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Its pretty good so far.

I haven't finish it yet because my controller died and after plugging it with cable I could move nor do anything so I tried to reset not knowing there is no save and I lost all my progress :\

I will try again tomorrow.

But I like it quite a lot so far.

I like art style, and vfx and sfx are great, I also like the death animation and those back and white effects.

Movement is pretty solid, only thing that annoyed me was that when dashing off the ledge I couldn't perform that higher jump and I would ended up falling quite a lot because of that.

Story its interesting so far, I definitely want to see rest of it.

Game is more difficult than I anticipated maybe it's just me never playing hack-'n'-slash game before but I died quite a lot, also it's kind of annoying to respawn with only half health. With how often I died checkpoints being so rarely made it a bit annoying to redo parts of the level over and over again.

Idk if its a bug or not but pickups from enemies are way smaller than normal pickups and have very small collect hitbox, which makes them a bit annoying to collect.

I ended up falling off a map once when attacking enemy in the corner.

It also annoyed me a bit that attack is on the right face button instead of left, mostly because most of the games I played had attack on the left face button, and I sometimes ended up dashing instead of attacking.

Overall I see a lot of passion and care put into this project I don't know how long it is yet, but with game doesn't having save I assume I was almost at the end. I if it was longer and had more content It would be a game I would definitely buy if I saw it on steam.

Take care and good luck on your future game projects. :)

Smashy1 year ago (3 edits) (+1)

Thanks for the feedback! :)

I will note the dash-off-ledge thing. The trick to perform the dash jump (assuming that is what you mean) is to quickly slide your thumb from the left face button to the down one - the game has a very generous buffer system that works for all buttons. But I will make it so that there's a window after you dash off a ledge where you can still jump.

May I ask what were the hardest parts of the combat were? Part of the strategy is to know when it's safe to attack, and figure out what moves you can perform out of what attacks (many grounded attacks allow you to jump almost immediately after swinging, for example), but with that said I still want to make the combat as accessible as possible. I will still note the checkpoint density though, as they are currently only placed at doors, which might be a bit unforgiving considering how long some of the later parts are.

You're not wrong - their hitboxes are smaller. These will be made larger, but for the time being, here's a tip: you can attack pickups to collect them!

Which corner did you fall off? You should be protected from falling off ledges at pretty much all times when in an attack state.

I suppose that's a preference thing, I'm used to pressing the left face button to dash, because I find it easier to slide my thumb that way. Don't have time to implement a button config atm, unfortunately. :(

Again, thanks for the feedback, and I take it you had a good time despite its flaws! Just curious, where were you when the controller died? There are 5 rooms you have to traverse after you break the orb!

Mrkarton1 year ago(+1)

I finished the game

Maybe Im a little bit disappointed there was no boss fight at the end but I still enjoyed the game quite a lot.

It turns out my controlled died yesterday just second to last room.( Also the corner to the left to the entrance of that room was the one I fallen under the map)

When it comes to last room It took me way too long to realize that in room to get left I was supposed to wall jump between two walls and wait to for right time, It might have been just me but I think It could have been a bit more clear.

When it comes to fighting I died at it significantly less today(only like 1-2 times at fighting and like 7 on platforming all in the last room) I probably just got used more to the combat.

I once again want to emphasize how much I don't like respawning with only half heath, It just makes that after respawning you need to round around the room for like 15-30 s to breaking pots hoping there will be health there. I don't know why you think that losing some progress was not enough of penalty for dying.

Also a little thing that annoyed me a bit , when you land you maintain speed which is cool for running fast but when you want to precisely land on something I would end up running off it.

Sorry If I come off as overly negative but I want to point out all the problems I had so hopefully it would allow to make this game better.

Smashy1 year ago (1 edit) (+1)

Don't worry, this is all valuable criticism to me, especially since I will be submitting this to a contest soon!

Ohhh, I see, you fell through the map... I've been trying to recreate that bug for ages now, but it just won't show itself, lol.

Regarding the health, the way it works is that you only start with 50% health if you entered the checkpoint below 50% health - if you had above that, you start with whatever health you had touching it. It was designed that way because I thought it would at least be better than potentially restarting with 1% health, and didn't realize what problems that would cause. But it's noted now.

About maintaining speed on landing, you can let go of the analog stick before landing to almost instantly cancel your momentum. There is actually a hint in one of the rooms right after you get the scythe telling you this. Noted, though!

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