Thank you so much for checking out the game! Watching this was quite helpful for me as I can get a live reaction of any bugs or pain points that I wasn't able to address during development. 

Just to clarify on some points of confusion, the quests aren't random unfortunately but I had initially planned for them to be random in a rogue like type of way, but due to the time limit of the jam I wasn't able to follow through with it. And I think because I planned the game around independent scenarios, my writing suffered quite a bit for it.  

The reason why the quests may be different for some players is that I have conditions based on classes for 1 quest (the thief quest). Essentially, you won't have that quest if you picked rogue as you are already the king with the kingdom's thieves working for you, but if you were a separate class you would have it and can recruit the thieves at the end. Basically, it would play out similar to like Live A Live's ninja chapter where if you kept your kill count low, you could recruit the thieves at the end of the mission and unlock lockpicking.

Another point is regarding how levelling and skills work in the game. I don't have traditional levelling in the game, and my characters develop based on the actions they perform similar to FF2. So if you do physical attacks more your Attack attribute increase and if you use magic spells your MP increase, etc. I also have a system where depending on the skill you use, you could potentially learn new skills. Such as if you used fire you have a chance of learning Fire 2. 

I think one of the reasons why the game was so easy was that I was unable to properly balance the way skills are obtained so you could beat the game more easily by getting strong skills early. But I think with properly balancing later I should be able to make the combat better later. However, I must confess that I was worried that, since this is a game jam, I would make it too hard for people to complete so that's partially why it was so easy.

With regards to the permadeath system, I have a limited amount of LP points for each character and every time a character would die they would lose 1 point. Once these points are all used up the character is permanently gone. In addition to this, enemies can attack knocked out characters in battle to decrease their LP points so it incentivises the player to revive their characters quickly. Watching the stream was quite helpful because it showed that I should balance the stun mechanics a bit better so that the player can revive more easily instead of being stun locked. Also your idea of making a character sacrifice at the Myconid quest is brilliant and I think I am planning on including it in the post jam version. I definitely had a plan to make a part where you are forced to sacrifice a character but didn't know where to put it, so this helps.

And thank you so much for showing the bug regarding the Myconid quest, what should have happened was that the fast travel point for the Myconid village would have been removed after the quest so you can't trigger it again but I think I didn't put the removal command before the transfer back to the palace so that's why it's still there. I will definitely fix this later.

All in all, thank you for playing it anyways. And sorry for not being able to balance the gameplay properly! I think I bit off on a bit more than I can chew regarding my ideas for the game jam so there were many things that I wanted to fine tune and include but couldn't.

For the priestess dying part it was because of the perma death mechanic of my game. Basically when you lose all your LP points on a character they are removed from your party and replaced with a reserve unit from your barracks until you no longer have any characters left. So that's why when the priestess died she was replaced with the soldier. 

Also thank you so much about pointing out the issue with the dialogue boxes, I think the reason for this is just bad UI practice when I was making my choices. I used a plugin to adjust the size and location of my choices, but since I wanted it to look like a message box with choices, the plugin only allowed me to hard code the values instead of doing it through a script based off screen size. So while it may look right on my computer I think in some computer screens it will look off.

The Myconid village was intended for you to complete before leaving as you are trapped there by them.

I initially wanted it to have some roguelike elements with the ways quests are presented and each playthrough you will have a slightly different set of quests, but I couldn't implement it in time so that's why it ended up with the current fixed order.

Regardless, thank you for checking my game out. I would definitely keep these feedback in mind when working on similar projects later and when I try to fix the game a bit post-jam. And I am quite glad that you found the story and setting interesting, because I was worried that I couldn’t put as much effort into it as I normally would. 

Ohh yeah I agree about the issue with the Myconids. I thought that since I allow the player to use 5 party members, enemy counts should be slightly higher but I think this balancing gets impacted with the Myconid part since they like to spam status effects  and you have to fight all of them so it will end up being a bit tedious. 

However, a part of me did want to make it somewhat long since you are essentially wiping out their entire tribe and to make the sacrificial decision feel easy to do but with implied consequences.  But yes that's definitely a part that needs better balancing.

But thank you regardless for checking out my game. It's very interesting to hear other people’s thoughts on it.

Thank you! Because of the time limit of the game jam I had to make a bit of a sacrifice when it comes to the writing and decision making. But ideally, it would have been almost like a CRPG in terms of choice and consequence. If I ever expand on the game or do a similar idea for a future project, I will definitely make visible consequences for those choices.