I like the skeleton enemy art style a lot. And I must say I loved the optional very quick ending in the beginning.

I have to admit though that I was struggling while playing the game. Which was a pity, it seems interesting and the level designs thought through.

The controls both that they didn’t have any WASD mappings as far as I could see and the hold shift to strafe. It made it very hard navigating and with a lot of holes… well awkward at times.

The attack/defense reaction bar also was superfast. I wish there had been a setting to make it easier and/or given the player something when selecting the fail option.

I was also really confused about the multiple keys for one lock. I think the idea is fine, or even good, but I think I would have liked as many locks on the door as keys needed and some feedback of how many I had opened thus far. I was about to give up on the first door even though it said I needed multiple keys. I expected it to react in some way and not refuse my first key all together because it was too few.

The spacing out of instructions was very nice, but also a bit problematic that you had one shot of reading them and then they were gone. Now I wouldn’t have to go through them each time I entered the tile, so it would require some smart system.

The save system was one of these where it was so odd that it said Load when opening it that on my first run I didn’t dare use it. So being able to re-read that instruction would have been critical. Or preferably one key for saves and one for loads.

My first attempt crashed. I were at the fire traps and I didn’t feel like I should have been caught by them, but the game indicated that I were and then there popped up an error window and I had to restart.

On the second try I managed to save but when I got about as far as I had previously gotten I ended up in a fight were I didn’t feel like I got to select attack/defense option but ended up inside who to apply the non-action to. And whichever I selected nothing happened. And the game seemed to have locked me there with no recourse to continue. Something had seemed a bit off with not being able to equip keys before in the inventory so I’m guessing whatever was corrupting the game-state was sort of spreading.

Playthrough (as far as I got): https://youtu.be/rwrahdtRASY

A very nice game! The art and music were great, and the gameplay was really enjoyable! I only managed to get one of the endings unfortunately because I overused potions a bit and only had 3 left by the end, but I did watch Captain Coder's playthrough afterwards to see the other ending. Overall a great job!

Hey, nice to see another gamemaker game! I wasn't able to finish it, the difficulty was a bit punishing (the timing on those flamethrower tiles got me) but I got a nice look at it I think. No damage for the yellow bar in combat seems pretty harsh, and in general the pointer on the bar feels like it moves just a bit too fast.

I wonder if you use emulators often, as the control scheme reminds me a lot of the good old days. I don't encounter ZX for keybinding often, and a WASD alternative would have been welcome, but it didn't take me that long to fall back into the old bicycle seat, or however that saying goes, haha.

I am wondering what is the game design choice between having to use keys on doors, but just walking into a wall switch to trigger it. My suggestion would be to automatically open a door when walking into it while in possession of the necessary keys.

The presentation is well put together, and the movement itself feels good! I feel like you've got the bones of something solid here, it just needs some polish.

The graphics for the dungeon looks great. Controls are snappy and instant. 

Having several keys needed to unlock one door I think is a bit strange design decision, better to just use one or have them picked up as shards etc.

Key bindings was a bit awkward to get used to. Had to read the page several times and still got it wrong somehow.

The combat system was interesting. I am not much of a sight reader, but I think it was balanced enough that I could go for a critical hit.

The map was also helpful. I was not good at fire zones, but the map helped me to notice the moves. It was a very well made game.

Such a great entry. Very challenging but great looking graphics.

A fabulous entry! I thought the combat was challenging but not unfair; I wish I had better reflexes :P

I really enjoyed this one. With just a little more polish it would be a 5/5. Great work!

You can watch my playthrough here: https://www.twitch.tv/videos/2109694847?t=00h52m51s

Remember... flame traps cause code errors.

This was a neat entry.

The key controls were a little much to get used to, but we worked it out.

Do put the controls on the game page.

Good game.

I have to admit that this game kicked my ass really really hard and I couldn't get too far into it. What I did manage to see I really liked though. Movement was good, classic key collecting, some platforming elements with traps, inventory management, the works. Combat was too punishing for my taste, it was very easy to completely miss turn over turn if you're terrible at the minigame (which I was) and the fact that mobs seem to respawn also made it harder for me.

I will try again after I've done more ratings in a few days as I'd like to see where the game goes. The map and exploration really drew me in but I need to git gud first.

Great enemy sprites there, and the movement was very snappy and oldschoo. While the text can be scrolled quicker with X it is still a bit cumbersome. I think I had a couple of bugs, when using the save slots, as door would stop working and items doubled in the inventory. But keep on working on this! 

Fun, playful style!  But I wish the text could just appear all at once with a "next" button,  because it takes very long to write everything out like that.  

I'll switch to other games for now because I spent an entire afternoon on it and I want to play other games. I think I'm almost there, I've got the 3 flame parts, the hammer and the feather grieves, still wondering what I should do to get the good ending (in fact if there's no alternative ending then that you can tell me), whether it's linked to the skeleton, the corpse or something else.

The game is great, the control, perspective and movement are perfect, the dungeon is very good, I love the cartonny style of the skeletons and flames and the combat system is fun enough, I specially like how different equipment changes the bar.