I love the game title, and idea.

Impressive setting menus, you really have thought about a lot of things. It's not often that games in jams offer the possibilty to play with a controller (though I didn't test if it worked), to rebind keys, and to test mouse sensibility. I found the UI very well done in general.

About the graphisms, I played in ultra lol, have tried all the resolutions settings at the beginning of the game but didn't see much difference, I don't know if it's because I didn't test it in combat, but from the map view it doesn't change a thing for me. While I can't say that the game impress me visually, but I think it works fine enough XD

It was annoying to go out of the town then back into it between each shop, and not being able to switch shops more easily. Also, while doing the tutorial, it could be interesting to lock the Arena, because I went for a match before being asked to do it and lost 300 golds? Lol! 

It is hard to read the bubbles above the trainer while he is talking to you and you're busy doing big circles with your character too. By the way, I can't say if I loved or hated this goofy combat system. I think it is a hilarious idea that could be really interesting, but it makes the skills using mouse (like clicking right and left button at the same time, holding clicking etc) annoying, because the left click also makes you sheath your weapon, and you are also trying to turn at the same time. I think skills should not involve the mouse, and the mouse should be just used to turn.

I did my first quest with the bandits and it took hella long to kill them. To keep the fighting system fun, I'd say ennemies should be easier/faster to kill. I couldn't understand if I had my limbs still attached or not with the color system. There was a lot of stuff on the ground and I couldn't tell what it was, I guess it was our steps? I think that's unecessary. I just want to see blood and members on the ground ahahah! 

I thought ESC would give me access to the menu but it made the game going from fullscreen to not. I don't know if it's because of my bowser or the controls.

The SFX were a little strange, except the weapon sound, and I had to cut the music because it was the same looping constantly and quite annoying at some point. I can't say if it changes after the tutorial because I didn't reactivate it, but I would suggest a bigger playlist if that's not planned already :P

Despite its current flaws, this game has a lot of potential. I'm curious how it will improve! 

I essentially tested the fighting system (with the sword) and a little the secondary weapons like the shield and the magic wand and a delivery quest. It’s funny even if my only working method is too spin and spin over and over. i will try your game again later. It has potential.

From the main menu the Settings screen can be a bit hard to read. It would be nice if the background was a bit more opaque. This was most notable in the Video settings where the text was over top of the main menu's button text.

On the character creation screen it would be nice if there was info on all of the Personalities.

While I was reading the update info there was some flickering of the game. It also looks like the game had already started playing as I saw someone moving down the road while typing this and it looks like there might be a day/night cycle taking place. Before I closed it I was on Day 2.

I went to the training hall and started to move around. I've played some games using this style of circle the mouse around to attack, and it is not a style I particularly like. The lack of a cursor also made it a bit harder to get a feel for where to move the mouse to get a good circle around the character. When I tried to do the special by holding the right mouse button, the target wanted to be on the right side, unless I was actively moving my mouse another direction. It would be nicer if it kept the last direction and only went back to the right when I moved that way.

I pressed Escape to pause the game while I typed this, and under what I though was the "pause" menu I got a popup about completing something and gaining fame. I only glanced at it as I typed this, and it auto-closed.

When I tried to continue the game, it would no longer recognize mouse movement to move the character or aim. I could go back to the menu and the mouse worked fine. I could right click and use the special, but not move the target cursor. The cursor was on the right side of the character, though the projectile/attack went down-left.

I quit to menu and tried to play again. When I returned to the Training Hall it popped up a message about clearing Stage 0. Pressing continue kicked me back to the overworld. I had not made my way over to speak with anyone yet, so still have a message to speak with the trainer, which I don't seem to be able to do.

I tried visiting other menu options for the town and each of them gave me the Stage 0 Cleared message, with 1 button to press that returned me to the overworld.

I decided to explore the map a bit and finally found some orcs. I entered combat, and got the same message, which also ended the combat when clicked.

I refreshed the web page and loaded from my profile, and that allowed me to take part in the fight. I was very unprepared and after a little bit of flailing about I returned to the menu.

I see that you have been adding multiplayer aspects to the game. When I first went to the Training Hall it said someone else was there and I could join them. I prefer single player games, so would be more interested in playing if there was an option to disable multiplayer interactions. Of course, the combat isn't really my thing either.

