Ah too bad the game is unfinished, you had a lot going on there. Nice use of AI to illustrate your story, however the text was too fast or too slow, and being able to press a button to get through it would have been nice. Combat would have been okay, but I took a long time to find out how to hit ahah. Steps are way too short, really have to mash the W key here. Nice that you a cutscene with the priestress too, more ambitious than many people!

I guess I'm just going to repeat what everyone else said, so feel free to skip through the text ;).

Well, I like that the intro can be skipped. I guess if nitpicking the low res torch clashes a bit with the other parts although it looks pretty good out of context but overall the visuals are consistent, the sounds fit too and you've got the atmosphere right. 

I actually don't mind that the combat is button mashing, I think with this kind of real-time systems it's one way to make it fast. I think the attack animation could suggest it's how it works by simply restarting each time you press the button.

The steps are too small and there's a big delay after pressing Space to the point I hit Space, and other buttons, but still had to look for the page to know Space was the one button which did something.

Overall I don't like dialogs that you don't advance at your own pace. Opinions will certainly differ on this one but I'm not fan of seeing the player character during cutscenes, I mean I don't like cutscenes that much to begin with ;) .

Thanks for sharing!

Great job with the camera work!

I would just echo things that everyone else was saying in terms of feedback, the movement is definitely where I would start!

It's a shame the game is unfinished, I didn't finish my entry last year so I know how it feels. So my feedback here should be taken mostly as constructive criticism for what you should do if either you plan on finishing this game, or create an entry in next years jam.

The opening cutscene was mostly well done with nice art fitting sounds, though the text disappeared way too quickly on some slides so I couldn't read it all. Also it looks like the UI doesn't fully cover the screen because I can see the default Unity skybox at the top and bottom of the screen.

The artstyle of the game is mostly nice, I think I recognize all the assets used. Though I would suggest finding a more realistic torch and shield model for the player to use. I found that specific combo of realistic character and sword and low poly shield and torch to be really noticeable and kinda distracting.

The movement distance for the player should definitely be increased. I noticed in one of your replies here that you just used 1x1x1 cubes and had the player move 1 unit each time. I would change this to be 2 or 3 or even 4 units. Because the small movement distance makes the travelling fairly tedious, and I found it kinda confusing if I was in range of an enemy. Especially the goblins because they're so small. For context I made my movement system similar to how you describe, the player just moves 2 meters (in Godot meters anyway) in any direction if there's nothing detected blocking movement. But I basically just made the level out of 2x2x2 blocks, and the player just moves 2 units each time to reach the center of neighbouring blocks.

I would also suggest allowing continuous movement, and have the move happen when the player presses the key down, rather than when the key is released. It can be hard on the fingers having to tap so much.

The combat also felt unresponsive, there's a half-second delay between pressing spacebar and the attack animation starting. And I was unable to tell if I was doing any damage to the enemies. So I would suggest making the player attack animation much faster with a little *woosh* sound effect when swinging to give it some more juice.

I notice in the screenshots on the games page there are items in the hotkey bar, but I never found any items to pick up, maybe I missed them?

As for the positives, I like that theres an opening cutscene, and the the cutscene in the cave was very nice! I loved how it lead into the gameplay with the enemy positioning, I haven't seen that in another entry so far. The cutscene with the priestess was nice, though it also suffered from having the text disappear too quickly, and I think the black text on white background was too jarring with the dark cave environment.

The movement speed I think is good, just have to adjust the tile spacing and controls.

The environment was fittingly dark and atmospheric, and I like having the torch.

Sorry you couldn't finish this game, but I hope you take all the feedback from this game and try again next year!

I can tell that you put a lot of effort into the visuals. That part was good. I was really surprised especially with the cutscenes.

I think the basic gameplay part of the game, such as movement and collisions, is not complete, but once that is fixed, we can expect it to be a good game.

haha. I didnt know you were in this jam. Pretty good game

It’s unfortunate that you couldn’t finish it, as you have a real eye for a cinematic experience!

Some things I’d note would be to have bigger grid cells. In corridors that I thought might be 2 wide, I could move 3 spaces sideways – I’m not sure if maybe the player is on the boundary of each cell rather than the middle of the cell.

Anyway, good work; I’m sure you’ll get further in the next one!

Ah, shame that you ran out of time. In terms of graphics and sound you got quite far. As you mentionend on the itch page, you lost yourself in stuff like the intro (I assume), which cost you to much time. But I think many of us make these mistakes, so don´t beat yourself up over it. Next year you will do better. Just use normal sized blocks, so we can move more distance with each step :)

The opening text with the nice pixel art was good, same with the cutscene when you first get in the cave. The text did go too quickly however. I enjoyed watching goblin slayer the anime so I was intrigued.  The graphics and models were good, excpet the torch felt a little out of place amongst the other assets.

Unfortunately the movement was slow and tedious. There was something that feels unnatural about how you only move when you let go of the key instead of as its pressed. The combat feedback was almost nonexistent and felt really floaty (this might be a unity thing I'm not sure but this isn't the only game I've felt this way.) It's clear this was unfinished as I could move through walls, I couldn't fall in a pit trap (i think), the enemies outside the first encounter were frozen/t-posing and I couldn't walk downstairs.

All that being said, this could with some elbow grease and polish turn into a cool fan game for Goblin Slayer. 

Your game has potential and could really shine with some more love, the concept, I love that you added cutscenes and a proper intro, but I agree that the text is too fast to read, especially if you you to look at the pictures. Also, the protagonist looks different in every single picture, which tends to be the case when using AI. The first time I launched the game, it froze at the end of the intro and I had to alt-F4, relaunch and skip the intro to be able to play.  Allowing to skip the intro is a nice touch though 🙂

I agree with others that moving is a bit tedious, it feels like you're moving half a square, and being able to hold the W key to advance would have being nice. I often got stuck in the middle of a corner and had to strafe to advance, so it didn't feel like a square grid. It also made it a bit hard to gauge if you're close enough to hit an enemy.

I was able to go completely out of bounds right after rescuing the girl, at the a corner where a shield and mace are stuck in the ground. It's also a bit too dark, which can make orientation more difficult if the dungeon where bigger.

There is clearly a lot of potential, and a lot of things you spent too much time on like the story, cutscenes and inventory can be re-used if you want to continue working on it.

I hope this is taken as constructive feedback, as it is intended.  I think that the screenshots look much better than the gameplay feels, which seems like there was an emphasis on polish before the core gameplay was really figured out.  

Movement is way too slow and it's irritating to have to keep hammering on the key to move forward. Combat also feels very slow. There's no feedback to know I'm damaging the goblins. Models look good, but are clearly not bespoke - the styles also clash. The text boxes are jarring when everything else is so rendered; maybe use a texture instead of white and something other than plain san serif font? I seem to have encountered a glitch after talking to the girl where no other actors were active.

The visual novel aspect was way too fast to actually read.  I played it through the itch launcher and when it got to the end of the visual novel it didn't actually move on to the gameplay section, so I wasn't able to play.

The atmosphere is nice and you the game has a great cave-like feeling to it. 

The movement are a bit staggery and is done in thirds of a tile it seems. Movement is fast enough but since input is not queued up and you cant hold a button to move continuously moving around gets rough.

Nice atmosphere. Unfortunately the game is too short and lacking several mechanics. I like that you added a nice intro and even had in-game cutscenes. I see what you tried to do here and I wish you managed to finish it. 

The grid size is very small which results in way too small steps from tile to tile.