Just saw your Steam review and it brought me to this video. Honestly, thank you for probably one of the most high-effort reviews of Cantata. As a creator, seeing people engage with your work like this, positive or negative, feels great, and I appreciate that you clearly took the time to say something meaningful and speak from your own experience. It's also great to see people really "understand" how the game operates, and you clearly got it and knew how to accurately critique it. Thank you! A few notes though! - Popups can be "frozen" by clicking the middle mouse button (instead of just waiting for the timing). In the game settings, you can toggle this on, or change the delay time for the timer lock, etc. - You can multi-select and move units. It never made it into the tutorial, but if you ctrl+click multiple units or ctrl+click and drag to select multiple units. You then move like normal and will see previews of the units that can move. Not sure if you're planning on returning to the game but hope this makes things easier! The story gets better and better with each chapter (imo!) so if you decide to go back hopefully this smooths things out. But again, thanks for the video!
Thank you so much for the kind words! It's very validating that my review left the impression that it did with you, as when I started making videos my intent was to provide more critical analysis than I was seeing in modern "review" content. Again thank you so much for the feedback it truly means a lot. Also thank you for the notes on some pain-points I had with the game, I will certainly keep them in mind should I decide to revisit Cantata!
this game looks cool but i wish there was a bit more flare to the unit combat, not super exciting to just watch hp numbers go down when fighting in a strategy game imo good review tho this helped me figure out if i wanted it or not :)
This is a high quality video for such a small channel, is that your voice or some kind of AI? it is very articulate, clear and has great pacing, so congrats if its your voice, and a very good AI if it isn't, I can't even tell the difference.
Kye, I don't know what to do with my life anymore. Since you came along, I think the only option I have left is to become a Stonemason since you have me so bricked up.
Just saw your Steam review and it brought me to this video. Honestly, thank you for probably one of the most high-effort reviews of Cantata. As a creator, seeing people engage with your work like this, positive or negative, feels great, and I appreciate that you clearly took the time to say something meaningful and speak from your own experience. It's also great to see people really "understand" how the game operates, and you clearly got it and knew how to accurately critique it. Thank you!
A few notes though!
- Popups can be "frozen" by clicking the middle mouse button (instead of just waiting for the timing). In the game settings, you can toggle this on, or change the delay time for the timer lock, etc.
- You can multi-select and move units. It never made it into the tutorial, but if you ctrl+click multiple units or ctrl+click and drag to select multiple units. You then move like normal and will see previews of the units that can move.
Not sure if you're planning on returning to the game but hope this makes things easier! The story gets better and better with each chapter (imo!) so if you decide to go back hopefully this smooths things out. But again, thanks for the video!
Thank you so much for the kind words! It's very validating that my review left the impression that it did with you, as when I started making videos my intent was to provide more critical analysis than I was seeing in modern "review" content. Again thank you so much for the feedback it truly means a lot.
Also thank you for the notes on some pain-points I had with the game, I will certainly keep them in mind should I decide to revisit Cantata!
Don't give up!, most people said that they liked what they saw but that they wanted more of it, I'm sure it can be great
this game looks cool but i wish there was a bit more flare to the unit combat, not super exciting to just watch hp numbers go down when fighting in a strategy game imo
good review tho this helped me figure out if i wanted it or not :)
Yeah it ends up being very shallow imo. Glad you found it helpful!
This is a high quality video for such a small channel, is that your voice or some kind of AI? it is very articulate, clear and has great pacing, so congrats if its your voice, and a very good AI if it isn't, I can't even tell the difference.
Thank you! It is my own voice 😄
Kye, I don't know what to do with my life anymore. Since you came along, I think the only option I have left is to become a Stonemason since you have me so bricked up.
bonk