NO-SKIN

why is the true luna so busted? she's actually broken.

Honestly, one the best games I have played so far the aesthetics are way too good, the easter eggs although easy to find are quite unique in their own ways, the game is quite simple yet it feels smooth. I have nothing to say but give an honest thanks to the developers and keep the hard work!

The secret boss was cool too, although it was challenging to get just the right run to see and get the chance to fight you guys!

The only think it might need a gameplay adjustment are cigarette since they are still not worth the effort to buy or find unfortunately...

Oh yeah and by the way I found a funny visual glitch, if you die while the enemy dies by hitting you, and you have the artifact that revives you. Your hearth points will appear as 0 until you enter a combat.

I love this game's aesthetic and had to draw my favourite girl! Can't wait to draw Miss Luna and Root too

Played for a while, black robe nerf was justified but now it's useless, wanted to see dagger no.48 gimmick runs, but sadly it's now useless as it's in the 3rd area and nerfed with a dmg cap of 2. Any thoughts! Would like to hear other opinions. Love the game so far, it has a lot of potential and it can go either way. Good luck to you brother.

This game is AWESOME. I played it for hours on end last night (stayed up late rofl) and it has such cool art and aesthetics. Took me about six attempts to win for the first time and it was crazy fun. I could always make it to the end reliably, even on my first attempt, but then I'd die to the final boss or the one before it. I only won with an item that I got from the lunar shard upgrades.

Even havning won once, there's still so much going on that I feel like I've only scratched the surface of. There's so much that you can do in this game, so many secrets to uncover, and it's' great.

My favorite part is figuring out who drops what, which lets you strategize about who to fight and when. At the start it's all "what do these rooms mean, who do I fight" and then later you start developing strategies for what to do in what order. The lack of RNG when it comes to what enemies will do is great for learning how things work. If there was a wiki for this game it would go really hard.

That's not even getting into the weird backstories for all the characters and the puzzle of figuring out what's going on. A part of me wonders if it's all just metaphor for Noire being an apparently terrible person (based on the enemy dialogue). Noire and Mary bullied Ester, and maybe something bad happened to her. But the Moon/Goddess and False God stuff make me wonder if there's more to it and there really is an evil cult out there. If there is, how would Mary, Rugs, and the others play into that? The prologue makes it seem like they're all normal people who have some personal drama going on, but nothing too major. In short I have no clue what's going on, but it's amazing.

If I had one criticism it would be to make item management easier somehow, maybe through a way of sorting items or a way to divide the inventory into sections and jump to different sections when you have a lot of items, because it can get tiring paging through everything when you have a lot of stuff. That's just me though.

This game is surprisingly good.
At first glance, the game seems rather simple; the controls are easy to understand, and the mechanics are self explanatory enough that the first time you're dropped on the "overworld" (a.k.a. where you select where to go next) you intuitively know what is going on. What that simplicity hides, however, is an immense amount of depth, both in its content and its mechanics, all tied together by a wonderful aesthetic and soundtrack.
And by that I mean that the game really doesn't show you much unless you dig deeper. When I first played I thought I had a pretty good idea of how much content the game would have, but the game just kept expanding right before my eyes at every turn, again and again, and that feeling of finding things like new playable characters, the end of the world, the negative layers, HER, is simply incredible to experience, and it reached a point where I don't know how much there still is to see. Like, sure, I have three characters, but who's to say there's not a fourth somewhere? That uncertainty is something I absolutely adore. It's comparable to the feeling of just finding new layers and paths in The Binding of Isaac.
Mechanically too, in the sense that your success is entirely dependent on your strategy. Knowing which event is which is vital to survival, but not only that, as you play the game you start noticing some patterns emerging, things like noticing that the same enemy always drops the same things, until eventually picking your battles carefully based on the enemies' moves and rewards becomes a part of your strategy. There is always a risk to everything you do, and sure, there is randomness involved, but it's just enough rng to scratch the itch in both my gambling loving brain and my strategy loving brain. (Besides, what RPG *doesn't* have rng?)
The simple aesthetics makes this much more approachable than most strategy games, like I mentioned before you can usually tell what to do without a tutorial. This simplicity, however, is also a double edged sword, and this is where I'll have to be a little bit more negative in this review, but the early game doesn't have enough of a hook to really make people want to stick around. I mentioned before that at first I thought I had an idea of how much content this game had, and that's not good, because after I've beaten the no-skin man once it took me two days to pick up the game again, and the sole reason I did is because I was bored. I'm glad I did, as I love this game, but if I had something to do I probably wouldn't have.
The point I'm trying to make is, as much as I love how the game hides so much for you to discover, I don't think there is enough of an incentive for you to look for them, if that makes sense. What *really* got me into it was finding root for the first time and triggering the end of the world, which made me realize that maybe this game isn't as linear as I thought. I also really don't like the unexpected events. Like, at all. Sure, it's fun the first two times but after that it just becomes annoying, if there were a lunar upgrade to remove those that would be great.
There are a few things that are noticeably placeholder too, like Trish's memory on the recollection screen, but that's more of a beta thing that I'm expecting to not be in the final release, it's quite jarring going from the genuinely pretty damn good puzzle battles of mary and rugs to "girl why you crying" "DREAMS :sob:". You got me really interested in these suicidal clowns and I wanna learn more about them.
Overall, tho, this game is worth playing, I'll give it a 7/10 on the right track to being a 10/10, keep up the good work!