Thinking on it, maybe if I redid the mouse calibration and played with those settings I could have found something that made the swinging work a bit better for me. I was not doing well getting it to spin well. I'm adding this as an edit later, after closing the game, and don't feel like going back in to retry, but figured I'd share the thought.

The description sounded neat. I've not played Hammerfight, but did enjoy Arcanum and Magicka. Unfortunately, the combat mechanic just didn't work for me. Add to that the multiplayer, and I'm not the best reviewer for this game. Good luck with your project.

I've never played a game like this, the combat felt a little odd but also satisfying at the same time. I could have missed something but it was a bit hard to control the sword, really had to swing the mouse in circles to get it to move. There is a lot of content, easy to get lost when there is that much stuff going on. Overall game was fun, had fun in the arena fights and seeing all the different things in the game. For sure a unique game. 

Hello,

I played this game on a windows 11 laptop in moz.

It’s not a gaming laptop so there’s that.

My gameplay

Played the tutorial first. Note that I have never played any of the games you mentioned and am not used to this style of movement and combat. Regardless, I found the combat to be funny and surprisingly intuitive. We spin to win? Hell yeah! lol That being said I can’t claim I am any good at it.

Started the area rounds. Won two of them quite easily, and started feeling good about myself so took on the most expensive quest and set out on the long journey.

The map was pretty massive and I was quite surprised by that.

When I reached the bandits I realized that I had overshot. But when the level started my game started lagging to the point that it was a slideshow. Now I am unsure if it was because a long play session or that the enemies were too many and that was glitching the game. (Looked for an exe but noticed there wasn’t one)

Positives

Combat is fun in general. Liked the simple character builder at the start, map seed and everything It is clear you have spent a lot of time in the game The art is also quite nice, blender models and all

Potential points to improve

• The music got repetitive really fast.
• the lag issue I mentioned, of course.
• A better tutorial? At one point multiple tips started flashing below and kept getting replaced by new tips in quick succession, too fast to read
• Damage numbers could be more clear and slightly larger? i did not seem to care too much about what part I had hit as long as I hit something lol. Sometimes it was unclear that I did.
• The spare mechanic was not too clear.

Overall was a fun game. I will be following your development journey and you have any questions feel free to ask!

I found the controls in the battle scenes very weird. Controlling both the movement and angle of attacks with a mouse is very difficult. I'd recommend playing Hotline Miami and just stealing how they do this kind of combat. I couldn't tell if I was winning that trainer battle or not, but i started just spinning around and that seemed to work. If that's the combat your going for then fair enough. The colour of the text compared to its container bright enough. Making the text hard to read. Saying all that, the game looks interesting, I wish could of played a bit more, but the combat system bested me.

Playing on a bad, old computer, so it wasn't very fun and I don't have a lot of good things to say. Might track down the save and move it to my other (significantly younger) computer. Played like 4 fights.

I got the egg and hatched it before the quest got to that point. It later finished, but the tutorial was stuck waiting for me to hatch it for a bit.

I did a delivery quest and had to return to where I got the quest to turn it in, with the time limit still active. Feels counterproductive from a game design standpoint and illogical from a worldbuilding standpoint.

Small towns have flashing borders like they're important, but when you go to them nothing happens

Maybe you should get to know how many days away a quest's objective is before you accept it?

Updating stats top to bottom when you enter the party menu feels more annoying than stylish. And it warps the size of the UI it's on when you change to allies since they have behavior stats.

Got in a big and very laggy fight (bounty hunting. The level had a strong light in it with harsh shadows. And like 5 or 6 enemies.). Died and tried again with very turned down settings. Won, but it took a long time due to being a level 2 character and wasn't very fun and it was still a little laggy. I definitely give up on using this computer for this game.

Also, I'd occasionally run out of the unmarked borders of the map and get a popup for whether I want to leave, which does not pause anything. Since it's meant to be multiplayer drop-in, it makes sense that there's no pausing, but maybe use some other UI element than popups. E.g. a timer starts for leaving the battle, and you can cancel it by going back into the main area.

Needing to visit different parts of the city to do things feels very awkward. Part of the problem is that there's a crash zoom and then a lagspike every time I enter somewhere. Might be more comfortable if it it was smoother.

I kinda think [feeling like a cohesive RPG] is a trap. The core mechanics are deeply silly, so the rest of the world kinda feels like it's. Supposed to exist in juxtaposition to it as a joke. Or. Supposed to be a parody of other games. Maybe it would have been funnier or felt more worthwhile if I had played with other people.