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Informative. I imagine this was difficult to write about. I have played the first episode (and by playing I mean tore through burning the midnight oil), so I'm quite eager to give it another go, assuming I get a 10 euro deal from Steam like before.

One thing I hope has been fixed here - and your press release suggested something along these lines - is for books to be repeatable. This was simply not possible in the first game, and I got in trouble when I finished book 2 but used up nearly all my healing potions for its boss, then I started book 3 which is hard from the beginning, and I wasn't able to get anywhere for lack of potions.

Normally you fix that by playing the minigames, which give you extra potions to use in the story battles, but I hadn't unlocked them yet for book 3, and I had no way of returning to book 1 and book 2. Eventually I was forced to wipe my profile and start from the beginning, this time making sure to stock up BEFORE beating the book 2 boss. Major irritation.

"Deep in the earth I faced a fight that I could never win. The blameless and the base destroyed, and all that might have been. -- GK"

You know, I'm not entirely sure the problem has been removed. By the time I got to the start of book three, I was pretty much out of potions. And the earlier episodes don't seem to be replayable. Mini-games are unlocked, but playing them from the main menu doesn't seem to award potions for the campaign mode. What you have to do--as far as I can tell--is just keep attempting the stages without using potions. As you do, you'll sometimes gain a few new potions (particularly if you beat a boss with energy to spare). The Mother Goose companion also drops healing potions every four turns you survive, so it's really only a matter of time if you want to stock up on potions and try again.

"Too often we enjoy the comfort of opinion without the discomfort of thought." - John F. Kennedy on reality

"What if everything you see is more than what you see--the person next to you is a warrior and the space that appears empty is a secret door to another world? What if something appears that shouldn't? You either dismiss it, or you accept that there is much more to the world than you think. Perhaps it really is a doorway, and if you choose to go inside, you'll find many unexpected things." - Shigeru Miyamoto on secret doors to another world2