I've played about 6 hours for the new beta (.6). Continuing to enjoy it.
However, I'm not sure if there's a bug for Root's mutation ability, since post Zone 1 I've repeatedly not been able to activate it even when killing the enemies correctly in the same way as Zone 1.  In the previous version, Root's ability worked throughout the entire run.

i wish characters didnt say the same things and talked more in each battle

I had completed the whole game on the 0.4 version. And when I downloaded the newest version (0.6) none of my data was saved. Is there any way that I can have the same stuff that I had in older versions?

Root's damage mutation still shows -2 max hp despite it being -3 now...
Heart glasses say that they "reduce the next 9 damage you would take" when the actual effect is "reduce the next damage you would take by 9"... Also applies to cult's robe...
The new dream diary page for Rugs is missing a few apostrophes in the text... Sunset: "I think its your fault", "You really dont know how to pace yourself"... Midnight: "You cant understand me anymore"...

I made sure to reference and link this game on several reedits on game mechanics and rpg design...

In my post i compared how modern horror games with advanced graphics all reach a point where they start looking like each other (The more realistic the graphics the less variety you can put  in, after all, its designed to look REAL)

This was the horror game i referenced when stating that while big budget games can sometimes only hold interest if somebody actually paid a 50$ pricetag and quieting would lose that investment.

However games like this, virtually free, with no advertising or sunk cost, and under 200mb, I will gladly spend 2 - 3 straight days playing... 

Even when in early, or alpha release...

Ill do my part to spread the word. 

Again, Thank you.

im kinda worried when i download this everything is ok but then when i try to launch it it say that this software might change something in your computer (I think it said that im kinda bad translator :^*  ) so if someone could say me something about this then i would be happy because i could like play this cuz this looks GOOOD :D

amazing game. An incredible game. There's so much too it, and even though it have got to 100% (and died) there is still is much left to discover. I feel like I know nothing, and I love it

Fantastic game, unsettling and perfect level of difficulty. I started playing with the newer art style and LOVED it, maybe if you could add a toggle for the art styles that'd be cool!!

Honestly an awesome idea would be if you kept your distance unlocks with Luna so you could talk to act 1 enemies before the first boss and get unique lore and interactions! I tried it and was disappointed to see my memory had reverted ;(

After unlocking Root and Luna and reaching the two 100% progress final bosses, I can say that I enjoyed the different tactics of later bosses which made them distinct from each other.

Here are some ideas:

Pray To The Goddess: It's OP with Rosary since you can spam it every turn if not Cursed and only take 1 dmg from every attack. Only Poison, Bleed, and multi-hit counter it.

So maybe on higher difficulties, you can only Pray 3 times per battle and have to pay 10 Lunar Fragments for every subsequent Pray?

Challenge character:

• Starts with 6 temporary hearts.
• Starts with Knife
• Starts with Gun.
• Starts with Second-hand Smoke boon.
• All max hp gains/healing items/rest events grant temporary hearts instead (cap of 6 gained from percentage healing).

Two deals with Living Guts basically allow you to easily kill final bosses. Maybe reduce its effect to 1/4?

Doomed/Despair status effect: Increased by 1 by certain enemy attacks, such as charged attacks, and lowered via Pray/defeating a boss/certain events/items. If the counter hits 13 (carries over between battles), explodes and take damage equal to 1/3 max hp.

All bosses so far spend a turn to heal but what if later on, they had a life drain attack (dmg-based healing)?

A boss whose Charged attack immediately resolves all your poison stacks dmg at once, punishing you for ignoring and not curing it.