Labyrinth.os Demo Build II

I made an account just to say how much I love the vibe this thing gives off. 

I adore the pre-rendered 3D sprite art style and really appreciate the diversity in the range of character skins, there's a lot of badass designs, but the deadpan, sometimes uncanny expressions that come with the mannequin aesthetic is just unsettling and menacing enough to keep you on edge and ugh - *chef's kiss* - it's just wonderful.

Then, there's that ominous feeling of something always watching you from around every corner even though it's bright and well-lit and you can see everything in front of you, and man, don't even get me started on that crunchy bass line on (what I can only assume is) the boss theme hitting me in ways I didn't even know I needed.

It all brings me back to that little pocket of gaming in the early 2000's, where it was all a little bit strange and developers weren't afraid to get a bit weird, I respect that direction so much. I'm looking forward to seeing how this pans out, you've made something super cool here. Keep going!

The games super rad! The art and music really pulled me in and I HAD to play more when i saw the Cyborg Mutant class looking like a certain masked hero. Gameplay itself is real fun too.

One little thing, instead of asking the player if they want to save when they select the save option, i feel like itd be smoother to just go right to the save menu when you select the button like most other games. The player still has the option to back out from that screen if they dont wanna save.

You should put this on Steam Early Access, the art is very high quality and would probably help fund the full game.

Good game, will shell big buckeroos out on release. hearts uw u

the sprites are really gorgeous and it has some neat music, but like the guy below me said, lolita knight is too op. maybe you should take a look at the knight class in etrian odyssey 4 (fortress), it would start with a similar skill that only increased the chances of it getting hit, so the risk would still be there. and as the game progressed, it would end up getting a skill that protected the entire team for 1 turn with a high mp cost.

another thing that annoyed me was that npc dialogue would trigger everytime i stepped on their respective tile. also, it would be a nice QOL improvement if you could see your party's stats and equipment in each shop.

really cool demo though, love the creativity put into it. looking forward to the finished game :)

This was pretty promising. I absolutely love the aesthetics and the world seems interesting too. But it was rather easy. Using a party of Lolita Knight, Cyborg Hero, Bullet Witch, and Technomancer, I never so much has had a single person KO'd. The Lolita Knight's guard skill is just way too powerful and can easily be used repeatedly after upping her MP a few times, and only an enemy in the last area ever did more than 0 damage to her with a spell. I might go through it again with a different party, but yeah. The other thing I take issue with is the speed in general; battle actions take quite a while to play out and menu and area transitions are quite slow all around. I'd like to see things sped up a bit in general, and the usual hold-down-a-key-to-speed-up-battles functionality.

Also, any time I loaded a save the UI would be missing until performing any area transition. So that's a bug. And my controls were different to what's listed here; for me I couldn't use Z at all, only C for confirm and A for the menu. Not sure if that's a change that was made at some point.

Anyway, I'm looking forward to the final release.

This might sound weird, but have you considered making some classes/sprites unlockables? The character art seems to be the main draw of the game, so you could turn them into  rewards that you find in the dungeon, as a better incentive to keep playing. Sorry if this sounds dumb, just a thought that wouldn't leave me

liking it so far! only complaint is that it chugs a little if it renders too much on screen? the turning animation is a bit much when it lags

I've started the demo, and i really like what I'm seeing!

Looking forward to the full release!

This has so much charm! I love the sprites and aesthetic. The class choices are really original too. Bonus points for FM Synthesis. I hope you continue working on this!

I hope you continue updating this. It looks so good.

just found your work, this looks so good

This is sick as hell!! The aesthetic and all the pixel art is so good!

Reminds me of the dungeon crawling in the original Phantasy Star games.