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PROS:

• The Star Coins were an AMAZING idea!! I never realized how fun it would be to have Mario actually spend the coins he collects! It was so clever to charge for Power-Ups in the level, which I think was a better use than the Shop. I can imagine expanding on that idea to "pay" to cross bridges, enter pipes, etc. I'm surprised more hacks and official Mario games haven't incorporated this, it should be a staple!
• When you hit the Boos in "Boo Challenge" they would spin, which was awesome. Again, this should be a staple. Very well done and soo satisfying!
• Lots of good new little bits and details to the artwork for sprites and the overworld.
• Appreciated incorporating the various modern Power-Ups, even though they didn't seem necessary to the gameplay.

CONS:

• I beat "Bowser's eco castle" but I don't even know if I beat the game? A little anticlimactic of an ending.
• Loved the experimentation of some levels, i.e. creative use of pipes and puzzles, but some felt less overall polished than others, i.e. black edges around the screen in the later levels.
• This might just be a nitpick, but when Mario kicked, he would get this comically oversized foot LOL Just seemed more random than intentional.

Overall, lots of really impressive, new, and interesting ideas in this hack! Worth a play just for them! Thanks for making this! It was fun to play!

I just played this little game with your assets: https://voiceless-coder.itch.io/new-year-tree-2021.

I LOVE your little squirrel! He's PERFECT!! Flawless! Adorable! You did such a great job! Thank you so much for making these excellent assets! You're very talent! Amazing job!!

Thank you for making this game. Thank you for putting in the time to make it. I really needed it. You made a difference to me. I loved the atmosphere and the characters. The little messages brought tears to my eyes. You're a great game developer. Exellent game! Very enjoyable! Thank you!

Beautiful! Great job!

This is so cute! Love it! Love beavers! All it needs now is some kind of power up! Like collecting leaves while fixing the leaks and at a certain number, you earn a speed boost or something! But overall, really great!

This was really fun! The music was the best part!!

WOW, I really liked this game! It was so fun and clever. The cursed idol in a temple was brilliant for the jam theme. And I need to remember how you did this too: make a few key assets but then make puzzles with how they interact, like the arrows moving the other items, I never would have thought of something that ingenious! It's simple but perfect!

The music was 100%. The overall theme of the artwork with the Indiana Jones guy and the temples were 100% too, though I will say that individually I found some things a little hard to read, but then again you made this in only days! I was bummed that it didn't save my level and I had to start over, I hope you might add that feature in the future because this game is challenging but something I'd come back to.

Overall, I loved it. Congrats on an awesome game!

This game is awesome!! The cat design and animation are so charming. The gameplay is very thoughtful and clever. The music and sound effects are stellar. Everything fits the theme perfectly. And I love the idea of counting each item you successfully "unluckify."

I personally wish that it was easier and smoother because that's my personal preference even as an experienced platform player, but I understand not every game is made for me. You could consider allowing players to choose a difficulty level at the start and design new levels that are easier or simply add hearts so you don't die immediately and increase the jump height.

But overall, I think you made a really cool game! Great job!

Really fun! I normally don't play a lot of puzzle games, but this one had me hooked. Loved the music too! Great job!

WOW!! I've never played a game like this before! It's amazing! So genius!

This game is amazing, stunning, and addictive! Perhaps one of the best and most creative Itch.io games I've ever played. The graphics are perfect. The music and sfx are phenomenal. The idea is genius. I love it! — I just think it's too hard! Once those clipper bots show up, it's nearly impossible to connect the circuit. Maybe I just suck, but I think there would be more re-playability if the difficulty was tweaked a little. Overall, amazing game!

I agree with everyone else—this really is a stellar idea! Very nice art too! I hope you finish it one day because it would be a lot of fun to play fully!

WOW!!! I really think you have a HIT on your hands. No joke. I can definitely see this being like a legit mobile game that people would love! It's insanely clever!

However, I strongly suggest getting rid of the "lives." If you beat a level, it's beaten for good, and if you fail, you just restart that level.

Other than that, this is an award winner! It's so smart, it fits the theme in a way I could never have imagined, and it's addictively fun!

The little dice guys are so freaking cute too!

Truly, amazing job!

