ZonkRT - Thank you for your review.
Giving us a 1* review for this reason:
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the game itself isn't even packed in its own folder so you have to create one manually if you don't want all the game files to just be loose wherever you extract them... "
Is just not fair as this is something quite common in all games (to extract them into a folder)
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Part 3 explaining what Part 1 and Part 2 did (as explained many times) is for people that wish to catch up quickly. If you don't want that, then just play Part 1 and Part 2.
Thank you for your review even if it is unfair imo
Thank you for your response.
I think it's a little misleading to say I gave a 1 star review because of how your game is packaged. I gave a 1 star review because I believe that's the quality of the product I played. The art is great, the rest is bad. It was highly irritating trying to do anything in this game. In my eyes, that's worthy of a 1 star review. How the game is packaged is a tiny fraction of this.
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I understand that the exposition at the start of part 3 is for people who just want to skip part 1 and 2, and if they didn't want that they could just play part 1 and 2. My problem is that part 1 and 2 are packaged as different versions of the same product. If they're all parts of the same product, there's absolutely no reason someone should have to download a different version to access a different part. This is the only game I've ever seen use this system.
It doesn't help that it's made clear that "if you want to play part 1, download version x, and for part 2, download version y", yet downloads for the files themselves are nowhere to be found on the page. There is a link to the files in the Patreon post that is through the link titled "
Hints v0.18:" and is described as "hints/Tips and Keyboard shortcuts". How is someone who's never even heard of you before supposed to know that there is a link to the first two parts in the "Hints for v0.18" post?
If you're absolutely insistent on using this system then maybe make sure incoming potentials have an easy way of understanding how to manage it. Maybe in Developer Nodes, say: "If you'd like to play part 1, download version x. If you'd like to play part 2, download version y. Downloads for both can be found HERE (hyperlink to the public Patreon post or MEGA folder).
Even if I can't endure the problems of this game to get any enjoyment out of it, clearly there's plenty of people who can. So on that note, I hope they enjoy it and I hope you continue to be successful. I just won't be a part of it, because it's not for me.