I am the Chosen One but my Stats are Awful and I got 100 Days to raise Them!
7Reid is just a normal, everyday game dev... Or is he?! No, of course not, he's the Chosen One and he has to stop the Dark One!
I am the Chosen One but my Stats are Awful and I got 100 Days to raise Them is a very fun game with a surprising amount of replayablity, especially for a game that's so short to play through. You can choose to level whatever stats you want in a bunch of different ways, recruiting friends to help you in the fight along the way. I'd like to give criticisms, but aside from the title being capitalized a bit haphazardly, the game is really well done for something that was made so quickly. I'd really like to see this expanded into a bigger game, and if/when it is, I'll definitely have more things to say.
But for now, I'll list the suggestions I have to expand the game!
-I forgot while recording that bgillisp said the game was originally meant to be 21 days, so my suggestion to make it longer is already covered :') I feel like making it TOO long would take away some of the fun and make new playthroughs get grindy, but 21 to 30 days with a morning and evening to prepare seems good.
-Minigames would be a nice addition, possibly including some battles. I could certainly see this being an occasional thing instead of every time, like every third time practicing spells with Zoe, you battle a slime that's weak to magic and you get a bonus of some kind based on how well you do. A minigame of hitting a moving target with the bow also comes to mind, maybe fighting off the town drunk when moving barrels... Things like that to add some activities and break up the walking a hitting a button that it is right now.
-Affection items would be a cool addition, however they get distributed. Repeating a task a certain number of times and receiving one as a gift would make sense to me, and getting them by getting Charisma leveled up could be an option.
-Having more in-depth reasons for why a stat helps you win in the end would be good. There are some variations now, but things like Strength making it a big hit, Charisma making it so you charm the Dark One into leaving, and so on. Having some specific combinations would be cool, too, like the suggestion I had to combine Intelligence and Dexterity to make a trap. I think making it an actual battle or minigame depending on your stat would be cool, too.
-Having Cynthia come back to ask how things are going every few days would be cool, and having a hidden way to recruit her as an ally for a special ending would be awesome. I could see it being based on getting a stat raised high enough, giving her enough affection items, or having accomplished a wide enough variety of tasks to prove you're putting in an effort to try everything.
If those of you that are watching have any ideas, leave them in the comments for bgillisp to see! And if you want to try out the game for yourself, head over to the itch.io page, and be sure to rate it for the game jam!
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