Amazing game !!!

Congrats on this really cool jam entry.

Adding an interesting mechanic to a top down shooter without feeling like a quick hack. I love the rewinding feel when destroying a bunch of guys. I would just say that the rewind mechanic might also be a bit broken, nothing really kills me when using it. Nice balance and contrast with the shoot weapon that is quite slow and weak. Maybe some enemies should be immune to the rewind and you have another reason to not spam the rewind. 

Other than that, great game TOP MARKS

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Excellent UI. Overall concent may seem very simple, but the execution made it sooo good. The main downside was lack of enemies. There were times where there were no enemies at all - 1 or 2, which was rather strange cause at the beginning there were swarms of them. Another thing I would work with was rewind mechanic. It felt special, but being able to use it anytime (and so kill enemies) took some charm.

Great game over all. music is on point. graphics are great. i realy like this game.

I really enjoyed playing through the game. I love the menus and the summary screen. Visual style is very pleasing and fitting to the overall vibe. Also, it's a great use of the theme. Well done!

This game is great, I love the simple but effective mechanic of rewinding to kill enemies. The visual style is also really cool. Nice Job!

Game was fun and very smooth. Great music choice and I thoroughly enjoyed it!

Wow! Very cool atmosphere and game design. Congratulations on the Jam! Please consider checking out mine. Rated

The game is overall really well made, cool, and does have potential to be something even greater. I really like the concept of running out of tape and having to rewind (while being able to kill your enemies when in a pinch). There was a bit of emergent gameplay which was fun. 

Keeping in mind that you only had a week to make this game, I would like to offer some improvements that I think can make the game flow better and be more exciting if you continued development on it.

- I really like the loss of tape mechanic, but I genuinely think it can be more fun if you put more emphasis on how important it is to prevent yourself from wasting too much tape. For example, I found the game a bit satisfying but easy when I was able to constantly rewind myself and kill the enemies in my rewind path. I feel the experience of rewinding would be more special and rewarding when you had to save the rewind for the perfect moment rather than constantly being able to use it and devalue the power it possesses.  

I was able to build a strategy around using the rewind. For example I was able to shoot at enemies while rewinding. I even wrapped the tape around an area and sat in the center of that area while shooting. Only when I was overran would I rewind killing all the enemies around me which I found pretty fun. 

- Each level was refreshing with the different music, visuals, enemies, amount of enemies, and different powers you could use. However, the similar maps got a bit tiresome but I think that's because level 1 and 2 felt really similar in difficulty. Some levels felt really slow though. I wanted to retry some levels but just couldn't bring myself to it since each level felt sooo long to complete with no indication of how far I am into the level. At one point (I think in level 3), after I killed a wave of enemies, it took a good 10-15 seconds for another wave to appear.

- The initial level is alright and lets you get a hang of the game which is completely fine. However, when I beat the first level, the game took awhile to show me the end game screen as the music was getting more and more quiet. I just think the game needs to be quicker to show you that you beat a level rather than leaving you hanging there to move around for a good 7-10 seconds. 

- I do think level 4 is really cool and that it gives you a fast shooting gun and you have to fight off a ton of enemies while using the strategies I thought of. I felt cool. 

Overall I think the game is pretty cool, I just think the tape mechanic can be worked more on and emphasized more. I also think the flow of the game just needs to be a little bit faster. Good job!

Edit: The music was groovy. 

You are the one who helped me submitting mine. Thank you and congrats. The game is really nice.

This game is amazing. The music and the aesthetics play wonderfully into a nice experience. Just wish the music would keep going while rewinding, but I guess that doesnt make much sense considereing you wind the tape back... But ahh the music is so good haha nice job!!

Amazing design, Well done :) Check mine out: https://itch.io/jam/brackeys-4/rate/718013

Amazing game design, I loved the asteroids thematic.
Well done!

Please, play my game too! 

Amazing visuals, geometry wars vibes, great game!

so good! :D I like how the tape is showing you where you will rewind to very ncie :D

This is a really polished, really fun game. Hats off! I enjoyed it quite a bit.

I really enjoyed it. It's very polished and the take on the theme is interesting, plus I like the tapes choices. However I'm not sure about how well the main mechanic actuallu fits the gameplay, because it surely adds depth to the strategy, but to me restraining player movement in an action game doesn't feel quite right. I didn't play it a lot though, so maybe it's something that you eventually get used to. But I found it to be a nice game anyway

Pretty fun! 

I love the graphics and sounds! :D

it have  80s and syntwave music, no need other words.

Amazing game. The biggest strenght if the game is visuals also I LOVED the gameplay. You kept the game interesting, while keeping it original. The only bummers would be that if you survive for long enough, enemies stop spawning and that tutorial is in the menu, you could put it in the beginning of the level. Also you could make, for each enemy you kill with the tape you heal a bit of life.

Thats the only game so far I'll keep on my computer after the jam

I really like how your game looks. Nothing really seems out of place, which shows the effort you put into it to make everything fit. Fitting levels to look like tapes is a nice touch and the audios great too. If there's one thing I'd try to balance, it would be the fact that the player is both invincible and destroys enemies while rewinding. Having an option that is both defensive (invincibility) and offensive (kills enemies in one shot as opposed to the blaster) means the player is encouraged to just spam rewind instead of dodging.