Judge feedback

Judge feedback is anonymous and shown in a random order.

• First off, woah! This game looks and sounds amazing from start to finish and the main menu made me feel immersed already! Turns out the gods aren't joking around though; this game is brutal in it's difficulty and I still couldn't beat it, even when ignoring combat entirely. Overall the combat didn't feel too great and I almost pulled my hair out because of the walljump, which made speedrunning this too frustrating for me. Whether it were technical problems or there wasn't enough time to balance things I don't know, but making all these game elements feel satisfying within 48 hours is near impossible. I'd have liked more focus put on implementing the jam theme, since a timer ticking down till self-destruct seems a bit lazy. This is a cool game already and if you reallocate your work-power, you definitely have the capabilities for making a really strong entry!
• Design/Gameplay: Basic Platformer with Walljump, light theme was neat. 3/5 Polish: Music, Main&Options menu, Quit Button, nice visuals, story intro, tutorial. Rather few VFX and walljump is not satisfying, everything else is great. 4/5 Presentation: Nice pixel art, music is nice (not selfmade though), polished itch page. 4/5 Technical: Rather basic platformer. The most technical thing (wall jump) was not really satisfying. 2/5 Theme: While exploding is literally the theme, it stands out rather awkwardly. The explosions seems random and forced only to represent the theme, not because it fits the game. 2/5