discord channel or when I think something might be best addressed without a devlog.

Q: I'm stuck in an area! (Either because of a major Quasi fuckup or because I'm lost).

A: If you're stuck in an area: Join the Discord server for the fastest response times and fixes. I get notifications there, and we have a help channel.

Q: Have you made anything from the game?

A: Well, games should be free. I'll set up patreon when I feel it'll be worth it. But till then I've made an incredible -200 dollars off the game. Jokes aside I love this project. Monetization will come, till then I'm pouring what I can into making it as good as I can.

Q: What are the game's biggest inspirations?

A: Well, my biggest inspirations were probably Project Moon, Fromsoft, and Maybe a splash of Arc System works writing wise, Musically the original tracks are heavily inspired by Mitsukiyo (Pre Blue Archive Piano Compositions), ZUN, M2U, and anything vaguely dark souls related.

Q: Are all the areas secretly interconnected?

A: Though most of the map is heavily inspired by Dark Souls. Not everything is a shortcut. I know. Bummer.

Q: Does this game use AI?

A: Well yes but actually no. So basically we've got AI art in the main title screen where the blue garden is. And some of the vocal tracks use programs like SynthV or TTS. But the music itself is human made. So I guess I'd say yeah there's AI because I am but one man and there is a metric shit ton on my to do list before remaking the title screen.

Q: Okay, but what is this game really?

A: Think of it as a comedic, Souls-lite RPG, mainly inspired by D&D campaign hijinks and meta-horror. It's not going to give you that Dark Souls gameplay, but hey, the map's complicated as hell, and that's close enough!

Thanks as always. Remember that Discord is available if you ever need help or an emergency bug fix. We usually complete them within a day. If I see it immediately, it's usually within an hour or less, but it depends on the bug.

Cheers everyone!

[SPOILERS]

Okay, I have a theory. So, for anyone who knows the Ruby subplot in cut strings. What if Ruby is the half blood Linne mentions at the end of the intro. for example, the comment about being half-blood. She's the only other character that has as much influence as Linne, because she only appears in hidden events. For example, she appears in the scene with the scent of lemon in Juan's Keep. It would make sense given shes the only character that refers to us by the name we input during Linne's Garden scene. 

Other than that, I can only guess that Linne is a god. Or a godlike person who knows more than we do. It seems like the world is a time loop but I'm not sure how that relates to the current plot, if there is a plot at all. This game is good at making people think it has no plot unless you put the details together.

There are so many places that we only hear about briefly. We don't even know where Malbec is! What is the Ebon Sultanate? What's the point of mentioning Ortna? Is it just Japan? We only see a small part of the world, and while I love it, I wish we could go back to an area every week. I want to see all the places we know about through passing dialog.