Hi, wanted to stream the game today but couldn’t for reasons of Life™️
Great polish in art and music. Some juice here and there.
Wow the middle button being space fucks me up. I am pretty good at rhythm games but do not like that scheme at all. Especially since I have a split keyboard, the space bar is not very centric it’s under on my left thumb. so I see a middle note coming up, and my brain is confused because it should be between X and N, and same regular distance than between each key. But it isn’t at all. But even with a regular keyboard, I would rather play with ZXCVB for instance. Too bad I can’t remap it. You can look at Maaack’s Game Template for next time, or make your own.
The hitboxes feel VERY unforgiving too. It would be better to have a scale of like bad - good - perfect. The rotating cheese make it specially hard. I would remove that honestly. It might be tied to the tempo, I didn’t try to check because I was so focused on not losing.
I think after 3-4 tries I got kinda used to it and managed to win first track. Then first timed the second, cool patterns in that one.
Ok nevermind I just noticed you can cheese by spamming all keys and win no problem, that might be why I managed to win second track :D
Not sure how the game fits the theme. The music gets altered somehow? I didn’t notice it, maybe I misunderstand your answer in the form. I guess one could “morph” a track with modulations, even dynamically if the music was synthesized live by the game. Didn’t read the dialogues sorry, not big on story in general; and didn’t feel like it right now. Trying to rate some more entries fast after this long week, would have read it otherwise. So just giving a 3/5 in that category to not misjudge
Solid entry overall, and welcome to GWJ!