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AnsweredSep 22, 3:10 AMUTC
1Session 1 recording· 38 min
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  1. 00:02Let's play a short quest.
  2. 00:06Um,
  3. 00:10Okay, settings we got
  4. 00:19I
  5. 00:24FPS up.
  6. 00:35Before.
  7. 00:46Okay, so
  8. 00:49I let's get started.
  9. 01:13A sword.
  10. 01:17Broken sword.
  11. 01:20Um,
  12. 01:27Hm.
  13. 01:30I am a child
  14. 01:32and I can wield the blade.
  15. 02:05Most actions consume stamina.
  16. 02:07Cannot use stamina consuming actions when you are out of stamina.
  17. 02:12Can't close. Why can I close and pressing zero?
  18. 02:17But nothing happens.
  19. 02:23What's going on?
  20. 02:25Pressing all the buttons on the controller, but nothing is happening.
  21. 02:28You can't close anything. Uh,
  22. 02:33Yeah, nothing works.
  23. 02:37Oh. Okay, so I had to switch to the mouse and then I moved the mouse and then only then the controller worked again.
  24. 02:47So that's a bug.
  25. 03:05The hand just goes straight through this
  26. 03:11through here.
  27. 03:12I don't know if that's intentional.
  28. 03:14I mean, it should stop, right?
  29. 03:16It shouldn't shouldn't just go right through like this.
  30. 03:20Blade is just going right through this tree trunk.
  31. 03:24Should be a boundary on this thing.
  32. 03:29Just like yeah, I guess it happens everywhere too.
  33. 03:33Yeah.
  34. 03:36Okay.
  35. 03:45Uh, dash to avoid enemy attacks.
  36. 03:47I want to dash. You can dash in the air to jump higher.
  37. 03:52Same thing here. I need to move the mouse in order to for the controller to work again.
  38. 04:00Oh.
  39. 04:02Dash in the air.
  40. 04:05Let's see what happens.
  41. 04:09Dashing in the air actually does not
  42. 04:12is not the thing you need to do
  43. 04:15because I dashed in the air, but then that doesn't really take me far.
  44. 04:21But maybe you need to dash first and then jump.
  45. 04:30You can eat I need to run.
  46. 04:33Run, dash.
  47. 04:35No.
  48. 04:37Um,
  49. 04:40No.
  50. 04:44Okay, maybe I need to run.
  51. 08:10back and put batteries at my controller.
  52. 08:14Okay, so we got run dash.
  53. 08:20I think
  54. 08:24with a run dash jump.
  55. 08:28And dash jump.
  56. 08:39Okay.
  57. 08:48Good quest. That's pretty cool.
  58. 08:51Just like the title of the game.
  59. 08:57But note for the king written in ancient leps, it was given to me by the oak.
  60. 09:03Okay.
  61. 09:29This
  62. 09:41pick up some moss caps.
  63. 09:48Pick up some moss caps.
  64. 09:51Uh
  65. 09:56pick up oh.
  66. 10:00I guess
  67. 10:02oh, there you go.
  68. 10:07These are moss caps
  69. 10:11on the trees.
  70. 10:21And um open inventory.
  71. 10:28Equip the moss cap by dragging it into the hot bar.
  72. 10:36Okay. Eat the moss cap to restore health.
  73. 10:41Okay. Mhm.
  74. 10:44Right, eat it.
  75. 10:49Okay. Um eat
  76. 10:56their item knowledge.
  77. 11:05Item knowledge.
  78. 11:11Why is a small amount of poison?
  79. 11:14Okay.
  80. 11:23Oh, this looks this looks kind of ugly, like
  81. 11:27you see like the background search room moss caps in the forest.
  82. 11:31Eat at least one and um this menu like it kind of overlaps in a weird way.
  83. 11:38I think we should make maybe the background make it
  84. 11:42blurred out or something
  85. 11:45to give the impression that this is
  86. 11:48in the front layer a pause menu.
  87. 11:54Okay. Search room more moss caps, eat at least one.
  88. 11:57I already ate one. Eat another one.
  89. 12:02There you go.
  90. 12:09Apple.
  91. 12:27Ask me used sword enemy attacks.
  92. 12:30Okay.
  93. 12:48Okay.
  94. 12:50Am I already dead?
  95. 13:04Yeah.
  96. 13:06Wait, what?
  97. 13:10I'm back at the beginning.
  98. 13:13Come on. This is an auto save.
  99. 13:22There's no way this was two minutes ago.
  100. 13:32Well, no way. Let's do this again.
  101. 13:41Okay, let's go.
  102. 14:32You got to pick up these mouse caps.
  103. 14:48Like eat.
  104. 15:12Okay, let me another one.
  105. 15:16Uh
  106. 15:18another one. Okay.
  107. 15:24So, I need to use dash.
  108. 15:32The heck.
  109. 15:39Oh. You kidding me?
