Whacking the enemies around felt very satisfying but getting knocked around between a bunch of enemies and the wall felt pretty bad. Also and time I dashed I would just run into a wall so I started avoiding using it. It was very fun overall though.
This game is like 100% juice. The slash animation is very satisfying. Having to stand next to an enemy to slash them when they can shoot you point blank makes this feel more like a rhythm game than a game about dodging.
fun little chain reaction game! I like the added twist that you have to dodge the chaos that you make. Do the red gorblins get rarer as the game goes on?
The ice sheet physics are amazing and the skating is fun! Sadly I don't think the gameplay is able to quite do those justice, since the safest strat is just to usually stand completely still and let all the goblins try to come to you. You also seem to always start pointed straight towards a huge patch of water. I think a reason to move, like having to find snowballs on the map, and maybe something to make skating a bit more forgiving like a air dash or something, would go a long way.
The levels are really well made and the song is a banger. The grading system is brutal. I'm not sure how S rank is even possible. There must be some aspect of the scoring system I'm missing. Still fun to get B ranks though.
Ah, I wasn't able to catch that one as it seems very rare, so thank you for reporting it for me and I'm sorry it crashed your playthrough. I'll patch it after the jam.
There was a ton to like about this game. The artstyle is great and the premise is wholly unique for this jam, I'm pretty sure? I liked the abrupt switch from slow, deliberate stealth to a madcap dash to escape when you get caught or set up the tree. I think all of my criticism rests mostly with the bear traps, which are just the absolute worst. Unless I missed some mechanic to disable them, they seem to be unavoidable damage checks at times? But even when they aren't, their hitboxes are ginormous and the minigame to get out requires you to spam the move keys which mean you often break out of one then immediately accidentally move into another (and the minigame takes significantly longer if you only spam one or two keys to try to avoid this). Then they get combined with ice.....
But all the other traps are all really fun and the stealth itself is really well done. It's easy for stealth to feel like a slog or be really unforgiving but I think this game mostly manages to avoid this. Very Slick.
You may have spent all your time on art but damn, those are some gorgeous backgrounds. It was time well spent. Can't wait to see the continuation of the story of Baba in the next big mode.
I've gotten that a bit and it's a fair criticism. I considered it but I just didn't have time to lab out a good solution. Sonic often completes a full loop but Maddie often peels off early, so when should the controls swap back from being upside down? I wasn't able to come up with an good answer fast enough so I just tried to train the player to get used to the different controls.
This feels like it could have huge casual appeal and would be right at home on a tablet. The sound that your contraption makes at the end feels almost hypnotic. There does seem to be some weird inconsistency with the physics, where occasionally balls won't bounce the exact same way? Also the edges of your shwoop don't seem to quite catch balls, and they will phase through your shwoop if they are going too fast. But overall, extremely slick!
The characters are very cute and very relatable. Every friend group has the tall blue girl that can jump and the tiny square girl that can push blocks. I thought the puzzle where blethany stood on a block so redanna could push it and boost her up was very clever.
The visuals are so crisp and vibrant and I'm shocked they don't fry my computer. The enemy that makes huge shockwaves that you use to fly up to shoot at its weakpoint is absolutely brilliant design and made for such a hype moment. Only thing is I wish there was just a bit more leeway for snapping onto rails, and the controls were not on screen for very long so I never knew you could zoom in, so I was just trying to no-scope everything. Still got an S rank though.
The artstyle and music is extremely clean and it's a fun take on the theme. Nailing a pufferfish that explodes to get you a huge combo is very satisfying but missing and then having to swim through a bunch of fish to get back to your board feels very punishing. I wish you still had a little control while you were swimming. Overall a very satisfying small game!
The visuals and music are SO GOOD. You absolutely nailed the Snes Mode 7 look. The game is extremely fun and fluid too. Insane game. I just wish there was controller support. I want to play this on my snes controller.
Extremely fodian in the best way. Even the unfinished aesthetic feels very genre appropriate. The controls are so awkward but so engaging. One thing that is extremely hard to get used to is the directional controls for grabbing with the snakes that is flipping constantly but again, it feels very genre appropriate. Games like these are peak Game Jam.
Really fun game with gorgeous art and music! The grappling mechanics were really hard to figure out how to control in the first playthrough since they are so responsive but it felt really nice when I retried to try to get into the door. I was 30 seconds too slow but I might try again later. It seems like you'd need to have the perfect run but it's fun to try.
I played the downloaded version with a gamepad and there doesn't seem to be any dead zone set for the left stick, which means that my characters kept moving without my input.
The interconnected games are a cool concept though individually I feel the games could use some more attention, which makes sense, since you basically split development into 3 games instead of one. All three feel somewhat sluggish, although, for the PS1 horror game, the sluggishness is pretty spot on for the genre, so it works well, though it was still frustrating to walk into dead ends, and the input direction for walking didn't seem to always line up with where the camera was facing. I would sometimes get stuck offscreen right between camera transitions when running from an enemy. The aesthetics are pretty spot on though, this game looks the best out of the 3 for sure.
The first person dungeon crawler has an interesting aesthetic and controls fine though the sword attack could use work to feel more alive and snappy.
The mascot platformer is cute but feels pretty underdeveloped compared to the other two. The movement is very slow and static when the level design is mostly just open field and there really isn't much platforming, mostly just exploring and collecting things and occasionally jumping on termites, which would probably be enough if just moving around had felt fun in and of itself. The lack of music works somewhat for the other games but this one feels aesthetically incomplete without goofy chipper music.
This was a really ambitious concept with solid execution. I'm sure this took a whole lot of effort, so good job!
Ok I've played some impressive games this jam but I think this one might be the most impressive in almost all categories. The way the games all intricately link together is crazy. And not to be too spoilery but the way a certain game resolves another was a huge "holy shit" moment. Amazing entry.
Man, the retro aesthetics are absolutely ON POINT for this. Sadly I think the sound was bugged for me, and my game kept crashing, but the music and sounds I did hear were spot on, and I'm wondering where you found/made them. I am also unsure what I should be doing gameplay wise. Aim lock only seems to kick in at very close range. Close enough for enemies to shoot you down pretty quickly, and I don't know if manual aim worked for controller, or at least there didn't seem to be feedback for it.
The attention to detail I think really makes this game stand above and beyond a lot of other retro-nostalgia based games. Very cool. I liked the little stretching effect for the title.
