Saw the cover art and thought it looked really cool. I'm bad and not really a fan of these turn based japanese type rpgs but still wanted to give it a try. Made it most of the way through the first ship until my party died. Seemed like a nice functional game. Music was good. I think you could probably add some art into the intro sequence, because the rapid scrolling text doesn't do justice to what I'm sure is a well fleshed out story. It would be good to really get players attention before they start the quite long tutorial ship.
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Thanks for playing!
Wow, so the intro was too short? I personally hate long intros, but I guess I might be in the minority...
You can actually save it anywhere, and I thought people would save after each battle. I suppose I should tell the player that somewhere...
What difficulty were you playing at? Was it normal?
Also good idea adding art with the intro sequence. I'll do that!
An intro can be longer and still feel short if its exciting enough. I was playing on normal difficulty. I ended up forgetting to heal my guys between battle because I was rushing to get to the captain, since I had enough of fighting regular guys (it was taking quite a while). The tutorial could probably use a lot more detail for idiots like me who don't know turn based rpgs well, but would need to be broken up with some progression in the story.