One of the more interesting approaches to the "less health = more power" concept I've seen in the jam. Especially since it specifically changes not only the damage, but the size and movement of the player. The visuals have a very specific and personally interesting style to them, though a animation for movement on top of an idle animation would be nice. A few finer points though:
- The movement was nice, and it was clear to see the difference in the sizes very quickly. Though it was a bit surprising the first time to see less health lead to a bigger golem it was an interesting change.
- The idea of adding and removing abilities was really interesting, it wasn't expanded on too much, but the basic idea has a lot of potential. Adding more variation would be nice and could lead to some interesting puzzles with health placement etc.
- Though the default player does seem a bit underpowered. It took a mass amount of damage to kill an enemy. I feel like a way this could possibly be fixed with the current game though would be to lower the starting health, and just counteract it with more, or even just the same amount of pickups. That way at the start you deal more damage and move a bit slower, but then you're introduced to your faster but weaker version at 4 health so you can balance the pros and cons.
- This was one of the few "have more = less of _" concept games where there was no mechanic to just "get rid of" the item you're picking up. Which was a nice change of pace since most of the time adding that in the others made the mechanic mostly useless in my experience.
Overall the base mechanic and the visuals along with the execution of this game have me interested. Plus, it's not a Unity game. Godots the best !!!