Hi,
to be honnest, even if it bothered me in the first place, the machine like sounds do indeed give a colour to the game, like shadow line's oldschool sounds do. I really really like leafox's douns for example.
It surprised me as well, but I really ended liking those strange 8bit like manamons.
Regarding the other posts, my position is still very clear. I definitly enjoyed playing manamon. Update or not, it was one of the best audiogames I've seen so far, and it still is in my opinion.
Yes, I would gladly see a manamon II be released. Yes, I would love to play it, to discover what's beyond the see, or beyond the stars, depeending on which the autor choose to explore, but he never promissed such a thing, so I'll never start complaining about how much money I gave for that project only because there's no episode II. I paid not because I wanted to sign some kind of moral contract with the autor. I paid because the dev deserved it, and because such an amazing product deserves to be bought, not stolen. I remember I bought it even before finishing the demo, and I'll never regrete that decision.
So AAron, if you're still reading those posts, which would be really surprising (I'dd have given up like 20 pages before this one atleast), allow me to tell one single thing. Even if it's not obvious in everyone's point of view, the whole community is totally grateful for what you did with manamon. Keep it up if you wish to do so, and if you don't, thank you for everything you've allready done. You were part of the revolution I wrote about on this forum a few months ago, the revolution of audiogames, trying desperatly to publish something else than eternal clones of battlezone/redspot/random side scrollers. We all owe you one.
Best regard,
Simon