E3 Demo Feedback for the developer's team

I really liked the demo, it was fast, I got lost (I see this as a positive don't worry) and movement felt fluid. My only complaint is that the boss fight was a bit too easy, I think it needs to either do more damage or have attacks that are harder to avoid



Get yourself a Logitech Gamepad F310, they're surprisingly good for how cheap they are.

Oh and one other complaint. Too easy. I hope they make it a bit more difficult although it's merely a demo so yeah

Also, sorry to double post, but I wanted to throw my two cents in on the backdash. I'm not really what you call a power gamer or anything, so it's not really something I utilize, but I can understand why it might be off putting for some. That being said, in the Kickstarter, they spoke of a speed run mode right? Well, I say that we let the backdash debate rest until the beta rolls around and if it proves to be too much a game breaker, they only add it into the speedrun mode. That way those who want it can have it, and those who don't can play normal.

Every enemy besides Morte and the boss have shards. You can get their shard more than once, but as far as I'm aware nothing happens when you do. I got Dullaheads shard twice but the second time didn't do anything. 3 of the shards occupy the same slot, so you have to switch between them in the menu.

The only problems I've had with the game so far, is that since I only have a PS4 controller it was mapped funny, but not too awkward to where I couldn't play it or anything. I'd appreciate if there was some kind of setting to use the PS4 controller with settings for that, or at the very least let you remap it. Not really a complaint, this is an early demo after all, just food for thought.

I set my resolution to 1920x1080 immediately, so I don't know if the other settings would have crashed. The game ran perfectly for me with no hiccups or oddities that I could observe.

The controls felt fluid and they felt right. If there's any criticism to be said here I guess I could say it's a little awkward that the kung fu shoes basically behaves the same as the sword, but that can be addressed later whether it's abilities or animations or whatever.

I'll put some more time into it later, but those are my first impressions. Overall the demo is everything I asked for. Also the cutscene at the end showed Miriam up close, and everything looked great there too.

So first and foremost let me say that even as just a playable demo the game felt and looked good, I'm glad to see the level of polish and love that has clearly gone into this, thank you IGA and the entire Development Team for your hard work in keeping this Genre alive for all to enjoy.

Now with that said, things that I've noticed from what I've experienced in the demo, the keyboard controls are a bit, odd, I'm sure that with the final release the player will be able to rebind whatever the keys to whatever they want. However, with that I'd like to stress a small missed detail that tends to be frustrating with computer players on a multi-platform game like this, The Tutorial, aka [use the analog or D-pad to move, etc.] I hope that with the final version of the game the game itself will recognize your preferred control style and with it show proper button layout on the tutorial splash screens when they appear, for instance when using WASD to move, it would say [Use WASD to move around and Press W to search or S + Space to Drop, etc.] That is just a small thing I know of some friends and myself consider a pain when the splash screen still reads the default controller mapping for the tutorials so you sit there and press every key to figure out what does what.

the next thing, The Animations: they are fluid and precise as I would hope for an IGAvania game however I did notice some stutter and hangtime on some animations when simply playing around with buttons, moving back and forth quickly and stopping when moving left would occasionally leave Miriam stuck in her walk animation for longer than intended.   Attack Animations: fluid, smooth, and well executed, again as I'd hope, however they do feel a tad slow in some cases, I"m sure there will be other weapon types of varying speeds to compensate, but for a weapon like the Kung-Fu Shoes, I had hoped to see a few more attacks besides a basic side kick, crouch kick, jump kick/s. perhaps it isn't implemented, but to see something akin to Alucard or Soma's special moves with weapons would be a great thing to see. I am almost happy to see that certain things like back-dashing has returned and can very well be the fastest way to travel forwards. I've also found a bit of Jankyness with some animation transitions which is to be expected though they are somewhat jarring, one example of this is to simply move left or right immediately after an attack animation, with no transition frames between the animations the jump in Miriam's body placement is a bit fast.

I will post again if I can thing of any other useful feedback, thank you. -Tesel Bonne

I just want to mention some things that come to mind after my first play through.

-Borderless Fullscreen Windowed mode please!

-Hopefully there will be an animation/stance change for holding up on the controller much like Alucard had.

-Make it more difficult especially bosses and improve enemy placement and increase density. (I know they are going to work on this, just a reminder)

-Make items pop out of the box as someone else stated.

-Hidden rooms! I couldn't find any and I hit a bunch of walls. (If anyone found one please tell me)

This demo is absolutely incredible. I could not be more confident in the teams ability to make the game that we have all been aching to play. Thank you for the amazing chest on the boss.

Unreal engine might be conflicting with Oculus and this game...

Overall I greatly enjoyed the demo. Gameplay is shaping up nicely, and there's a lot of small touches I like. The gameplay straddles an interesting line between a SOTN and the Sorrow titles in terms of how it feels to control.

I have to say though: the boss, as it stands, does not look great. Even ignoring polish / render, the base model lacks a lot of character, and what is there is not great? The bad breast physics are probably not intended to be funny in a not-so-great "this is kind of cheap!" sort of way; it honestly just made me roll my eyes more than anything. The palette / shading on the boss also all in all doesn't feel quite there.

Also, as another minor criticism: enemies do not feel as aggressive as they should be? The Buers for example do not feel like they have the kind of impact / challenge as a "fast rolling enemy" really should.

Well I just finished playing it.

I really missed that Igavania style of gameplay and tone.

Here's a few notes on what I noticed.

-Game crashed with a "Fatal Error" message as soon as I was about first start playing through it. (note that this was after I went into the options and changed the resolution)
-At times Miriam would run on her own left. Would have to press start to stop her.
-Not sure if it was a controller issue (was using a Logitech "Dualshock"-like controller) but I found it strange having the attack button be on the left front facing button, while jump was on the right front facing button. It makes it a bit tough to do jump slashes as such. Would have preferred jump to be on the bottom front facing button.


Other than that, the game was very smooth. Music didn't cut out for me, 1080p resolution worked beautifully, no graphical glitches as far as i've seen, and the gameplay was like an even higher quality Igavania game.

I hope to see the full game soon