How large is the game expected to be?

[hadig5]

Hey, im just wondering how long the story of the game is expected to be, like how many gameplay hours is expected, like is it gunna be a really huge game or a smaller game?

 

[Teddy]

Just rushing through the story without doing much side content at all will be fairly short/standard, and take about 8 hours or so. Doing everything there is will probably take much, much longer!

 

[Own]

My hope is that the areas between dungeons, like Halloween Woods, will be expanded on a bit to make actually getting to the dungeon feel like an accomplishment. As it stands you just have to run through two screens of Halloween Woods in order to get to the Flying Fortress.

There's only one area where ghosts spawn, so we don't get to fight them alongside anything but chomping jackolanterns.

 

[Teddy]

We had a discussion about this earlier today, actually! We're going to make it so you have to do a small bonus main quest in the woods, fighting some elite enemy camps, in order to progress in the story.

 

[Own]

Elite enemy camps? That seems like a wasted opportunity. C'mon, it's the Halloween Woods. Think halloweeny!

Add in a large maze-like graveyard crawling with every enemy type available in the Halloween Woods, with bushes you can slash / graves you can smash to find staircases leading downwards, or creepy shacks scattered around the graveyard. With teleports disabled due to the spooky influence over the area.

Some lead to monster dens that trap you inside until all have been killed, some maybe have treasure and one has a soul stone in it that when broken releases the Pumpkin King. Killing him and freeing his spirit in Story Mode would be the perfect excuse to lift the 'curse' over Halloween Woods, allowing you to pass to the temple. No?

 

[GarlicJelly]

That's one hell of a good idea! I like your thinking Own. :3
If this don't make it in to the game for the release I'd love to see this as a Halloween update in the future.

 

[Vilya]

Teddy is making it sound a little less cool than what we have planned I feel
Own is not too far off with the curse theme actually, but we're unfortunately not gonna do any epic mazes for this one.

What we might do in the future, however, is to add another, harder map to the Pumpkin Woods which you can only access later in the game, possibly as part of the main story (it's been on our future to do-list for a while now). We're also in the process of adding some of the side quests planned for the area, which hopefully gives it a bit more impact than it has now