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A jam submission

Beyond the GraveView game page

Sometimes when you die, you can come back for...revenge.
Submitted by Nova Kane LLC — 15 days, 15 hours before the deadline
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Results

CriteriaRankScore*Raw Score
Theme#73.8333.833
Story#73.6673.667
Overall#93.5833.583
Gameplay#103.3333.333
Asset Usage#123.5003.500

Ranked from 6 ratings. Score is adjusted from raw score by the median number of ratings per game in the jam.

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Submitted

This is a pretty good game jam game. It's quick and to the point. Very little opportunity for getting lost or doing the wrong thing. Even the little tutorial bits in the unique battle system were helpful. I especially appreciate that the enemies use a standard style of stances to make identifying the type of move I need to perform easy. 

I also liked how the story comes back to that fateful moment and you get to see how each character contributed to the MC's death.

My 3 criticisms:

  1. I started the game and was told to go west. So I walked west and...hit an invisible wall. I then realized I needed to go down through the (admittedly obvious) gap in the gate and go west. Some sort of "go here" indicator would have helped that.
  2. There's a useless MP bar hanging out in the battle UI in every battle.
  3. Every battle skill takes highlighting the skill, choosing the skill category, then choosing the skill. Since every category has only 1 skill ever it feels like there's a redundant step.

Overall an impressive game. Good job!

Submitted(+1)

Simple game play and straightforward story, and I enjoyed every minute of it. I especially liked the punching animation for John Doe. Four battles was about right for length as well, since more than that would have made the combat mechanics a bit too drawn out. There's got to be a way to make it so there are fewer sub commands, and main commands show up as you learn them. Having to navigate an extra sub menu to sweep the leg etc. felt like an unecessary extra step.

Good storytelling with flashbacks as well. Really enjoyed the slow story reveal, and your voice acting was really enjoyable as well.

DeveloperSubmitted

Thanks. I should have put the skills all under one skill set instead dividing them.

(+1)

I like the story telling in this.

DeveloperSubmitted(+1)

Thank you. It's based on The Crow.