Okay, thanks would be great if you could fix it. Do you plan to add more things to the game with updates? How it works if you release a new version? Will I get a new link via E-mail or how it works?
regards
Niklas

Hi.
So I finally got time to check out the latest version.
Ctrl tab and tab does the same thing. It switches between the different outputs. Well, this is really great, but it won't work with NVDA on my system. I want to have NVDA read all the text to me, because I currently don't have a great sapi voice which is good at reading fast and loud like eSpeak in NVDA.
Then I got a pretty bad and confusing start the first two times I started the game. I chose the first character which got spoken so soft by Nanna so I couldn't hear what the character is called. As soon as I got my first mission, I was thrown into a fight. I had read the read me briefly, so I know I had to press a to attack. I pressed a very quickly to attack, but all the sounds was so loud so I couldn't hear the speech at all, and I quickly died twice without noticing why I did wrong.
Then I quit the game to choose an other character, and then I was placed in a small room with a letter which I never figured out how to pick up or read. I walked forward and was thrown into a fight, and then I died again.
It would be nice to have a small tutorial to go through to learn all the basics. I thought I could bring up a list to choose what to examen to read the letter, but I couldn't. I got a kind of a list where the last message was shown which was pretty confused.
The game looks pretty strange to me and I find it very difficult to get started. I don't mean to say anything bad about the game because it really sounds interesting, but I can't really get into how the basics works. I don't know if it's just me who does something wrong or if I just have had some bad experiences with the game. I'm sure it would help a lot if I got a better sapi voice, but the battles seems to be so quick that you don't have a chance when you don't know how to fight or can't hear what's going on.
It would be nice if people would comment on this.

I must at mit that flying, driving a car, learn lots of skills, talk to people, explore big maps etc sounds really interesting, so I think people just have to get used to the game, but it's damn hard! I look forward to more comments.

ok. I have spent some time with the game and I have some things to say.
First off, the defobots seem to have a bug associated wit them. After they perform their replicating technique, they seem to become invisible to the game. This results in them seeming to attack from anywhere, even when they are not in the same location as the playble character.
Second, when I try to save a transcript it seems to fail every time. i can't get it to open in my web browser.
It is a good game, though. I like it.

lOL... Thanks, CAE.
how does a person keep from losing their playable characters to demons? Does anyone have an idea of what causes that? If possible, i'd like to not have that happen again!

hi cae!.
well, finally i found this haha.
i sent you a pm to see how we can negotiate the game, because i don't have access to paypal.
waiting your response haha.

That is the case, yes. I didn't do it that way on purpose, though...

This entire post is spoilers.
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The unlabeled scrolls... well, one type will give you a peak into your character's backstory, but the others don't really do much (they can complete quests, for what that's worth).
The purple stars are actually a reference to another game I have yet to complete, hehehe. There are a few specific doors they can unlock, and you can use them to bribe mercinaries (or if you find one of the two telephones in the game, you can use them to pay for food, hehehehe). They weren't supposed to become as big a part of the game as they are (and since I think I just summarized most of it, you can see how not-big that is. ).
Since you've got scrolls going around, have you encountered someone to trade with? Any items you find useless can be traded for something better if you want.
There are also a few places (by which I mean two) where you can find a Keysmith, who will make keys for you if you drop any item. The demo has a bug with the keysmith that makes it easily abused; I don't remember if I fixed that in the full version or not (I know I planned on it).
There's another bug that makes grapplinghooks more useful than they seem, but if you've got so many people running around, even that is probably a bit too little, hehehe.
There is one specific use for the grapplinghook that I didn't manage to make as intuitive as I wanted. The solution would have been to make a helicopter sound play when in the presence of a motorcycle. I don't think I need to say more.

And on those items that get stuck together... that's a bug that I had hoped I had successfully crushed. Apparently I failed.
I will mention that one thing I like to do when I'm vulnerable in the earlier stages is grab even useless items just to make it less likely that thieves will take the things I need. Eventually this just becomes a mess once you're far enough that thieves aren't much of a threat and you actually need to find specific items in that enormous collection. So unfortunately it seems I can only suggest bbeing careful.

