General Tutorial feedback

[Rukio]

So after just completing the tutorial I've got a few things for ya.

Edit: Credit where credit is due. There is an advanced tutorial but it's tucked away in the trial button on the Asura screen. Made some more bullet points on it down below.

Respecting the player's time

- It seems way too long. The animation of watching the master talk and explain, then having him slowly wave his hand around to poof into the people. It feels like he could just stand off to the side and then explain with the dummy in front of him. There is quite a lot of screen. Could have the text appear bigger so players can read quicker. Sure there is a dialogue skip button but I'd rather get the extra bits of information, as a brand new starting player, without having to do the tutorial in 8 - 10 minutes (Excluding the mock battle) when it can be a 3 - 5ish minute tutorial.

Skills? I have those?

- I have no idea what my abilities do. The Q, R and E. In fact I only know these because I opened the Game Settings Keybindings. Apparently E is a dodge counter attack followup or something? Point is, I'm really not sure what I do. In the mock battle, I was kind of just hitting Q to figure out what it did. If I remember correctly, hovering over the skill didn't tell me anything either? Which is probably good so you don't get accidental UI while fighting. Problem is, if there is a button to show skills so I can read.. it's definitely not anywhere that caught my eye.

Inventory or some way to view items

EDIT: I've found out you can click on an item to preview the text.
I'm not sure there is an inventory so I can view my items and what they do. Looking through keybinds I'm not seeing anything either. Can I drop items for allies? How do I check what an item does? I have roughly 2 seconds after picking something up to read what an item does. Even then it's kind of confusing because some of the first items I picked up had red-ish looking text? I couldn't really verify what it was while fighting for my life. Without item knowledge, it's going to be a long trial trying to figure out how to build characters.

Skill preview

I assume this just isn't in yet as Combat Info is greyed out in the Asura tab. Unless I'm missing something, there is no way to verify what an ability does. It's kind of just guessing right now. Hovering over the icons do nothing and there isn't an F1 info sheet for each character. It doesn't seem in Trials for characters you're able to pull up information either. Kind of a big problem but again, it's probably just something not in the game yet.

Music is a bit to tame

It'd be nice if we could get some more upbeat music for fighting. The tutorial music seems very calm, which when paired with the slow tutorial (Excluding the mock battle) it feels like it's longer than it is. I'd even love this in the trial section.

Explanation of states

I just found the advanced tutorial. Apparently you can make people dazed or something? More information for things like this would help a lot as it may have special properties to it. Do they take more damage? Is there a button we can click to speed up recovery? If you get slammed into terrain one more time while dazed are you KO'd?

But wait, there's more?

Advanced tutorial is a thing! I've found it in the Trial button. This probably should be changed to "Practice" as trial makes it sound like you can try the character for a limited time. Practice also let's you know there is some sort of training ground. ALSO, the Advanced Tutorial should be proposed before the mock battle simulation.
"There is even more in-depth training awaiting you! Would you like to learn more before heading into the mock simulation?"
If I had this brought up before the mock simulation, I'd immediately do it to learn more about the game and characters. Whatever choice the player selects, there should be a freeze confirmation pop up that lets them know where to go for Advanced training in the future. Having to figure it out where it's been stored isn't something a lot of people will assume.

For those of you who don't know, you have to enter: Asura > Choose your Asura > Click Trial. Once you're in there, you have to know to run to the area where Master Dudu is and then talk with him. THEN you'll see the option about Advanced Training. It's kind of buried in here.

Path the AI back to the fighting square when they're knocked away

One thing I've noticed is sometimes while trying out the training categories, the AI will get knocked up into the geometry and sit there. Meanwhile you're trying to get to them to do whats required.

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