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You can find extra copies of certain items lying around in Mushroom Zones, so it should be possible to find another shirt.

More specifically (ROT13): Pbcvrf bs gur tvsg fubc vgrzf pna or sbhaq va Pbearerq Jvyqrearff (hccre yrsg mbar va gur Pnirea bs Napvragf). V qba'g xabj rknpgyl jurer n fuveg jbhyq or ohg gurer fubhyq or bar fbzrjurer vs lbh xrrc rkcybevat.

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Sorry for being misleading, those are the four major ending variants.  The comment in the description was about finishing the game with different fruit arrangements, which are displayed on the ending screens. For example, you can reach the True End having killed 4 fruits and spared 3, but that's not as impressive as reaching the True End having killed all 7 fruits, even though the ending screen is the same aside from the fruit positions. The order of fruits also gives information about how a person played the game. For example, if you spare the Pomegranate first, then kill all 6 other fruits, that's an unusual and impressive clear, but if you kill all 6 other fruits first and spare the Pomegranate last, that's basically the same as killing all 7. However, I realize now that the fruit arrangements and orders are only interesting to me and normal people would have just wanted more unique endings.

I completed a playthrough of Battle Narf (V1p6) in under 30 minutes, you can watch if you are having trouble with the game.

Battle Narf Review

Battle Narf is a difficult precision platformer with creative boss fights. It took me around 6h30m to clear.

The world is divided into screens, with a checkpoint usually every four to six screens or so. Outside of screens with boss fights, each screen is "static" in the sense that while there might be moving obstacles and projectile attacks, there's no randomness or variance and the same strategy will work every time. The dynamic of Battle Narf is learning how to complete the early screens in a checkpoint as quickly and consistently as possible to get more attempts at the later screens. Often you'll find a clunky route through a screen at first, and then realize that you can optimize it. It's satisfying to develop and learn these new strategies, and it keeps it from becoming too draining to repeat the early screens.

Every so often you'll encounter a boss. The bosses were the highlight of the game for me, but also where I got the most frustrated. They have funny and surprising attacks with unique concepts. They're also extremely strict and unforgiving, and it's hard to tell if the attacks are always fair and reactable. I don't mind when randomness in action boss fights leans on the unfair side, but I did get exasperated a few times, particularly when fighting the 3rd boss and the final one. Nonetheless, it was satisfying to get better at reading the complex attacks and take the bosses down. The final boss was really cool even if I got a little mad at it.

The game also has a charming aesthetic, with crunchy hand-drawn tiles, cute sprites, and music that I didn't realize was from external sources until a song from Lagoon (SNES) came on. Give Battle Narf a try if you want to play a challenging game.

It's really lovely to hear that it had that impact on you, thank you for leaving this message!

Position yourself on top of the green thingy and stand still, and you will exit. The holes work the same way (you have to stop moving for a bit to enter them).

If you're stuck after reaching the mole village, explore the lava cave some more!

I haven't tested the Mac version in a while, but I think this error happens if you try to run it from inside the DMG. You have to drag the app outside the DMG for it to work.

That's so cute! Thank you!

The mushrooms do not respawn once you collect them, but the zones are very large (something like 100x100 screens) so I don't think it's feasible to run out of mushrooms to find.

I don't think there is actually a way to softlock there, because if you created any checkpoints in the castle with a house, you can just destroy the houses (by throwing other houses at them) and once you destroy them all you will respawn outside the castle.

You can only fight this enemy once per save file normally. A quicker way is to use the debug menu, which allows you to respawn Servant C, and when you beat Servant C again the snake will appear again.

I think very few of my older games are similar to this in terms of length and ambition, but Sylvie Lime is probably one of the closest. It's different in many ways though. I often try out new things, so when someone likes my newest release, I worry they won't like any of the older ones as much....

Also, Love is really amazing.

Thank you for the detailed thoughts!

I think you are more skilled than the average player if you found the game on the easy side, especially if you also reached some True Lords with only one element (which I knew was possible in some cases, but didn't really intend players to do unless they were trying some kind of challenge run). I'm glad it was still difficult enough to be fun though. The boss difficulty slider is only for making the game easier, and was added after a playtester spent around 45 minutes trying to beat one of the false lords (not the demon form). Even though "struggle" is supposed to be a big part of the game, I felt like if the difficulty was ultra hard, then too many people would just give up....

I would say that reaching the true ending without costumes is not that much harder than how most people approach the game. It's only really different if you relied a lot on the devil/angel or the unlockable help features from Aria. The secret ending becomes a good deal more convoluted and time-consuming without costumes if I remember correctly, though not much harder in terms of execution.

Aria wanted to add that she doesn't actually know much about parables as a literary form and just thought it was a name for a certain kind of simplistic moralistic story. It's interesting that you mention stream-of-consciousness writing because sometimes I feel like the way I design games is to let it flow out of my consciousness....