I agree with all the critical feedback from the other comments, so I won't repeat them. But overall, this is an ADORABLE game!! It's very clean, clever, and enjoyable. I normally don't play games like this so the fact that I finished this one should say a lot! Of all the GBJAM13 games I've played so far, this one fit the "unluckiness" theme the best. Great job!

The characters are SO STINKIN' CUTE!! They're tiny but so readable and unique. Loved the tail midair float, it felt soo good after playing so many games that don't even have a double jump. I admit I was a little lost though. Kind of gave up without a clear direction of what to do next, and perhaps you could simplify all the power ups or something. But, honestly, there's so much potential here! I'd definitely come back to play this again in the future! Great job!

Overall, it's STUNNING! Every detail is award-winning, from the art to the theme to the music. I loved the character designs, especially the stack of chips that break into individual ones! Too cute! And even the logo, WOW!

My humble feedback:

The core gameplay feels off because you don’t even need to shoot a single enemy to advance—you can simply wait out the spin count. This also might explain why the enemies are so difficult to kill. No matter how many you do kill, the swarm grows so large that your only option is often to run in circles until the spin count runs out anyway.

So, I think it would be more fun to clear all the enemies in the round before moving on, but they’d have to be easier to kill. Then the wheel spins could serve as a strategic “boost” that you can trigger when you're desperate.

Also, I’d rather use coins to buy character upgrades like speed or weapon boosts, instead of altering the big wheel allowing it to be 100% chance. Spins could cost coins, like a real slot machine, making the spins themselves a strategic resource too.

Make no mistake, this game is AMAZING! I'm only saying any of this because I literally ran in circles for eight rounds, bought three "7"s, and won the game—so just something to think about.

Overall, this was the best game I played so far for GBJAM 13. Great job!

This is an incredible game! Despite it being somewhat low-fi, it's still addictively fun to play! It's 10x more fun than some of these really fancy looking games. The mechanics are intuitive, the puzzles are challenging yet fun, the vibe and sounds are perfectly spooky. The necrology stats are a nice touch, too. I think you're a very talented game dev. Thanks for the fun game!

If I was supposed to jump over the house in the last level, then there should have been a checkpoint near it because I gave up having to run the 2-minute length at the beginning of the level—it was way too tedious to repeat every time.

Overall, it was a fun little game. The voiceover was *chef's kiss*—It was weirdly funny and I didn't have to read, so extra points for that!

I think the "spooky" vibe this was trying to achieve at the end could have had a lot more to it, but again, maybe there was and I just missed it because I gave up running that stretch every time.

Still, it was cute, fun, and interesting. So, thanks!

Just a sweet little witch game. Cute graphics, nice music. Wish there was a little more to it, but overall, really cute and spooky! Thank you!

You are so talented! This is beyond stunning and super fun! It's so polished and thoughtful. Too bad the full version is not posted here.

The design and animation of the Mummy are fantastic! It’s so cute and clever how he turns into a little pile of rags! LOL Overall, the game is really fun and spooky, with a lot of potential for future updates. It reminds me a lot of "Oddworld: Abe's Oddysee." Incorporating some ideas from that could make this game even more amazing.

It took me a while to realize that you can walk in front of the window even with the peepers there because their field of detection is narrower than the window. You might consider visually showing that detection area somehow, just to make it a little clearer.

I really liked this game! Thanks!

This is a FANTASTIC game!! It's so much fun. It has a cult-classic vibe with the characters and style (I already want to cosplay the main character). It feels old-school but still fresh and engaging. I adore all spooky-themed games, and this one ranks very high on the spookiness scale. I loved it so much!

My only suggestion for a future update would be to add a way to increase hearts. As other comments have mentioned, the game can be quite difficult. I found climbing the ladders essentially pointless since you still face the same number of enemies, so perhaps the upper levels could be used to collect extra hearts, making the game more strategic and replayable.

Overall, this is an amazing game! Thanks!

Smoke curled over the city, the scent of burning flesh thick in the air as men and women were dragged screaming to the stakes. The kingdom of God split into bloody rivals, ancient empires shattered into pieces, and every soul cowered under a tyranny that made faith punishable by flames. Confessions were forced from trembling lips, heretics burned alive, and the cries of the innocent echoed across generations… all to end up a tiny little pixel game 500 years later. From tragedy to kitsch, as the saying goes. Anyway, fun game.

Of course, everything that is actually good on this site is only 3 levels long... You're a brilliant artist and game dev. This was addictively fun and stunningly beautiful. Just wish there was more!

