Yeeeeeaaaaaaa, im excited for a new demo!

Hi,
I usually don't go around making posts like these, but...
Cheers and looking forward to playing it!
at post 3, Very likely to be the same content with a few gameplay changes
Grryf

The demo will (for the time being) not be released on Steam. See above for the sign-up link

So, I've played what I presume is the newest demo, and here are my thoughts.

First, you give a lot of descriptions of things using controller feedback. This is cool and all, but while most PC users have access to a keyboard, many do not have access to a controller. This means that if you put controller info first, or in some cases do not mention the keyboard at all, you're catering to a smaller subset of your audience by default. If nothing else, my suggestion is a simple one. Where you do want to give tutorial info, put your keyboard shortcuts first, and controller shortcuts second.

Next, combat. I have only played on casual so far, so I'll have to see how higher difficulty looks, but on casual it's very, very easy. That's cool and all. I'm not going to throw stones on that point. You do spend a ton of time waiting though, and it takes a little of the realism out of it. If nothing else, it would be neat if enemies changed speeds a little.
That said, I tried the heavy attack tutorial and couldn't make it work. If I hold down arrow, Alex appears to charge up over and over again, sounds sometimes clipping over one another, and no matter when I hit the arrow to swing, I'm always blocked and counter-attacked by her uncle. I'm not sure if this is a glitch or if I'm doing it wrong, but I'm doing precisely as the tutorial says to do, and it's not working, so you may wish to look into that.
There's also one demo where you're surrounded by many enemies - I misremember its name right now - and you seemingly get attacked from multiple directions at once. i.e., you hear someone on your right wind up for a swing, you attack them first, and suddenly you're being attacked once or twice from the front when there was no windup from that direction. Are these combos from different sides, requiring you to block in multiple directions before striking? This isn't made clear.
Otherwise, I generally know what I'm getting on the tin, and it looks okay. If armour or weapons or shields are going to boost my performance, by the way, that should be stated somewhere. Having even some rough idea (i.e., this padded armour and bracers means you can take two extra hits) would be good; you don't need hard stats and advanced formulas or whatever, but knowing the benefit of the stuff I buy or find is a good thing.

Miscellaneous stuff last.
In my playthrough, I wasn't given a choice as to my gender, so I got Alex, female. I don't mind this, but is this deliberate (i.e., no choice)? Also, Shepherd is now male. I'm of mixed feelings on this, but I am not protesting in any case. I liked Shepherd being female if only because Alex (regardless of their gender) was being guided and enabled by men, and male Shepherd (god, I'm channelling Mass effect here by saying that) further hits on that. It's not a criticism, per se, it's a stylistic thing; if this is something that can switch, either at random or via specific parameters, cool. If it's just a straight choice you decided to make, also fine. This isn't game-breaking or anything, although I do want to point out that there's a cutscene which still refers to Shepherd as a "cloaked woman".
The repetition of "describe it to me" feels just a little forced. People who know Alex should know when and what she wants described, particularly if they've lived with her. Having them just flat-out mention stuff would be a bit less awkward than this, in my opinion. Also, now I think on it, there's a part when the uncle says something like, "have a look around", then corrects himself and awkwardly says, "have a listen around". Cringe, cringe, cringe. Please don't keep this in the final product. This is precisely the thing I wager most of us -don't want people around us to do; if there is a reason Alex would prefer that language, or would object to the phrase "look around" when she can't see, we have yet to come across it, and without it, doing this just makes it look like you're either trying to be funny (and for me at least, failing badly) or just don't know what you're doing when it comes to handling blind people and the language they use. Speaking personally here, I routinely use verbs like "saw", "look" and "watch" when referring to what I perceive, and if someone were to do the same, I'd prefer that; if they used one of these verbs and then switched it to something like "listen" or "hear", I'd feel extremely awkward and would probably inform them that they needn't do that, at least with me. I dunno; YMMV on this one I suppose, but to me it just feels awkward. Having someone who doesn't know Alex at all make this statement would be okay, if still cringe-worthy. Having someone who knows her make the statement is just not a great idea, from my angle on things.
The tutorial message when interacting with the map does not mention keyboard controls at all, and nor does the bow tutorial, I don't think.

I generally like what I see here, but I do have a concern. It may come across as confrontational, but I'll do my best here.
This demo is fairly similar to the demo that came many months ago. I was hoping for more/different things, and I got a few of them, and that's cool, but the wait time vs. the stuff that changed doesn't make a ton of sense to me. Is there a reason this took as long as it did? Was most of the time between demos spent polishing stuff we haven't even seen yet? I confess that while I did like what I experienced, I was hoping for different/more from this demo, didn't get it, and felt just a wee bit underwhelmed overall. I'm interested to see where the game goes, but my reaction to the demo itself is lukewarm.

