Amazing art, story, and sound. The game design is great. Unfortunately for me I found this amazing game practically impossible to play. I would press the space bar 5 times during sprint and not jump once. I get it though, I made an unintentionally impossible game for Xanderjam 4. I'm incredibly impressed with the fact you made a 2D game (a good one too) in Unreal Engine. You even have two input options. This is a game I'll probably check back on later to see if it got an update, then I can see how it ends finally.
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Thank you for playing !
My goal for this jam was to focus on more refined animations so I decided to take inspiration from old "cinematic platformers" like prince of persia, out of this world and flashback and those have a very long jump anticipation and most of the gameplay is about building up speed and timing your jump properly. I went for a short anticipation so it is not as frustrating as those old games, but I realize now that it had the opposite effect of player not understanding the mechanic and it only feels like input lag.
I really should've ask for playtesters since EVERYBODY so far gave me this is exact feedback, where they would feel frustrated by the jump delay and die. I will definitely update this game cause it's a shame that most people cant get pass the first level after the tutorial, it's supposed to be a narrative game and most people don't experience the story hahaha.
Thank you for playing, your feedback is much appreciated.