Hi, thank you very much for inviting me to the beta!
I'll just follow the suggested questions for the moment..
I'll just follow the suggested questions for the moment..
- General impressions: I like the game a lot. I definitely would have continued playing and will do so, once I sorted through the preorder options ;D It has a very ligt and open oldschool feeling. I look forward to trying multiplayer and arcade mode, I just followed the single player campain for the moment.
- What you liked the most: I liked a lot of things .. I'll try to single out some... I really like the world and dialogue.. it feels new without being confusing and the dialogue and story flows nicely. I like the collection lists being so ingrained into the story. I found the combat fun - especially using 2handed weapons, which I usually don't use in game because they seem slow and unresponsive but that doesn't feel like its the case here. I very much love the treasure maps. (I almost feel compelled to add the treasure maps a second time .. I really loved that even though I only found some of the easier treasures..) I also really like the menu and the card collecting .
- What you liked the least: Crafting, sadly. I love to craft and in a game about collecting stuff its such an easy fit but for me it feels rather like uying stuff for twigs instead of coins.. maybe because it uses the same interface and NPCs.. Also, a lot of the stuff I gather from early on does nothing at all ... Also some of the story threads seem to go nowhere .. I'm not sure if this is because its beta or because it is intended.. like the scarecrow telling you about the flower headband .. but crafting that and talking to him does nothing. You can visit the friend in your hometown who begs you about stories but the dialogue doesn't go beyond that .. since there are so many secrets to be found, some feedback if there is something to come would be nice i guess..
- Confusing elements: Most confusing element is trying to figure you if you're over or underlevelled .. the bosses are so much of a change in difficulty that I found it really hard to guess if I was ready or not. I actually enjoyed trying them a few times to get them done, but the first bridge battle left me confused and really concerned if I judged the difficulty all wrong or not. I find the keybindings a it confusing too, but that is probably just me not being used to memorizing so many action keys..
- Optional content: hehe -- everything I could find. Fishing is fun and well done, I love the treasure maps, I tried the arena too and its nice, just not quite my cup of tea.