Last played 1.8e and here's my comments.
1: Poor
2: Fair
3: Average
4: Good
5: Excellent
1) Gameplay - What do you think about the game play. For example, are the abilities, items and spells fine? Is there too much killing? Is the campaign too repetive?
3/5
+ve points - Spells, abilities and items are very diverse and creative, with cool graphics and pretty useful functionality. I enjoyed using as many of them as possible.
-ve points - Spells could have been more diverse still. Try to have at least 4 spells per category per hero for selection. For example, Galeoth healing spell only has 2 possible selections. Effects like stagger, bleed and brittle should be included in every ability that can hurt enemies via buff used and buff given, so that they can play a better role in spell choosing and create more synergy. Abilities like combat kings are useful but I don't know when they will take effect so I cannot judge if they are worth the honour points. Exception is resurrection. Items can be improved: fix spelling, grammatical and expression errors, include a short quirky comment/ brief background for all items (only some has this now), be clearer with how the abilities in the item works (e.g. occasionally summons a blast that heals allies for jade set - what do you mean by occasionally?), fix wrong item titles and banned items
2) Terrain - What do you think about the terrain? Is it eye candy or not? What you believe is the most beautiful place and what should be improved.
4.5/5
+ve points - Terrain is very stunning. Rarely I see a map with much thought put into designing terrain. Keep up the good work!
-ve points - Terrain leaks in chapter 8 in the last version I played! Hope you fixed that already with the latest version.
3) Atmosphere - What do you think about the atmosphere of the campaign? Too funny? Too sad? And does the music make the atmosphere better?
4/5
+ve points - Much thought has been put into creating a balance between funny, downright stupid, serious, sad and angryish atmosphere. Careful choice of music that suits the atmosphere of the map and events. Keep it up!
-ve points - Please remove vulgarities and sexual connotations from this map because I dont think we need to use them to advance the plot or make things funny. And do fix the music bug in the bug masterthread.
4) Story - What do you think about the story. Is too simple or confusing? Is it mysterious and complicated enough? What is your favorite character?
Cant really judge here as I dont know the full story. Now, it's looking good, with many different subtleties, mysteries and angles and issues to consider.
5) Cinematics - What do you think about the cinematics. Tell what is the worst and the best cinematic and why.
3/5
+ve points - Very good characterisation you have there going for the three main characters due to the cinematics.
-ve points - Fix spelling, grammatical and expression errors. Cut down on unnecessary texts that repeat ideas for long cinematics. A voice-over will be a bonus. Cut down the time taken for each wall of text to disappear cause I don't read that slow. As said, do remove all sexual connotations and vulgarities cause I dont believe you need them to make something funny. Sometimes I cant skip cinematics, especially at the beginning of each chapter
6) Bosses - What do you think about the bosses at the campaign? Are they challenging, balanced, different and unique enough? What is your favourite boss and what boss could need some improvements?
4/5
+ve points - Creative bosses with distinct spells and background stories! Loved them all so keep this up!
Challenging and balanced enough for me!
-ve points - Some animations for spells shouldnt be reused, e.g. the shockwave animation. And do fix the bugs regarding bosses in the bug masterthread. xD My opinion is that more spells should be added to bosses when we proceed on with the chapters and when we play on harder difficulties. Events could have happened in a shorter span of time between events.
7) Diffculty - What is your opinion about the difficulties. Do you think the difficulties are balanced enough or do they need improvements?
Cannot comment as I have only played on Easy haha
All things consired, how would you describe your playing experience at the campaign? What could be done better and what you believe doesn't anymore need attension?
Very entertaining, I truly enjoyed every moment of my gaming experience, except the bugs. One of the best high quality maps I have ever played!
Wishlist:
- Potions should be transferrable between levels.
- More creeps per map; but dont make then able to respawn
- Vitality system and spell book upgrades to come back
- 1 new profession, maybe mining as I have suggested earlier?
- Achievement system and weather system as suggested before
- Fix all bugs! And make the campaign cleaner in terms of removing formatting and grammatical errors etc
9) Would you recommend this campaign to your friends?
Not yet; I will wait till the final version before promoting this to my friends.
If I miss out anything, I'll edit this later.