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Thank you very much! Glad you enjoyed the game ^^

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I thought I did already? What do I need to do?

Play the colour version, it has no slow-down.

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And hey, any exposure helps!

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Just to clarify, the point of the shuriken is range, long range for ammo vs short range for free, yeah, you can play through the whole game without using them, but they do make you able to deal with enemies and bosses from a safer distance.

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Thanks for playing! And for showing it off too ^^

Thank you very much! Also congrats on the S-Rank! ^^

Nothing I can do about that, I have no control over sprite rendering order in GB Studio.

The controls are in the game's description

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Congratulations! Glad you like the game ^^

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I released Kira Kira Magical Stars in April 2024, and very few people noticed...

Congratulations on finishing the game and the boss rush on Hard mode!
Thanks for playing!

Your best resource to start I reckon is the GBS docs themselves, they're not the most enlightening thing ever, but they'll help, and once you know enough to wanna try some more advanced stuff, you should check out GB Studio Lab, and if you have trouble, the GB Studio discord is mostly pretty helpful!

Though to bear in mind, A LOT of tutorials, particularly in video form, are Outdated As Heck...
Oh and like, being knowledgeable about how the GB Hardware works helps a lot, so by all means, study that as well, this here's a VERY good resource on that: https://www.copetti.org/writings/consoles/game-boy/

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It recovers your health the moment it shows up

The enemies are based on Youkai, which are monsters from Japanese folklore, they show up a fair bit in Japanese media in general, so no doubt you'd recognise something if you've played a game that incorporates Japanese culture, like Super Maro Land 2!

Difficulty is relative, I've seen people struggle with it on Medium...
The real challenge is trying to do a no-damage run on Hard and getting that SSS rank.

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I'm hoping to make a longer game next

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Hey, no shame in lowering the difficulty! But still, do your best ^^

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There's a trick to the springs, stand in the same space as them, jump, and hold forward the moment you land on them, you'll get a clean jump through them every time!

They're Jam games, there's really not much to them...

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Those are sprites rendered behind the background ;)

Nope! This is GB Studio!
Glad you like it ^^
And well, those are like those Japanese sandals with a stilt in the middle, y'know the type right?

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I'm glad you enjoyed it that much ^^

Glad you liked it! Always love to hear of people playing it on real hardware!

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It was, sadly a port is unlikely.

Yeah, it could, and I'd love to see it running on it myself, but I don't have what it takes to port it myself.

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The glitch is fixed in the downloadable ROM, but also, I'm currently working on a colour version, and it has no lag!

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Glad you liked it!
Working on a colour version rn, btw, and the lag is gone in that version!

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But also, I'm pretty sure the problem is the enemies being too close to one-another, it's lagging because the GB has to process more than one of them at once. You see how boss scenes don't really lag as much? It's because the boss is the only enemy on-screen.