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| Criteria | Rank | Score* | Raw Score |
| Fun: Is the game enjoyable or satisfying to play? | #3 | 3.926 | 3.926 |
| Creativity: Does the game include something unexpected or interesting? | #5 | 4.000 | 4.000 |
| Overall: Is the game objectively good? | #6 | 3.852 | 3.852 |
| Theme: Does this game represent the theme well? | #24 | 3.630 | 3.630 |
| Aesthetics: Does this game have aesthetically pleasing artwork or polish? | #41 | 3.593 | 3.593 |
| Cozy: Does the game you feel cozy? | #44 | 3.148 | 3.148 |
Ranked from 27 ratings. Score is adjusted from raw score by the median number of ratings per game in the jam.
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From the entire Last Slice team, thank you all so much for taking time to play and rate our game. We are overjoyed by the results!
We have scoured your feedback, completed our jam postmortem among the team members, and I am happy to say that development of The Last Slice will continue! We will initially focus on fixing bugs and making quality of life improvements for which we will heavily rely on the feedback you all have provided.
After that initial round of updates we intend to expand the game in both content and scope, so stay tuned for more adventures!
really fun platformer! the art is a bit inconsistent at times (for example, the trees and logs assets at the beginning of the 2nd level are great but don't really fit with the established style) but overall it's great! it wasn't always easy to quickly switch costumes but it was fine. and the air movement was a bit hard to control sometimes. it was very fun though and the switch costumes mechanic offered many cool platforming sections. also, i love the wholesome ending!!
really nice but it can often feel very claustrophobic.
Super fun! Had some platforming challenges: some of the jumping is a little slidey and climbing up the tree was tough. But overall this was a very polished and well-designed platformer. I especially loved the spider costume, it was fun to use. Also, extremely considerate of you to include a setting to turn it off! <3
Thanks for playing, and thank you so much for your feedback! I was wondering if you could elaborate on the jumps being "slidey"?
Mainly I felt like it was easy to overshoot smaller platforms. I kept like panic-falling alll the way down at least one specific section (the tall tree where you have to climb up for height to make the jump with the pumpkin form). Mostly it wasn't an issue, but I felt it a bit in the tight level design there.
thank you for the reply! This is probably something we wanna adjust if we update :) so all details are helpful
Loved the art style and the music! I thought the costume mechanics were super clever and lots of fun. My only critique is that it was a bit tricky to change costumes while jumping on controller, since I needed my thumb for both. I ended up handed the controller to my husband when I got stuck on a particularly difficult costume change jump in the forest, and he just cheesed the jump XD. Overall I managed well enough and really enjoyed the game :)
Thank you for the feedback! We're glad you enjoyed it, and that you found a way through the more difficult parts so you could still reach the end. I much enjoyed Chai and the Missing Pupmkin too, and found all the dialogue and characters to be very cute and cozy.
very fun little platforming game! you did a rly good job making all the abilities work with each other, whilst still keeping the difficulty pretty high. great job!
Yooooo this is so cool! This whole thing seems very well thought out! I like how you made all 4 styles work and have the player understand its uses and identify situations of when each form is needed, thats some incredible game design! some sections that could've lead to deaths/screw-ups were acknowledged and were given either a forgivable respawn point or a chance of recovery by setting an extra set of platforms to give the player a chance to recover. I can tell that there was a lot of thought and experimenting put into these levels and it definitely paid off! The only style I think did feel a bit odd playing was the spider with its aiming for the websling mechanic. I also think that maybe there should have been an extra key to progress in NPC dialogue but those are just some small issues i had throughout the game. I also like the detail where the page of this game displays what could've been pulled off in that one section where you had to switch from a pumpkin to a ghost quickly, I actually took note of that when i got to that part... and was so close to getting through it!
To the whole team that contributed to this entry, you guys did a stupendous job in working together and making a well made/ well thought-out game!
Very good platformer! The changing costume mechanic is very clever!
One of the best, most polished one I've played in this jam :)
Loved how there were different costumes that gave you access to new spaces/abilities. Very cute and fun platformer!
