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Thank you very much for the feedback and video! I see now from this and a bunch of other comments that the beginning of the game is very unclear. Just to clarify, you did not miss anything and were not supposed to have the hookshot yet, and the large missiles were a part of defeating the first boss, as you had to guide them to the top of the arena. You even did damage to it once on your first playthrough but I see that we did not add enough feedback for that to be apparent.

I can also see that the base player movement is lacking, I thought that it wouldn't be that big of an issue once the players unlock the hookshot but because of that, I guess a good chunk of them never got that far to begin with. But that is how it goes with these things sometimes haha.

If you would like to take a second look at it at some point, I would recommend downloading the fixed version, as it is the same as the original submission version but it fixes a couple of major issues related to performance. I kept the original version up as I felt it was against the game jam spirit to remove it completely.

Regardless, thank you for taking the time to play and record your playthrough of this game, and a bunch of other games here! It has been helpful and I am sure it has been helpful for other developers as well!

Thank you for the feedback, I am glad that you liked the direction that we went with for this game! I agree that the ground movement is a bit janky, that is a definitely a thing that I am looking to improve sometime. The issue with the first boss was also a really simple thing that I already fixed, but it was after the uploads were locked so I couldn't update the page, but that is how it is sometimes with these things haha.

Regardless, I am glad you enjoyed the game!

Thank you for the feedback, I am glad you enjoyed it!

That's how it usually goes, a mechanic you think is pretty obvious and then you realize that "Hmm, this is actually incredibly cryptic, how is anyone actually supposed to figure this out" haha. I guess that also happened with the boss in our game. If you are still interested in playing, you are supposed to guide the large missiles it shoots out to the large things above the boss to make them fall on it until it dies :)

Hello! Fun game, I would say first of all that the style of trying to replicate NES games was executed well here, I really liked the crunched up quack sound effect for example. The visuals also worked well here and although I personally find chiptune music to be a bit annoying in general, considering the limits you had to abide by, it worked pretty well here.

Some critiques I would have however are that the game itself felt pretty unresponsive. The basic movement feels good, but the base attack takes a bit too long to do for my liking and it was hard to tell when the enemies were actually dead. It also took a while to figure out that I had to attack the first lever to progress in the level, and after that I couldn't figure out where I was supposed to go so I stopped playing after that.

Otherwise, I think the concept is pretty fun and I really like the idea of a duck-themed metroidvania and to the scope of the jam, I would say it was done pretty well. Nice entry!

Hello! Nice game, although I don't know if I got very far, I would say I enjoyed playing your entry. The first thing I noticed was that the game kept crashing every time I touched an enemy, but hey, I guess that's one way to do a death mechanic. I also thought the dialogue was pretty fun and I enjoyed the section where you have to climb the wall using the bubble and the rock, although I didn't find if there was any other use for it.

 I also got softlocked a couple of times at the bottom of the map(?) where the only way forward was through a tight corridor with an enemy and some spikes in the ceiling, and my jump was not high enough to get out of there, so the only way out was death.

A couple of other critiques I would have are that I really did not have any idea where I was supposed to go in the game, so some direction in that would be great and although the controls felt pretty good otherwise, jumping out of water felt pretty clunky and the jumping and gravity are a bit too fast for my liking when you are out of water. A minor nitpick I also have is that the sound in the section with lots of bubbles can get quite loud.

Regardless, the game was fun enough for me to keep trying after a couple of deaths and I thought the pixel art and animations were good and the double-oxygen meter mechanic was unique and has potential if expanded upon. Maybe it could work if the gameplay was more different when out of water versus in water?

Anyways, nice entry!

Thank you for the feedback! I agree that some of the level design could be better but I am glad you still enjoyed it!

Thank you, I am glad you enjoyed it!

Hello, thank you for trying the game! This was a bug and you were not supposed to be able to push the pile, it should be fixed in the latest build now :)

Pretty fun game. I really liked the presentation and the little name cards that appeared before the fights were a good touch. The controls felt solid and the boss fights were pretty fun, but I never got to finish the game, because in the Nick boss fight the boss just kind of clipped out of the arena and the game was locked in repeating the same line of dialogue.

Hello name neighbor. This was a solid game, I liked the visuals, and the laser eyes and such later on were pretty fun. Though, I couldn't figure out how to get the human on the couch so I wasn't able to beat it.