We are coming around to feeling better about the game after seeing more people's reactions and seeing some people say that they did find it moving. A friend said that the story feels like an "emotional space" you can explore and play around in and I like thinking of it in that way.

Yeah, there is something else you need to do there.

My heart hurts....

Thanks for letting me know! That's strange, for me it seems to work on both Firefox and Chrome, although I only tried playing for a few minutes on Chrome.

When you say "very quickly", what do you mean? Does it crash on the title screen menu, or only once you get in-game?

If you have time to help me debug the issue, after it crashes in Chrome, can you try the following steps?

• Click on the address bar
• Press F12
• Select the "Console" tab in the window that appears
• Take a screenshot of what it shows in the console and post it here

Thanks, I noticed this before but I forgot to fix it. I'll see if I can fix it soon.

I would like to opt out of receiving funds for this itch account from the Queer Games Bundle. 

I understand that this means I will not receive funds for my game.

Even that level is possible with kitten's power!

Yeah, it is a little bit limited in some ways but very easy to use!

Thank you! The soundtrack is made with PxTone Collage!

A true Space Shooter, can you beat my high score of 76390?!

Revealing the caves is more about experimentation and guessing than looking for clues or using logic, so it might not be for everyone. Thank you for trying it out.

Sylvie Lime!

Hmm, I found out I'm getting occasional crashes on the Linux version too, but I'm having trouble debugging it because instead of giving a Game Maker error message, it just segfaults. And it seems inconsistent how long I have to play before a crash happens. I think it might be audio related since it mentions "pulse" (PulseAudio?) in your error.... I'm glad the browser version works at least!

Okay, here is the free version. https://itch.io/t/3451497/gentle-world

Cruel World is now abandonware so I am releasing my own version of the game.

Downloads

Windows: https://sylvie.website/gentle-world-win.zip
Mac: https://sylvie.website/gentle-world-mac.zip
Linux: https://sylvie.website/gentle-world-linux.zip

I only tested the Windows version and I didn't test it that thoroughly. Let me know if I broke something.

Differences From The Original

In Gentle World, every node is a "public node". The title screen text is also changed slightly. Otherwise everything is the same.

In the original game, most "nodes" (which include things like checkpoints, doors to other areas, and tutorial information) were not public and you to HACK them to gain access. Once you HACK a private node, you can MINE it to become an OWNER of the node. This lets you freely use the node and inscribes your name on the OWNER list. However, this makes future HACK attempts by non-OWNERs take longer. This is because HACKing triggers a little auto-battle sequence where you  fight against each OWNER, then finally the "guardian" of the node (you don't actually do anything in these sequences, you just wait and watch the fights play out and hope you don't randomly die and have to restart the HACK attempt). Over time, the OWNER lists on private nodes became very long and making progress began to involve very long periods of waiting. Eventually, a feature was added that lets you HEAL the world by removing your name from OWNER lists, but I'd guess that not many people did this. There was also eventually a PARTY feature which I think let you make nodes temporarily accessible to non-OWNERs, but you would have to CLEAN up the mess afterwards before using the node again.

Public nodes can be used by anyone freely, do not need to be HACKed, and cannot be MINEd, so none of this is relevant in the Gentle World.

Even if you obtain the original game, it's no longer possible to experience the game as it once existed, playing it shortly after release when there was an active community around it and the OWNER counts were smaller. So, enjoy this twisted version I created, ahaha.

See Also

Beaceful World is a rom hack I made shortly after the original release of the game which similarly makes all nodes public, but also has some additional changes and new secret areas based on cut levels. It's missing a lot of the content that's in Gentle World though, since it's based on a very early version of the game (v6, which I think was released on April 2nd 2021).

Can I release it for free?

I created a walkthrough video for anyone who is stuck. You can watch it until you learn something new.

I don't even care about score, I just want to destroy, ahaha.

Ending made me cackle.

I don't know what you tried so far, but you need to stack two crates to reach the floating flame. Remember to always fight with your full strength.

This game is cool. I like the mechanics. I played the original version and it was really interesting, but challenging in kind of a grueling way. The updated version is pretty breezy in comparison, so I had fun playing through multiple times to try to get better at the game. Can you beat my record of 3 deaths?

Nice! I was curious how much was possible with only one item.

Valley - Flooded Chamber should be possible by approaching from the mountain, but I can't think of how to do any of the others.

I don't think SDIRE is a typo, D and P just have the same rune.

Thank you! I wonder how many levels you found. There are 27 in total. That's still a fairly small number, but I think some people don't realize there are that many levels because of how the game is structured. I have a lot of lovely Snake pictures so maybe someday I can share more pictures with the world.

I found the first room of the secret section on my own. I thought that was everything until I watched Tsuneko's video to make sure, and I was amazed that there was more!!