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snuffysam2 years ago

This was a super creative concept! The art & music was really cute too!

The balancing was a little off. Some items, like the Death staff, can carry you through multiple floors (just run away until it's recharged). Others, like the Spin In Place staff, just kinda waste your turn. Balancing the items a bit more would be nice, as well as giving the player a choice of two items to take so they have more control over their run.

Also, you keep your side between floors, which is fine - except for that I was able to just go back & forth between the 5 & 6 sides and ignore the eye mechanic for the most part. Perhaps randomizing the player's rotation as well as position each new floor would fix that?

The controls & UI are really nice, and I love the way the cyclops greets you each run!

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kindanice2 years ago

Thank you! Really great feedback. I agree that some items like the death wand are pretty strong, but every item can be used to skip a turn, which is useful for controlling the position of enemies relative to you. So I think the spin wand is pretty strong cause it's a turn skip on a 2 move cooldown. Interesting to see how different people approach the game!

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snuffysam2 years ago

The issue is that if enemies are far away, you don't need to use the Spin Wand to flip over, and if the enemies are right on top of you, using the Spin Wand will get you hit. I can imagine pretty specific scenarios where you'd want the Spin Wand, but I never encountered any.

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kindanice2 years ago(+1)

Yeah I agree, it's pretty niche. I use it a lot against the knight though. If the knight is one tile away, you can use it to force the knight to come right up to you and hit him. Pretty specific tho. But definitely if I do an update after the jam ends I'm going to overhaul the item system.

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Mossieur Patate2 years ago

In my first or one of my first attempts, I quickly experienced the need for waiting a turn, so this is definitely useful! This was against the knight, as kindanice says, because he cannot move diagonally nor several tiles at a time, and I was cornered in a 1-height area. When I got the object, I did use it to great effect.

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