Grass Elemental Demo (demo)

Honestly i really enjoyed the almost theatrical characters that just fit in to your art style and the Ost adds another level to the experince of the game and your humor was also great. I only encountered one problem with the mouse clicks at the start sometimes didnt register, but outside that im really looking forward to your next update.

I haven't even played your game yet but this Itch.io page looks incredible... I had no idea you could make stuff like this.

Really great job!

Loved the narrative of this game, and when it switches to gameplay, most of the actions are very self-explanatory. However, I have to admit I got stuck on the memory flower-pot minigame. I understood the order the objects needed to go in the pot, but the flower couldn’t move the pot, so I wasn’t sure how to achieve the goal. Maybe that part could be a bit more dummy-proof!

The only thing that felt a bit odd was the strange changes in screen resolutions and the switch from windowed to fullscreen. I’m not sure if that was intended or if my computer was acting up haha.

Otherwise, great job! I’m excited to see more!

This was a really interesting teaser. I really enjoyed the mix of classic gameboy, gameboy color and gameboy advanced graphical styles, the mix of chip tunes and more standard orchestral, all without over complicating each other and not mixing them in a jarring way.
I found the humor fun and not over-bearing and enough suggestions of a moderately surreal mystery interesting enough to want to see where the final project goes.

With the positives out of the way, I believe I found a soft-lock…
When accessing the memory and playing the flower-pot mini game, I found that if you fail after choosing “slower”, it doesn’t seem to go to a fail state, but the big, medium and small entities stop spawning and you can still walk around.
If this is a glitch, it just seems like a small over-site and there is a lot going on in the demo, so I don’t think it’s a big down-side, just thought I’d bring it to your attention.

One other thing I thought that I might suggest; at times it felt a bit odd when switching from using the mouse to space bar when progressing text. Once again; not a big thing and this most probably felt odd to me since I automatically used the arrow keys instead of WASD to move around, due to playing too many RPG maker horror games, so I’d assume if I play again using WASD and space with my left hand; it would probably be less jarring, but I thought I’d mention it so you can check if allowing text to progress with the mouse flows better, since sometimes small things like that can really increase enjoyment for the player.

Hope that’s helpful. Great work :)

Really happy to see the game still going strong. Genuinley excited to try the update out. I noticed you said your on Diacord if you dont mine me adding you?

Do you have a Discord?

Really good music and love the art style. I think the game could do with a bit more users interaction. or at least more choices. the start section is also very long.

I loved the music and the funny story, keep it up!  I didn't play through the whole thing, but I will on stream for my audience next stream... and I'll come back and share the link too.... hopefully I'll remember all that.  Anyways, you ever do any original music for a space game? hint, hint, nudge, nudge.

Hey there,

I hope this message finds you well. I wanted to connect with you after you reached out to me in the comment section of an unrelated game. While I appreciate your enthusiasm for making connections and gaining visibility for your game, I believe it's important to address this in a more appropriate way.

Firstly, I want to mention that I did take a look at your game, and it certainly caught my interest. As a musician myself, I'm particularly intrigued by the soundtrack. It's a topic I could see myself discussing quite a bit.

That being said, I'd like to kindly point out that reaching out through unrelated comment sections may not be the best approach. To ensure effective communication with creators, my contact information is readily available and visible on both the Youtube watch page and my channel's "About" section.

I hope you understand that my decision not to feature your game isn't a reflection of its quality. Rather, it's more about maintaining professionalism and proper communication practices.

I wish you the best of luck with your game development adventures, and who knows, perhaps in the future, I'll have the opportunity to feature an even more outstanding game created by you.

Take care,

Nolan

It’s an interesting parody of Undertale with a lot of references of old school Pokémon games. As a short game it works very well.

It lacks a bit in subtlety but that’s intentional, though I’m not sure how that’d fare on a longer game that’d last more than a few minutes as constant 4th wall breaking might become old quite fast.

I’ve got a bit of an issue with the controls as there are parts of the game where you interact solely with the keyboard (dialogues & pokemon style menus) while others were played with the mouse (the undertale style fights & main menu). I feel like this should be standardized so you either only play with the keyboard or with the mouse, but not both so the player isn’t lost as to what he should be using at a given moment.

This looks quite promising! The Undertale influences are apparent, but I think the Gameboy Pokemon aesthetic and the differences in the combat system help it stand out. The combat on its own was quite fun to figure out, I can’t wait to see in what ways the bullets can be interacted with in future fights, and what exactly it means to "show mercy". The avatar selection fakeout with one of the options being a full character with their own agenda is a pretty novel idea, and story-wise I’m very interested by the implication that Despra has already killed at least one other pacifist. The musicians' voices being the instruments they play is a neat touch, the easter eggs are fun to find, and the music is pretty good!

If there’s one major criticism I have, maybe the whole “violence vs mercy” theme is too on the nose at the moment? The way Despra just goes on and on about how pathetic pacifists are and how cool murder is actually broke my immersion a bit, almost feels like the game’s trying too hard to mimic Undertale. But then again, maybe that’s intentional, and I don’t know how exactly you could make it subtler.

I also found the easter egg where Despra crashes the game if you skip too much of her dialogue a little frustrating; mostly for the purposes of testing the demo, but I imagine it might also be an issue in repeat playthroughs and speedruns of the full game. I do like the idea of her being mad that you’re doing that, though, so maybe she could instead skip ahead to her violent phase with unique dialogue?

Finally, around halfway through the unique restart cutscene, Ally’s sprite suddenly moved downwards at startling speed and went offscreen. She wasn’t visible for any of her remaining lines, including one where her jumping SFX played, and she snapped back in place at the very end, so I imagine it’s not intentional.

Overall though, I’m excited to see how this game develops from here! Hope this feedback helps.

Wonderful, I think I played it through to the end but I am not sure so give me a tip if I missed something. Got to the "end of demoscreen" with the boy, then tried choosing the girl first which forced you on the boy path so I guess thats it for now? If not, tell me! 

Anyhow: no criticism here, wonderful music, characters and the presentation was truly top notch. I like what was shown of the combat system too, but I am guessing that it was just a small taste. 

The only thing I found that you might want to alter was actually in the funny download instructions. Found a typo: 

Wait... Did that old hag make download instruction too?

should be either:

Wait... Did that old hag make a download instruction too?

or:   

Wait... Did that old hag make download instructions too?

So, the singing characters are the other elements? Thinking that due to the color-scheme of each character. Cant wait for Despra fanart. 

Ahh the nostalgia it is strong with this one!

This game is absolutely flooded with charm, beautiful art and music.

I just have one tiny-small question... is it supposed to loop indefinitely when the knives are being thrown?

Alright! My feedback... the intro and all the music was super amusing. Plus the comedic story was interesting. The style and sounds remind me of retro games :D Also, my name was always Loser! Haha.

I had a couple issues though.

1. After picking my character and a couple lines into the girl talking, the game crashed for some reason. Second time around it was fine.

2. I died before I could figure out what to do for the fighting part?