Haha yeah i wanted to have maybe a few more levels but i felt like i wouldn't have time to carefully craft more and meet the deadline so i made this disapointing ending instead... but at least i'm being honest with this message XD

You're absolutely right about the enemies, the thing is to save some time i made them all the same and sadly didn't put much of a cue to determine if they're melee or not, the only thing currently is that the ranged enemies stop at a distance from the player, to help give a second to know he's gonna throw a knife, so more difference between enemies and a more obvious visual clue to telegraph their attacks would have definitively been better.

Nice ! That's exactly the kind of unplanned action i was hoping players to stumble upon :P end you've got all the "hidden" mechanics down and either nobody told it before or you're the first who found out that you can reflect shots back at ranged enemies ^^

To be honest i feel like i could have crafted the levels better, so i may have gone a bit overboard with the stage hazards in some places... But i wanted to still have traversing the stages fun even when you don't encounter enemies, i even try to have a secret route in the 2 first stages where you can skip most enemies but go trough more hazards instead as a way to balance things out.

Thanks for playing and sharing your experience about the game, i'm glad that you enjoyed it :)

Yeah i should have probably have at least a short in game tutorial or a how to play section in the menu to avoid this problem, my bad :/

Then again i guess runner style and avoiding ennemies can work, and even though i thought them more for trying to implement the wildcard, i guess the secret passages could help to run through the levels faster in a way :p

Thanks for trying the game out and sharing your thoughts about it :)

Thanks dude ! glad you enjoyed tha game and music :)

Thanks glad you liked the genesis - ey music in all its heavy bass chuncky metallic glory which i tried my best to replicate :D 

I used BoscaCeoil it has a lot of cool sounding instruments packed with it ! only thing a bit tricky to use it with godot it can only export midi or wav (at least the version i'm using it may have been updated since) so you have to use external software to convert your tunes to OGG for Godot.

Yeah the edges stuff is pretty bad ngl :( but since i couldn't figure out a good fix in time it's a better tradeoff than the weird collision issues i had initially i think it's mostly some of the movement stuff i tried doing my way from what little i know so it's a bit experimental XD 

glad you still enjoyed the gameplay even with these issues.

Congrats you found one of the hidden mechanics ! Not much, but i thought it would be cool to have the enemies being able to accidentally kill eachother if they were close and missed the player.

Thanks for your feedback :)

Thanks dude really glad you've had fun with the game !

Yeah most of the time the best i can do is try and mash up some oldschool games's elements i like together and put my own spin on it, and seeing that people seem to like it, it might not be that bad of a process i guess XD

At first i wasn't sure if i should keep the real time switching or not but then i thought it would probably not be fun being stuck with one character past the selection screen, so i had the players decide in a "portrait of ruin" kinda way :p

Yeah i wanted to try and have a sort of dodge mechanic with I Frames that would double for some movement in the levels, to mix it up a bit from just run jump attack, and i mean come on its a video game, if you get some i frames might as well be able to slide trhough some fire :)

Thanks, happy that you've enjoyed the game ! 

Humbled that my entry reminded you of such cool games :) I'll admit that i didn't have the strongest implementation of the theme in the game.

Thanks for pointing that out, i didn't notice that glitch, so i'll look into it, not sure if i can patch it during the jam since i don't know if it could be considered gamebreaking enough ? (although a softlock is quite bad ) The edges bug is a known issue though, i'll have to see how i could fix this.

Thanks for your feedback and suggestions still ! The shot delay seems like a good idea to balance out the ranged character, combo system is a thing i would love to make, but i gotta learn that first :p

Not sure what i'm gonna do with this game post jam at the moment, i gotta finish a previous entry first, then i'll see  :)

Thanks for your kind words :) glad you liked the game !

Well now that i look at it i can see how the 3rd level is kinda like the sonic 1 stages XD funny thing is when i made it i was more thinking about the bonus stages from shadow dancer but since i didn't have time ti make enemies that could attack while you were falling i put some of the stage hazards instead, but having played quite a lot of sonic back in the day  i like the comparaison :p

Thanks for giving the game a spin dude, glad you liked it :) i didn't have time to balance out characters, i just wanted them to have a different enough attack style so that each player could play what they prefered, and well the best i could think of was that one character would be melee based while the other would be ranged.

As for the area in your screenshot, when you can't jump safely between obstacles you always have the slide that gives you some I-frames ;)

although one mistake on my part is that i feel i wan't maybe generous enough with the hp powerups and should have put a bit more in the levels :(

Hope you had fun anyways and thanks for your feedback ^^

Thanks ^^ really happy that you like the game, the music's no yuzo koshiro for sure :p but i'm glad you liked it, i had a hard time finding some nice instruments that would have that ninja feel XD

Thanks for playing, cool that you liked it :)

Thanks really happy that you liked the game, the art and all :)

well the spin attack could be considered a bit of a hidden mechanic since i didn't really told about it in the controls, but that's not the one i think would be as hiden to discover (even though calling it hidden is a bit of a stretch, i'm just curious to see if people try it if not explained in the controls :p) 

i'll give a hint, it is with the brother character, and it involves projectiles.

Thanks dude ! yeah i wanted to have hitboxes that felt very accurate to the sprite, but yeah i can totally understand that i may have made the hitboxes a bit too thin XD so no worries that's definitively more on me than on you ^^

glad you liked the game even with these issues still  :)

Thanks cool to hear you like it, and the art and music also ! I wanted to try the multi character thing considering the jam's theme and it's nice that people seem to like it ^^

For the story, like i said i'm not that good at stories but i had a bit more in mind which didn't manage to really make during the jam's time, but i'll try my best to have more story elements next time even in a jam game :)

Thanks glad you liked it ! Especially happy that you liked the combat and graphics :) 

I'm not that good at stories but i had a bit more context in mind for the game even if it's still pretty basic, and some ideas i left on the "cutting room floor" cause of the jam's time limit cause they were tied to gameplay ideas i couldn't make in time, and didn't type all that much on the entry page to be sure not to miss the deadline XD

Anyway thanks for playing and giving some feedback !