[WIP] Alone in Hell

[Phoroneus]

Ok, to finish out the review:

Your last monster (the one before the note that mentions his mind being taken over by something) has too few path nodes. I made a sound outside in the room with the trap door and he couldn't find me, because he kept walking into the wall.

Inside the same room (with the trap door), there are invisible obstacles that bar the player's movement. They appear to be arranged around the corners of the trap door. They're very frustrating for players, so they either need to be textured/arranged/aligned/whatever properly, or they need to be removed.

If the player pulls the monster I mentioned before (the last one you encounter in the demo) into the hallway between his room and the room with the trap door, there is no way to get him out without running right by him. Hallucination or not, it is rare that a player will run at a monster head-on, so ideally he should be able to be moved out of that hallway. Pathnodes (as I mentioned before) will solve this.

There are far too many tinderboxes and not enough things to use them on. I couldn't light any of the hanging lanterns, and the only thing I could light was a candle that had been tipped over and buried in debris.

The voice acting... well, let's just say that people ask for voice actors for a reason. It wasn't bad, actually, but the later notes sounded more like someone boredly reading a letter from someone they didn't particularly like and less like someone desperately scratching out what might be their epitaph. Voiceovers on letters are meant to demonstrate the writer's words, not the reader's. It might be worthwhile to have people voice them for you (friends or family work fine), especially the female one (which was rather cringe-worthy).

One of the lanterns in the last room (which has no exit once you drop down the trap door) is jiggling. This is clearly an error. It looks like it's a force applied to keep it swinging, but the time between applications is too low. I'd increase the timer by about 10x to get it to swing continuously without jerking around.

Ignoring the lack of filler details, this looks pretty good otherwise. The wavy bridge is cool (obviously a use of the chancel bridge) in that it doesn't appear to have any obvious clipping issues, so hats off to that. That you have voiceovers on all your letters in what appears to be your first map is also impressive - keep it up! If you need any custom models or any other doodads, give me a shout. I'll be glad to do what I can while not working on my own project.

Cheers!

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First thing I noticed: It's possible to get stuck behind the piano in one of the first rooms. It's never a good idea to let a player get stuck in a mundane spot like that, I'd suggest either placing the piano closer to the wall (so the player can't fit behind it) or putting something back there to let the player escape.

Alright then, I'll do that. But... why were you back there in the first place?

I thought we were meant to be testers. Ask any professional game tester, their job is more than half "find ways to break stuff so we can fix it so players don't inadvertently (or deliberately) get themselves stuck".

Consider it a bug report more than anything.

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Oh, that and I'm a bit... "impaired" at the moment, which is in my opinion the best state of mind in which to test games because you're inspired to acts of genius (and/or idiocy) you'd never have considered while sober.