HI,
@8 you clearly took the words from my mouth. Globally every comments you gave were my thoughts about this demo, negative and positive points.
One thing maybe, about this tutorial with the battle scene, more ennemies and sometimes projectiles. I managed to complete it s well (actually I completed every tutorial with no real difficulty even on hard mode, and only got killed two times including the main demo). But I must say that this particular tutorial was far more immersive than the others, and I truly loved it. The projectiles were fast enough to not give the impression of being adapted for a blind apponent, the action was fast, multidirectional, and granted me the two deaths I was refering to.
Clearly in terms of combat, the more we see that kind of dynamic, the best it'll be.
Thank you for your hard work. I can't wait to try the full version of the vale!

Best regard,
Simon

Hi.
The demo looks nice, but I'm experiencing some pretty masive bugs.
First of all, when playing the story mode or trying the tutorials, nothing happens when I try to swing the sword (I can only get it to swing, when I switch back to the game window from something else, and even that, only swings the left side).
I've tried both with an controller.
In addition, when using a controller, pressing the resume game option (with the right tricker, I think it was called) quickly closes the pause menu (as it should) but then opens it again, making an infinite loop, you can only escape by using the keyboard.
I've tried both the 64 and 32 bit, and having both my screen reader on and off (all with the same results).
One good thing, is the sound design so far (only got past the initial cutscene for the reasons stated above).

Hi.

I will put my comments in some short notes because I'm a bit tired and can't really write long texts anymore.
sound design is great, although some of the characters microphones sound a bit cheap, doesn't really break the ambience, but some lines could possibly be rerecorded.
The shepert is ones still called a woman, it's in the dialogue before the fur cloaks quest in the inn.
The cutscene after the fur cloaks quest has a real bad and heavy compressor on the shepparts voice, thi should be fixed because it surpresses all the ambiance and it doesn't sound that great.
Even on higher difficulty, the waiting times between enemys was a bit to long in my opinion, enemys, and especially when they are in groups should attack faster and more rapit, also provoking use of your shield. i think unlike others, I instantly started the game on the highest difficulty possible and it still was quite slow in my opinion.

The cutscenes are pritty nice and well spoken. But, as Jayde said, please, please, please, please!!! Take those puns out which go like, you see, eham, hear that? Please guys, this is not how blind people should be represented.

Yes,  I know, political correctness is a pain these days, but, please go and take these things out of the game, for me personally it's quite the bummer. Not game breaking, but something I would critisize in a possible review of the game.

Greetings Moritz.

Hi.

I played the demo and love it.

Others are saying shepard shouldn't say have a look around... Listen around, for me that doesn't bother me at all. Honestly it brings more realism to the game for me. I don't see it as humor, it's more as a... hmm, I don't have a word for it, snide is wrong, patrenising is deffenetly wrong but what ever it is, I like it.

As others have said, the fur cloak quest,, the one with the cuzzon does have the guy calling shepard a woman.

The keyboard and controler messages need to be improved.

I love the night demo and raders,, they each bring something different to the table and it's awesome!

I wanted to use the bow in the quest with the bear, I did just buy it after all.

This demo is amazing! I love the dynamic between the uncle,, the king,, and Alex.

i'm buying this as soon as it comes out and will probably add more on top if there's a donation page.

This game may not be the hardest thing for some but for me I love the shield/sword combo and how you have to figure out the pattern of the enimies.

Will there be magic in this game, and will we be able to switch weapons? if not, i'll still buy it but it would be fun.

See here! Stuff like that doesn’t hurt my ears or feelings, too much nit picking for all the politically correct bs, and, oops, I’ll prob get busted for saying everyone has nits to pick.
Oh, difficulty settings would be good so those who found it easy can make itz harder

about the things people are somewhat saying when correcting themselves. I feel like outside of the uncle, everyone else should be with that type of somewhat insulting dialect and wording. IN all honesty, we are not in the modern times here, we're in the old days, and to be fair, a lot of people most likely would not have met a visually impaired individual throughout their lives. As well with the Shepard at the start, I was getting the sense you never had the highest opinion from them in both versions at the start. To them, u were just some blind man/woman that probably was expected to die on that first set of warriors. Not only that, you were someone with barely any experience of life outside of the capital lands. This was described as boarder territories, and as usually commonly displayed by boarderlands of an empire/kingdom, civility goes out the window.

