The game did nothing for me, and a lot of my complaints were already covered by Drifty, but here I go:

• Scrolling text, even subject of a joke, that is not even readable because it's so fast, is a hard pass.
• Font is too hard to read for all text, dialog and the bulk of regular text should be in an easier to read font.
• The jump goes way too high and floaty for the vertical distance it covers. If you want a platformer, you really need to tighten that up.
• The jump being the same button as accept was a pain.
• If your textbox goes the entire widescreen but the text inside cuts at half the screen, that's a lot of weird empty space. Either make the text fill the entire window, or trim your window UI to be smaller.
• The whole blue/red tiles for combat point is moot, since the "fill" of both is a pink color.
• The combat system really does a poor job of communicating what it expects from you. Overall it needs a lot more of clear explanation, considering this is set an RPG, anything outside the "classic" systems needs clear information.
• I died in the first fight due to not understanding how the combat went (at all). Upon trying to reload the autosave, I had a crash with the message "character.isEnemy is not a function".
• Why are the assets in the combat screen so blurry?
• The story is written fairly awkwardly, with a lot of extraneous text. It's not really enjoyable.
• The maps were very poor, especially in the 2D maps where the "newness" of the 3D cannot cover how bare they are.
• Having the second play area be a slippery platforming level is just a dick move, considering the movement and jumping are so loose.

Overall, even considering that from your response to Drifty this is meant to be a custom, kind of prototype, it doesn't look good as a game on its own in its current state. As a player, I have no real interest on HOW the 3D/combat works (even if they're cool and new as a dev), it's just wonky and feels incomplete.

Phoenix Crystal

by chaucer

Hey there chaucer, thanks for submitting a project to the 2022 IGMC. I'm Drifty and I was asked to judge your game in round one of the IGMC 2022 game jam. Here's some feedback about your project.

The scrolling text... Being self-aware of the extremely fast scrolling text doesn't change the fact that you still used it,  multiple times, lol. XD

It's cool to see the use of scenematics in MV/Z3D.

Making the action button the same button to jump is a mistake. It's so frustrating to try to interact with an object, like the treasure chest. I keep trying to open it, but instead the controls have me jumping all over the map.

Jumping feels is way too floaty.

How is someone without a controller supposed to play this game? I'm unable to find the controls for moving the character and camera in the 3D sections of this game. It's a good thing I just happen to have a controller I guess.

I like that you tried to make a custom battle system, but it feels very incomplete.

The game kind of feels all over the place. Instead of doing something specific really well, this game tries to do a ton of things, but unfortunately they mostly feel clunky and unpolished.

As a personal opinion I'm not a fan of all the fourth wall breaking. Immersion is very important.

The battle system is really weird and it's hard to understand the correct way to do things.

I encountered a TypeError crash when trying to use skills in combat. (Cannot read property 'start' of undefined)

I think that you'd have made a better experience for the player if you would have really focused on one of the systems instead of trying to make so many half baked systems.

Is this a 3D platformer? Is this a card game battle system? Is this a traditional RPG? Is this a fourth-wall breaking trope-filled parody? 

The answer is "Yes". It's too bad that it fails to achieve a good gameplay experience on all accounts. 

I hope that you continue to make games and have fun with the process. Maybe narrow the scope of your next project and really nail down the mechanics of one system. Keep up the good work and congrats on submitting a project! :)

-Drifty