hatchet 2018-12-04 21:18
I'm always stunned how people can make their games look so visually amazing in such a short period of time. Great work everyone!
Foon → Ludum Dare Explorer → LD43 → After Hours: A Reverse Metroidvania
By mattwoelk, kaiclavier, rebecca-kremer and julianbeutel
| Category | Rank | Score | Count | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Overall | 161 | 3.86 | 53 | |
| Fun | 324 | 3.50 | 53 | |
| Innovation | 91 | 3.84 | 52 | |
| Theme | 266 | 3.84 | 53 | |
| Graphics | 151 | 4.21 | 54 | |
| Audio | 114 | 3.86 | 52 | |
| Humor | 255 | 3.38 | 46 | |
| Mood | 227 | 3.68 | 51 |
I'm always stunned how people can make their games look so visually amazing in such a short period of time. Great work everyone!
Great game, looks wonderful, the soundtrack fits right into it. You should think about making it for Nintendo Switch :)
Odd, but cool art style!
Nice graphical design and it makes a lot fun!
Audio is very fun) How did you make such a TV effect?
Played it, finished it, and it was a real fun game. Also very good looking for 3 days work!
Like how those hints were everywhere.
I've made a metroidvania game a few LDs ago, but this one looks so great I might go learn unity for the 3d effects.
Well done!
It was hard to decide on order :D, removed lava boots three times. The walking speed was a bit fast for me to me to jump on little plaforms but combined with the sound effect it was fun to walk around. Visual style is awesome and fanfare was cool. It's also funny how the sound for acquiring an itme plays each time
Really solid game, nice graphics and good controls. The reverse metroidvania concept worked well, and I like the clear Metroid inspiration. Good job!
I Really like the concept of reverse metroidvania. Graphics are successful, controls are smooth and the main theme is catchy. Great work!
Well done! I like the CRT effect, and the music is spot on.
An interesting game with a kind of mechanics. I put a rating) Please rating and me, thanks in advance)
I love the visuals ! The gameplay is nive too
A real work on level design. A good idea with solid graphics. In sum: Pleasant to play
Nice entry
the visuals were very good and the platforming was solid. I didn't know you could hit space to skip the dialog when picking up or dropping something, so that felt a little long, but after I figured that out it was fine. really cool submission. The theme fit well in a less in-your-face way. I liked it.
Liked the concept, thought it's going to be action-y but it turned out to be a very cool puzzle game :)
Maybe I mis-read something, but I think one of the "hint givers" told me that I need to return lava boots last, and it really messed me up - I spent a lot of time trying to find an alternate way to reach the lava boots guy without using the double jump. Was that supposed to misdirect the player or did I read the information incorrectly?
Anyway, I really enjoyed beating this puzzle. Starting out I thought it would be frustrating to figure out the order, but after walking around the station for a while I got to know it pretty well, and it was very satisfying when I got the order correct.
Graphics were great as well.
I liked working through which pieces needed to be sacrificed in which order to make it out. There was a cool mix of 3D and 2D elements. The screen transitions and map really took me back to 1986 in a good way. Nice entry!
@matank yeah sorry about the clues mix-up... there were changes to the level design after I had done the clues that borked them up a bit. :'(
The use of the theme is really cool(especially since I'm a fan of Metroid) and the graphics look really good, reminds a lot of Octopath Traveler. I also really like the music references to Metroid. It's pretty hard for me to play it though since I'm running it on a really weak PC, and the graphics settings don't seem to actually lower anything except maybe AA. The item jingles also feel very off since the music keeps playing in the background, and they also feel a little long. I also noticed that the character often walks in place for no apparent reason.
Really fun game. I don't like playing games, but this one was special. I think that this game should get more attention.
Cool to see another team doing something similar, I did a reverse Zelda! The concept is good, but I have some nitpicks with how the game plays. The screen effect doesn't really do anything for me, and felt more distracting then good. Similarly, the way that the camera snaps to "rooms" didn't feel great to play and would be harder to make then a more simple following camera, It felt like even more of a restriction then even the original metroid had where it could scroll either left-right or up-down. That said, I like the very metroidy vibe from the audio and mood, that was all done really well. I like how you used the concept as a way to create a puzzle spanning the whole map, though the hints didn't really help out to much as I couldn't know where the abilities were until I found them already. Good job to the whole team!
This is such a clever idea! I love it. Nobody ever considers the effort that goes into cleaning up behind the Hero, haha. Thank you also for letting us see the whole area, that is helpful! The audio and art is very charming and the game is written with a sympathetic sense of humor. I had a lot of fun!
