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| Criteria | Rank | Score* | Raw Score |
| Presentation | #1519 | 3.260 | 3.260 |
| Overall | #2642 | 2.749 | 2.749 |
| Fun | #2888 | 2.468 | 2.468 |
| Originality | #3443 | 2.519 | 2.519 |
Ranked from 77 ratings. Score is adjusted from raw score by the median number of ratings per game in the jam.
How does your game fit the theme?
Em is joined together with Warrior soul in one body, both have unique abilities and are needet to beat the game
Did your team create the vast majority of the art during the 48 hours?
Yes
We created the vast majority of the art during the game jam
Did your team create the vast majority of the music during the 48 hours?
No
We used pre-existing audio
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Comments
Beautiful art and really cool idea for the prompt! I'd love to see where you take this game with more time. You should be proud!
I like the idea, but some bisual feedback is quite necessary for some of the actions, especially for transitioning back and forth. I found it very hard to know what was happening when.
However, the movement and combat really felt amazingly polished for a 48-hour game!
A nice looking platformer with an interesting mode switch.
Sound effects would have really helped (maybe look at sound effects generators like bfxr).
Interesting concept and art. I liked the idea of having to switch characters, but like others have commented, being Em needs a bit more incentive other than just charging up Warrior. Also, thank you for the instructions below the game, as I did not catch that I had to hold the x button for 3 seconds at first (three seconds is a long time). Also, the way the text came up in the tree, it was a bit hard to read.
Overall I liked the concept very much and can see a game where the interplay between characters is more vital to how you move through the world.
Really like the visual style of it :-)
And has a bit of Celeste soul.
It was just a bit weird to wait for a long time when the warrior was gone... maybe it could be nice to add some features to the "non warrior" girl. Because now if I could choose I would be warrior from start to finish.
Nice mate !
Nice art ^^ maybe if you don't spend a lot of time in warrior mode it don't reset your bar ? ^^ good job ^^
Nice concept and I like the art. There should be some indication that you are switching between characters, because there just is no way to tell. The cooldown between switching leaves me in a position where I just have to sit there until I can switch characters to the warrior. Overall there is just a lot of waiting in this game rather than playing.
Nice concept.
The art is very nice. But I feel like the game could benefit from a block/parry mechanic because now you just smash the attack button until you die
Nice visuals! There's some suggestions I have for this game.
1. add music and sfx
2. move the camera a little away from the player
3. add some other abilities ema can do
good game overall!
I like the idea of switching between two characters, since that forces the player to switch up their playstyle, though I think there should be more incentive to switch between the two characters. Right now there's like two meters, one being a timer for how long you can stay as Warrior and one for how long until you can switch back to Warrior. I think this could be just one meter that's treated as a resource meter, so you can switch back to Warrior at any time even if the meter isn't full, you just wouldn't be able to stay as Warrior for as long if the meter isn't full, so the player would be incentivized to switch back to Em so the meter can keep charging. Cool concept though, there's definitely room to flesh this idea out!
The art was really good, but the lack of audio was a bit jaring. Not sure if this is a HTML problem, but I have found that some quick things from BFXR is one of the best bang for your buck investments in any jam possible.
Nice art, I found the cooldown to switch back to the combat a little long.