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Himawari CATASTROPHE!'s itch.io pageResults
Criteria | Rank | Score* | Raw Score |
Overall | #1 | 4.383 | 4.383 |
Gameplay | #1 | 4.583 | 4.583 |
Audio / Music | #2 | 4.150 | 4.150 |
Balance (Challenge and Fairness) | #3 | 4.033 | 4.033 |
Visuals | #4 | 4.600 | 4.600 |
Concept | #20 | 3.950 | 3.950 |
Use of Theme | #45 | 2.900 | 2.900 |
Story / Writing | #51 | 1.983 | 1.983 |
Ranked from 60 ratings. Score is adjusted from raw score by the median number of ratings per game in the jam.
Team Members
rollingcrow, Armand, CodyYuki, Jackie Ha, Pleinair, plunch, Serena, Tristama
Streaming Permission
Yes
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Although I don't have much to add that the others haven't already, I was extremely impressed with everything about this game! The gameplay was very smooth and exciting. The only issue was the audio balancing, mainly the sound effects - but everything was overall pleasant to listen to.
The foes' tells helped a lot with reading the game, the voice acting was an extra surprise, and the visuals went above and beyond - to name a few. The entire team did a lot of amazing work on this game. *u*
This is a very well polished game. The visuals are vibrant, the animations smooth, and everything just contributes to a splashy, frantic experience. And even with the chaos on screen, I still felt in control. The red callouts before each enemy attack do wonders for helping keep the player focused on what matters. On top of the great soundtrack, I have to give a special shout-out to the voice acting giving Tenshi heaps of personality that makes cutting through waves of ghosts and fairies even more satisfying.
Pretty darn fun! Feels fun to rack up a big number of hits and then use earthquake as a finisher - game feel is great. My only real gripes are - it feels like spamming it a bit too effective, I know it probably won't rack up as much score but just in general it feels pressing one button (and occasionally a second) is an effective strategy that makes my carpal tunnel ridden hands sad. That and I do wish there was more to it - I understand that it is a Jam game so I very much understand time constraints and I'm requesting for a full on campaign but this does feel a lot more like a tech demo for a larger game or like a "proof of concept". Again, I'm not discrediting the work that was done to make this, be proud of that, I'm simply relaying that it was good and I was excited to see it twist/turn in some way as it went on and it kind of just didn't (though the boss was a nice shakeup!)
My much much more minor gripe is: having a functioning online scoreboard but NOT a volume slider - those explosion sfx layering on top of each can get pretty violent!
Overall VERY well made and I sort of hope you expand upon the concept more in the future! Would be cool to see this as a fully fleshed out game!
Plays incredibly smooth, big fan
Loved it.
好
So much game juice... fun but I have no idea how to get a lot of high score
The game is pretty fun! When I tried to use a gamepad, the supposed ranged attack made me just do a dodge though.
Very fun and a great concept, the art is amazing, UI and the music are good too, although the controls are a bit hard to get used to, consider zxc are right there with shift and movement, making only one hand do everything
Fun and stylish gameplay, I want to see more!
For the controls, I know implementing remapping is a pain heh but I wish it was possible to remap dodge to R1, or that it was mapped to the current button and R1. Personally I find that dodge on R1 is very comfortable for games like this. L1 could be the ranged attack.
The voice acting is pretty nice, extra points there.
standing here i realize youre just like me nothing but historyyyyyyy
Tenshi Gear Rising! (ow my finger hurts)
this game is so awesome....
Awesome concept and execution! The visuals are top-notch, the music is very entertaining, and the audio queues for the enemy atacks are on point. I loved the leaderboard as well. Would love to see more levels be developed.
Very fun game with a lot of juice! Very impressive for a jam game, great work!
Really impressive how you have an online leaderboard! I'm a fan of action games like this so it was up my alley. Kind of wish there was a dodge move or some such for getting out of the way of some attacks.
there was a dodge it was space T-T, read the manuel noob
what if we kissed inside of the himawari catastrophe tutorial screens
HHAHAHAH