Really juicy and satisfying top down shooter, I just wish there was something to diversify the gameplay, because walking in circles and holding left mouse can get boring after a while. Also personally for me the game was a bit too easy. Still, really nice entry! I had lots of fun with it
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Soul Toll's itch.io pageResults
| Criteria | Rank | Score* | Raw Score |
| THEME | #24 | 3.463 | 3.463 |
| OVERALL | #25 | 3.634 | 3.634 |
| JUICE | #26 | 3.707 | 3.707 |
| FUN | #27 | 3.463 | 3.463 |
| PRESENTATION | #66 | 3.390 | 3.390 |
Ranked from 41 ratings. Score is adjusted from raw score by the median number of ratings per game in the jam.
Did you use any third-party assets or skeleton code?
Some of the sound effects were pulled from sites that offered free assets. All of the art, music, and programming was done during the jam.
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Cool retro art and music. The gameplay is JUICY fun to play.
Good work!
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Shinobi's ShadowAwesome game! Nice pace and balance. Shooting enemies is fun and juicy. Fun progression system, interesting to see how it scales at later levels.
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Idle Game DeveloperThe game gameplay its very engaging and i like the soundtrack and dinamic off "a quiet place that becomes a battle stage in a short time". Very good game, i really enjoyed ;D
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STELLAR PRICEI like it was fun, controls while good feel little unpolished especially the dash, the shoting feel good thought, the art was simple but nice, overall a really good game
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Run Dennis Run!!!Its really cool to play, feels really satisfying.
It would be good to have a shop and some upgrade system to make it even more enjoyable!
Good job! :)
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The Little PoucetsNice little game! I was looking for a little bit more variation is the higher levels but very fun to play. Amazing music!
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The Little PoucetsGreat game! I Iove the art, the sprites low bit sprites and smooth animations are very nice, I particularly like the fire on the altars and the movement of the player character.
I was yearning for a machine gun which perhaps I would eventually find. The grenades were juice heaven, I had a lot of fun using them but the shotgun felt fairly inconsequential in comparison.
Overall polished, and well executed. Looking forward to playing more and perhaps seeing future iterations
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VOIDSimple, fun level-based game!
Shooting felt really nice and mowing down enemies was fun!
great entry!
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Cyborg AssaultWell done, i enjoyed play it, I think the best option for remaining souls would be to be transfered in the new wave of enemy, so i can decie if i'm full hp to use them later in the game! And I really like the mando helmet of the player! :) Nice job!
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Pay for VeggieIn the first playthrough i did not kill enough and I got stucked. It reminds me of magic survivors. It feels fun to play.
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Fortune's ShieldAbsolutely top notch execution. I love the DOS EGA / Organ Trail vibes in the graphics (bot with fluid animation… awesome). Goes to show that you don’t need so many colors for a delicious juice!
The gameplay is awesome, it teaches fairly quickly that it’s the souls you’re after, not the kills – I’ve recently played some Crimsonland, so I had to pay (no pun intended) attention.
Everything sounds great as well. One tiny negative feedback: constantly firing grenades (which is the way to go) makes the screen shake too much - I’d reduce the magnitude and time length a bit, but that’s just me.
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PowerCharger 4269Visual and sound effects are perfectly combined, music fits well too.
As for the gameplay - I don't know how much time you have left for it after working on the wrapper of the game, so i will just say - some moments are questionable for my opinion, but i think it's only a matter of time - to build a good gameplay sequence.
Overall solid 4/5.
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Professor Insec TicideFelt this fit the theme quite well. Neat concept, fun little top down shooter! I liked the sacrifice mechanic, forced you to take risks and if you could do more with the souls I think that would add a nice extra layer. The soul gathering was satisfying - and emulated Vampire Survivors system (in a good way!)
I both loved and kind of disliked the dash mechanic. I LOVED the effect of plowing through the enemies and seeing them kind of flip around...but the hit stop was a bit much and kind of made the pace of the game feel stuttery when I used it. I'd remove the hit stop and leave the satisfaction of the state you put the enemies in - and allow more dashing. Or, make the dash less frequently useable and introduce slow-mo , zoom and vignette to really dramaticize it. These things are tricky to balance in a jam window.
The grenades had a nice explosion and camera shake...but i felt like they didn't do enough damage. I get that this was probably to balance out how frequently you could get them - but as a limited resource attack it kind of subverted my expectations. I also wasn't a fan of the hit stop.
My overall suggestion on the grenades: Make them harder to replenish (maybe you buy them with excess souls or some other risk / reward mechanic), up their impact (make the enemies really fly, lots of damage). Remove or heavily reduce the hitstop, instead slow down time when they explode so the player can still control their character.
Overall I really enjoyed the game and think you should run with the idea and polish it up even more! I'd love to play more of it (hence the wall of feedback) :)
Great work!!
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[sleep debt]I totally hear you on the hitstop, I may have gone a little crazy with it. Some of my playtesters raised the same concerns but I kinda let it go because it is the JUICE jam yknow? I agree with all of your points, I'll definitely see where I can fix it up after the jam closes, but the code is an absolute mess lol. Thank you so much for the thought out critique, it comes wildly appreciated.
haha I can 1trillion% relate to code being a mess. I had to rewrite the transition system for sleep debt like...3 times. My object orientedness could use some work, lol. The entire game (except the opening) is housed in a single scene because I really didnt want to struggle with scene management and persistence in a webGL game (Last time i did, i had weird bugs). I think a lot of people went ham with the hitstop tbf, haha. It's def one of those things (like bloom and chromatic aberration) that are best when barely perceptible (unless you are going for something intentional).
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