Oh, and that bug with the grapplinghook, in case you would rather me tell you
(So sub-spoiler, I guess)
It's actually due to a querk of BGT, but if a grapplinghook is the last item in your inventory, it can unlock most doors that take a numbered key.

Hmm, would a list of some of the major events and how to access them be worth making? Appropriately spoiler-tagged, of course.

It's almost (emphasis on the almost) impossible to reach the character intro maps without starting the game as the required character.

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I'll hold off on listing every event / map, but here are a few:
- There are three ways to reach the seaside cliffs, which isn't particularly eventful, but has a few hard-to-find items and a minigame its own. One way is to get Abato to let you borrow his father's boat, which I think only happens if you've gotten a particular scene (meditate on the island off to the west of Kavina's dojo). The other way involves using a Relic (obtain by defeating a Ninja with the Ninja Relic quest), talk to Abato, then use the Relic when near a boat. The other way is far less reliable; if you can get into a river, you can eventually follow it to the ocean, but odds are you'll wander into a cave before then. (Find rivers by going into waterfalls. Sometimes waterfalls spawn on top of cliffs (reached from high ledges), or if there's been a meteor shower).
- There's another stage that takes you to Kavina's Dojo, and I think there are only two pretty specific ways to reach it. (I also think it could use much more dialog, since it's more a character sequence than an action one, but I digress). If you've gone to the seaside cliffs, you'll find a high ledge on the west side of the boat. If you can climb up there, you'll reach a fishing boat, and you can talk to the villager there. (The little bit he tells you might be cut off by the generic villager stuff that follows if you're in the right message mode). Once you've talked to that villager, having Suzuki or Toyota try to fly from a road or a gully should cause something to happen. The other way involves a special way to end that stage you reach by opening tunnels (I'm not sure if you've found that yet, but I suspect you'll know when you do). After that, Kia can get Chevrelet to take her to this stage by jumping on him in the random maps. .
- If you find Chevrelet hanging around in the random maps as not a boss, talking to him might cause things to happen.
- There's a map that, when properly cleaned, leads you to a stage through a city. The city map is randomly generated, but in a different way from the generic random maps. (This isn't the only way to get here, but eh). It's more of a maze, though if you find your way out, you'll reach a burning bridge guarded by a gang of crooks. If you manage to jump from that bridge with few or no crooks present, you'll advance to the next area. (The crooks constantly respawn, so there's really only one reliable way to accomplish this...).
- There are other ways to reach the area where the above ends. One of them involves a sequence of events with Spectro, meditating with a palm-pilot, and using a ninjasmokebomb near a plane. (I don't remember if the telephone call is a requirement or not). This results in a little challenge-type thing, though if you're unlucky it can be lost even if you don't do anything wrong (ninjaing a plane should let you try again, though). That ends at the burning bridge, eventually. Another way is by completing the second stage at the Dojo. I think there are a couple others, but I've used them so little I don't remember exactly (I think one involves entering the correct sequence of numbers at a keypad). There are so many non-simple ways to reach this same stage for a reason, Heh. You need to get through it and get the cutscene at the end to enable most of the events specific to the full version of the game.
Oh, and I don't know if you found Spectro's optional sidestage or not. Talking to the villagers in his intro with different items in your possession might make a difference.
I'm sure I'm forgetting something from even just the demo.
There are still plenty of things I left out deliberately (most only available in the full version). I think those should be easier to find once you get to them, though. (I said find, not complete. There are a couple minigames involved that can be frustrating until you figure them out...)
Hopefully this was helpful.
(Oh, and so far as I can remember, there is only one other phone besides the one in Spectro's intro, but it's somewhere you've already said that you've been... it's just a matter of finding it.)

It depends what you mean by cutscenes.
But internally, there's a whole array full of cutscenes, and those are only the ones that the game needs to check on afterward, so yes, there are plenty.
Yes, I will post here if there is an update.

I did get your email. The bug you mentioned will be fixed in the next update.