The art and concept are pretty solid here, I'm surprised how many layers of background art there are (add in some parallax with that, that'll look really nice!). The gameplay though is a bit lacking. Personally I didn't like that holding up made the character jump again immediately when touching the ground, it made for some awkward platforming. It's also difficult to know where to go once you get into the lava pool area, and since you aren't meant to fight enemies it makes the platforming pretty tight. I never made it past that area. Good job with the game nonetheless!
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| Criteria | Rank | Score* | Raw Score |
| Fun | #6 | 2.429 | 2.429 |
| Gameplay | #7 | 2.238 | 2.238 |
| Overall | #7 | 2.440 | 2.440 |
| Theme | #7 | 2.714 | 2.714 |
| Innovation | #8 | 2.381 | 2.381 |
Ranked from 21 ratings. Score is adjusted from raw score by the median number of ratings per game in the jam.
Discord Username(s)
ImBatman#1822, F.silver#0712, Satanewg#2601, ShawnPoh#5307, yida#2913
Comments
Things I liked
- Art is nice. I especially like the tileset at the beginning of the level.
- Cinematics were cute
Opportunities for improvement
- Had a fair number of bugs.
- Enemy projectiles moved a bit too fast causing frequent deaths
- No checkpoints (might not be needed if the enemies were less murderous).
Submitted
From the BeyondThanks for checking our game out, William~
Ahh that reminds me, I forgot to add the credits for the tilesets that we bastardized to put together our level~ Fixed!
Thanks for the kind words and the feedback!
Hmm yeah we didn't get a chance to do much playtesting during the jam but it certainly feels like the difficulty needs tweaking, not to mention the ludicrous amounts of bugs~ We'll try to improve on it and make it an actual playable game~
Thanks for playing~
Glad you like the art~~
Haha we kinda screwed the pooch with the enemies though.. you're not really supposed to be able to kill the enemies cuz it's supposed to only make them evolve into a stronger form~ Sadly we couldn't make it work in time but we'll keep at it~
In the meantime, we just uploaded the game files along with the cutscenes to help explain the game~
Thx for playing
haha thx for the kind words~
Actually we ran into a hitch.. you're not really supposed to be able to kill the monsters in this game. As with the title, killing monsters was supposed to only make them go into a stronger form and defeating that will unlock their third form and so and so forth (hopefully fitting the "Death is not the End" theme. We'll work on fixing this issue so you can experience the game as it's meant to be~
Thx for playing~
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