Apparently I had not one but two updates to play, as my saves came from 0.4, but for all that content there was not much to see. Story didn't advance anywhere. Slight contact with village and sea trip, neither of which gave much to see. I wish these would have been way more engaging. Instead of just reading reports I'd like to have visited village myself and got to know people there, hiring servants and other henchmen into the castle, making deals and trying get their loyalty somehow. I hope we can get rid of nearby bandits personally in the future updates, for example.
Island visit was also miss hit. Whole setting was left so much unused, that I pulled out half of my hair from frustration. I hope I won't be bald by the end of the next update. But with the things we got done there, I have small hope we'll see the place more often in the future. Also, we'd need to contact certain group from the mountains as soon as possible.
Whole time I was wondering about the groups logistics. How they fund setting up the castle? What are they eating and who cooks it? Who takes care of sentry service? They'd need plenty more people, for example woodcutters. Castles are cold places. They'd need plenty of storages for the next winter. Hire mercenaries? Extra people in the castle would also give plenty of opportunities for additional content, instead of just idle talk we had here.
Whole writing style was more suitable to the novel. VN needs much faster pace. Especially when there's seemingly endless opportunities with the content. Dealing with all the local power groups and building up power base of our own, before we can even start thinking about the main quests.
There's plenty of potential with the story, but this time it was mostly wasted.
I saw one typo btw. Wield was written as weild.
