Really great game. So well executed, and you packed in so many cliches. Art and Music were really good too!
I thought I was good at the game, and then I tried hard mode. Enough said haha.
Great job!
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Cat got your tongue?'s itch.io pageResults
| Criteria | Rank | Score* | Raw Score |
| Graphics | #3 | 4.559 | 4.559 |
| Audio | #5 | 4.265 | 4.265 |
| Overall | #19 | 4.059 | 4.059 |
| Gameplay | #43 | 3.676 | 3.676 |
| Theme interpretation | #50 | 3.882 | 3.882 |
| Innovation | #145 | 3.088 | 3.088 |
Ranked from 34 ratings. Score is adjusted from raw score by the median number of ratings per game in the jam.
GitHub repository
https://github.com/octobass-games/cliche
Comments
Insanely polished! I appreciate the difficulty options since hard was too much for me I switched to easy and that was just about the right level for my skill. It goes without saying the music is great. The tracks did go on for a bit longer that I would have wanted to but that's probably just cause I am impatient. Overall fantastic rhythm game :)
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The Adventures of the Heroic FoxYou guys made an amazing rythm game! All the musics are good and give me chill vibes! Art is well made and gameplay is good too, althought i struggled because i'm not used with this controls and i felt lost sometimes
I had a lot of fun playing each level, my favorite was the nap one haha
Great job, keep it up guys!
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Dream OnThis was really polished :) I liked the music, the pixel art was nice, too, and the animations were smooth as well. My only suggestion would be having an "easy" mode for people like me - who suck at rhythm games :D
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🌿 Bet the Farm 🌿I was watching the video at YT instead of actually playing the game - because I have absolutely no rythm in my blood and would fail badly.
The graphics and animations are really good - and everything blends perfectly with the music - of cause. Will show your game to my niece, next time I meet her. She is a big fan of such games, and will enjoy it, for sure.
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Chloé and the Forest DwellersI love rythm games, so I'm a little biased to talk about this lol. Loved the art and the theme interpretation.
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Doctor AwayWhat a great game! I had really fun playing through the levels and listening to the music. The graphics were gorgeous and I think that you did a good job interpreting the theme as well :)
I saw that a few others mentioned the order of the arrows, and I have to agree on that point. Another thing that I really would have loved would be some indicator of the beat. I felt lost a few times since the space between the arrows are only relative to other arrows and not a constant change in the background color or a vertical bar over the arrow lines.
However, these are minor things. This is still a great game! :D
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Play the Hand You're DealtGreat art and sound! Rhythm games aren't really my jam but it's obvious a lot of polish and care went into this one. Cutscenes add a lot to the charm :)
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BlasteroidsThe sprites are top notch, the music is just as good, but it was quite difficult to play. Although I have never played such games before. I liked that you can skip a level, that's very thoughtful of you.
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TWICE. GameOff 2022Super addictive, the musical tracks are so good. I am really digging the art.
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The Frog PrinceI loved the visuals of this game! It really gives me that rhythm game feel! I just got a bit confused while playing since the arrows are kind of scrambled? Not sure how to say. But maybe its also because I don't usually play with arrows haha.
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🌿 Bet the Farm 🌿I never play rhythm games but I absolutely LOVED this one. Super polished game, gorgeous art work, and really fun and forgiving controls. So much detail in each level, great story with lots of puns. Best game I've played so far. Thank you for sharing this.
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FishyFishyI love rhytm games and this one looks great. But the difference between easy and medium is insane. I think the biggest issue is the many fast paced notes. It seems like on easy there are just as many notes as on medium, but on easy you just spam one note very fast (repetitive) where medium wants you to switch like crazy between the very fast notes (realistic, but very hard).
I would also have put the down arrow as the lowest position, that way Up and Down are very easy to identify and you only have to "figure out" the left and right ones. With the current set up, only up was clear without having to think about it.
Overall, amazing game especially when you consider this is a jam game where there was just one month to make it all.
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Cliche HunterThanks for playing and the kind words! :D
Yeah, we've had similar feedback regarding difficulty and arrow positions :) For the difficulty we're thinking of maybe introducing a practice mode that'll allow the player to adjust the playback of the track, this way they can get used to the note chart for each level (we've got another couple of ideas too, but they still need to be fully thought out). For the arrow positions I think we're going to look into allowing the player to customise the positions so everyone can organise them as they like :)
Thanks again!
I played through the entire game and it was great! I love how each level is its own cliché pun. Also my favorite part was how all of the levels played out like their own cutscenes. So much detail and fun ideas in there! The rhythm gameplay was fun, though my one complaint is that easy levels were a bit too simple and repetitive, but medium was a lot harder. Overall super cute and funny, one of my favorites I have played so far!
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Uphill BattleThanks! Glad to hear you enjoyed it :)
Yeah, we've had some other feedback regarding the difficulty. I think post-jam we might look into seeing if we can add a training mode of some description, that'll allow players to practice the difficulties at customisable speeds e.g., you could play on normal difficulty, but half the speed of playback to help get a feel for how the note chart plays out.
Thanks again!
This was really cool! Great art and music. The only suggestion I would have would to be to have the arrows or (WASD) labelled on the corresponding circle. It seems like a bit of a silly suggestion but whenever I've played rhythm games that element always seems to have the arrow keys shown - and for some strange reason not having those made this harder for me when there was a lot of music notes on the screen. But take that with a grain of salt because I'm pretty bad at this type of game.
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Blind as a Batwow, great work!
cute story, amazing background art, nice music , lots of content!
it's also nice seeing someone use the same theme as me lol.
just one thing
I think the length of the level is just a bit to long,
it makes it hard to concentrate for the entire duration of the track,
after trying out the hard difficulty my head exploded.
but it's a me problem, I just kinda suck at these games.
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Cat Got Your Tongue?
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