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A jam submission

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altered version of the real game vicious more simplified for noobs
Submitted by Raphael Hawk — 6 days, 8 hours before the deadline
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Results

CriteriaRankScore*Raw Score
Sound#412.5583.000
Modifier#502.0252.375
Overall Good#602.0252.375
Gameplay#622.2392.625
Overall#642.1682.542
Graphics#672.2392.625
Overall Bad#691.9192.250

Ranked from 8 ratings. Score is adjusted from raw score by the median number of ratings per game in the jam.

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(+1)

Wild. I included it in my compilation video series of the ‘So Bad It’s Good’ Jam, if you’d like to take a look. :)

Developer

you could have actually shown some content of the game.😭😭😅

Yup! definitely impossible. Congrats!

Submitted(+1)

I've decided to try using a standard format for all my feedback this time around. Please excuse me if I come across as overly curt or miss something important about your game. I'm writing these all quite hastily as there are a lot of games in the jam this year!

What I liked

The art and music is simple, but far more retro than bad, and quite well done.

It's quite a well polished entry with only minor bugs as far as I can tell, and has a menu, instructions, etc.

What I didn't like

I kinda wish it had some story to explain who I am playing and what I'm doing, but it's not necessary.

It's a super-hard platformer which is a genre I'm not all that into to begin with. I didn't find it fun to play but I hesitate to condemn it as an unfun game in general because of this.

You're sent back to the beginning of the level every time you die, and given how often that happens it's a real chore.

Did I think it was so bad it was good?

No. It's a relatively good, if incredibly hard, game with minor tweaks.

As far as I can tell (but see below under "Other remarks"), the "joke" or "quirk" is that this is your other game, vicious, with the difficulty tweaked. I spent an inordinate amount of time trying to decide whether that was a lousy joke or an anti-joke before deciding that it doesn't matter. Either way, the punchline falls flat. I think it might have worked if it was a game that was better known or even one that I'd played beforehand, but coming in out of the blue I just don't have the context necessary for it to be funny.

My thoughts on the modifier implementation

Impossibly difficult? I'm not sure this is an intentional implementation as no note was made of it.

Other remarks

I still wasn't able to get past the second level. I've seen hints that maybe there's a surprise at the end but I don't think I'm ever going to get there.

Verdict

Not a bad game, but not so bad it's good. And I'm terrible at platformers.

If you have any questions, comments, queries or concerns, please reply and I'll do my best to get back to you.

Submitted(+1)

So I played this, kind of felt like it was a joke I wouldn't get without context, and then went and played the original (which I didn't realize was your game and tried googling for). Isn't this just the exact same game?

Developer

Do you think so ?

Developer

you cannot consider this game as a joke if you didn't complete it. And yes its same (not completely) but harder to play 

Submitted(+1)

I got stuck on the second level, everything up to that point appeared the same (though there may have been subtle differences). I might give it another shot if I have time.

Developer

was it a bug or you couldn't play ? And yeah there are no differences in the levels of both games 

Submitted(+1)

It was too difficult and/or I couldn't figure it out. I'm trying to get through every game so I've kind of been trying each one for a bit and then either finishing it or switching to the next if it's taking too long, but I'm hoping to get back to some of them later if I have the time.

Host(+1)

If this is the "for noobs" version, I would hate to see what the original is like.

Very nice art. Well done on submitting!

Developer

the original is ofc a challenge. thanks for playing 

Submitted(+1)

Very hard. Nice sounds and graphics!

Submitted(+1)

This game is so hard.  I love it.

Developer

I would like to see you end it. Pls share it too