notproudofmypresencehere wrote:To be honest I've never planned on even making a profile on this site but I couldn't resist the urge to fawn over this game. So far, it is the only "difficult" v game that I've played that is based on skill not copious amounts of grinding, and I never thought that I'd become actually engaged in a game that I only downloaded out of a completely different desire. Admittedly, the game can be frustrating due to its fairly punishing nature both when you get caught and die, and the rng behind certain things (like burrowers, ESPs, and the random patrols) could make me feel straight up helpless from no fault of my own (ESPECIALLY the corrupted ESP boss). But it was very satisfying eventually outsmarting these levels by remembering spawns, dead ends, and the safest paths. Due to my hatred for grinding, I stuck with leaf armour even to the very last dungeon, which made getting caught by some of the buffed enemies a straight up death sentence despite not being instakills (burrower comes to mind), but because I bashed my head against the wall so many times I've found it pretty easy to no hit the stages (minus boss levels) so it wasn't big of an issue.
This is the first and probably only v game that I can almost say I'd play even if it didn't have any of the fetishistic elements. You've done something amazing, (so addicting I completed the game in 2 days) here, and I wish you good luck with future development on other games since it does seem this one will be abandoned (which I can understand after reading some of the posts).
(For the record though, I can easily see how people could dislike this game. The FOV means that you can't play the game reactively, and instead need to memorize where certain enemies are and play around them, not wander in and run away when you hear a reaction. I'm just a fan of difficult games, and seeing it in a genre that I find to mostly be oversatured with either no gameplay at all or ridiculous grinding, it just gives the best of both worlds imo.)
Thank you so much for the feedback!
So much time has passed since I've ever worked on this title yet it's incredibly awesome to see someone to this day is willing to still give it a chance and try it out.
I'm honored you took your time to write this and I'm deeply grateful for the praises received.
I may have not posted something recently but I'm still very much active and I'm cooking something really good for the future, you'll all see
For now though..
Stay tuned!