  110. 15:47Okay then.
  111. 15:50Kings Kings wood.
  112. 15:55Oh, wait a second. I think I picked the wrong save because it's not obvious
  113. 16:02which is the one
  114. 16:04when there's two. Here, it's not obvious which is the one that I'm selecting like this.
  115. 16:11I think there needs to be more of an indicator about which one I'm currently on.
  116. 16:15Now I can tell cuz there's three and so the black one is the only one.
  117. 16:21Is Yeah, it's the only one so that's how I know the darker one is the one I'm selecting.
  118. 16:27Okay.
  119. 16:28I guess it auto saves. Okay, yeah it auto saves at a better spot.
  120. 16:41Yeah, but I need to eat.
  121. 17:01Finally.
  122. 17:07I take the sword. It's better sword.
  123. 17:11Oh, what the heck?
  124. 17:14It's turned to bones.
  125. 17:19There's another
  126. 17:21enemy over there.
  127. 17:25Let's sneak up on it.
  128. 17:51What does poison do? I mean it makes you your stamina yellow, but does it
  129. 17:57does it go away or does it not go away?
  130. 18:00Just stays permanently like that?
  131. 18:03Can't tell.
  132. 18:09Oh, you can keep the bones.
  133. 18:13Okay.
  134. 18:18You bury it's probably better
  135. 18:22to eat.
  136. 18:28Didn't do anything.
  137. 18:37Is you mana? I guess what what is mana?
  138. 18:46Huh? And I guess mana is something
  139. 18:50that they'll explain later in the game.
  140. 18:54But but why don't they explain it first before I'm able to even gain mana?
  141. 18:58So like that. Should explain what mana is first before I'm even able to see it cuz then it's just kind of confusing.
  142. 19:06Now I have mana, but I don't know how it's used.
  143. 19:12Zoom in to take closer look at distant areas.
  144. 19:15Ah, not again. I need to move the mouse again cuz the controller doesn't work.
  145. 19:27Well, yeah, there's something wrong with the controller.
  146. 19:37Found a bunch of mushrooms in the woods.
  147. 19:39Problem is when I eat one, I nearly shit myself to death and losing stamina.
  148. 19:45Need to find a campfire to cook them into some kind of stew.
  149. 19:50Bloody hell, I feel coding a bunch of vomit obscures the rest of the page.
  150. 19:56So I guess we can cook them
  151. 20:00into a stew.
  152. 20:08Does that mean two and then parentheses one?
  153. 20:12I don't know what that means.
  154. 20:15Means I have one or it requires two?
  155. 20:20Maybe.
  156. 20:31Okay. There's some enemies out there.
  157. 20:37All right. Scroll.
  158. 20:48Bleak wood.
  159. 20:55Items me equipped. Most items have primary and secondary ability.
  160. 21:00Primary, secondary. Okay. Is this ability?
  161. 21:10All right. So then
  162. 21:14Oh.
  163. 21:22What item is it referring to?
  164. 21:40Well, these bees
  165. 21:42just keep rotating.
  166. 21:51Okay. Um
  167. 21:54Eat.
  168. 21:57What's that chicken doing? Need to kill the chicken.
  169. 22:03I don't know what mana is for, but I'll just pick up the blueberries.
  170. 22:05Probably useful.
  171. 22:09Where did the chicken go?
  172. 22:13Oh.
  173. 22:17What are these symbols?
  174. 22:20What?
  175. 22:23Why wiggling?
  176. 22:25It's kind of weird.
  177. 22:28There's a rock could jiggling like this.
  178. 22:31It's it's not fitting for this stone to to be jiggling
  179. 22:36like that. It's like jello.
  180. 22:51It's this
  181. 22:54Arcane Daggers.
  182. 22:58Mm.
  183. 23:02This is Scroll.
  184. 23:05Manifest Arcane Daggers to hover around you attacking and launch one dagger forward at high speed.
  185. 23:11Spell scrolls are consumed upon use.
  186. 23:24Okay.
  187. 23:31You guess I can't pick these up.
  188. 23:40Where did I even come from?
  189. 23:46Making from Oh, yeah. Came from here, I guess.
  190. 24:02cheese of this again.
  191. 24:17Throwing knife. It's pretty funny the guy put through throwing knife and get this guy.
  192. 24:35Hm?
  193. 25:21What's the
  194. 25:23Okay.
  195. 25:38Hello.
  196. 25:40Can I kill these fish?
  197. 25:44That's not.
  198. 25:46There's some coins.
  199. 25:49Oh, the coins are four.
  200. 25:52This is the four here. Goat.
  201. 25:57Can you throw a knife at it? See what happens.
  202. 26:02I didn't do anything. Just wasted it.
  203. 26:09Okay.
  204. 26:11Maybe there. What is
  205. 26:14Where are these things for?
  206. 26:19Oh, wait they can they can hit it.
