Delay on Garden of Souls + plot and stuff

tl/dr: Doggo is not happy with the current system yet, will work on it more to improve it.

Hey all, just a heads up on Garden of Souls, I did a quick playtest and I'm not happy with it yet. The skeleton is kinda there, but currently it feels off, the loop isn't as interesting as I want it to be yet, so I'm gonna delay the release to next month for me to polish and tweak the current loop/ story a bit more.

Speaking of story, since it was something that's frequently asked, it generally goes like this:

You are a member of The Second Division, a.k.a the Stealth Force/ Black Ops division. You were sent to investigate some weird energy readings in Karakura town after the Aizen incident. In this alternate universe, the Hogyoku was shattered. Numerous factions appeared to investigate the phenomenon, and your team was wiped out by one of them.

Your Zanpakuto spirit (Kahime) was able to absorb a fragment of it, and managed to save your life, with the condition of breaking away from Soul Society and collecting all the fragments scattered around Karakura...

As for the game, basically the idea is that each faction will control certain territories, for now it's:

• The Bambies from the Wandenreich

• A number of soul society members

• A number of the Espadas

Your main goal will be to find the fragments of the Hyogoku. There will be some enemies that you can recruit to your side, it all depends on if Kahime deems them "acceptable" to serve under you (her).

My main gripe with the system now is that the combat system, which unlike Jikage Rising, will take up a huge part of this game, and currently it's not interesting enough. I'm trying to make it more fun. The "recruitment" method, while I'm satisfied with it, feels like it can be more delicious as well, so I reckon it would be good to take more time to explore more options with it too.

On the site of assets, currently I have an artist making a better map instead of the one I drew with my hands lol, the basic travel/ management system is there though. I would also wanna get some art of the mobs in the game.

Mostly which you'll farm for in game currency. Not to mention some battle sprites of the characters, but that's on hold at the moment cause I haven't finalised the combat loop that we'll use yet.