Really good atmosphere, beautiful visuals and music, and creative gameplay. I really enjoyed combining elements to make spells and I wish the drop rates where less random. Sometimes I would not be able to get peppers and sometimes I only had peppers and bat wings, wich completly change the difficulty from one level to another.
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Godot Version
4.3
Wildcards Used
None
Game Description
Hereditary Marks is a dungeon crawler where you control different family heirs with a macabre history. To gain access to the family inheritance, you must clear the evil sigils from the 7 floors of the tower and face the entity summoned on the last floor.
How does your game tie into the theme?
The player must erase magical sigils on the floor of the tower in order to advance.
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No
Discord Username(s)
CCadori
Participation Level (GWJ Only)
7
Comments
Hi Ollibanjo, thank you so much for the honest review,
I think the gameplay is not for everyone (not that I designed it like that, but it may have ended like that considering some reviews).
I wanted to make a dungeon crawler, but I also wanted to shift a bit away from the classic ones, so I designed it more about running from enemies and testing different spells using the "alchemy" system. And I assumed the risks of doing so.
I totally understand the frustration of some players, the resource management system can be quite unfair depending on the randomly dropped items, and the spells you use, since only 1-2 spells are about killing mobs, and peppers are not easily dropped.
Again, thank you for the review, it really means a lot from a talented dev like you 😊
Sorry to be picky, but when the game is really good, I need to talk about the little things! hahaha
The font could be a little bigger.
The first level was very well built. I was even more surprised when I realized it's random.
I found that right-clicking deselects everything, quite useful.
I think the collision of the shooter' bullets (or perhaps the collision of the character himself) should be a little smaller. The shooter can hit me even if I'm on the other side of the wall.
Beside that, great game as always! Congrats!
Thank you so much for the kind words, Noskire,
The balancing system took me a while but I think it somehow worked at the end! Im glad that you liked!
The collision unfortunatelly its a known bug at this point, I think 80% of the people that played had issues with it 😀, the visuals of some monsters are a bit smaller/different then their hit box. Im planning to fix it past jam.
Also, you just remembered I forgot to add a tooltip explaining the right-click feature 😔
Thanks again for the detailed review!
1 day ago(+1)
Finally someone got to the end, congrats for killing the family creature! 🎉
Thanks for the review, unfortunatelly there is an issue with some of the enemies hit boxes, they are a bit bigger/larger then their visuals. Its somthing Im planning to fix post-jam. Thanks again!
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