×Story was great, althou I am still little bit mixed about what was inside Nethlekempt Farrows. Beginning and middle were very strong points of the story.

I think allowing to go for ending early wasn't really the best idea.
After I kinda rushed to end, I felt like I was done with the game on next day, kinda like robbed myself from enjoyment.
Luckily that enjoyment was replenished after founding the Chapter 11,
and that was almost by accident I happened to visit there after doing those extra places.

I would have liked to see some kinda of villain shouting in the end, not just your king shouting "There will be no safety measures in my throne room unless I say so!"
(too lazy to get off from the throne, or not enough helpers to move him with his throne, I guess)

Shame that eA1, even considering how important he actually was, was shown so little.

Oh, and as a sidenote, I didn't like the Critic or Nth Insulter, whoever she was, at all.
Just shows up, spouts some lines and then leaves, just being a bad attitude. At least the Place Defeatist was in positive attitude.

×There were some great variations on this issue.
You had some just awesome levels, and then some not-so-awesome.

The Levels I liked the most were Tar Recycling Annex, Eye of the Storm, Ore Refinery, Forbidden Underpass,
The Oubliette and Temporal Anomaly, oh and Caber Testing Area too!

The Levels I didn't like so much were:
Englos Defense (nice idea, but when doing same thing over and over for 3 waves, isn't really the best challenge.)
Empty Space (too empty)
and Seeding Grounds (simple puzzles but doing them over and over trying to just move around in keep in the same save file)

You had some use mechanic only once levels, like the Temporal Liches and Lemmings, and pretty much never seeing them again.
I wish you would had some extra usage from them later too.

And the big thing that was almost gone (even DROD4 had zero of it), Slimestuff... TRA was pretty much the only Tar level, and MF being the only real Fluff level.
I think there was 1 mud mother in Caber level (I found that level absolutely hilarious by the idea), and 4 Gel mother in Teaming up with Tendry.
So, there were no memorerable slimelevel like Abyssian Fortress of DROD3.

Revisit in KDD in final Chapter, I think the level as final chapter was just way too short, having about only 1 (althou big 2-room) real puzzle in whole level.
At least the music was nice there. (and thank you for the conqueror door)

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I think allowing to go for ending early wasn't really the best idea.
After I kinda rushed to end, I felt like I was done with the game on next day, kinda like robbed myself from enjoyment.

I don't think the problem is that you can rush for the ending early, I don't mind game giving me enough rope to hang myself. I think the bigger issue is that it is not clearly marked that you are still far from the end. (at least I am not sure it is, I can't say because I've seen it get planned out)

I would have liked to see some kinda of villain shouting in the end, not just your king shouting "There will be no safety measures in my throne room unless I say so!"

In my opinion the main villian of the game were the forces of nature. I have absolutely loved that through the whole game there is no real enemy to defeat. The apocalypse cannot be avoided and the best you can do is prepare for it and help other prepare - the feeling of helplessness and hopelessness was amazing. So I absolutely consider lack of manifested villain a good if not one the best elements of the story.

Shame that eA1, even considering how important he actually was, was shown so little.

That's what I meant above, A1 might have been a formidable foe but once you took away his weapon (slayers) he is nothing. The only other real enemy are patrons but they are a big organisation with even bigger goals, there is no primary enemy who could do the final scream. Even more, King Dugan is a great example of a big issue of abovegrounders - they live their ignorant lives not only unaware of the thread but also unwilling and actively refusing to acknowledge any issue.