Challenging game! I included it in my LowRezJam compilation, if you’d like to take a look :)
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| Criteria | Rank | Score* | Raw Score |
| Authenticity (Use of 64x64 limit) | #11 | 4.846 | 4.846 |
| Graphics | #52 | 4.000 | 4.000 |
| Enjoyment | #72 | 3.308 | 3.308 |
| Overall | #83 | 3.519 | 3.519 |
| Audio | #153 | 1.923 | 1.923 |
Ranked from 13 ratings. Score is adjusted from raw score by the median number of ratings per game in the jam.
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It's an interesting idea that's presented quite well, though I'm not sure it fully works. At the very least the difficulty could be toned down a lot - what's trivial as one character becomes incredibly difficult when you add a second. The visual style is quite nice and provides a nice contrast between the two versions of the level, though some sound would be good.
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Asteroid OmicronThis was a difficult one, but for the most part I thought it was fair! My only complaint is the wall jumping didn't feel intuitive. Maybe if the wall jumping was triggered more explicitly, like you have to be pressing a direction into the wall to be in the "can wall jump" state.
Concept was really cool. Definitely would like to see this explored further! Great job!
neat idea and execution. I like games with this type of minimalist art style, but the player movement made the game hard
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Dash CraftI do quite like the idea and the style direction but sadly the controls and collisions are pretty unforgiving.
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Jan-Ken Pow! 64I thought Parallels was all right.
A simple concept for a puzzle platformer that I might want to see again in a future installment, but as it is now, I found it too difficult. Movement is very fast and tight, which normally would be great, but when I you're contolling two characters at once, it feels like I don't have enough time to glance over at what the other one is doing.
Most of my complaints could be fixed with the addition of sound/music, and perhaps a button to switch the focus of your character so that the bottom avatar's controls become uninverted for when I need to focus on what they're doing. and vice versa. In my short time with it, I just never got used to that.
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