Good day, developers.
I am writing this review with great respect.
I am a fan of yours since the Ori series.
At one time, I fell in love with Ori and now I have fallen in love with this game too.
I bought the game on release and have played 150 hours in a year.
I am writing this review with the help of Google Translate because I am from Kyrgyzstan and do not know English well.
I love this game very much and do not want it to fail or be cancelled. I am writing this review because many of the problems that I see in the game have not been fixed or have been worsened.
Problems:
Resources
Combat system.
Teleports
Next, I will describe specifically what the problem is:
Please make the game more fun and interesting instead of making it harder and rougher.
Resources.
Very bad farming system, you have to farm for a very long time and a lot. The game has a huge amount of weapons and armor, and in order to upgrade several different items, you have to farm a lot, running around all the zones for a very long time. Resources are also spent on other things, such as construction. This has a very bad effect on the gaming experience and greatly slows down the pace of the game. Please do not be afraid to give players more resources, if the player gets more resources, he will not think that the game is worse or dumber, players really like it when they have enough resources to try to upgrade different builds and try them. When a player feels a constant lack of resources in such a rich game - the player begins to get frustrated and very angry! Do not try to force the player to play the game more and longer by farming a huge amount of resources. Make the player play more and longer because it will be interesting for him to try different builds in the game and different styles of play, perhaps he will even want to play the game again in a different way. Now it is very difficult for a player to change his build in the initial and middle game, due to the lack of resources for the same pumping of another build! But most players quit the game at the beginning because they cannot wait until the end of the game until they farm a billion gold, iron and pig guts!
Combat system.
Previously, the game was very fun, it was very easy and fun to kill enemies!
Now everything has become very bad. Enemies have become very fat and greasy. Please understand. There is a terrible psyop in the gaming industry who says that players like it when an enemy has to be killed in a million hits and the enemy kills you in 2 hits.
THIS IS A BAD STYLE OF COMBAT SYSTEM!
I understand that you are trying to make the game harder like Darksouls, but this is a bad way. Darksouls are very bad games in terms of combat!
Please do not make the game harder with fat and one-shot enemies. Please make the game more difficult with smarter enemies, with their smart behavior and combinations, the enemy should be more difficult because he is very active, he often moves, he surrounds you, he uses various abilities, he attacks more often and more accurately.
Make enemies strong thanks to their behavior and not thanks to their fat and one-shot attacks!
Teleports.
I understand that you want to make the player run around the world a lot and stumble upon various moments.
BUT!
Do this only for beginners, only at the beginning of the game, when the player has been playing the game for 40+ hours and has run around all the locations 50 times, it is already very difficult for him to walk a billion kilometers and go through the same enemies over and over again.
For the late game, please make a way to quickly move around the world. At the moment, I have already stopped going anywhere in the game except the Cerim Furnace. I can no longer stand running kilometers to complete the same tasks!
I have high hopes for this game and a lot of trust in you. I really hope that you will at least listen to my review a little and at least make the game a little more fun and interesting.
As a player, I want to have fun cutting down enemies, I am interested in exploring the huge beautiful world of Sacra.
I do not want to dig the ground a billion times and mine ore.
I do not want to kill the enemy with a billiard of blows.
I want the enemy to die easily and quickly, but at the same time be very active, aggressive, use different tricks!
Thank you for this wonderful game!
With respect, Overdead.