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jack1974 wrote:About the first thing, I think is correct, since what Laroneas says is the group of people they brought when they came back.

Spoiler:

If Chalassa is alive then the player protests, but it's true even if Chalassa is dead, because she was still there when they first arrived to Ninim.

Or make Laroneas say "Just think" instead of "Just look".

You're right, Laroneas is referring to who the twins brought back from their travels.

OK will also change think instead of look, and I'll also keep the extra lines added. Hopefully will be enough

Ok, I'm going to be honest, and quite critical here.

I'm sad to say that I only made it to day 4 before I had to stop.

What's not working for me? First of all, the spirit world. I can't suspend my disbelief, primarily due to the graphics. Visually, there's the green pastures and the forest that look like something I've seen elsewhere, nothing otherworldly about them. Then there's the giant cartoon owl standing next to my dwarf characters. This isn't dramatic or menacing, it looks stupid (sorry for being blunt). It might just be me, but I can't immerse myself in this, I don't buy it. I'm laughing at that owl, not because it's funny, but because the whole thing looks tragically mismatched.

Meanwhile, in the "real" world, the resource mini "game" is about as exciting as playing tic tac toe... solitaire. I'm juggling numbers. Or I could be, if I felt like doing math on them. Instead I just click on what looks good to me on the day. Not exciting, no incentive to go on. I don't know what I had imagined. Something with strategic movement on a tile map perhaps. This is too abstract. Feels more like a math test: If you have 4 woodcutters and 6 quarrymen, how much wood and stone will you have in 2 turns when the gnolls take 2 quarrymen per turn, and you rescue 2 captured woodcutters next turn? None, because I quit.

So yeah, maybe I haven't given it enough of a chance, and maybe this is just not for me, but I'm not drawn in here, I don't feel the desire to keep playing. I'd rather be doing something else.

However, I'll be back when I've run out of other things to play, I guess. Because I'm sure there's a story worth reading here, eventually. And I did throw money at it, so I want something in return.

Haha well I guess it's not for everyone. The minigame does change later with some more custom events. And the story gets a lot more dramatic later for sure...
About the owl honestly it looks more realistic than cartoon to me. I mean is painted colored, so not really "cartoon"... it would be the opposite, characters are cell-shaded and the owl not. But well probably depends on tastes

As for the backgrounds yeah maybe I could have put some more "weird" looking ones. I might do that, it would probably be enough to do some color effects to make it look more like a "Spirit World" and not an exact copy of the normal one

What about this:

rotate the hue value of background+desaturate a bit+slightly more light. I could do that for all the spirit world backgrounds rather quickly

I think that's a good idea. Certainly gives it more of an otherworldly feeling.

Yeah, about the owl, cartoon was not really the issue, it's more of a size thing, and indeed a different style from the characters, which makes it looks too unbelievable to me when they're on screen simultaneously. I guess I might just not be a talking animal fan.

Just wait when you see the giant Fox! she's too cute
Anyways I got the DLC main art today, though still not the CGs:

Looking good! Will certainly be getting the DLC, and kudos to everyone for helping with the bug fixing.

Luckily it seemed there weren't many bugs. I'm still waiting for fabulaparva report though, she can find the most impossible bugs

Speaking of bugs, is this one?