THEME💡
🔲 What theme?
🟨 Sure, I guess
🔲 I see what you did there
🔲 Nailed it
🔲 10/10 Philosophers crying
GAMEPLAY⚙️
🔲 “Game” is a stretch
🟨 Confusing but works
🔲 Basic and well done
🔲 Very creative
🔲 Never seen before
SCOPE🌎
🔲 Blink and you’ll miss it
🔲 Bite-sized
🔲 Balanced and just right
🔲 Aimed high, respect
🟦 Elden Ring?
DIFFICULTY🏔️
🟥 Playing asleep
🔲 Some brain usage
🔲 Easy to learn / Hard to master
🔲 Difficult
🔲 Prepare to die… again
GRAPHICS🎨
🔲 MS Paint
🔲 Not bad
🟩 Clean
🔲 Impressive
🔲 Reality 2.0
AUDIO🎵
🟥 None
🔲 Earrape
🔲 Basic
🔲 Groovin’
🔲 Eargasm
BUGS🪲
🔲 Bugpocalypse
🟨 Disruptive
🔲 Infrequent
🔲 A little glitchy
🔲 Perfectly smooth
VERDICT📝
So, the first thing to point out here is that the author openly admits that this was the first-ever game jam and a 1 person team. With that in mind, it’s super impressive. It’s playable, I love the art, and I like the king riding the bee. That being said, the execution leaves a lot to be desired. I’m unsure what pretty much everything in the game actually did. I kept unlocking these cute abilities, but they didn’t seem to actually do anything. My player leveled up, but I didn’t seem to notice any difference. Even the combat and gold bars had no functional purpose. Really the only part of the game that felt like a game was reading all of the little event prompts, and even those were pretty incomprehensible. Also, the music abruptly stopped looping.
All that being said, the game still probably would’ve been pretty fun if it wasn’t for the camera movement. The fact that you can click on yourself as a movement destination is pretty rough. This was an extremely ambitious game, but ambition in a game is only a good thing if you can pull it off. The biggest advice I would give to this developer is to finish 1 system before implementing another. I’d rather have one system that works than 5 half-baked ones.