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The Legend of Jarrow

By vasileiadis

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CategoryRankScoreCount
Coolness277
Innovation3693.23
Audio5732.52
Mood6122.65
Humor6452.08
Graphics7002.65
Overall7842.83
Fun8722.53
Theme10472.47

Comments

matthias_zarzecki 2013-08-26 03:31

Interesting idea!

radjor 2013-08-26 03:46

It was a neat concept. Spinning to swat people away was cool. I think this was a bug, but after I killed a guy a while into the game, I just started taking damage from nothing and died. My curse got the best of me.

vasileiadis 2013-08-26 04:12

Yes you are right! It was a bug, it should be displaying "Wrestle!!" when you have to wrestle! Try now:)

lekochen 2013-08-26 11:40

I made it to the end! Love the movie-like camera angles along the course.

ghostik 2013-08-26 14:42

Great concept!

sjk 2013-08-26 17:16

Crashed after a minute or so.

mesene 2013-08-26 17:33

It crashed to me on tutorial when I had to tap W nothing happend and later didn't response.
I'll try later again :)

vasileiadis 2013-08-26 17:40

Was fixing a crash bug and for some reason the key for wrestling got mapped to left bracket.. go figure xD

mrblade 2013-08-26 18:19

Nice job! I really like the button mashing mechanic. Hahaha. I played through the whole game, saved the grand master and had my curse lifted! The animations were really nice to. Keep it up!

skywing 2013-08-26 20:52

Interesting way to do a game on rails. Lots of tapping can get tough, but its still a fun game.

djbriandamage 2013-08-26 21:29

Feels like a whole adventure with a good variety of things to do. It made me smile a lot!

kantieno 2013-08-26 21:36

It was a nice concept but rather tedious.

kristof 2013-08-26 21:40

Very unusual gameplay. Nice work for this short time!

chabuduo 2013-08-26 22:16

it was very enjoyable, cant believe its put together in 48hrs! that guy is pretty good at parkour

hypp 2013-08-27 04:50

Nice work, and quite fun.

BTW, my game should be working in Firefox now.

iiechapman 2013-08-27 17:13

This is a very interesting concept , I just wish the controls were mapped a little differently . Like up arrow to run, tap space to wrestle, and alternate left and right arrow to spin? Overall though it is pretty cool.

minionstudios 2013-08-27 17:26

Fun and interesting concept... the story is great too

oana 2013-08-27 18:55

I like the charge mechanic. Also, I remember trying out your game earlier on and it was rather complicated to get right, the tutorial really helped to clarify some things. A weird bug happened at the end, however... camera got all weird. Doesn't matter though, the rest of the game got the theme really right

vasileiadis 2013-08-27 19:37

Thanks for the feedback guys I'm really glad you enjoyed the concept, mechanics and especially the cinematic feeling, which was a pain in the ass to put together >_<

About the things you would like to see changed, I'm not sure I'm allowed to make changed before judging is over, but..

@iiechapman: You're right, I wish I had added an option to choose your own controls, everybody would be happier! (W)restle (R)un and (Sp)in was way too.. "poetic" of a coincidence to just let it slide though ;)
It didnt seem all that bad position-wise either - maybe it's because I've got big hands :P

@Oana: Well, that's not a bug, it's a feature!:P No, really, if you (R)un fast enough the camera moves smoothly, it's only weird if your run ends when you're mid-air or in the middle of a trick :) Try replaying or hitting PageUp to activate "GodMode" which automatically runs you through the entire game like a cinematic.

flod 2013-08-27 21:45

web version does start but except for space no other key works (yes there is no capslock on or somethin like that)

martin_monosys 2013-08-27 21:45

Fun game, but at a certain point (before that big guy) I just couldn't wrestle anymore... :(
Nice concept and graphics style on the characters, backgrounds look a little bit 'standard unity'... still not bad.
Good effort for 48 hours!

dagamesta 2013-08-27 21:49

Maybe it's the fact that it was in 3D, but this game was decently fun for mashing buttons. I do wish that the different actions did not have annoying cooldown rates.

joxno 2013-08-27 21:49

Pretty neat,
although now my fingers hurt from all of the tapping, hehe

otus 2013-08-27 22:59

I like how different this plays and feels! Very interesting idea!
It's fun, but I kept missing the timing of when to spin and had to wrestle everyone :P
Nice work!

starspell 2013-08-28 17:31

Firstly I love the graphics and the camera work when moving. It was really smooth and great to see. I didn't like the mechanics of simply button-mashing - it's tiring and not all that interesting. I would have preferred to have held down the appropriate button and then release it when the enemies came close.

Overall a pretty interesting game and well done on the smooth graphics!

keithe 2013-08-28 19:40

Great Job! I wish that i could combine running with spinning my staff. I was also a little confused when I had a period where run was in cooldown. I loved the ragdoll on the enemies.

christinaneofotistou 2013-08-28 21:36

Very nice on-rails brawler. Would like things to do between attacks, but cool gameplay idea

ratalaika 2013-09-01 11:26

good job