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Heroes are so Annoying!

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CategoryRankScoreCount
Overall94.07
Theme124.32
Fun263.77
Graphics324.18
Mood823.43
Innovation833.65
Humor1553.15
Audio3542.45
Coolness77645

Comments

juaxix 2012-12-17 13:54

This fit the theme very well, this is the best idea i played for the moment :)

deepnight 2012-12-17 15:43

A very solid game here :) The controls can be perfected (switching mouse/keyboard too often) but the overall realization is great! The art is especially good.

It's funny to see that both of us followed the same idea but with different gameplay directions :)

Great job!

adventureislands 2012-12-17 19:46

Nice flipped perspective of usual rpg adventure, really solid game and nice graphics!

sim 2012-12-17 22:44

Great graphics, fun to play and very polished. Some nice parody too :)

Oreganik 2012-12-18 05:06

Nice and relaxing. A bit annoying that enemies... er, players... had to walk into my... enemies. Oh my, I've gone and confused myself again, hah ah.

emveyh 2012-12-18 11:49

Wow. Awesome game. The graphics are really great and it fits the theme very well. The controls coud be better, though. Like someone before said, switching from mouse to keyboard is annoying like heroes :)

suese 2012-12-18 11:56

Beautiful entry. Wonderful graphics. Strongest entry I've played. Wonderful twist on the now all-to-common game-play mechanism.

boenahhh 2012-12-18 12:07

Nicely done!

rxi 2012-12-18 12:18

Nice work! I found it one of the most overall enjoyable games in the competition so far. I wasn't able to get past the last level, though. Not sure if it's because I'm an idiot or because it's impossible...

pierrec 2012-12-18 12:21

One criticism : the attack "reduce damage for 1 turn", "might dodge the attack for a turn" aren't interesting at all, cause it just makes you loose a turn. It would be more efficient if it lasts 2-3 turns.

Aside from that, this game is awesome. It reminds me the deepnight's entry I played earlier, but I like more the strategic aspect of this one. (Deepnight still win on the graphics ^^, even if yours are pretty cool)

"a really long summon animation..." That makes me laugh!

I finished the three levels and totally would have played some more. I like how the heroe's crew grow, how their level increse, how they find/use objects on the way...
You didn't forget anything! Very impressive!

norgg 2012-12-18 12:34

Nice game, I enjoyed the descriptions on most of the moves, and the final boss fight brings up some painful JRPG memories.

arkadydracul 2012-12-18 13:00

Good Entry, good idea to put the player in the evil master spawner :D

keyboardthrashingfactory 2012-12-18 13:01

So Awesome, Im in love with the villain vs hero rpg idea. Just need a theme tune and its perfect!

jlauener 2012-12-18 13:25

Wow by far the best game I played so far. Very good job :)

maristak 2012-12-18 13:59

I have no words to say. The game is just so awesome I would even go and make it released for some more serious purpose (like an Android game or smth like that). By far my fav

christinaneofotistou 2012-12-18 14:03

SO cute! Very very cool, very solid game. Loved the impressive summoning animation at the end ;) It doesn't get more on-theme than this

benw 2012-12-18 14:12

My only complaint is that sometimes I felt a little rushed to pick a new guy and place them after a battle

sonnybone 2012-12-18 14:40

Awesome reversed roles! It does feel a bit rushed, and the fact that the player goes on a pre-defined path is a bit disappointing. Once you fail you can just kind of make a line of little minions to drain all energy before they reach a chest. Needs some music and more varied sound effects to really set the mood, but the graphics are incredibly charming. I'd love to see this game extended.

amidos2006 2012-12-18 15:20

Nice :) Liked the inverse way may be it is kinda difficult but nice :)

edocentrique 2012-12-18 15:24

It's really good !

blooperly 2012-12-18 15:29

This is great!

naxum 2012-12-18 15:37

Totally awesome, really enjoyed this. I'd love to see some more levels, I want to play it some more :)

daredevildave 2012-12-18 16:17

Very nice indeed. Played all the way through.

Controls were a little odd though.

d3zmodos 2012-12-18 16:54

Pretty cool concept, and really well put together I thought.

I do think the abilities that have effects for 1 turn are rather pointless I think, they need to last longer.

rasmusrn 2012-12-18 18:14

This is an awesome idea and cute game overall.

However, I have some constructive criticism. The mixture of combat and "overview mode" doesn't work for me. It feels stressful. I think its because I don't control when a combat starts.

Just when I was thinking about where to put a monster, the screen changes without me having a chance to avoid it.

But great job anyway :)

loren 2012-12-18 19:44

cute sprites! Really liking the build your own dungeon monsters approach, nice job

ithildin 2012-12-18 20:12

Awesome!
One half a reversed version of Final Fantasy, one half Dungeon Keeper. It is fun, and fits the theme perfectly.

