• I had an issue with the lighting that made things much darker but I still managed to reach the end of the demo, though I don’t think I did all the fights. I left my specs in the video description in case it helps
• After beating the Pseudoscorpion Q, the fight in the room right before became inaccessible (maybe intentional?)
• It felt too easy to almost get softlocked when walking around tight spaces with Katrina
• The AI pathfinding seems a little too cheesable, like with the audience at the beginning getting stuck at the firepit
• I personally thought the difficulty was ok, maybe even a bit on the easy side since I didn't need to learn that your accuracy increases when attacking from behind or any other deeper mechanics. And the only other game like this I've played is Phantom Brave

Overall I enjoyed it, good luck!

Overall thoughts

sadly my time here run very short because i found your demo unreasonably hard. 

i like everything i saw: the dreamy atmosphere, the dialogue, the artstyle.

I've read i'm the only one to get filtered by this first battle, so i'm surely missing something. 

i'm willing to try your game again in the future though

Random notes

- the tutorial on how to equip your stick stayed on screen for just 1.5s

- lmao the change of tone during battle

- so, every enemy needs 3atk to die, but you die in 4. but you fight against 3 enemies on your first battle. the special "gemini" can hit multiple targets easier, but deals at max half life of an enemy. also you miss a lot if you atk from the front, so you should stab them in the back

  - I tried this first encounter three times. i could not solve this puzzle. Even when using the bonfire and the topside of the arena to juke enemy attacks; using gemini on 2 enemies i simply cannot win.

- Super imo: if even when exploiting enemy ai you cannot win the first effin battle of a demo, it's time to call yourself a noob and move on.

Why are potions aoe? You can even heal an enemy if it's right next to you. Though, I guess you can also heal allies.

Intro has weirdness, like you can reopen the pause menu after the enemies start spawning in. Also if you die you respawn with previous items you had. And for some reason I can't use my Blade sub menu even though I have enough MP(this persisted and only went away after resetting). And at one point I won the fight but when pressing several buttons to spam the dialogue it allowed me to open a menu then exit to main menu without knowing what was going on. tldr; you don't stop the player from opening menus during cutscenes or dialogue, which seems wrong.

Having to redo the boring intro fight several times is making me sleepy.

Game crashed when exiting the cellar/ant cave(after 100% loading), and loading my save it keeps crashing. Guess I'll note that I leveled up after the fights, and equipped the found sword.

Still quite rough but I see you're working on stuff.

More Bakar kino. Some thoughts/observations as I play.

• I like the intro a lot, the atmosphere is cool and the character designs are really unique. It took me missing my first 4 attacks ti figure out attacking from behind improves your chance to hit
• Moving around feels weird when sprinting. Its as if you have no inertia when you are starting/stopping, but changing to a diagonal from a cardinal direction instantly snaps your animation to face that direction while your velocity vector gradually adjusts. really minor nitpick 
• Was pleasantly surprised to see Mosca at the item shop
• dialogue noises IMO should stop once you have pressed the button to show the full text box instantly, another minor feel thing
• went to the church and there was dialogue which assumed Katrina was present. I had not gone to the forge yet to pick up Katrina
• I saved after picking up Katrina, trying to load immediately after crashed the game. Relaunched and the issue cleared up
• enemy pathfinding on psuedoscorpions tended to bunch up and get stuck
• polearm impale skill missed (did not roll to hit) every time even when the enemy was highlighted red
• Polearm in general feels a bit weak, I'm consistently able to target 2-3 enemies with the sword but am rarely ever able to line up 2 for a polearm stab
• Died on the fight with the Pseudoscorpion Q, reloaded my save in the room before and the encounter didn't re-spawn
• Crash on leaving the Pseudoscorpion Cave, re-launching 2x resolved the issue
• Hit the end of the demo, was excited for the new party member.

I listed a lot of bugs/nitpicks above but im pretty excited to see where this goes. I really enjoy the writing and appreciate getting a taste of the worldbuilding. Katrina and Alexandar seem like cool characters and I enjoy their dynamic. There arent enough RPGs that do the Shining Force thing of having an SRPG battle system on top of a real ass RPG so this really scratches that itch. Keep up the good work.

The game crashed on my when i went out of the cellar. I let the game idle quite a while before finishing the pseudoscorpions down there, maybe that helps.
Its great to see the game progress. The town area is quite huge, didn't expect to be able to go to so many places. That said, the tavern barkeeper didnt want to talk even though there was a speech bubble. Even mules reacted.
The dialogue sound is charming, but when a character has a lot of text and i speed it up with Z, the sound continues for a long bit when it shouldnt, that was a bit annoying. I was able to highlight both Continue and New Game in the main menu by pressing wildly on my keyboard. Everytime i play this game i have to get used to the controls.
What i really liked was the improved targetting in battles. Finally i can fine tune where each character aims, thats good.

• 7:25 Crash when loading new map after defeating audience
• 7:55 I loaded the game despite never saving (is there auto save?), and woke up near campfire
• 9:00 Not a crash, I just alt+f4'ed the game. not being able to quit mid-fight is very inconvenient
• 15:10 Caltrops aiming colliding with characters is super annoying
• 12:13 In settings when I went to resolution and pressed Z, it didn't switch to resolution selection.
• 27:35 That name gag made me laugh
• 29:00 can't talk with barmaid to get ale (it seems I got it from Mosca, but I don't recall game ever telling me that)
• 30:38 2nd crash when loading again (generally it seems game crashes when loading when not in main menu)
• 32:30 nun talks as if Katrina is with me, same with Modest later.
• 50:40 You can heal enemies with first aid. He has a helmet on so I guess it makes sense if Alexander is pouring the potion on himself
• 55:40 I died, loaded back, but enemies I died to were gone (also I had 1 less potion I think)
• 56:50 It's really hard to see in narrow tunnels. I'd be nice if front walls would hide like how fog of war disappears when entering a room, 
• 1:01:20 During big pseudoscorpion's turn something happened, and from now on camera was black when following him
• 1:07:15 Hit myself despite game telling me I'll hit an enemy
• 1:10:20 After emerging from tunnels, camera is stuck in close up until I reset it by leaving a building
• 1:14:10 Pig's dialogue mark is in the wrong place
• 1:18:00 Got stuck
• Dialogue beeping feels late. Whole text is on the screen and there's still beeping.
• I appreciate animals making noises when you interact with them.
• The rng on attacks was killing me inside. I feel like I don't really understand combat, because I have no idea what causes the hit chance to go higher or lower.
• Game really needs some tutorial on skills. I tried equipping some skills, but I don't understand why some are available and why some aren't. Also information that there are polearms skills at all. I thought I made a mistake by picking spear instead of a sword (I picked it on my own, I didn't see your post reccomending it)

"The demo ends when exiting the jail." Jail?! I assume that's the quest with Modest, but I thought it's not playable because it was supposed to happen after sun down.

That's a really big location. How populated with content do you plan for it to be?

Beside constant missing during combat I liked the demo. I really enjoy your writing, even when it's just talking with random npcs about sheep herding. Seems this is set before Afterlife Gladiator, so that'll be interesting, I'm waiting for more.