I like the multiform abilities. In particular, I liked using the pumpkin to roll down hills and pick up speed. It was great that the forms you acquire early on are still relevant in later levels. Switching forms felt a little clunky on mouse and keyboard, as I could only use 1234 above WASD and not the keys on the numpad. Thankfully, there weren't many sections where quick switching was required. A possible improvement may be to have the transform keys on HJKL for the right hand.
The music and spritework is excellent. It is a nice detail that the forms are found in areas that they relate to. The inclusion of the other gnomes and their comments throughout the levels adds more life to the game. I like the inclusion of the detective story element, and its resolution. Putting aside my opinion about the form switching shortcuts with mouse and keyboard, the controls felt pleasant to use and the characters felt very fast yet controllable.
A short and sweet platformer with a small side of mystery.
Thanks for playing, and I appreciate your insightful feedback. Considering there is no mouse input, I see your point about using the numpad or HJKL. That's a great idea and I wouldn't have thought of it.
Wow this was really good! The movement was really satisfying and an interesting way of making a platformer unique. The spider controls were a bit tricky on keyboard and mouse and the ghost not keeping momentum was a bit jarring but the aesthetic, gameplay was all superb!
I love this. The form swaping was suprising and very cool! Lovely cutscene and story but the end of the forest level was hard as hell. Don't know if the air control are intentionaly tricky but man - good thing you got the checkpoints! :D And thank god I keep trying because when I turned into a spider and learned I can shoot webs - my jaw dropped. And the arachnophobia mode... So funny. Definitelly my favourite of this jam! How did you make the music?
PS: Don't know how the king got there at the end so quickly. Maybe that's why he's the king.
Hello! The music was made in Reaper using YMCK's Magical 8 Bit plugin for the instruments, with self-imposed limitations to try to keep it faithful to retro 8 bit consoles.
Very cool mechanics!!! Switching to the metroid pumpkin was a nice touch! The animation on the king on the intro though, LOL had me chuckling. Solid entry! I found the wall jump a little difficult to do, like I should be able to tap tap tap tap and bounce between the walls without having to push the direction against the other wall, but that was the only thing that I felt was off, everything else was great!
Thank your for your kind words about our submission. We worked hard, but had a lot of fun building it.
The narrative behind your game blew me away. Thank you for making it.
Really satisfying movement! I especially enjoy the pumpkin rolling! Great art and level design and the music was charming as well. Great work!
I love all the character transformations, they fit perfectly with well-designed levels! The story is simple yet charming, it was fun running around the locations and finally catching the thieves! Good job, keep it up!
This game is excellent! I love the level design and the swapping mechanic. Everything is so well polished and very fun to play! Well done :D
Incredible game front to back. I love the subtle little animations and things. The design of switching costumes for different abilities was great and reminds me of costume quest which I loved. I thought the levels were interesting and honestly you have a very tight character controller, I only had issues in a few places but it gave a lot of leeway and was very fun. I also thought the arachnophobia mode was worse on than off lol. All in all excellent work here. The stuff about the character controller I thought could be improved was accidentally wall jumping off a wall I was standing next to on the ground level. I think that's my only major gripe with it, overall incredibly solid work. Good job.
Fantastic game! Let me say first that the music is so, so good. I actually sat and listened to the main theme through twice before I hit start on this game and I'm not sorry. The music in the remainder didn't disappoint. (Could I ask which music program was used to create it?). The gameplay was also excellent -- I played to the finish and had fun with your costume-swapping mechanism and puzzles, which worked smoothly for me. The dialogue was also great -- the "what can't they do?" one made me laugh, and I enjoyed the mushroom dad jokes. Just an all-around fun game, nice work!
I appreciate the compliment, thank you! I wrote the music in Reaper using YMCK's Magical 8 Bit for all the instruments. I kept it as faithful to 8 bit console music as I could, so I'm really glad you enjoyed it!
Thank you -- ahh, I'm familiar with the YMCK plugin and have tried on several occasions to get it to work on my Mac in GarageBand and it never fully functioned. Perhaps I'll look into Reaper. Thanks again, great work!
This game is a lot of fun! The costumes mechanic is really clever.