Also, I'm amazed at how polished the game looks. Great job!!

cakencode 2012-12-19 00:12

That was fun! Didn't realize "x" was to select the options. Took me a good minute pressing enter and clicking and figuring out what button to press would select. Maybe adding Enter as another key would be a good idea? Despite that, I had a lot of fun playing. It was challenging!

jezzamon 2012-12-19 00:59

Great game! I might even check out the source and mess around with it. :D

Great graphics, too.

meep 2012-12-19 01:23

I really enjoyed this game. It fit the theme well, the art was beautiful, and the gameplay was well executed! Great work! :D

aa 2012-12-19 01:28

Great. One of my favorite entries so far.

laaph 2012-12-19 01:30

Cute game! Enjoyable but not memorable.

cassio 2012-12-19 01:51

Awesome game.

benjamin-soule 2012-12-19 02:47

Top graphics. I'm sceptical about the monster placing mechanic but the rpg fight are great and it's really fun to see the healing herbs, revive and like on the AI side :)

tijmentio 2012-12-19 03:06

Really solid game, the gameplay was good as well as the graphics. The theme fits well too.

bigbadwofl 2012-12-19 05:44

Awesome. Fits the theme well and I loved the graphics.

yopsolo 2012-12-19 07:35

my favorite game so far ! well done :)

crowbeak 2012-12-19 08:58

I was hooked from the goat lord's first evil BAA HA HA.

tomvert 2012-12-19 13:21

One of the best entry i've played. The gameplay is well balanced, I had to think little strategies, I wish you could develop this in a longer game. I like the fact that you have all the information about the spells you can cast. The graphics fits perfectly. People have said this before, but the controls are quite awkward, switching between mouse and keyboard. Still I had much fun till the end. (The final battle was a bit too easy).

jaj 2012-12-19 13:23

Some of the moves seem really useless. Moves are only good if they eventually end up allowing you to do more damage. Also switching between mouse and keyboard so quickly is a bit of a pain.

Apart from that a really solid entry. Seems to be a good mix between making something impressive that was still not so ambitious that it couldn't be polished in the end.

also, I don't think it's actually possible to use less than 6 minions on stage 2. Does it just always say that?

jaj 2012-12-19 15:57

Okay, so I beat dungeon two by only losing 4 minions. But I´m PRETTY sure it´s impossible to do better than that

jaj 2012-12-19 16:01

Also, the game can´t count, I only used three minions and it said I lost 4, while I only lost 2, and one survived.

But you did get me replaying, so good job on that ;)

pitoum 2012-12-19 18:30

Very cool entry. I'm not a fan of JRPG, but this inverted game is very cool and unsual way to play!
Great work here :)

ahmedcab 2012-12-19 22:26

this is one of the best entries i've played,good job.

sience 2012-12-19 22:36

Very nice pixel graphics and game idea. I think the monsters should wander round with an attack range to the hero, otherwise it's a little bit to static. But overall very good entry!!

naufr4g0 2012-12-20 00:10

Quite innovative idea and nice graphics. The game is very fun too! I didn't understand exactly when I can place monsters, but eventually I beat the game! :)

entity2d 2012-12-20 20:32

Very interesting twist on the RPG genre.

2012-12-21 05:59

Source link is broken (leads to an empty zip)

casino-jack 2012-12-21 09:08

Good fun and fits the theme well. Would like it if you could just use the mouse - switching between the keyboard and mouse feels a bit fiddly.

bneutral 2012-12-22 17:48

Lovely.

kwl_tw 2012-12-23 17:08

Great artwork!

ltyrosine 2012-12-23 18:31

Impressive amount of game made in so short. One of the best at LD25.

chambers 2012-12-25 03:33

Good game, takes a few attempts to get it right. I hate it when I place a minion and the hero doesn't cross its path. Maybe it would be more fun if minions had automatic behaviors in the map, like walking towards the hero or marching in a fixed cycle.

philip-wagner 2012-12-28 00:23

Looks cool, plays nice and feel very polished! Very cool.

Jeremias 2012-12-29 22:22

Was a lot of fun to play. Good job! I think the fighting needs some balancing respective the strength of the encounters I can place. I think, it is a bit too easy.

The monster placing mechanic makes sadly no sense. I think you planned something other with it, but like you made it, it would be better, if I can enter the fight directly with the choosen monster.

sheep 2012-12-30 11:24

This is a brilliant game! It's hard, it's fun, it's beautiful. The only thing I would improve are controls, but they are not that bad.

matthias_zarzecki 2012-12-30 13:20

Lovely made!

bentog 2012-12-30 23:02

Well done, the fact that you did an RPG fighting system in 48 hours is amazing :O Also, I love Blade Storm!

soupy 2012-12-30 23:59

A great game. A bunch of polished content, solid mechanics, great graphics/sound. I really liked the humor ("a really long summon animation plays and then...") Can't ask for much more except a third hero to squash.

otus 2012-12-31 09:20

It reminded me Lassic! Phantasy Star :)

georgebroussard 2013-01-03 10:36

Great entry. Was fun and challenging to play. Was sort of hard to scroll to keep up with the heroes while also clicking the mouse but that's polish. I'd keep working on this and maybe make a larger game.

mcc 2013-01-05 07:47

pretty nifty stuff, though i think the mechanics could've been made a little bit more interesting