Judge feedback

Judge feedback is anonymous.

• Playability - Polished, bugless! I think in the game over screen you should accept the Jump Button as in input to continue - Continuing puts you at the beginning of the game? Damn... it really should be at least at the entrance of each level. - It may be intentional but I don't like trying to face the right direction while attacking mid-air makes you move forward, and holding backwards in the air switches your facing direction. Makes it a bit of a waiting game when fighting enemies: Stand still, they get in range, full-combo, repeat. I would love instead if I could have a more active role in spacing by not changing facing-direction if I'm mid-attack. - If you crouch and jump, you remain in the crouched state as you go up. Could be interesting tech, especially if you give it different properties/animation. - Walljumping is very annoying currently because you have to press the opposite direction nearly frame perfectly After jumping off the wall in order to get the max height and distance required for certain platforming sections. You have coyote timing, I'd recommend introducing an input buffer for walljumping or changing the launch angle to be the desired 45deg angle while you're holding into the wall and press jump, then allow players to drift back into the wall after a couple frames of control lock if that's what they want to do. See Celeste. - I think I might recommend reducing the hitpause very slightly. - You can probably accelerate the falling part of the jump arc if the player lets go of the jump button so that it feels a bit more responsive to control. https://youtu.be/yorTG9at90g - This is a hunch based on a bit of experimentation but I suspect that you don't allow sub pixel positions for the player character and because of that it sometimes feels stiff to control the character. https://www.youtube.com/shorts/FCJWPYqV0TI?t=38&feature=share It depends on the vision you have for this, so I won't say if it would or wouldn't be good for your game to adopt a more lenient approach. Theme Implementation - Your premise fits the theme! A person being the weapon has been done quite a bit, but that's fine. Cleverness - I won't complain about how much you managed to fit into your game in just 2 weeks, it's already quite an impressive feat! However I will make some notes on what could be interesting to add in/what direction you could take this game. - Having more in your moveset will go a long way in making your game more fun to play. Maybe when you crouch-jump attack you start with Attack2. Have a crouch attack. Have delay-input attacks. Have hold-input attacks. Have light vs strong attacks, and different attack strings when you put them together differently. I Highly recommend checking out BlazBlue Entropy Effect for inspiration on this front (or any hacknslash such as Bayonetta). As it stands, all I can do is Attack Attack Attack right now in your game. Castlevania and Megaman are great games but I do think they show their age when it comes to their combat. Artistic Style - You kept on-screen pixels the same size, something I noticed a lot of other pixel art entries neglect. - Great animations, lots of juice, anticipation, good poses, etc. Little details like the puff of dust when jumping, the flares when you hit, the hit pause, etc. all contribute to the game feel very well! - Great job capturing that retro feel with your color choices! I think the MC and the enemies sometimes stand out from the environments, perhaps a lighting pass could help unify everything a bit more. https://youtu.be/vOXrrEvYUVg A seriously impressive entry, I hope you take this project further, it has some good bones! Thank you for participating!