Neorj Windows game

xTechnoCatx - Sep 29 2017 - 11 comments

Hello,

I did a Let's Play of the demo build and have some feedback. I understand this is in development and things may change as dev progresses.

The art and style and colors are beautiful. The design of the character and her concept art is great. The way she has to rely on the dragon's help to progress is a wonderful idea creating companionship. The spells and all of the cool looking locked ones are interesting and I suspect they will be fun to be use. I love all of this, and the bestiary and music. But there are a few issues I had with the gameplay mechanics:

1. It is difficult to control Heli when trying to make jumps to precise locations in the 3D space. Frustrating movement is a big problem a lot of 3D platformers face.

2. There is no way to control the camera. This often leads to not being able to see Heli, observe the surroundings, or see where to go next. The perspective is often jarring when trying to do platforming or hit enemies.

3. The animation/particle effects for the first lightning ability is weak and sometimes hard to see when it happens.

4. The combat, in its current state, isn't very fun and is made artificially difficult by the issues with the camera/controls. I am certain that when combat sounds are implemented the combat will feel a lot better, but the mechanics are still concerning. Additionally, enemies need a good solid "hit" animation to tell the player that they successfully hit and did damage to the enemy. It is weirdly frustrating to be constrained to a small space and be surrounded by snakes, trying to run around and swap spells and actually hit anything with the spells without being able to control where the camera is looking. Maybe some kind of targeting system would help? Heli could lock onto an enemy and when we click to use her spell it will prioritize the target, not the mouse location. You guys have a cool wall spell for tactical use, but the chaos I just mentioned makes it difficult to apply tactics in combat.

Game development is a huge undertaking and I know it is A LOT of hard work. You guys have created a wonderful and magical world that I'd like to see more of.