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| Criteria | Rank | Score* | Raw Score |
| GAMEPLAY! (IS IT FUN? Rate it!) | #1 | 4.000 | 4.000 |
| ORIGINALITY (Have you not seen this kind of gameplay before?) | #1 | 3.500 | 3.500 |
| PRESENTATION! (Extra POINTS! Is the Game Page inviting or presentable?) | #1 | 3.500 | 3.500 |
| OPTIONAL TWIST? (Rate it! It's optional and subjective.) | #1 | 4.375 | 4.375 |
| BEST FIT TO THEME! (Does it build on OR make good use of the Theme?) | #1 | 4.000 | 4.000 |
| ART DIRECTION! (Are the visual aesthetics consistent OR pleasing Or AMAZING?) | #1 | 4.250 | 4.250 |
| SOUND DESIGN! (Music? Good audio feedback?) | #1 | 3.500 | 3.500 |
| Overall | #1 | 3.875 | 3.875 |
Ranked from 8 ratings. Score is adjusted from raw score by the median number of ratings per game in the jam.
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It is a fun game that just needs a couple small tweaks to go from good to great. The dash mechanic feels great to use, although the bullet behavior probably shouldn't have bounce on walls. Throughout the level segments there could be different music tracks. You could make the boss cause you to die on contact, you could also slightly decrease the weight of the character to make the boss fight easier and the physics of the character to be a little less harsh. There also should be more importance towards swords, possibly the final boss could use one? But overall a fun end product that I would like to see improved/built upon further.
Most of those have an explanation.
The level music (not the boss music) was added in at the last minute. The absence of swords, the boss not killing you, and the boss not using a sword are due to us using the optional twist of "no violence". We weren't sure whether to leave the bounce after dashing or remove it.
Admittedly, we didn't think about loosening up the physics for the bossfight.