Judge feedback

Judge feedback is anonymous and shown in a random order.

• While your concept for this game is straightforward, I found my experience playing this to be quite tough--and it had nothing to do with the controls. Movement may make sense, and so do the other inputs, but barely being able to see your surroundings, while, a stylistic touch, I also feel the environment was too dim to see the direction you were going, let alone the enemies that attacked you. In regards to the themes, again, while they made sense, where shadow was 'government bodies' or 'shadow government' and alchemy was potion crafting for the sake of combat, I'd have liked to see a different approach to alchemy that would have felt more creative in a sense. I do think that your artistic approach to your game was done well, though. Having a darker aesthetic is an interesting approach and does catch my attention at times, but again, if the lighting wasn't as dim as you had it here, I think my experience playing would have been a bit better. Overall, a fine job, all the same. Keep up the hard work.
• You really need to help the player when you have mechanics like this. Being thrown a gun, some ingredients, and not told how to arm the weapon is pretty rough. Moreover, when you have to reload, you're still being attacked off screen. Lastly, it would be nice to be given some recipes or something, or a quick-recall of recipes discovered. Regardless of the criticisms, you have a really neat idea. The mechanics need to be tidied up, but I think you got something nice going on here. I like the idea.