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From the Under

By damrem

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CategoryRankScoreCount
Coolness1100
Graphics814.24
Overall1543.55
Theme1753.55
Fun1763.33
Mood1783.50
Audio2953.22
Humor4362.41
Innovation5852.56

Comments

paraple-geek 2014-04-29 02:10

Awesome game!

davidc02 2014-04-29 04:27

It bugged out on me :~(

I was so far up. Great game.

vexille 2014-04-29 04:53

Feels weird that everythings hits from so far away! The beetle has crazy range.

Cool idea though, and very cool looking too!

tipyx 2014-04-29 10:58

Nice job ! I note so little problem however :
- When you hit and died, the arms stay in the air
- The hitBox of the entity are too big ! They must be less than the art :)
- Maybe a little too difficult in the beginning... :p

However, great job all of you o/

stencyltuo 2014-04-30 03:34

This one is a mixed bag. I really wanted to like it; it had a nice setup to it, and I liked how it used the theme. I also liked how the crystals found could be used to upgrade the hero for future attempts. However, the collision is so wonky in the game that I can't rate it too highly. My attacks seem to only go a short distance to the side whereas enemies seem to hit from above and below, as well as a longer range than me... makes the game frustrating and not a lot of fun to play. If that was improved, it would've had a a shot at the top... as it is, not so much.

tyruspeace 2014-04-30 03:39

Nice art, and I like the idea of upgrading your character after death repeatedly, but I couldn't find much of a groove in the combat. My weapon felt like it had pretty short range and the enemies could hit me from quite far away, which was especially hard to deal with when they were on platforms above me.

I liked the mood and setting!

paraple-geek 2014-04-30 08:39

I don't know why but kongregate didn't update the quick fix we made after the first submission, so here's a more playable version : http://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/638458

runvs 2014-04-30 13:24

Nice game and great graphics! :)

attractivenerd 2014-04-30 13:24

Excellent Mood!

monaarc 2014-04-30 13:29

Very nice game ! Good job :)

tititesouris 2014-04-30 13:32

Best game I've seen, really good job, props to the team! :D
Did encounter a couple bugs with collision, but eh, only had to kill myself once, and still had a lot of fun!

daskaund 2014-04-30 13:46

Great game !I love the concept of upgrading your hero at the beginning :)
i noticed that since the mobs respawn when you switch screen, you just have to stay between two screens and farm easily, and when you are on a platform and you press "S" the enemies goes bot too.

damrem 2014-04-30 13:55

Thanks for the reviews! Sadly we didn't had time to save the state of each screen or correct the "S" bug.

dustystylus 2014-05-01 10:39

Very good graphics and sound. Bit confused by level screen design, seemed to go into one, come back and it was different? Great production values though, well done.

simonld 2014-05-01 14:14

Saw this on TimTips stream, really nice!!

timtipgames 2014-05-01 14:19

Awesome visual style, great audio, controlls a little too floaty maybe but very addictive :)

xaychru04 2014-05-01 14:36

The animations are beautiful, I loved trying to go left at the beginning of the game! xD
The game was a bit repetitive, but I enjoyed it!

gamertaters 2014-05-03 10:12

Great game. Absolutely love the art style. Very fun. Love the upgrade system. Makes having to start over feel fair. Great work!

petrih 2014-05-03 10:17

Awesome!

theozone 2014-05-03 10:23

Nice graphics, sometimes the Crystals fall through the floor but I still got most of them.

01101101 2014-05-03 10:29

Pretty game , i really love the arts, But some little things are strange: Hitbox, mouse control, ... Maybe some music for the ambiance should be a good idea.
Good joke a the beginning !

fox_in_sox 2014-05-03 12:02

Nice platformer. Also very hard, but I get the idea behind the difficulty. Clearly a little isnpiration from Dark Souls.:)
You did a lot of work within this few days, I applaud. The only thing that bugs me is the jump animation though.

markusfisch 2014-05-03 13:16

Lovely graphics and very good animations. Very well done!

switchbreak 2014-05-03 13:27

This is awesome! Very difficult, I had a really hard time hitting the flying enemies. I love the sprites and the sound, the smooth skeletal animation looked super cool.

jtrencsenyi 2014-05-03 13:35

Good game!

lyje 2014-05-03 13:38

Lovely Rogue Legacy inspired title - graphics and sound are great but I found the gravity to be a little floaty for my liking. Otherwise - love roguelike permadeath games and any twist on the genre is welcome!

dector 2014-05-03 14:00

Like your art.

lafie 2014-05-03 19:12

This game looks and sounds fantastic on every front. The theme is also very present in the story and visuals.
The gameplay is a little awkward though. The movement feels floaty and imprecise and the combat is not very engaging, likely because of the lack of weight to the attacks.
Combat against the ground enemies was otherwise fine, but I frequently felt cheated by the flying enemies, which can hit the player constantly killing you before you can even react.

kimau 2014-05-03 19:16

Because Radations :P
Really fun, great art and overall solid. The jumping felt very floaty, and attacking was a bit iffy. Levelling up was a nice touch.

stvr 2014-05-03 19:52

Really fun, though a bit floaty. The biggest problem was that just about every run, I would fall through the floor and then be stuck in another room, so I had to restart. It's a shame!

terraco 2014-05-04 05:39

Not bad. Keep it up.

konrad-zegis 2014-05-04 10:57

Nice game, it reminds me Captain Claw and Jazz Jack Rabbit :)

Upgrading hero after every death is funny idea, but I'd remake upgrade screen. It's quite confusing that to start the game I need to push proper key, I navigate by keyboard and then... bah! Mouse control.

Sometimes when I entered new room I fell down one screen without hero. Only moving camera was possible.

I really liked random generated levels. It was quite fun to approach high-level beetles only to find 1 and 2nd 'noob' monsters in next few screens :D

oddly-shaped-pixels 2014-05-04 11:34

Impressive art and overall content. Gameplay is a bit frustrating though. As mentioned, weapon range is way too small and makes the game really difficult.

anissen 2014-05-04 15:29

Great game, very addictive! I loved the theme + graphics :)

godeatgod 2014-05-05 06:22

Great start for a game. Just a couple of bugs that you need to squash

csanyk 2014-05-05 20:58

Very well done. I wished I had better weapon.

joe40001 2014-05-05 21:52

Looks great, plays pretty well, minor bugs only. Great work guys.

teesquared 2014-05-17 17:40

The upgrade system really works. Kept me playing until I finished. Nice all around game and good story. Very funny lines at the entrance.

copain 2014-05-19 20:25

nice animations and sound ambiance.
But I made an out of bound during a screen change...

degtyarev 2014-05-19 20:35

Art is really cool!