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I played this game on my stream (VOD).

Overall, the game was fun but difficult! I played on the normal difficulty but didn't get too far. The art was nice, but felt a little bit sluggish. For example, it was hard to really aim/time my kicks right. I did like the lb+rb zoom in to bash the enemy finisher move thing, it reminded me of Mortal Kombat.

The swinging mechanic took me a bit of time to understand, it might be good to have the next swing-able target to shown, and the current one be un-swingable. For example, if I'm attached to pillar A, and I want to swing to pillar B, sometimes I would end up detaching from A then re-attaching to A. The circular motion was also a bit fast, so it was hard to get quite right sometimes.

I defeated a miniboss (I think), and reached a part where I was supposed to hook enemies and bring them in? I couldn't figure out how to do that, and didn't really know where to go.

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Thanks for playing! I watched your VOD on Twitch and appreciate the feedback. I've never tried 100% brightness and it was SO BRIGHT OMG!

The game is designed to be intuitive to pickup and play for anyone, and it was nice to see you starting out a bit more defensive (throwing the boomerang once and hiding) and then getting more active and combo heavy by the end in the lava section. It looks like you were figuring out the 'pull and launch' tornado power at the very end. I think you are totally right that for controller gameplay, we need a better aim-assist for the swinging mechanic.

The takedowns are definitely inspired by more violent games like Mortal Kombat, DOOM and God of War :)

Of course we'd appreciate a Wishlist, and we'd be happy to send a Steam key closer to release in early October if you're interested: https://store.steampowered.com/app/2010010/Boomerang_Jack/

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Are you in the Indie Questing discord? That way we can keep in contact a little more easily :)

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Reached out to you on discord!