1karmen1 I see where you are coming from and understand it very much, though a lot of your complains are very much voluntary design decisions on my end, so sadly probably I will never quite meet your demand here. Those games used to be very hard, and I wanted to make a nostalgic throwback but get rid of that oldschool difficulty (for the point and click elements).
And it's not exactly a pure point and a click. It's first of all, a visual novel and the point and click elements are here to give a bit of charm, it's an hybrid leaning more towards the VN aspect overall.
We also don't have the ressources to build locations like the manor for every places, and this wouldn't be useful at all as they would be empty and make the vn aspect, a pain. And mostly for the map/travel, it's really to immerse you in the game more than anything, to give you a sense of space and to make things connect with each other in a way that makes sense, I made it as quick as possible to change area, it's not mean to be "slow". This will get very useful later in the game, as you will have to go outside the village, so the fast travel will be really useful once those elements are in.
As for the butler, it's a design decision, I wanted to reduce complexity by making some rules:
- navigation hotspots/pickups/environnement are what you interact with it on screen
- VN aspect comes to you, certain text get repeated when you enter a room where there is someone in it doing something, to give a bit of life. You don't have to look for them, all you have to look and search is navigation/environnement interaction
Keep in mind though that you can toggle your "forward" on, and you will progress through the environnement at much faster rate and it will skip those repeatable moments in 0.01 sec. Basically when I play the game myself, I'm in forward mode during those section, the skip will stop as soon as you encounter a event that you haven't seen before, so there is no way to miss it. Hopefully that helps.
thevoid089 Awesome, thank you. Glad you liked it.
I hope you like the next update then!