Arboreal

I saw this little project in twitter and decided to follow it because it looks interesting! I've played a little bit before a bug got me out and I cant continue playing right now but Ill get on it later. As little as I played I saw what I needed, mostly. I'll start with the cons. The game its obviously a little student project, not a triple A game, there are bugs, and in the start everything its a little bit confusing. I've found some of the sound effects a little loud and a bit unfitting, for example, the water can startled me the first time I used it, also one time I went way too close to the water, and it made a big loud sound, the character shouted and teleported to the shore inmmediatly (That was scary) a little animation would be nice with that (Like in The legend of Zelda when Link drowns or falls in lava) or if not an animation making it not so fast that is confusing. The combat its a big clunkly at times (I dont know if it goes better when the game goes on, may be) and its mostly press a button and roll, the hitboxes are not that clear, needs a little bit more of polishing, its playable tho. Those are the cons I've found so far, mostly the game its a bit confusing and its not very clear with what it does On the other hand, the pros: The graphics, even if they are not much, look very nice and taken care of! Its nice to look at the characters (Maybe character portraits would help in the conversations? Its ok like this tho) They give you a lot of things to do when you start, plant trees, fight enemies, go to different places to explore, I've only played for like 20 minutes and it got me hooked up with the quests, wanting to know what is happening with the world. I have not used the farming system much, because I have only played two days, but it seems nice enough, its not difficult at all, and as I have seen, you can even buy upgraded saplings, and you have a lot of different ones to start with, even other trees that help you with the production in your farm. There is also the water rising thing, Its not very clear for me, if the water rises every hour (Or decreases) or if its like, a daily thing, but I think its interesting to be able to get into some places when the water its in different levels. Overall I think its a pretty nice game and has potential! If the developers are curious, the bug that got me out of the game was just for digging a corruption core out of the floor, I dont know if it will repeat, but Ill try later when I start the game again. I really want the game to keep on updating and see what has in store for us, keep going with the good work. Ill update the review when I play more, Im very excited to get going with my orchard!