I found this frustrating and hard, which I think was the point, so well done. My only real gripe is that some of the level transitions in the post-checkpoint section felt unfair. There were a couple places where you enter a door and immediately get whipped into the wall by the wind, and now you have to start over. The combination of that + sparse checkpoints made this hard to play, but other than that this was well-crafted and I enjoyed it! And I think the pre-checkpoint section is quite fair and fun on its own. Here's my playthrough.
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Winter Escape's itch.io pageResults
Criteria | Rank | Score* | Raw Score |
Polish | #3 | 4.250 | 4.250 |
Innovation | #3 | 4.250 | 4.250 |
Immersion | #6 | 3.875 | 3.875 |
Overall | #7 | 3.800 | 3.800 |
Game Feel | #13 | 3.375 | 3.375 |
Theme | #17 | 3.250 | 3.250 |
Ranked from 8 ratings. Score is adjusted from raw score by the median number of ratings per game in the jam.
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My vote on your submission is arguably the highest vote I ever gave. the limited palete was good, but music wasn't silly enough so I didn't give you 2 stars there.
this could also be more polished by adding checkpoints and remaining lives, and also a button to mute the sound, cause it can be annoying. so I gave you a 4 in Polish.
Game feel 3, cause in terms of difficulty, you could get the player accustomed to the system and game play first, and only then make it harder, this can help to make the players engage further into your game to a point they actually beat it.
all else, innovation and immersion, 5 stars. keep it up!
I was going to say this game is SUPER hardcore before I realized I forgot there were brakes. I got to the third level without brakes.. then I just held the brakes in all the time... and then proceeded to die when I got to the no brakes levels.
There are no checkpoints though, so this game is still hardcore rage. Also there's like one really weird crackling noise and it, is, GRIMACING.
Cool game though. Would probably do well as a web rage game.
I wrote that comment as a draft of my thoughts before I beat the first 10 levels.. little did I know I didn't even get to the real game yet... What proceeded for the following [REDACTED] number of hours is a chapter of my life I do not ever want to relive. I don't want to think about it. This game is legitimately BAD for my mental health. It was unhealthy for me to play this game, and that's probably just on me but a WARNING: abandon all hope ye who enter here.
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