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Reviews for "Idle Sword"

Love the game! Starting a new play through now, and I have to say I'm really impressed with the changes you've made. It's frankly fantastic to see a creator so engaged with using feedback to improve their product. In that vein, I thought I'd try to help.

It's a small thing, but I noticed grammar and spelling mistakes in text bubbles in the intro. I don't know if it's the same for other people, but obvious ones tend to take me out of whatever I'm reading at the time. Despite that, normally this isn't the kind of thing I'd bring up (feels a bit nitpicky), but since you seem admirably committed to improving your game in response to feedback, I've taken the liberty of going through line by line, and offering some corrections.

Hopefully you find them helpful:

Text Bubble 1: "Phew! You finally found me"

The last sentence is missing either a full stop or an exclamation mark. Contextually an exclamation mark might be more appropriate, given that he's extremely relieved.

Text Bubble 2: "An evil wizard trapped me..."

This is fine.

Text Bubble 3: "I can kill & Loot, but I need a hand."

This sentence is basically fine (I'd prefer to use "and" rather than an ampersand but that's personal preference), but "Loot" is capitalized wrongly.

Text Bubble 4: "First of all, tap that sign"

Needs a full stop to end the sentence: "First of all, tap that sign."

Text Bubble 5: "There are lot's of monsters here"
Text Bubble 6: "...and lot's of treasures!

Breaking the sentence into two is fine if you want to do it, but it should be "lots" rather than "lot's".

Text Bubble 7: "Give them good use, power is at hand."

This is a somewhat awkward wording. Instead why not try: "Use them well, power is at hand."

Text Bubble 8: "Let's find some! (tap the monsters)"

This is fine.

Text Bubble 9: "That item it's a great start!"

This needs a comma after "item" in order to grammatically correct. Even then it would still be awkward, however. I'd suggest "That item's a great start!" or "This item will be a great start!".

Text Bubble 10: "A couple more and we'll be unstoppable!"

This is lovely.

Text Bubble 11: "Time to equip it (open the inventory)"

Needs an exclamation mark or full stop to end the sentence, i.e. "Time to equip it! (open the inventory)" or "Time to equip it. (open the inventory)".

Text Bubble 12: "Drag & Drop the item into my portrait"

Again, need something to end the sentence here. The capitalizations I'm not worried about; it's a commonly known games-related phrase which makes a degree of sense to capitalize.

Text Bubble 13: "We might be able to even fight the man."

Okay, so firstly, this is awkwardly phrased; "We might even be able to fight the man." would be much more natural. There's also an issue of wording- who exactly is "the man"? Contextually I can work out that you probably mean the evil wizard, but it would read better if you just said that clearly, like so: "We might even be able to defeat the evil wizard.".

This is as far as I got, hope it was helpful!

laFunk responds:

That's super helpful!! Recently I got a couple of complaints about typos but I only found one U_U I'm spanish so I'm prone to that kind of mistakes. About "the man" thing, that's because "the evil wizard" won't fit in the speech bubble :P
Thanks very much!

The missing half star is in the missing information found on https://www.reddit.com/r/idlesword/

To the previous commenter, that sub-reddit includes a post indicating you must leave Idle Sword in a separate window for it to keep running, to which I'd add that it can be in the background, but not minimized, as the processing seems to be based on rendering. I was still able to hear the fights with the game minimized or in another non-rendered tab, but the amount of items and money I find when I check on it now that it has its own window always rendering in the background seems vastly different, which has me somewhat confused.

It definitely has potential.
Minor stuff that you'd probably be able to fix easily :
It would be nice if there was an explanation for the icons on the character stats when hovered.
And perhaps the monster stats could show when hovered not clicked on.

Keep updating, and I'm sure this contents will grow.

Idk if this is normal, but when i beat mr moustache (?) he dropped a kind of mirror. I used it like an ancient rune (drag and drop of the screen) and this happened.

https://gyazo.com/c67aa9af2e0391968bdca29c14364625
Before this thing the game was awesome, tough. 4 stars for this weird thing, man ^^

was wondering when the old wyvern sprites would be put to work again, good work