Currently there's just a couple places where it's useful for items, otherwise you can sometimes use it to cut corners. Have heard about this one with movement before, I've recently tweaked the duration of the tap.

I've actually considered many times to take off the worldmap enemies completely, but safe zones are a nice alternative, I think I can do something like this, thanks for the suggestion! (But I expect this was just due to the game being incomplete.) Too many doors that couldn't be entered, and stairs that didn't go anywhere. It also took me a while to realise the next step was to go back to Havoc to catch a ship (at the port that had no ships the last time I was there). When presented with the 3 quest options, I took them all and then promptly forgot which one was the main quest. Finding the menus to Equip gear and access the skill tree was not immediately obvious to me. There were a lot of places I tried jumping to, or was able to jump to, that made me expect loot or a secret area only to be disappointed. Would have liked to see this utilised more. Your character has the ability to jump. Frustrating to do when tapping a direction you're not facing animates the full turn instead of moving you. Running around, I overshot doors and NPCs quite a lot so had to correct my position by one square a lot. Moving around is a little clunky, particularly when you only want to move one square. There should also be safe zones immediately around entrances to towns/caves etc where the enemies cannot attack you. Enemies on the world map trigger battles way too often. It kept me engaged, wasn't frustrating, and I was able to figure it out at the right pace.

The torch puzzle in the Hideout cave was well done. Dialogue feels natural and helps flesh out the characters and world. Thank you so much for the diary that automatically displays when you load a save!

The basic attacks feel like using skills, and having them change depending on what weapons you have equipped really helped to keep minor battles interesting.

Customisations to the menus and battle system really make this game stand out. Game aesthetics look great: the art, the animations, the maps, the extra little intro when you first launch the game. I suspect the project has been abandoned but I'm providing the following feedback in case the dev ever comes back to this. While there isn't much to this game so far, it's obvious a lot of time and attention has been put into what is here.

Drekirokr - Dusk of the Dragon instal