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| Criteria | Rank | Score* | Raw Score |
| Gameboy Soul | #18 | 4.427 | 4.667 |
| Overall | #151 | 3.436 | 3.622 |
| Graphics | #166 | 3.479 | 3.667 |
| Soundtrack/SFX | #169 | 3.162 | 3.333 |
| Gameplay | #189 | 2.951 | 3.111 |
| Interpretation of the Secondary Theme | #251 | 3.162 | 3.333 |
Ranked from 9 ratings. Score is adjusted from raw score by the median number of ratings per game in the jam.
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METABOY is a retro top-down action and shoot em up sci-fi adventure where you take control of a child named Lee who discovers a special object that has fallen from an unknown place in space. Known as "Metaroid," it gives Lee the power to become Metaboy in order to fight off the evil Alien Slime who have come from Deep Space and are trying to take over the Earth.
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Unique little concept! I like that it combined multiple gameplay types, and can see it having quite a lot of content without getting stale. However, the little slimes were hard to see in the flying segments, so it felt unfair to die to them... and, well, the music was a bit painful for me. I find that kind of harsh "ding" note unpleasant and almost all the music consisted of only those. The one section that had other instruments sounded nice though! Keep at it!
Hello,
Thank you for your feedback! My intention was to challenge the player by really concentrating on moving slime, but I will be making that small slime bigger. With regards to the music, if you re referring to the main theme, I will be making changes to that as well.
Thanks again for taking the time to play the demo!
-TPC
I enjoyed the game, the sound, music and visuals were definite on point for Gameboy. Great job there. Was an interesting combination of gameplay as well which added some variety. I thought at first it was just going to be add more slimes to the first game mode, but then we got a new part of the game which I liked, well other than the one potential issue I hit.
The one issue I ran into was when flying through space the sprites for what I think were the slimes were a bit difficult to see, seemed like they were rendering as cut off, or maybe they were blending more in the background, not 100% sure.
Thank you for making the game. :)
Hello,
Thank you for your feedback. I will be making changes to those small slime sprites so that the player can easily distinguish between enemy and background.
Thanks again for playing!
-TPC
For anyone who tried to play it and it didn't work in Windows Chrome, make sure to turn off the blocking of 3rd party cookies as the game uses local storage, likely for game state, so it gets blocked from playing without it turned off.
Thanks for the clarification!
-TPC
Nice game and graphics.
Thank you! I hope you enjoyed the gameplay as well.
- TPC
Very Game Boy! I liked the variety of play, and the slime animation was cool.
Thank you for playing! I am glad you liked variety of play.
-TPC
Web build not working for me.
Thank you for trying to play the game. What happens when you click on the game to start in the browser? The web build of the game is working fine on my end.
I hope you can try again.
- TPC