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I saw this game being streamed and thought that it had an art style reminiscent of the era of freeware discs - something you'd randomly find online - like Jazz Jack Rabbit - and I mean that in the best way possible lol. The game was fun, I didn't get to the end, but I think I got fairly far. The difficult was just right, imo - which I think a lot of entries have trouble with difficulty settings and end up making things too difficult and I end up quitting in the first few minutes of game play (my personal philosophy is to try to make my jam game a little more on the easy side so that the player can get the whole gist of it - easier said than done of course). 

I liked the twin stick shooter format, although found it a little jarring when the entire mech would be facing the way your point while moving in the opposite direction - I know it's a jam, so this aspect isn't that big of a deal, however, in my past projects that utilized a similar system, I would cut the sprite in half and flip the upper body when the player faces the opposite direction their moving. 

Another thing I want to point out is the that the bullets would feel like they're moving slower when you're moving to the right while shooting to the right (comparatively to shooting to the left).. In my past exp, that was because the player would be moving while the bullets' speed rate is still at it's initial values - it feels weird how at times I'm almost running side by side or just a bit behind the bullet - I had to solve this by adding the player's speed to the bullet speed (or just giving the bullet a much much faster speed so it didn't matter what direction you're facing) when they're move and shooting in that particular direction. 

One more thing, I think that you could have added health packs throughout the levels - or in Armored Core VI's fashion - adding a repair point. I would beat levels by the skin of my teeth lol - to which it would have been nice to have at least 1 health pack since the levels were kind of long

I really liked how many different weapons you were able to include and I'd say they all varied quite a bit and not just a slight rework of one or 2 weapons. They were fun to use. One bit of feedback though, is that I thought you too often grouped multiple weapons together - I figured to give the player more variety on what weapon they want to use, however, they were place kind of awkwardly. Once I got the weapon I wanted, I had to try to dodge the other weapon - which sometimes I failed at. A couple work arounds would be to place them in a way where they are more easily avoidable - or add a doom style arsenal where you can swap between weapons and pick up ammo for them to be able to use them again.

anyways, it was fun!

Another fantastic entry this year PixelMetalWolf. Very fun to play!

Pretty cool art and overall vibe! I really liked the mech design with the bright colors and the parallax effect in the background which created a nice sense of setting. Also nice variety of weapons kept it engaging - who doesn't love a flame thrower!

My only complainy would be that being the same height as enemies made gameplay a bit tricky as most of the times I felt I couldn't jump over their shooting so it was always a matter of killing fast with no ability to dodge, which meant I would eventually die no matter what. I know this is tricky to balance as I was somewhat expecting Contra movement which wouldn't really fit the heavy mech theme.

You did an amazing job; the level design was good. You did great with all the pixel art, and there were so many different, unique guns made to keep the game interesting. Well done.

Cool game. 5 stars. I like amount of weapon. But took me a while to get used to the controls.

I had a lot of fun playing this game. The variety in this one is stunning. It has more guns than Borderlands!

Two things: a better hit indicator of some sort would be helpful. The big green guy took ages, and it felt like I made no damage at all. Also the overall visuals was to cluttered color wise. 

The soundtrack reminded me of the old Sega games. Judging by your profile pic (I see that Brad Fang!) this is no coincidence! XD

Thank you for your entry.

Very cool mech game, I like the big range of weapons, and I love all the colours, especially on the train level. Reminded me of the bright camo colours on Generation 2 transformers from the 90s, like this guy: 

Man! The mechanics for the weapons in this game are so good! Pixel you always outdo yourself when creating weapons and I have to say these have been some of my favorite ones to utilize. I just wanted to keep shooting stuff and using different guns because they were so well made! 

I also enjoyed the levels and all the enemies, but I think the guns definitely steal the show and elevate the game to whole other level! Great job on this entry!

Big thumb up for the overall visual design and the variety of weapons and enemies.

The sound design and the music were very on point, especially the walk sfxs of every robot. 

I liked the variety of paths to choose in the map and that the environment was against me and I had to be careful but maybe I'd have liked to have more occasions to take advantage of it and to feel "smart" like positioning myselfunder the final mechs to kill them. 

Seems I missed some cool weapons, I should play it again and bully the big guys ;)

Wow, lots of work done and love put into this, respect.

I loved the art, music, and sfx. Reminded me of the SNES.

