half if not most of the fun of the game is the roleplay as a character who thrives in a grimdark world, and may even be the beacon of hope in pushing back against the corruption, or at least thats what the game gaslights everyone into thinking it is about while you reload your save for the umpteenth time
Frankly, Eccma is not a great developer either, but he's competent artist with distinctive style that picked programming out of necessity and he's stubborn, persistent, patient or whatever you wanna call it so he sticks to his vision and keeps working on it. There's some content every 1-2 months, sure, sometimes it's as little as new garment or one new location expanding the world, or a complete detour to make mockery of people that recently pissed him off, but the point is he keeps going. Slow and steady wins the race. Lona's game has been in development for almost 6 years. He's still passionate about it, and he's up-front about how much is (or isn't) being done.
From what I gather with the conversations with Justice and the Sea Witch, the red mist was apparently an accident I think.
there's still an old guide in the front page very old and outdated
Dont play on the hardest difficulty, go to the sewers & spend twenty hours save scumming getting to grips with the stealth mechanics and rescue system(this is the main gameplay loop, you have to get good at it to play the game), rescue like ten bitches, save before sleeping, eat raw meat then immediately sleep to not puke, sleep in the forest on the exit to reset food poisoning and save scumm gastroenteritis, collect at the barkeep, and buy sabre and dagger on the other side of the city, then do as you wish, or nothing, with your level ups, but recommended dmg or maybe scout
Max scout while doing a normal high qual sabre playthrough i guess?, stealing from npcs gives you like nothing, just rob the bank every however long it takes to refresh, money and loot itself is kinda worthless in this game
i get it
yes, every now and then you steal a gold from some rando on the bar but its very rare and money is worthless because you get paid so much from rescuing and you have to do rescues just to restock meat
Or just hire the Treasure Hunter and do the Crystal Mines quest once or twice for your first level ups - dude can solo that and the boars in the rainforests along the way (use the Rally Trumpet skill to move your companions around, and don't throw them into a mess of enemies) - then start getting into the rescue system and all that jazz. Not that it's massively difficult, but rescuing is a fair bit easier around level 15-20+ than it is from your first go in the sewers.
I did it level one and i think it builds character, it really prepares you for the rest of the game like that god awful cave rescue with the roamers and the shamans or whatever, easily the hardest part of the game
