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Death In One Stroke

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CategoryRankScoreCount
Overall184.01
Fun24.24
Coolness357
Graphics1223.82
Mood1243.45
Innovation1353.53
Theme2463.34
Audio2952.90
Humor3702.55

Comments

lordjosephdeburg 2013-12-15 22:24

Super fast! Super cool! great concept for theme

ossah 2013-12-16 02:23

I'm with Joe on this one! Love the pixel art.
Great entry.

2013-12-16 03:21

This game is really addicting and fun. I wish I thought of this conecpt

apoorvaj 2013-12-16 10:28

Fluid gameplay. That was fun.

primaerfunktion 2013-12-16 10:29

This is awesome. It's super fun to play and looks fabulous.

geti 2013-12-16 10:29

Really nice, great feeling to the game, though at times i felt like "aw bull, i totally hit that guy" ;)

smitty333 2013-12-16 10:30

Very Cool!

kar 2013-12-16 10:41

Great game! Slicing enemies is super fun:) And you can also slice multiple enemies at once.

pereubu 2013-12-16 10:57

There's an awesome feeling that gets this game beyong the awesome. Great job, I'd love to see more content in such an addictive game.
add screenshake and more blood :D

tao 2013-12-16 11:15

Very fluid, fast paced. Only thing that would make it better would be a score counter.

latfoued 2013-12-16 12:57

Absolutly amazing game. the idea, graphics and gameplay are very good and addictive.

aneeslol 2013-12-16 13:58

Very stylish!

scottrick 2013-12-16 13:59

Nice work! I killed 15 samarai (on a track pad).

weazen 2013-12-16 14:00

Awesome job with the theme! Very hard with trackpad!

chicknstu 2013-12-16 14:00

Great little toy there. The only thing that felt a bit off about the controls was that it was constantly walking. I'd rather have been able to choose when i was walking or slashing (Maybe twin stick).

I loved the way you always knew you were done for a microsecond before it happens. I imagine it's the same with real ninjas :)

Good stuff. Top score 22.

masadow 2013-12-16 14:01

Very fun, great concept !

It is just missing combos so you will have to cut many with one stroke instead of killing them separately.

turna 2013-12-16 14:05

Really quick and fun! Quite similar with the theme of my games, but with less blood :D
Will be better if there are highscore table/achievement unlcoked for this games.

raphy 2013-12-16 14:10

Fluid, simple but really efficient gameplay, well done ! I killed around 25 ennemies :D

rezoner 2013-12-16 14:48

Love the dynamics

coblynau 2013-12-16 14:56

Excellent! Very innovative attack style, just needs music, well done! :)

conormn 2013-12-16 17:02

Great job. Hope you keep going with it!

niroshido 2013-12-16 23:42

This is an awesome game, the speed of the game and the style in general are great, brilliant entry.

01010111 2013-12-16 23:47

Very addictive gameplay! My top score was 17, I'm glad no one is posting like 200 because I felt like I was really bad at it. Really great art and movement.

deity 2013-12-17 01:15

Fun game. I liked the graphics and animations.

The ninja seems to miss enemies while lunging sometimes though (or I'm timing the lunges incorrectly).

2013-12-17 05:29

Absolutely loved this game, great idea and simple controls. Me and my friends played it for about a hour straight.

Proud to say my high score is 96.

acheronstudio 2013-12-17 05:46

God this game is so good! Fun and addicting.

murilo 2013-12-17 14:10

Nice little game! I couldn't go past around 15 kills. Not sure it was bad collision or if it requires great accuracy to slash the ninjas. And the art is great!

xaedes 2013-12-17 18:22

Fast game had much fun! I want highscore! =)

thecams 2013-12-17 19:18

Simple and nice gameplay. It's fun to try to align the ennemies to make combos, kind of risk and reward mecanics :)

finefin 2013-12-17 19:46

awesome game! sticks perfectly to the theme and is addicting as potato chips! 5/5!

sonnybone 2013-12-19 00:22

This is the most fun I've had with an LD entry. Very very awesome and simple core mechanic that works wonderfully with the theme. Sprites are charming and the blood/slash is satisfying especially when racking up a nice chain of kills.

Great job!

timkaldor 2013-12-19 18:07

I have to say that was the only LD game so far that I would actually play by choice, would love to see it fleshed out with bonus points for chaining kills and the like, but a great theme-related base mechanic really well executed. Only problems I encountered were continually clicking off-screen(cant help that in browser) and once I had a lot of enemies on screen, it felt like collision detection wasn't fully working. I got 123 kills!

syawqy 2013-12-20 08:26

cool ninja sword slashing action!!!

cdgugler 2013-12-21 07:47

Really fast and fun! I like it

jimmypaulin 2013-12-21 19:53

This was excellent! The FEEL was spot on, the pace, the difficulty .. the juicy particles and lovely clear graphics all conspired to make a compelling experience … 22 was my best, playing on a trackpad ;)

bitslap 2013-12-22 00:47

Awesome idea, i like fast replays.

psychomonster 2013-12-22 03:35

This is definitely the smoothed and most funniest games I played so far this LD. It is fast, it got style, it looks awesome... there is not a single second of boredom!

tijmentio 2013-12-23 13:58

Pretty sweet. Could use some audio, juiciness and content. But what you have is solid!

anvoz 2013-12-24 12:58

It's pretty addicting. I really love the slashing actions. My top score was 24.

kgs0142 2013-12-26 05:27

The hit and bleeding effects are cool!

gfm 2013-12-28 03:26

This game feels so good.
It's simple, intuitive, fun and polished? What else does it need? (perhaps a combo system for multi-kills... and a better ranking system XD)

The controls are spot on! Moving and slashing are really precise and fun! The slashing sfx just add up to everythin!

And man... I'd thought the graphics are great... but then I noticed the shadows! The graphics are amazing!

Awesome job! :D

xrm0 2013-12-30 13:20

Very well executed and nice graphics

somepx 2013-12-31 14:06

A great entry man, 100% fun! So smooth, it's impossible to stop playing! ;)

tnerb 2013-12-31 19:03

Really great concept it's so much fun.

mmickyman 2014-01-03 22:17

WERI FUNN I LAIK ITS GAM I WAOUL BY IT IF IT KOST MONAI



Oups... sorry I got a fun stroke. I was very pleased to play this, it's fun at the start when you dash back and forth eheh.

beavlgames 2014-01-04 03:21

Great fast paced little game. Love the just-one-stroke-to-kill-or-get-killed whole thing, it fits the theme perfectly. And hey, post compo version is looking good too! Congrats on this!

bradleysmith 2014-01-04 21:41

Cracking gameplay mechanic! A lot of fun, rated this very highly. Impressive work for just 48 hours!

xhunterko 2014-01-06 08:56

Other then the aiming being off by a bit it felt really neat!

crockid5 2014-01-07 20:06

Can't believe this won, doesn't even fit the theme.