I also enjoyed the gameplay for a little while before it started to feel repetitive. I think the main issue with the gameplay is the level design. There are too many long sections of walking in a straight line which are usually broken up by narrow passages that only serve to make it impossible to jump over enemy projectiles. Also in one of the levels there was a section with enemies on the left (after a climbing section) which led me to believe that was where I had to go and I ended up just wasting time.

I think good level design for the current gameplay would involve more verticallity. This would make shooting more engaging as you would actually have to aim your shots at distant enemies.

The gun variety was awesome and I enjoyed experimenting with the different guns. The one issue I found with teh gun system is that the gun icons on the boxes are too similar which made it difficult to tell what gun I was picking up. The boxes also felt like they were randomly placed which was inconvenient at times where I needed a new gun or was trying to save my current one.

It would probably be clearer if the icons represented the bullets instead of the shape of the gun.

Overall this is a great jam entry and a few tweaks away from a legit game. Great job!

Reminded me of my childhood) Lots of weapons, you should continue making interesting guns with unique behavior and It would be cool if there was a score counter

The weapon variety was cool and the paralax backgrounds were nice.  In general you nailed the grimy post-industrial dystopian feel.  

I think the gameplay could use some more variety-- maybe some additional mobility, a melee attack or some deflecting ability. Your option in most scenarios (especially when constrained by the level) is to just tank damage and get out as many bullets as soon as possible to take out the enemy.  Some of the enemies were easily exploitable too-- you can stay just out of range for the big purple guys, and with the huge green guys at the end I just stood underneath them and fired upward (they can't hit you when you're directly below them).  Maybe thats intentional but the first time that happened I ran out of ammo for my gun so i stood there for 30 seconds firing tiny bullets and it wasn't the most fun pacing. After that I mainly ran past those guys.

Loved the train levels and I liked the spritework, nice job overall!

Awesome graphics and loved the weapon variety! The train level was a highlight for sure.

The single-player control scheme was a little clunky, though I understand why you chose to do it that way. 

Overall really good!

I really enjoyed the game. The customization seems a bit unnecessary, but in my opinion it adds character to the game. The graphics and sound are also great.

Visuals were very appealing to my taste. The combat, especially death of enemies and hits, could need some improvements. But other than that a very solid entry. Split screen coop is nice, unfortunately had noone to join me :S

Fun game with simple but well made mechanics. I will say though i though the levels were infinite since they were quite similar to eachother but i looked down in these comments and saw theres an ending, Overall though pretty fun.

I’m a big fan of assault suit walken on super nes, and i finish it when i was child in the 90s, and i appreciate the lot of effort you put in every of your game in every mech jam.

I take time in my developpement to test your game (that make me a break), dont take bad my comments. It’s for a constructive only.

First i like the customisation of the mecha, changing color, add an icon is simple but very satisfiyng.

I can not test the 2 player mode, in a gamejam it’s difficult to test multiplayer game in general, but i like the effort.

Nothing to say about the control its simple and reactive, basic but efficient. The shooting direction with button remind total canage, smash tv, robotron and more recently binding of isaac, it work fine (at first time i try to play with the mouse).

i’ve experienced some lag on the html version when i catch item or changing level but nothing problematics.

The level design is really poor and basic, lot of ennemy by is position requier a face to face fight not very interesting. It’s shame when we have a 8 way firing. The jump is the only way to dodge no reator on mech to fly a few moment, no physical shield to guard like walken.

About the level design you can just make alternative way with different item or ennemy, to push exploration and break linearity, take exemple of level 1 of walken there is some passages under the level to skip ennemy keep at the end by turrels.

The game isn’t difficult, the most difficult thing is to jump over the item to keep the best weapon ^^, also it’s difficult to see what we collect, but they are a lot of different weapon that’s good. I suggest to put an interaction for example push up to collect items.

About the weapon which create bouncing bullet : unlike other game of is genre, the bullet take the exact inverse direction (+180 degre), this kind of weapon is basically use for shooting in impossible angle so here its useless.

The big mechas was really impressive but easy to kill when i place me just under (but i think it’s the strategy).

For a gamejam it’s good, and entertainement. The game will be better with shorter level but with more interesting situation.

I hope my comment can help you to make the game better.

Banger graphics, reminds me of good old times.

Needs some polishing, also it appears that backwards ([A]) doesnt work?