  207. 26:28Interesting.
  208. 26:44Hey, let's go.
  209. 27:03Goat for sale. What is this?
  210. 27:06Dear Harlan, as agreed in Laketown, I'll meet you by the pond in Blakewood with my five fattest goats.
  211. 27:13You can choose your pick.
  212. 27:26All right, let's continue.
  213. 27:44I need to keep pressing it.
  214. 27:56Lock from the other side.
  215. 28:01I don't like the interactivity here.
  216. 28:03You can like press it and then you know it moves.
  217. 28:06That's pretty cool.
  218. 28:11The other side. Um
  219. 28:18can you use the scroll, I guess?
  220. 28:23All right. And throwing knife, I guess.
  221. 28:33Oh.
  222. 28:39Sorry about that.
  223. 28:45That goat is an enemy.
  224. 28:51Iron sword.
  225. 28:54I need coins for that.
  226. 29:01Oh shit, I used up my thing.
  227. 29:05Um
  228. 29:07so they're not opening the gate.
  229. 29:12Let's go see what the guard says.
  230. 29:14Let's see.
  231. 29:54East and west. Okay.
  232. 30:11Okay.
  233. 30:21And now we want the
  234. 30:23we want the sword.
  235. 30:34Cook? Oh yeah.
  236. 30:37Uh
  237. 30:39Wait, what do I what do I cook? Oh.
  238. 30:44Uh
  239. 30:45Okay. Yes.
  240. 31:04Okay.
  241. 31:13Okay, now I'm going to eat the stew.
  242. 31:20Ice. Okay.
  243. 31:27Which bandits?
  244. 31:31No.
  245. 31:56I guess I need to
  246. 32:01there is lock so
  247. 32:04Uh
  248. 32:08I just
  249. 32:15Kegan? Oh.
  250. 32:18Kegan.
  251. 32:29Open still.
  252. 32:41Hey.
  253. 32:46All right, I want to save these things.
  254. 32:50I need to use them.
  255. 32:55It's all saving.
  256. 33:08Is it for the pigeons?
  257. 33:30That didn't really help.
  258. 33:35Hm.
  259. 33:37I'm already all the way up here.
  260. 33:40Maybe
  261. 33:43um where are the watch towers anyway?
  262. 34:16Oh.
  263. 34:18I just left the I fire up.
  264. 34:40Oh.
  265. 34:43Wait.
  266. 34:46Up here.
  267. 34:56Hey.
  268. 35:00I suppose do now.
  269. 35:06It's a pretty cool game so far.
  270. 35:07I like it.
  271. 35:10Um it's like an adventure game.
  272. 35:32Like things to do.
  273. 35:35Things to explore. That's pretty cool.
  274. 35:40What is what is this?
  275. 35:44Oh.
  276. 35:50Not accessible. Okay.
  277. 36:00Okay, where
  278. 36:04What do I need to go?
  279. 36:07Let's see.
  280. 36:25Combat is kind of simple. Or shows a little more
  281. 36:30sophisticated.
  282. 36:33Like if you can at least strafe, that would be good.
  283. 36:37Like lock onto a target.
  284. 36:40So that you can just like
  285. 36:43Oh, shoot.
  286. 36:46Hey.
  287. 36:59Ready?
  288. 37:08Oh, man.
  289. 37:09I lost my progress.
  290. 37:14Oh, you Oh, you save at the fire.
  291. 37:19Oh, man. Do all that again.
  292. 37:32Just um
  293. 37:35We'll just stop here
  294. 37:37pick it up later.
  1. functionalAudiovisual appealThe game looked and sounded great.Strongly agree (+3)
  2. ChallengeThe level of difficulty felt just right.Agree (+2)
  3. Ease of controlIt was easy to figure out which buttons and keys did what.Agree (+2)
  4. Clarity of goalsI always knew what my goals were in the game.Agree (+2)
  5. Progress feedbackI got clear feedback on how I was doing.Agree (+2)
  6. psychosocialAutonomyI had the freedom to choose how I played.Strongly agree (+3)
  7. CuriosityI was curious to see more of the game.Strongly agree (+3)
  8. ImmersionI felt fully immersed in the game.Agree (+2)
  9. MasteryI felt like I was playing well.Agree (+2)
  10. MeaningPlaying felt like time well spent.Slightly agree (+1)
  11. enjoymentEnjoymentThe game was fun.Agree (+2)
  12. Reviewer noteOverall, I like the premise and adventure feel of the game—there are fun things to discover, quests to follow, and items to cook and craft. However, I ran into several frustrating technical and design issues. The controller regularly stopped registering inputs on tutorial popups until I moved the mouse, which happened multiple times. Death sent me back far enough that redoing sections felt punishing, and some mechanics like mana, poison, and recipe numbers were unclear. I also noticed visual quirks like overlapping menus and jiggling rocks.