Ladybug doesn't stop the aphids.
This is game-breaking if you don't exploit a sequence break.

A player said: "I personally wish jump and run were switched, and the biggest issue I had with the physics was that the fall speed makes the character feel really heavy suddenly"

These seem like easy fixes!

Sound effects to indicate an ouchie would be helpful!

There should be a mute button for the music, just in case.

Sometimes the game can get stuck in a loop on the Lore screen,
where after reading a lore entry the same entry will instantly load again.
It is possible to break out of this by rapidly moving away from the entry,
but it's a pain. For whatever reason it seems to only happen at the bottom of the list.

Web version saving and loading needs testing.

Music stops playing temporarily if you fall down from the area below the bridge.

Several players have asked for more direct hints from the characters about where to go. Tiamat's location and how to beat the human are good examples.

Selecting from the pause menu while in front of an NPC will cause the NPC dialogue to preempt the menu item.
This is an engine issue (chrismaltby/gb-studio#468 ), but maybe we can work around it?

The human encounter is a bit buggy.
I haven't been able to isolate the issues here just yet; however, compare #7 .

New scheme is:

• D-Pad
  • Walk
  • Climb
  • Drop
• 🅰
  • Jump
  • Interact
  • Confirm
• 🅱
  • Run
  • Cancel
• [Start]
  • Use Equipped Item
• [Select]
  • Open Menu
  • Equip Item

This aligns with de facto standard Game Boy button layout.

Item selection is not working consistently!
This is not quite game-breaking but it is a major annoyance.

The Jade Mask doesn't seem to be working.
Although not game-breaking, this prevents access to some of the map.

Warnings to do with the music files are emitted during build, but the music seems to play fine....

A player reports: "The softlock happened in the underground cave. The falling rocks glitched and now they're stuck in the air so there is no way to get out of the cave."

It is possible to jump over the big pit in the cavern. This leads to a dead end.

There are a fair number of typos in the dialogue.

• glass => glassy (Kuliltu lore)
• surpasingly => surpassingly (Jade mask desc)
• crany => cranny
• ever => every on baphy lore

There's probably more.

Several people have reported not being able to use the mask during the human encounter.

(I'm using firefox 89.0 on linux, but it probably shouldn't matter)

Steps to reproduce:

1. enter any area marked "Subterrane" on the map, up to and including the bit where you have to help Alraune's sprout.
2. make sure you have ANY item selected
3. press enter to use the item

Expected behaviour: some text appears telling you what the item did, and, if applicable, there is some effect on the world

Actual behaviour: nothing happens - not even flavour text

thanks for the cute game!

The ending sequence is missing an animation, and in general could use a little work.

Sound effects to indicate jumping would be helpful.
I'm not sure if this can be done with the current engine, so this might have to be a "won't fix" -- look into it!

The wind in the tower is a bit glitchy.
Rarely, you can get stuck in the wall.

It would be good to have a downloadable rom version.
This primarily just requires a build.

Baphy's sprite glitches if you open a menu screen while atop the great big green glowing pyramid.

List keyboard controls on Itch page.

It would be nice to clean up the project some to aid anyone coming here to learn more about GB Studio.
Primary ideas:

• Improve variable naming. This should be easy.
• Improve variable ordering. This might be quite hard.
• Merge the two pattern tables into one. See if Tiled can do this automatically.

It's possible to sequence break by jumping up to the key ledge with a running start.

New game should reset progress.
End screen should have a new game + option.