Initial Feedback

[thelefthorse]

First, I am super hyped to finally have the full game at my fingertips. The atmosphere, the banter, the mini-games -- you've created a true gem.

That said, I've noticed a couple of things that might be worth looking into.

- In the timed repair mini-games, you only ever pull the correct part out of the box. In the demo the part you pulled out was random, and while that was a tad frustrating, it seems to have been a key component to the fun because I enjoy this mini-game much less in the current form. It's too easy to always pull the right part, imo.

- The other change in the timed mini-game is that I seem to only repair one, maybe two different parts in each challenge. In the alarm clock one, I think I repaired seven or eight clocks, and all but one of them were just replacing the battery. In the vacuum cleaner challenge, I managed eight, and of those five were the little round circle and the other three were all the piece under the circle. After the clock game I thought maybe it was a fluke, but now having experienced the same thing in the vacuum game it seems there has to have been an adjustment in the mechanics that control which parts need repairing. Again, that makes the games easier . . . and less fun.

- I'm noticing a lot more typos/misspellings/grammatical errors in the full version than were in the demo. Obviously, one would hope that would be reversed, so I'm not sure what happened with the editing/localization.

- This is a minor thing, but the very first night Chris closes the shop to head upstairs there's a cut-scene screen that comes up with the words 'Press any button to skip', but it seems that should be 'Press any button to continue', as I didn't want to 'skip' a cut-scene and waited for a good 30-45 seconds but nothing ever happened.

Overall I'm very much enjoying myself. I decided to start from the beginning instead of carrying on with my demo save, but the fact that was an option was great.

EDIT: I forgot to mention one other thing I've noticed.

The pacing of the 'click to advance' mechanic seems, well, off somehow. I'm finding myself doing a lot of clicking that does nothing. Sometimes one click will immediately pull up the next line of dialog; sometimes it seems the game wants to change the pacing and so you click . . . and click . . . click . . . and then you get the next line of dialog.

I don't remember experiencing this while playing the demo, but I could have been more focused on what was happening -- since I was playing for the first time -- than I am now that I'm on a bit of a second playthrough of the demo material.

Again, though, great game!

[stefan.klaus86]

Enjoying the game a lot so far, but having troubles with the repairs. Based on asking out the customers what is wrong with the device that is supposed to be repaired, it´s easy to figure out what´s wrong and "cut out" the new chip for it... but I´m having issues with the placement in the device. Is there an advanced tutorial to it ? I mean I had to fix this "tazer" like thingy from a guy, and I neither had the "removal tool" nor had anything else, and it was obvious that the only part that was broken or missing was the battery. So I let the him grab a replacement battery from his parts box (it looked like the shape you needed to put back in into the device), fitted it into the device, and put the cover back on. I could not find any other things to repair or interact with. Grabing the device at various spots only let me move the whole device as a unit. The rating gave me a "D" and the device did not work... another customer came in wanted the PA System to be repaired... again... I could not find any obvious spots where I could put the fixed circuit board... so I just attached it at a random spot (wher was most space left), and I did get a better rating for it, and it seemed to have worked as the customer was pleased with the workd and even wanted to hire the character I play for their company... I´ve seen some typos to like "cosy" instead of "cozy", and I also wondered why it said "press to skip (the cutscene?)" when they prolly meant "press to continoue", but what bothers me more is that I did have my T-rex fail at many repair jobs simply bc I did either not have the right part in the parts box (was not grab able) or I just did not know how to properly interact with the devices to fix them. The first jobs were rather easy, but then, 4...5th job started to become difficult bc of lack of "how to interact with stuff." Other than that rly liking it, I mean a scalie game, and me being into electronics IRL, what could go wrong :D, thou, sometimes I wish I had more dialoge options bc it forces you into somewhat "mean" replies and it´s like "chose the one that´s not as insulting as the others."

[ArthasGaming]

my biggest problem is when you get to the point where you have to move the chip board around when you cut it out, it reverses all the movements and it just is really confusing, not sure if thats supposed to be like that because the person you are doing it for is the same one that you fail at her first 2 jobs, so I dont know, I just cant get used to those movements.