Definitely an interesting take on these types of games. Tried all sorts of techniques to try to beat it and in the end I couldn't, but it kept me playing for a while though. It didn't fit the theme that well, Coots could have been any character. Overall though, I would say this was pretty good. :)

solid 4

Nice game, I enjoyed the stretching mechanic and the story was also interesting. The issues that I had with the game were that wish that I wouldn't have to go through the level selection menu every time I wanted to go to the next level and that the games difficulty curve was a bit unbalanced.

Thanks for the feedback, you caught us on the camera stuff! I knew about the issues with the camera system, but didn't think that would be an issue for players so I didn't bother fixing it. Judging from this and the other comments, it seems that was not the case.

Regardless, glad you liked the game!

Thank you for the feedback! We did take a lot of inspiration from Portal, it is a pretty great game after all. 

The boss fight was done in a bit of a rush, and it seems at some point the hands got accidentally reversed, so whenever you would be on the right, the hand on the left would try to attack you. Unfortunately we didn't catch it during development amid all the chaos of game jams.

Regardless, glad you liked the game!

Thank you for the feedback! There was so much going on during development, we didn't really have time to make everything pixel perfect, but we tried out best. Glad you liked the game!

Hmm, I didn't encounter many issues with that cutscene but the those systems were really broken anyway, so might be something to do with you entering the cutscene trigger in a weird way. Regardless, glad you liked the game so much!

The boss fight was done in a bit of a rush so it was a little unfinished, but glad you liked the game regardless!

Thank you for the feedback and glad you appreciated the details!

Glad you liked it! Gotta give props to the voice actor for that one, he slayed that role

Thank you for the non biased opinion

I enjoyed the graphics and the boss fight was fun, but I think there could have been more mechanics with the brother in the platforming sections.

Thanks for the feedback! I checked out the stream, and the criticism was fair.

The steering wasn't originally meant to be the main challenge of the game and we were planning to implement police cars and other stuff that you would have to avoid, as well as some item pickups that would give the player greater control of the car. At the end we couldn't get those in due to time restraints and the development being a bit of a mess, which also caused some other problems with the game, such as the inconsistent art.

Regardless, the game jam was pretty fun and thank you for playing the game on stream!

Fun game, though I found the controls a bit difficult, and it was pretty hard to hit the enemies from above. Overall though, I liked the game and it's simplicity.

Solid game! I didn't get to the end because I couldn't really find a way to get past the enemies without taking damage, so I kept dying to them. Overall, I liked the game and didn't find any issues other than that!

Thanks for the feedback! You are right about the art, the development of this was a bit of a mess, so some of the art ended up being made by me last minute. I also designed the car steering with intent of it sort of feeling like trying to ride a wild animal, but judging from this and other comments, I definitely could have executed that better. Glad you enjoyed the game! (or at least some of it)

Very high quality icons, thank you for sharing this!

Nice concept, well executed. I found the game to be a little difficult at first, but I got the hang of it after playing for some time though. I'd suggest adding some more elements and depth to the gameplay, as the game got a bit repetitive after a while.

A nice premise and the movement has a good feel. Could turn out well with some tweaking and polish.

Nice concept and a fun little game, I like simple graphics. I also like the aspect of the ball hurting you as well as the enemies, adds a bit of depth to the gameplay. I found it difficult to use more than one ball at a time though, as they would crash into each other very quickly.

Nice game, could definitely be expanded on with more weapons and powers. I like the art and it has a good choice of music.

Seems like it would have been a fun game, has some nice art though. I also like how you included a summary the development of the game in the description.

Pretty fun game, some parts such as the title screen are a bit confusing though. The game could turn out much better if you spend more time on it.

A very charming little game, simple and fun. I liked the aspect of the game becoming more difficult the more pigs you have in your group, with it getting increasingly harder to keep them all together.

Glad you liked the game! 

While making the game I actually had thought of a thing where at the end you had a pile of coins that would have got bigger the more coins you got but I couldn't get it to work, so I added a timer instead.

Glad you liked the name! I actually had made a cool logo for the game as well but I dont think I ever put it anywhere in the game. The cubes were intended to fly in the direction you were facing, and the other players were intended to throw the same cubes at you, however I did not program them to stop trying to get close enough to aim them at you. I might work more on the game, as I still see a lot of potential in it.

The game was actually put together in about 6 hours due to poor time management, but I might work on the game more, as I still see a lot of potential in it.

The goal I had in mind was to shoot the other cubes with green shells you get from item boxes until you were the only one remaining, and they would do the same. The game was basically put together in 6 hours due to poor time management but I did still learn quite a lot from making it and the event was fun.

The game was definitely lacking due to poor time management, I still decided to publish it at the time of uploading because I was tired and felt like I wanted to put something out for everything I still had done.