Nice start. Very good visuals, except for some ambiguous spots as noted by other reviewers. Controls were pretty good and the ability mechanic was neat. I didn't care for the slipperiness though. Good luck expanding this!

The pixel art and visual effects are really nice! The “god rays” are cool and the particles (fireflies?) are a nice touch too. The character has a lot of personality and juice. And there are a lot of different looking enemies too. (And I didn’t even get that far I think.)

A few sound effects should have been added. Without it, the game has less life and is less enjoyable.

While the art is really nice, there’s a few issues with visual language. Like the breakable barrier that you have to attack to make progress. It should look like it’s breakable and that you should hit it. And you should establish some sort of visual pattern with that so other breakable/hittable things have that same visual cue. (Assuming there are other breakable things – which I think there should be – more for players to do.) When I got the the first barrier, I thought I was actually supposed to jump over it somehow because it looks just like the land titles but with some sort of writing on them.

I was able to fall down a shaft and get stuck. Through this I found that landing on spikes just does 1 hp of damage which seemed odd. But worse is that I was stuck for good. Player should never be able to get stuck in a game or get to an area without the ability to get out of that area.

So, this is another game in the jam that’s a very nice start to a fuller game! I need to make a list of those and check up on them again! This would be one of them! So, I hope you go back, add sounds and continue!

My team is contemplating what to work on next. Should we continue with our mvm16 entry? Or not? We’d love to know your thoughts on that and anything else about our game! So, please try our game out, rate it and let us know what you think in the comments! Thanks!

Good:

• Lovely art style, with some neat enemy designs. I particularly like the big, lopsided eyes on the slimes.
• Nicely open. When I got stuck, there were lots of other routes for me to try.
• Good checkpoint and fast-travel system. The fact that it's a ghostly torii is also cool.

Bad:

• Odd movement. Moving on the ground is very slippery, and falling is very floaty. I would give the character faster deceleration, and increased gravity when falling.
• No sound. With the art style you have, it could be really immersive, but lack of sound prevents that.
• Gameplay and decorative elements are sometimes hard to tell apart, especially spikes, which look very similar to grass when the lighting is blue.

Overall, I really enjoyed playing this one. Polish up the movement and combat, add some sound, and I can see myself playing this for a long time.

Love the art style and lighting. If the game has sound effects and music would be good.

Beautiful game, need some music and sound effect, to improve the wahou effect create by the light. The gameplay is very cool and i love all art

Good job

WHAT A BEAUTIFUL-LOOKING GAME

i know im gonna be waiting for the sound to be added <3

the only thing i would like to point out it that i felt the difficulty was quite the leap i found it impossible to do the melee attack without taking some damage always...and that could definitely mean I'm a noob XD but i thought ill point it out regardless

kudos on the gorgeous-looking game!!!

The game looks beautiful, uses impressive lighting effects and uses beautiful pixel sprites. Of course, the sound is still missing and I think a higher jump level would be cool too.