I absolutely love how inspired this is from Edmund Mcmillen's work! It feels like a mix of all my favorite difficult precision platformers. My only main gripe with this alpha is that the movement can feel a bit floaty and I feel like that leads to a lot of unfair deaths, especially when trying to pogo off of enemies. You either have to land on them from the side or right on top of them and I have a hard time knowing how high I will jump when trying to hold down the jump button for long enough to not die. I'd give this alpha a 7/10 and I can't wait to see how the finished game will look like!
Speaking of the grab, it would be more fun if instead of holding down the arrow keys you just press it once back and forth, so you can slam em' as fast as you want. But of course still have them escape your grasp if you aren't doing anything
Some enemies should also require you to grab them first in order to deal any damage, since the slide felt more important to use than the grab in most situations
This game kicks major ass, certainly a step up from the last demo. But my only critisizm is that sliding trivializes most of the combat since a lot of enemies can't block it so it becomes super easy to start a combo and then to continue that combo by repeatedly sliding into them again
Is there a different ending other than the good ending you can get in the demo? Because I feel like there should be another ending but I haven't discovered anything about it, still wondering what the keypad on the lighthouse is about. But 10/10 game would horse around again
An amazing show from Grey Leno and I spent like half of the game not knowing that you could throw duck bombs and dash until I actually paid attention to the controls but that's on me. This game also gives off heavy Earthworm Jim vibes which I appreciate
Accessibility options are always a plus in my book! In regards to this I would also reccomend adding colorblind options, a font choice that works well with people that have dyslexia as well as options to turn down some of the more extreme visual effects, so that everyone can have a similar experience. There might be something I have forgot to mention but I think that's all of them.
This is has an insane amount of potential to become huge. I just really recommend adding a practice mode because it's so unforgiving, and it's hard to sightread and understand what I am supposed to do.
It's so awesome to finally see this animation by Louie Zong become playable! I got all the way to 16, the polyrhythms messed me up quite a bit. Btw, you're evil for getting rid of the sound cues at a certain point and for making me have to basically sight read
I don't get why this won't load for me on windows when I'm using google chrome. While the previous game took less than 5 seconds to finish loading