I'm sad, but not because of the game. It seems my potato laptop doesn't wanna play nice with it. It has a tendency to freeze either from too many particles or too many things happening in quick succession, I'm unsure what specifically is causing it. If I defeat an enemy, there's a high chance it'll freeze or even crash. Or sometimes if I pick up multiple things in a row, it'll freeze. That was how the first one happened and it went downhill from there. And even if it doesn't crash, well, it may as well be a crash as while it sounds like I'm still able to move and do things in the world, the screen itself remains completely frozen. I don't know if its a me specific thing or not or if lower specs tend to struggle as well, but all I know is that I really wish I could play more. This game looks really cool, the movement is so snappy and frantic that I just wanna zip around the world and explore in the little time I got before getting to the next generation, the music is really good and well done and very pleasing to my ears, and just basically everything about it seems like something I'd really enjoy if I could just get it to play nice with me for at least 20 minutes... I did see a comment about how there are plans to do some bug fixing after the Jam, so I'll be keeping my eye on this to see if maybe I can play it at a later date when some updates are pushed as I do just genuinely want to play this game. It's so cool...
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Wonderful review, and I'm glad you were able to kind of guess what's causing it. That's very helpful.
I'll definitely be updating this game and bringing it to it's fully optimized state post-jam. There's so many things I can do to optimize it, so hopefully first update after jam people will see some massive performance boosts. As a roadmap I als plan to add in a boss to each area as a way to practice making some cool boss fights; and add in 1 additional area that I didn't have time get into the game.
Thank you for trying to play it as much as you could haha.