A pumpkin named Mark who's in a fight with his pumpkin girlfriend?! LULZZ! That's hilarious! I really LOVE this game! It's super fun and engaging. I think the overall concept and the costume changing is so fun and clever. The sound design is excellent! And I love all the little easter eggs to find through out. It's an awesome Halloween game!

There is so much potential here to make it perfect if you ever decide to update it (5 years later 🥴). There should definitely be some kind of feedback (even a sound) when pressing J at the houses because it's confusing at first. I would also love to see more things to do/interact with the different costumes/characters. And more power-ups like the double-jump with the mummy. It's such a fun game that I just want more!

I love when Chat Foncé wears the mummy costume because he still looks like a cat. I think you should do that for all of them LOL Like he's an "imposter" but they don't know it. I mean, yes, his ears stick out already on the others, but more! IDK It would just be cute and funny. Overall, a very enjoyable game that was really fun! Thanks! 😺

Oh ok, I understand, that makes sense! Thanks for the reply! 😊 Love the game!

758 seconds! LOL! Very fun game! Challenging and creative!

Just played Leading the Soul and this design pack was perfect!! Very spooky and beautiful! Great job!

Just played Leading the Soul with this cute lil' guy, and he was a star! Just loved him! Fit right into the world. Spooky, cute, and excellently animated! Awesome character!

WOW WOW!!! LOVE this game!!! It's awesome! I love the little characters, especially the exploding guy with antlers, he's so cute and spooky! All of the characters have amazing designs, and their animations (like the mushroom guy's death) are fantastic! The world design is excellent. The sound design is excellent. The game play is creative and engaging, and also very smooth and responsive. The boss level (spoiler!) is so scary with that death character and that voice! OMG Terrifying! And the ending is beautiful with all the ghost floating by! Excellent, excellent game!

I only wish that it was longer! I wish there were more levels. I wish there were more enemies. It's a very enjoyable and replay-able game, but I feel like there's so much more left for this amazing game!

I will also say that the instructions are a little confusing. It took me a while to figure out you needed to possess the characters in a particular order. Also, sometimes the characters disappeared completely, while other times they turned transparent, and I still don't know why? It didn't prevent me from enjoying the game, but rewording the instructions could help a little. Oh, and I didn't know that I was in the boss level at first, so it was frustrating that he wasn't dying and I didn't know why. Maybe add a title screen saying "BOSS" or "FINAL" or something so people know.

Overall, a spook-tacular Halloween game! Really amazing! Loved it! Thanks! 👻

You make this beautiful, clever, interesting game that's fun, engaging, and charming and it never gets finished... Such a waste of talent. Oh well...

Awesome game! Very fun, engaging, challenging, and clever. Thank  you!  🍂 🌰 🍂

Beautiful art and style!

So much potential here! I appreciate the lo-fi art style, the squirrel is really cute, and it's giving all the right autumn vibes with the pumpkins and music. But why go through all the trouble of making a game and only complete 75% of it? I was expecting each character to be interactive like the dog and to have to avoid each one or else get "caught." I also wish that the pumpkins were power-ups or something, like you start running slow but each pumpkin will build up your speed. I'm sure it took a lot of time to get this far, it just needed a little more to be really awesome. Oh well...

This would have been really fun if finished! Bummer!

YES!!! This is a truly awesome game! I love it! I love the style. I love the concept. I love the pumpkin mutants. I want more! I know this game is 2 years old and no one will read this, but this game is awesome and has so much more to offer! I want more upgrades. I want more enemies. It's great as is, but I beat it too quickly, and it's rare to get this good of a spooky pixel game! Everything is awesome, I just want more — and MORE PUMPKN MUTANT HORDES!!!!!! 🎃🎃🎃

Also, this game deserved to WIN Baba Game Jam 2022! You were robbed! Lol

Bugs:

• If I click and drag at the menu, I get a browser error that freezes interactions. It doesn't happen during gameplay, just at the menu.
• Jumping over holes is not very responsive. No matter when I time the jump, more than half the horde falls in because the delay doesn't match the speed of the horde.
• The cars are nearly impossible to destroy. No matter how big or powerful my horde is, the cars in the later part of the game will stop them all. Like by the end of the game, I should be able to devour everything with ease, that's the fun part!