Some Feedback! :)

[EmberSynth]

Hi! This is copied from my most recent review I left on the store page. I really love this game and I wanted to share my thoughts and see what everyone else thinks!

At the point of writing, I have completed the main island and the Endless Realm portions of the main quest and done most of the side quests they have to offer and I always enjoyed myself.

What particularly stood out to me in this game was the storytelling regarding The Endless. During the first third of the game, your hear about The Endless here and there, but don't really interact with more than 1 or 2 and they really just seem like a normal fantasy race with some past history that doesn't really affect anything, but when you get to the Endless Realm, all the background lore you've been taking in really hits you and the way that the morals and history of the Endless really hits you. RPGs these days are often really sanitized and are afraid to do anything interesting with their quests, but there were two quests here that had me going "Oh sh*t... what do I do..." and "Oh my god thats so sad... I'm so sorry..."
(Editors Note: The moments mentioned are: Deciding what to do with the flesh farm and finding out what happened to the Duchess' family respectively.

There are some negatives I would like to bring up as a form of constructive feedback before I go:

1. There aren't very many weapons. I understand that the combat system is pretty simple and it would be hard to differentiate the gameplay, but after 8 hours, I have only found 2 swords and a bow to play around with and I wish I had some wiggle room.

2. I wish that the faction reputation system was a little more nuanced. I'm playing a charlatan in my run and I've really been trying to play both sides between the templars and the outlaws, but between the templars sometimes just psychically knowing when I took an unlawful action in a quest and the regular bandits looking kinda like dark star mercenaries from a distance, it makes it really hard to keep both faction affinities up. The biggest offender I have noticed was it seeming like the other factions can tell when you turn in a squirming godlet to another faction. I was trying to distribute them evenly, but it just ended up making the other faction not like me, even when I was turning in godlets to the SECRET BLACKMARKET THIEVES GUILD, the Templars somehow knew.

Now that seemed like a lot of ranting, but I was genuinely just trying to be thorough in my feedback so that if the developer reads this, they could actually get some sort of actionable feedback. I really love this game and I think its incredibly beautiful, fun and interesting.

Update: I've completed the Clockwork Kingdom today. Why does this game make me so SAD lol

[Johnny IV]

I agree