Posted September 22, 2016
I see in GoG this is version 0.6
So... There is more to come?
I just finished the game, it was great. The places I got stuck on could have been avoided though:
At the part where you need to cut the basket to get a lemon, if you try it when he is there, it has a generic "won't work!" text when a much more appropiate text would be something like "he'll see me!"
When you need a ticket to enter the bar the very first thing I tried was forging a ticket with the crayon, which again has a generic fail text. Since later on the idea is viable, perhaps there should be text when you receive the real ticket like "so this is what a ticket looks like"
The changing seasons rapidly without waiting for the next season in sequence wasn't really discoverable without external help, and it didn't seem to affect anything anywhere but the bar. I could easily see I need to alter the piano to alter the tempo, but didn't know you can cycle over winter immediately to spring. Mr. Midnight's help text in the scenario indeed regards seasons, but I simply don't think the player would try rapidly clicking on the remote. This might be resolvable if there is text from the clocksmith immediately when he gives you the remote that you can skip entire seasons. Or you could make it where you click the season and it goes to it instead of cycling in order.
Aside from the statue with the moving arms puzzle being disproportionately easy with the rest of the puzzles in its area I was very happy with the puzzles in this game.
I did notice issues in the island house with the sisters. If you try to use an item on the banquet table there are problems with the text being truncated.
I believe there are continouity issues in a few areas in the game (I don't remember all of them, maybe I'll take notes when I play new games from now on) An example is when you exchange your ticket #7 for ticket #2 and try to use it on the NPCs, the dialogue for ticket #7 appears, when you'd expect "why would I change this #2 ticket?"
I've never made a topic in this forum (I just realized you can post from the GoG Galaxy Client)
If this kind of feedback is valuable, I can replay the game and take notes.
So... There is more to come?
I just finished the game, it was great. The places I got stuck on could have been avoided though:
At the part where you need to cut the basket to get a lemon, if you try it when he is there, it has a generic "won't work!" text when a much more appropiate text would be something like "he'll see me!"
When you need a ticket to enter the bar the very first thing I tried was forging a ticket with the crayon, which again has a generic fail text. Since later on the idea is viable, perhaps there should be text when you receive the real ticket like "so this is what a ticket looks like"
The changing seasons rapidly without waiting for the next season in sequence wasn't really discoverable without external help, and it didn't seem to affect anything anywhere but the bar. I could easily see I need to alter the piano to alter the tempo, but didn't know you can cycle over winter immediately to spring. Mr. Midnight's help text in the scenario indeed regards seasons, but I simply don't think the player would try rapidly clicking on the remote. This might be resolvable if there is text from the clocksmith immediately when he gives you the remote that you can skip entire seasons. Or you could make it where you click the season and it goes to it instead of cycling in order.
Aside from the statue with the moving arms puzzle being disproportionately easy with the rest of the puzzles in its area I was very happy with the puzzles in this game.
I did notice issues in the island house with the sisters. If you try to use an item on the banquet table there are problems with the text being truncated.
I believe there are continouity issues in a few areas in the game (I don't remember all of them, maybe I'll take notes when I play new games from now on) An example is when you exchange your ticket #7 for ticket #2 and try to use it on the NPCs, the dialogue for ticket #7 appears, when you'd expect "why would I change this #2 ticket?"
I've never made a topic in this forum (I just realized you can post from the GoG Galaxy Client)
If this kind of feedback is valuable, I can replay the game and take notes.