Fantastic entry.
First off, the visuals are really nice. Animation is fluid. Even though the character can only attack left and right, with all the other FX going when while attacking during an actual fight, I don't ever notice it; it feels right.
The dialogue write speed could have been faster and I would have liked a way to skip the Desmond cutscene after the first time seeing it. Although, it is nice that you can skip the dialogue with the old man after seeing it the first time.
Gameplay felt smooth. Going room to room and attacking things felt nice. The ranged and tank enemies add some nice variety to combat; mainly the ranged enemy who forces you to dodge more.
I'm playing on a 2K monitor so the screen was rather tiny for me and fullscreen didn't have a 2k resolution option and 1080p looked too blurry on it.
It's ludicrous that this was made with Unreal Engine. I didn't realize a 2D game like this was realistically possible with Unreal. Kudos.
My playthrough went something like the following:
- When through intro
- Explored a few rooms then got stuck in the pit trap room
- Restarted, went through the intro again
- Explored a few rooms, found the invincibility cheat
- Found the bat room and couldn't get past it
- Restarted again, went through the intro again again
- Explored a few rooms got stuck on the bat again
- Restarted, explored several rooms, found the pit trap again and abused the invincibility cheat to figure out how to get past the pit
- Explored a couple more rooms
- Went into a long outdoors hallway after a boss room
- Found ANOTHER BAT and got stuck again
- Turned off invincibility and backtracked to the pit trap room to kill my self and update my score on the scoreboard
The bat room was frustrating because the only solution I knew to it was to restart. I'm not sure if I missed something or if it was just unlucky RNG.
Regardless of the bat, fantastic game. Simple but smooth and fun combat. Fun running from room to room, cutting down enemies or solving quick little puzzles. Finding gold was fun too, I broke every single vase I saw. Cool that you added a story too.