[thelefthorse]

Originally posted by stefan.klaus86:

Enjoying the game a lot so far, but having troubles with the repairs. Based on asking out the customers what is wrong with the device that is supposed to be repaired, it´s easy to figure out what´s wrong and "cut out" the new chip for it... but I´m having issues with the placement in the device. Is there an advanced tutorial to it ? I mean I had to fix this "tazer" like thingy from a guy, and I neither had the "removal tool" nor had anything else, and it was obvious that the only part that was broken or missing was the battery. So I let the him grab a replacement battery from his parts box (it looked like the shape you needed to put back in into the device), fitted it into the device, and put the cover back on. I could not find any other things to repair or interact with. Grabing the device at various spots only let me move the whole device as a unit. The rating gave me a "D" and the device did not work... another customer came in wanted the PA System to be repaired... again... I could not find any obvious spots where I could put the fixed circuit board... so I just attached it at a random spot (wher was most space left), and I did get a better rating for it, and it seemed to have worked as the customer was pleased with the workd and even wanted to hire the character I play for their company... I´ve seen some typos to like "cosy" instead of "cozy", and I also wondered why it said "press to skip (the cutscene?)" when they prolly meant "press to continoue", but what bothers me more is that I did have my T-rex fail at many repair jobs simply bc I did either not have the right part in the parts box (was not grab able) or I just did not know how to properly interact with the devices to fix them. The first jobs were rather easy, but then, 4...5th job started to become difficult bc of lack of "how to interact with stuff." Other than that rly liking it, I mean a scalie game, and me being into electronics IRL, what could go wrong :D, thou, sometimes I wish I had more dialoge options bc it forces you into somewhat "mean" replies and it´s like "chose the one that´s not as insulting as the others."

First, in terms of 'where to place' the circuit boards, you can place them anywhere. Just squirt a dab of glue on whatever it is and stick it on.

In terms of repairs, you can see which part looks ratty/tatty broken, yes? If it's the thing on top, just remove the broken part, get a new one from the box and put it in the same place, put the cover back on and hit 'done'. If you have to remove a part to get to the part that is broken, make sure you pay attention to where everything goes, replace the broken part, then put everything back just like it was, close it up and you're finished. It's very simple, so you might be over-thinking it.

When you are choosing which circuit board to print, use the notes you've taken (they're on a sticky note on the top left corner of your desk). Your notes will help you decide what is the correct part to print. The dino-machine or whatever it is on your desk is actively trying to get you to print the wrong part, so keep that in mind; you can choose to do as the customer has asked or do what the dino-machine thing wants, it's up to you. Again, you might be over-thinking this; it's pretty simple.

[thelefthorse]

Originally posted by ArthasGaming:

my biggest problem is when you get to the point where you have to move the chip board around when you cut it out, it reverses all the movements and it just is really confusing, not sure if thats supposed to be like that because the person you are doing it for is the same one that you fail at her first 2 jobs, so I dont know, I just cant get used to those movements.

Oh my god, I know.

My problem is that I could cut out the pieces normally very easily. Then, when we had to move the sheet itself I managed to switch to that very easily, no problem. But now that's gone back to how it originally worked, I can't get my brain to forget about moving the sheet and go back to following the lines; I literally can't not get confused as to whether I am following a line or moving something under a line.

I remember switching between the two in the demo without a problem, so I think the answer is to not think about it nearly as much as . . . we're thinking about it.

It's a very clever little mind-f*#@

[stefan.klaus86]

Hello,

this is a reply to "Posting #3" which is a reply to my question.

I somewhat did know most of what had been posted there already, and I found out what I was doing wrong. Like it had been said "You might be overthinking things" ... there was my issue. I did have other repairs, and now also - due to story progression - had to enter the science contest where at it as part of the contest you had to fix many items with a timer. I managed to do quite well, and after reading these tips, I understood how the fixing works (it is indeed easy once you know how it works)... just a bummer, that my T-rex did screw up a lot of repairs before... repairs that could have brought a lot of positive reputation at / from various customers and people.

