Pretty fun, the game loop works really well, specifically the Arena->Shop->Garage->Arena loop has the hook it needs, the UI could be better though.
The early game combat feels kinda janky, I think the thing it needs most is polish specifically on damage feedback, sound effects and animations to give you a better idea of what everything is doing. Spamming shift for example wrecks your energy reserves and i had to watch my energy bar while doing stuff to realize just how badly it was hurting it. Perfect parrying is very effective and the first personas simulation i hadn't realized this yet this so it probably took longer than intended to get through it, i was wondering why it was taking so long, second attempt went faster, might want to ease people in there more with a shorter initial one though.
Also I noticed a bug where if you get knocked out/ragdolled the ragdoll doesn't keep your external color customization.
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Yeah, the 'overdraw' (losing energy for spamming dodge) mechanic has been kind of hard to convey. The deathscreen has some bar graphs to show how much energy was spent on extra boost/healing/time used, but most people probably won't pay attention to it (understandably). Might add some vfx of energy being siphoned into the green/red bars when it's draining fast or something.
Persona Selection is kinda weird stage to balance, originally it was just going to be a cutscene, but I thought a playable stage would be more fun. There isn't really a way to lose, since you replace the attacker that defeated you so I figured I'd make the counter go down faster as the player gets kills or dies. This kindof creates a situation where someone who tries to play safe or lays on the ground to stall makes the stage last exponentially longer ^_^ so yeah, I might just make the stage more *consistantly* short...
and I'll check on that ragdoll bug, thx again!
Probably did it wrong, but I just laid on the ground the entire time until I last group of personas spawned.
I skipped the tutorial thinking it would just drop me into the action, but looking at the screenshots I skipped most of the content. My recommendation would be to prevent idiots like me from breaking your narrative loop and just drop us right into the story. The heroine was cute and I very much liked the presentation. I hope the next improvement is to find voice acting to give the action more weight, to compliment the sound effects.
Thanks for playing!
The persona fight is a one time story encounter outside the normal gameplay loop, it has special rules so there isn't really a wrong way to do it.
The prologue you skipped is basically just a hallway that tells you how to run/jump/shoot and what the different resource bars on the HUD mean, some unfinished story content, and then a tutorial on how to upgrade Nxia and unlock abilities. The animated screenshots are from the 4th boss fight "Cobalt".
Voice acting definitely on the todo, but probably gonna be one of the last things that get added, since the story content isn't done yet. ^_^
Thanks for playing! Im hoping to add some more cosmetic customization at some point, armor will likely be on the list ^_^
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