Resurraptor
by Wumbohek
Hey there Wumbo, thanks for submitting a project to the 2022 IGMC. I'm Drifty and I was asked to judge your game in round four of the IGMC 2022 game jam. Here's some feedback about your project.
I love the art style. It's simple and works well in a game jam setting.
The baby dinosaur cry sound effect is adorable and the writing is cute.
The combat system is pretty simple but it works well.
The puzzles are not overly complicated and I personally appreciate that.
Some skills like the scream and tail whip give the option to select an enemy, yet they are AoEs that hit everything. Maybe consider changing them so they don't require you to input a target if they are an AoE.
I think a really good idea would have been to fully heal your raptor when exiting combat. That would minimize on backtracking by quite a lot and made for a better playing experience.
Changing some of the sound effects and adding new ones in various areas could have been used to customize and further enhanced the experience.
While I appreciate the UI, it's probably a little bit bigger than it needs to be. You could make it a bit smaller to better utilize that real estate.
I liked the twist ending but I feel like it could have come to another conclusion and if felt like it just suddenly ended. Honestly I was hoping for a last boss fight.
I feel like the game suffers a lot from being forced to backtrack to the healing point so much, especially so because the maps were quite large.
Anyway I think that this is an excellent game jam entry and I that you've done a fantastic job! Keep up the great work and I look forward to your future works.
(P.S. There's a game breaking loop bug that replays that last events, but it's after the credits roll so it's not really a big deal.)
-Drifty