So far still enjoying the game a lot, but I reduce the game time a bit bc such good scalie games are rare, and once you have one... play it slow to have the enjoyment last longer :D

If I was to make a suggestion: Explain the fixing stuff things better. Story wise you could say "T rex is in his apprentice years", but if I would have had a good start at the beginning, I would have gotten a different story bc ppl woulnd´t have been mad at my T rex when he fixed things and they didn´t work after that. I was mostly distracted with the removing tool. When having to fix things, I tried to remove components from the devices, bc IRL that makes sense, but I wasn´t able to remove components, and sometimes there was no removal tool at all.

Understanding that it is okay to just "cut out the new chip" "Glue it to the device" and this is "fixed" is what my issue was. After I understood that, I could fix all the devices with success, or better my T-rex did for me :P ... also the "remove the part layers to get to the broken part" thing had been explained and I understood it.

TLDR: It would be cool if there was a tutorial that let´s you practice repairs before you go into the main game. Repairing things is a big part of the game, and with some training, you could get a better experience doing the story relevant repairs. Dunno if anyone else had issues with the repairs, but to me they were confusing at the start.

[thelefthorse]

Originally posted by stefan.klaus86:

. . .
TLDR: It would be cool if there was a tutorial that let´s you practice repairs before you go into the main game. Repairing things is a big part of the game, and with some training, you could get a better experience doing the story relevant repairs. Dunno if anyone else had issues with the repairs, but to me they were confusing at the start.

You're absolutely right. I love the game, but a lot of things were a little short-sighted or simply dropped as a mechanic somewhere along the way -- like the 'remove tool' you mention. They make you use it in the only semi-tutorial about fixing things you get, but literally never again (at least I haven't used it another time, and I'm getting pretty deep into this save).

The good news, hopefully, is that I'm planning on doing a second playthrough, where I do what the little machine dino wants me to do and deliberately screw up orders. I didn't do that on my current playthrough; I've been faithfully completing my customers' requests, even when I didn't personally agree with them (looking at you, Roy). So maybe this playthrough can be the one where you screw everything up and you can do another run doing everything perfectly.

[YuniAura]

Originally posted by thelefthorse:

Originally posted by stefan.klaus86:

. . .
TLDR: It would be cool if there was a tutorial that let´s you practice repairs before you go into the main game. Repairing things is a big part of the game, and with some training, you could get a better experience doing the story relevant repairs. Dunno if anyone else had issues with the repairs, but to me they were confusing at the start.

You're absolutely right. I love the game, but a lot of things were a little short-sighted or simply dropped as a mechanic somewhere along the way -- like the 'remove tool' you mention. They make you use it in the only semi-tutorial about fixing things you get, but literally never again (at least I haven't used it another time, and I'm getting pretty deep into this save).

The good news, hopefully, is that I'm planning on doing a second playthrough, where I do what the little machine dino wants me to do and deliberately screw up orders. I didn't do that on my current playthrough; I've been faithfully completing my customers' requests, even when I didn't personally agree with them (looking at you, Roy). So maybe this playthrough can be the one where you screw everything up and you can do another run doing everything perfectly.

You use the remove tool when cleaning up Mia's keyboard too!

[thelefthorse]

Originally posted by YuniAura:

Originally posted by thelefthorse:

You're absolutely right. I love the game, but a lot of things were a little short-sighted or simply dropped as a mechanic somewhere along the way -- like the 'remove tool' you mention. They make you use it in the only semi-tutorial about fixing things you get, but literally never again (at least I haven't used it another time, and I'm getting pretty deep into this save).

The good news, hopefully, is that I'm planning on doing a second playthrough, where I do what the little machine dino wants me to do and deliberately screw up orders. I didn't do that on my current playthrough; I've been faithfully completing my customers' requests, even when I didn't personally agree with them (looking at you, Roy). So maybe this playthrough can be the one where you screw everything up and you can do another run doing everything perfectly.

You use the remove tool when cleaning up Mia's keyboard too!

Ahh, well, I haven't gotten that far in the game yet.

Please consider using spoiler bars (click on the 'Formatting help' button beside the 'Post Comment' button if you're unsure of how to do so) when revealing story-lines or plot developments. I'm not going to read your post about some kind of gang hideout, as I'm not far enough along to know there is a gang or a hideout, but I suppose I know now after having read the title of your post . . .