  And let's face it, as much as we don't want people to self-correct with the look/listen thing, people in our time still do it. You think a bunch of boarder villagers are going to give a toss about your feelings? Half of them want to kill you for some reason, and you aren't well respected, and obviously look out of place. Granted, her uncle should more likely be on point with not having to wait on Alex's prompting. It's more common that family tends to do this a lot less, knowing you the most. However, it's reasonable the Shepard would do the same thing, until he/she traveled with Alex enough to know better and get used to them, and see them as someone they are not babysitting for 500 miles.

On the demos I tried; Honestly combat is still slowish on the early parts of the story mode, being the more easier fights. However, the demos with the  knights/raider seem perfectly chaotic. If there's a lul in combat, it's the state you're supposed to use a heavy attack and prepare for counter attacks. In fact, the tutorial for heavy attacks actually mentions this as the purpose for the maneuver. to make the fight shorter, land that heavy blow to cut down someone faster, or get the fight back flowing at your pace hopefully.

The knights seem to also be more difficult with predicting what they'll do. They have varying forms of their attacks, and reacting to the wrong one will get you beaten down fast. (I attacked when I thought it was only the 2 hit combo, only to eat a third hit to the face, get blocked, and take another counter for that.

Actually I don't think people in game know that though at first. It seems you don't have your cane from the start anymore, quickly replacing it was a broken sword/scabbard.

Anyway, the uncle should probably tone it down a bit being one of the more empathedic characters towards you. however, the Shepard is new at this, and something is not entirely clear with Theo. However, you're pretty much fair game for anyone else. Especially the group trying to find the blind prince/princess throughout the boarderlands.

  Also the "we know this already' arguement is a bit world-breaking. yes, we as the player and character know of our disability. However, people will get surprised and act weird around us meeting new people who don't usually see anyone blind, because they're probably killed living out here. Sure we should probably present a different image at some point, but not at the start, where we're some random highborn now lost 500 miles from home. You're gonna have to earn that respect as the sword/bow/magic wielding highborn ripping through the hoards. but Until you get that status, your just some blind dude/chick who, as real life tends to tragically reflect, gets their disability noticed first before their ability. IN fact, the MC is pondering that she/he was considered useless to rule with her disability, and being a second born. Or, at least this is what she/he is thinking on carriage ride. However, hopefully the cringy dialogue subsides past the early part of the game, and your character has established him/herself in the boarder territories and taking on knights and raiding parties with the rest of them.

Hi,
Fantastic sound design, no matter what else you end up doing, do not reduce quality of the sounds to save on space/ size memary or what have you. The sounds were awesome enough to make me think I was watching a movie, and has to be one of the best out there in terms of sound effects, better than even AHC.
I am not sure if we already can do this, but being able to use both arrows when out of range and a sword when in range would make combat more interesting although I do see how impracticle that would be .
I liked shooting the kitchen boy whilst he was taking a piss and would obviously like chances to do that a bit more often.

I say, Keep the dialogues as they are, no need to change it.
It might make some people cringe, but to be perfectly honest, post 20 puts it just right, and makes it a bit more real politically correct bs and impressions aside.
That is what my friends end up saying even though I have corrected them a few times, and by now its more like gentel leg pulling or a tongue in cheek humur much more than anything else, Lets play and enjoy a game and story for what it is and leave the nitpicking along with politically correctness aside for once.

The combat in the story mode specially on hard could be a tad bit faster, I.E raider and knight demos had it just right, perfect.
Although, enemies seem to attack me only from either the left or the center, right not so much. this obviously doesn't include the raider, warrior  and the knight demos.

I see the sheperd being turned into a male character as  maintaining balance/ give and take we lost the male prince and have a female princess instead so the female sheperd is changed to a male guy, who gives me major GOT wibes the way he talks, speaking of which so do the uncle and such. Very good voice talents. although yes, I do miss the female sheperd a bit, but I'll survive

  A few bugs to report I see they haven't been reported so far.
If you play the hunting scene, go back to a combat scene and try the bow training tutorial again, the w s a d etc keys won't move you ahead or center you, quitting the game and retrying the bow training fixes it, though.
Usually during gameplay, the instructions will announce controls for both keyboard and controllers, but there are parts where only the controller controls are announced. I.E bow training.
Cheers, and obviously looking forward to the release of this game and will buy it when it comes out.
Grryf