This game is going to make bank off the art style alone, you’re gonna be rich.

• Running the game on Linux with Umu/Proton, as far as I can tell it works fine.
• I was a little confused at the main menu, space being the only button that does anything? I didn’t see any button prompts anywhere. If the other buttons are only there for show I’d just skip them entirely until they do and just have a “Press Space” prompt to kick off the demo.
• There’s a lot of typos in there, things like “an” instead of “and” or “excentric” instead of “eccentric”
• The first big dialogue I didn’t get any portrait or sounds for Rowan which was a weird.
• There’s a character missing from the fonts when I’m running it, looks like it’s meant to be a dash or something based on where it’s used. Looks to be UTF+2014. It’s not just the pixely dialogue font that gets this either.
• Some other anons have said this already, but the pixel font for dialogue stands out as not matching the rest of the game. I think the combat log font would be a much better choice.
• Interesting how the entire combat system is centered around Lily’s point of view. It’s certainly different, and I know at some point playing Bard’s Tale I just end up doing the same shit every round so maybe it will work. It sounds like the kind of gimmick I probably wouldn’t like but I’d need to play a lot more to know for sure.
• I’ll say one thing about it that was already annoying: I set the party to target weaknesses when fighting some Burnouts and Yew just kept on slinging Fireballs which should have been an obvious bad choice. I’m not going to say it should be an option to fully control every character, but people are going to be constantly bitching about it if you can’t get the decision-making perfect at critical moments.
• Not being able to use the mouse in the UI is a serious pain.
• Killer music selection, I love how high effort it is having so many tracks in what is just a single big story section.
• I don’t play a lot of VNs but I do love a good dungeon crawler and this is definitely activating my neurons. When people were complaining about it being story heavy I thought there was going to be a whole lot more of the talking first, lol.
• Considering you don’t use it anywhere else, it was actually annoying finally having mouselook in the dungeon because I couldn’t tab over to my notes. I’d rather it just be something that happens while you click and drag. Especially considering it kept doing it once I was in the Tab menu.
• I gave Antang this advice before, you’ll want to instantly process all grid movement and just have the camera constantly playing catchup. From the moment I started walking it was swallowing inputs because I was tapping too fast. One of the best things about this genre is that you can take it at your own speed but that’s meant to mean fast as well as slow.
• Would be good for Escape to exit out of the tab menu too
• Really annoying that Space is used to confirm everywhere but the dungeon where it’s suddenly Enter instead.
• I ended up stopping after a few combats once Yew was down to low health. The items weren’t working from the Tab menu and I couldn’t see a way to cast spells from there either.

It’s early days of course but you’ve already got a solid foundation. I am hesitant about the lack of direct control for the party, but I’m looking forward to seeing how this shapes up.

DD69 is supposed to be for lewds but I didn’t want to age up any of your characters, and I had stars in my eyes when I saw Cammy carrying around a god-damned Arming Sword! So have this much lower-effort fanart that I hope you enjoy all the same.

https://www.twitch.tv/videos/2816075952

KINO, PURE KINO.

Sovlful art, sovlful level, sovlful backgrounds, sovlful menus.

Unreadable font and wonky UX.

Honestly - I absolutely love your game and I want you to succeed. This is exactly the kind of game I love, and I kinda want to go and play SMT4 after clipping the VOD. Great stuff.

Please fix your UX - the menus are a bit confusing. And let me control my party.

Other than that - amazing demo, a true gem.

-The mix of low definition and high definition assets(including fonts) seems sloppy.

-The combat is alright, considering it's halfway unimplemented. It also reinforces the story aspect I presume, since you can only control yourself so you have to be reliant on and trust your friends.

-Mouse support could be nice, for example the combat requiring 7 keyboard inputs is a bit much.

-I'd argue to not display the "We found..." box on combat end when you didn't get anything. It's irrelevant and gave me a false impression that I was about to see something of value.

-UI is partially broken in 16:10, mainly seeing beyond the veil in a few spots, most obviously when in 3D explore mode.

-I wander for awhile and can't find anything of interest beyond more rooms and some new enemies.

Firstly the art is fantasic all around, well done! The intro writing is very cute and the sound effects on the spirit are very unnerving at the same time. I think you nailed the general atmosphere and aesthetic all around.

Items not being instant is an interesting choice (not a problem, but unexpected among turn-based games I've played)

I have mixed feeling about music instruments as voices, I've seen it work well before but the jumbled notes throw me off a bit, maybe it'd be smoother if it was a bit less random, like scales or chords? (I don't know what I'm talking about) Also some of them seem extra loud, like they were missed during audio balancing. (usually the ones that play over lily's music box, I think)

nitpicks:

• game has no sound launching from desktop (this is normal in my experience, and probably a permissions thing on my end, so don't stress it)
• couldn't select any menu buttons besides 'new game' (I assume they're not implemented yet, but no feedback on the title screen made me think input wasn't working)
• game closed and restarted itself once on the title screen
• option to cancel a skill while still selecting a target would be nice, also being able to back out of the dungeon Items menu to the general menu (maybe I'm not finding the right button)
• battle log text is just a little small, and seems to fall behind sometimes (not sure if a bug with mult-target skills or I somehow scrolled up it by accident)
• not sure if Lily has a basic attack I'm missing or not
• wasn't able to use potions outside of combat

I got lost in the halls and died (eheh~) not sure how much was left but seemed close to the end and without a load option I decided to call it there for now. 

Curious what the story<->gameplay balance you go for will be, as I know the struggle of having a lot of characterization/worldbuilding/plot to introduce right at the start, it's hard to drop players right in the action like many often want.

I think you've got your best foot forward in terms of art though! Good luck on the game!

- The art is great, the premise is nice and I'm into it.

- The UI is amazing, I like the way the dialogues move to represent character movement in the beginning, very cute.

- The tune for talking is very cute, but rowan's doesn't really feel good for me especially when it's a long dialogue, lily and yew tunes are nice, maybe limit the tunes a bit, it doesn't have to be as long as the dialogue.

- Given the combat rate, I think making combat snappier would be nice, to speed up things, as I feel at some point the combat feels like a slog, like when you press the button, the button anims could be snappier, the transition between operation could also be faster, the click at the start at each combat to confirm the enemy name can be skipped, a button to fast forward the actions would be nice.

- Without a map I kinda got too disoriented and gave up, haven't seen the end of the demo yet :(

- Some shader issues(?) as it has white stuffs randomly and I'm not sure if it's intentional, I'm using 3080 TI.