Visuals aside (I really dislike stock RPG Maker assets, sorry), this had me laughing the whole way. (GOOD GRIEF HE'S BALD!)
The power progression being similar to Final Fantasy 2 is funny on its own way, considering how much Joel loathes that game.
Not that hard, didn't had to think much aside just holding the attack button. I didn't even get to abuse the Pot of Greed.
Fren's weapon progression was a bit confusing, since his starter weapon always did more damage than the bleed the second one inflicted, then he gets a weapon that hits 2-6 times, can crit and can be POOMPED by Joel.
The hit detection could be better, I had no idea if I was hitting the enemies or if the animation was glitched, as the enemies were dying seemly at random.
And no idea if its a problem on my side, but the audio was really really low for some reason. I could hear some sort of mumbling at the start, but only noticed there was sound when the scissors made some noise.
Looks pretty good, the intro with the thumb joke and Thumb waxing his head so hard he becomes a flaming skeleton made me laugh, but I didn't vibe with the controls.
While I loved the "oomph" the dash has when you hit enemies, a way to cancel the dash or better air control would be really nice, as most of my deaths were from dashing into an enemy and immediately falling into a nearby pit, or bouncing off an enemy that takes more than one hit and dropping into a pit behind me.
I actually reduced the map to less than 50% the original size. I planned a second housing district , but decided not to as stuff were getting too far from each other, which explains the map rectangular shape. I may have resized the gridmap to be a bit too big.
Some empty parts were going to have more NPCs or buildings, but I ran out of time and only finished the ones I had ready. If you noticed, there is no Liza Clone Two or Four.
