I thought that the exp system was clever as a way to manage all resources and tie into combat + exploration
I got all the way through temple and blew up wall to get to man and the way closed behind me then I died to go back to checkpoint before and was softlocked in respawn room. I stopped after that because it took me a while to get there and would have had to restart
I got all the ankhs but when I died it would reset how many I had collected to 1 (I think because save points could only be used once)
because of this the combat was a bit brutal as I was permanently 2 hit
I also couldnt read any of the tablets? I think that the lore reason is that the man is the only one who could read them but why are they everywhere (I prob missed something)
This isnt really a metroidvania and checking the page you submitted it to the game boy jam as well so it feels like an afterthought to submit here
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Well, see, that's the thing. It was originally planned for this game jam, submitting it to the other one was the afterthought. But you're absolutely right, it's not a metroidvania in its current state. I was way too ambitious with my goals, this was supposed to be a mostly-linear intro segment meant to set the scene for a larger open world, and also a place for the player to get acquainted with their tools. Unfortunately life caught up with me and I wasn't able to get much done for the "main game" section, and it didn't have anywhere near the same level of polish as the intro, so I decided to submit it as-is.
Yeah, I've had a few bugs reported with the anhks. Thanks for your addition! You should be able to read the tablets--every "ruin" is interactable, aside from like walls and things--but you can only read them once, so maybe you read them without noticing? I know when I playtested sometimes I would use a weapon right next to one of them and then keep pressing A through the text and would miss it.
I'm sorry about getting softlocked in the respawn room! I'm guessing it wouldn't let you transition to the next room? That's a known bug (more like a developer oversight, my bad) where it forgets to load the nearby scenes when you reload a checkpoint.
I read your page and the ankh's are supposed to be one time use and they dont regen I can see how I confused that
But with that, it encourages basically dying on purpose everytime you get hit so you save up all hit points for a difficult encounter
And the tablets I could interact with but couldnt read not sure if it was a font issue or a my eyes issue lol
Sorry if my comment came out rude I just saw this one and another jam both submitted to gb jam without updates and assumed. Sorry life stuff prevented you from working on it more