I adore everything about this game! The art, sound design, level design, it's all on point. I especially love the musical allusion to Metroid. Nice work :D
I love the look of this game, but it feels a bit to closely zoomed in for my taste. Other than that it's a great concept and great execution.
Idea was really good, and the graphics and level design was perfect. Unfortunately, it lagged a lot and the controls were really unresponsive, which led to frustration whilst backtracking. If not for this, the game would've been a fun to play and original idea.
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i had some trouble with the controls but overall a very solid game -- your team did great work -- thanks for making this game
Really fun. I enjoyed the retro style with the TV filter and the distortion. It brought back good memories.
In particular, I enjoyed a lot trying to figure out the right approach to solving the level in question. It took me a few times backtracking to figure it out.
I was a bit confused by the parts of the map that weren't on the minimap - but it looks like they were just little hint zones. The only thing that would've made this better is if the gun had actually been used for fighting enemies or anything like that, but it was just a glorified door opener.
The other thing I was confused about was the... beetle... things? They gave a hint about Lava being the last to drop off... but I couldn't make that happen, so I had to go about it a different way. Either way, solved it and had a good time playing through.
Great job with the aesthetic, the music, everything. The air control/platforming could probably be tightened up a little bit, but it was still fun, all in all!
Solid game! Interesting mechanics, challenging gameplay but not too hard, gorgeous art style. Maybe a bit too easy but still a perfect entry for this jam. Congratulations!
Good work. A bit too much backtracking though.
Very nice game! Very nice graphics too! So would you like to try mine too? https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/43/kinoko-no-kagi
Oh wow. I had a blast, and for three days work this is really amazing!
This was really good! I love the music and the visual effects, even if I had to run it in 720p windowed mode on the lowest quality setting because my laptop sucks xD I love the concept as well, having to run through and put everything back once the protagonist has finished the game. The platforming is very forgiving, letting you stand on a platform even if you're about a pixel to the left, which is handy for some of the trickier jumps like the route to the Pulse Gun.
I have a couple of little niggles, though. I feel like the jingle that plays when you pick up or put down an item goes on for a bit too long, especially at the start when you're hearing it four times in a row in rapid succession. The control scheme also felt a bit weird - Space to jump, and Ctrl to shoot? - but since the Pulse Gun is only needed in a couple of areas, it's not such a major issue.
I couldn't figure out how you were supposed to do the Lava Boots last without the Double Jump, so I didn't beat it, sadly, but I'll try dropping them off the other around and see if I can beat it. Overall, good work!
Cool idea with the reverse metroidvania! 5/5 for innovation :)
Thanks for submitting the game to our stream =) WAs real fun playing. Looking forward to hearing from you next LD :p
@f1krazy Hey thanks for playing and for the thoughtful review! Yeah we were kind of stepping on each-other's toes in terms of controls and level design, so for example I had done the hints on the Saturday which told the player to return the lava boots last, but on the Monday the design was changes so you need to return the High Jump last... sorry about that.
And also you can skip the jingle with space ;P
@rebecca-kremer Ah, didn't realise you could skip the jingle! I tried a couple of different buttons but I must not have tried Space, thanks for the heads-up!
The item pickup jingle was a bit annoying, like others are saying. Could have probably had some sort of instruction 'space to continue'? It also felt weird that this tutorial took place in front of a bright sign 'take pride in your work'. The brightness of this made it difficult to read the information that the tutorial was providing. It was even harder to read the pink/purple text. I also found it weird that that despite the non-linear design of the game, you were ultimately forced to take a single path. I would have appreciated a restart button / control, since there was a degree of puzzle-solving in the game, and once I realised I was wrong, would have liked to restart. Restart functions are nice whenever there is the opportunity to go wrong.
I quite liked the music, but it did get a wee bit repetitive. I liked the reverse Metroidvania idea; it works very well. The graphics are quite nice, but in my opinion, you slightly overdid the post-processing stack. Nice game, with a good deal of polish.
really liked your idea and the concept of the game. Graphics are great too. With some polishment this could be a great game, I hope you continue the development. Good work!
This is a really fun idea and a fun game ! It might be too simple, and backtracking because you deposited the wrong item might be annoying but this is definitely the most polished and visually great game I've played so far ! Congratulations, I'd love to see a complete version of this game.
Hey Flightyfelon! Thanks for submitting your game for me to play on my livestream!
If you'd like to rewatch the playthrough, you can find it here: https://www.twitch.tv/videos/346057870?t=01h31m
Good luck on your ratings, see you next LD! :D
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You guys put a lot of effort here! First of all: metroidvania is an AMAZING genre to work with and you guys made an amazing job with this. I loved the art and the game idea as well. So congratultions!