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| Criteria | Rank | Score* | Raw Score |
| Graphics | #5 | 4.736 | 4.736 |
| Audio | #11 | 4.264 | 4.264 |
| Overall | #101 | 3.770 | 3.770 |
| Game Design | #325 | 3.509 | 3.509 |
| Theme | #383 | 3.623 | 3.623 |
| Innovation | #478 | 3.245 | 3.245 |
| Fun | #521 | 3.245 | 3.245 |
Ranked from 53 ratings. Score is adjusted from raw score by the median number of ratings per game in the jam.
In what way does your game fit the theme?
The lanterns gather together. On their own they are weak, but together they can do great things.
Did you write all the code yourself and made all the assets from scratch?
All code is written by our team. All assets are also made by our team.
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Most beautiful game I've played. Incredible art, music, narrative, just everything across the board. Thanks for letting us play it on stream! Looking forward to what you do with this after the gamejam.
Thank you for the kind words and playing our game on stream <3
Really great! the graphics, the music, the story! I would love to see an updated version with animation in the lantern sprite to feel more the floating physics but it didn't break the feeling now and is a great job for a jam. congratulations
Thank you for your kind words, we might change it a little after the game jam
This game is incredible! Especially love the art! Jumped the first time a wolf came at me out of nowhere. lol
Thank you so much for the compliments! And yessss I agree they're spooky as heck
The art and music is top notch, great story!
I think you could spend more resource on level design. I often feel lost and need to walk around without any purpose to find if there's a way I didn't check yet. The easier way to do this is put lantern into the right path and always let your player see it in some ways since it's a biggest attractive point and most rewarding stuff in the game. You can also put object with less reward, or some light to guide the player.
Thank you for your feedback~ We tried doing that on some paths but I agree we could've done it more often! We might change that after the game jam
Did you just post art in a game jam? 5 stars in every aspect. I felt surprisingly relaxed considering the context. I guess it was the scenery. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
5 stars in everything? You are too generous my good sir, thank you!
Artistically beautiful game with beautiful story telling to go along with it 10/10 extremely well made. Great job
https://itch.io/jam/brackeys-5/rate/927683
Thank you so much for the compliment, I had a ton of fun writing the story to fit our team's general aesthetic!
Dude, your game is gorgeous!
It have Hollow Knight quality graphics, with more colors (for me, it is a plus)!
Thanks for sharing someting so well made!
thank you so muc h for your kind words! I'm really glad to see so many people enjoying our game ^^
This is beatiful! Came from the stream! 5/5 on everything
Thank you so much <3
Thanks so much < 3
I really enjoyed it! The visuals are beautiful and the music very nice (I found the music to have a bit of a Ghibli vibe sometimes ^^). Some parts were very challenging to me but I managed to get to the end so I'm quite happy, hehe! I really loved the story as well.
On the improvable side, the text in the last cutscene was a bit difficult to read (because of the color), and there was a respawn point where a wolf also respawned with me so I took a hit every time, making it extra difficult to get out of the thorned nest I was trapped in (took me some time, haha!).
Excellent game overall, like damn! :D
Thanks for your feedback! Good that you mentioned the text in the last cutscene, we might fix it after the jam is over. I am happy you still managed to get trough the hard part of the level.
Awesome visuals and sound! Very beatiful!
thank you so much!!
Very relaxing game with amazing graphics and music. You should keep working together, great job!
thank you so much for the compliments <3
Very unique game. Simple idea and excellent execution!! The arts (in game and in cutscenes) are amazing!!!!
Thank you so much for the compliments <3
super beautiful game, loved the cutscenes.
I'd appreciate it if you would try my game.
Thank you for the compliments ^^ I will take a look later
So beautiful game - music and graphics! I really enjoyed it!
Thank you for playing it! Glad you enjoyed it ^^
Very beautiful art and a wonderful overall theme. At the beginning it's hard to tell that the thorns aren't just a part of the background so I found myself running into them quite a few times without thinking. Still, overall a really good game.
We tried distinguishing them by making them red, but maybe we could've distinguished them a bit more :( Luckily there's no limit on the amount of respawns at least hahah
The game is very impressive!
It had a good duration given it's complexity, the visuals where nice, and the story was short and sweet.
The only thing I would suggest is to make a lighting distinction between discovered and undiscovered areas, like going from an opaque black mask to a semi-opaque one. This would cut down on some backtracking confusion.
That's a very good idea! Thank you for your feedback.