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Purpose: Unknown

By frogravity

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CategoryRankScoreCount
Overall1973.5239
Fun2023.3339
Innovation2673.1639
Theme1873.5839
Graphics2703.2439
Audio2982.7938
Mood2283.2038

Comments

rillep 2019-10-07 10:22

Really nice use of the theme and I like how derpy the characters looked :)

griz 2019-10-07 10:43

It's a great game for your first entry. Camera could be moved a little further away to make the player know where he is and where to go around the level, but there are lots of weapons, battle animations and you've even added leveling. Well done, and welcome to the Ludum Dare community :).

coachsisyphus 2019-10-07 10:55

Is it weird that I love it? Because I love it.

washingmachinae 2019-10-07 11:04

Looks very polished for a first entry! Good job! A bit tedious, but I liked the theme :)

lumos 2019-10-07 11:11

Holy shit, this is the best game I've played so far. What's this? A _narrative?!_ HELL YEAH!

It's rather like Dark Souls; navigating Lordran is less confusing than this interconnected maze, and having your position reset when you run for a fight is a very clever allusion to the bonfires of the Souls series. The MIDI soundtrack takes me back 20-odd years, and is much better than the sorry excuses for audio that some people _(i.e. yours truly)_ rely on. The spin on the theme is also nothing short of ingenious.

On my mission to rip the tin cans a new one, after discovering Prof. Ihrenglass's (a name itself laced with subtly hidden meaning, as I'm sure you all can see) secret message pleading with me to save humanity, I accidentally encountered the final boss and tore it to bits with its own mega-laser. Good job, me, and great job, Frogman, for creating this fantastic entry!

baturinsky 2019-10-07 11:41

Nice (though not very original - learning from enemies were known at least since Final Fantasy 5) idea, but things are happening too slow to be fun for me.

apace 2019-10-07 11:45

This is nice. It's very refreshing that you did not decide to focus on either gameplay or narrative, but instead managed to put in both - some fun gameplay along with a story. Thanks for that!

someoneman 2019-10-07 15:40

Needs more weak enemies. I won 3 or 4 battles and every single other enemy was way overleveled for me. I don't know if I missed something.

randomnine 2019-10-07 16:54

Impressive! You've done a lot with 3D art here, the stealing mechanic is cute, and I like the story snippets and music you've added to round the game out. The whole thing comes together well. I found the world map tough to navigate - I couldn't remember where I'd been - but I ran into an end boss eventually, so it all worked out.

I love the weapon animations on the robot. A cute bit of polish that's really important for the concept.

kirbloid 2019-10-07 16:59

Pretty ambitious for a compo entry, and the 3d looks pretty cool for it. Exploring and battling was really engaging, and the style of the world was fun to poke around in.

lizelive 2019-10-08 04:11

your normals on the robots could use a bit of work. if you add a bevel modifier it would look quite a bit nicer. but i love this game.

odeyalko 2019-10-08 13:11

cool game, though beyond 4 opponents did not pass. It remains to polish and in production!

ventz 2019-10-08 17:15

Sweet game mechanics but I feel the music doesn't suit the game.

lombax 2019-10-08 20:12

nice game. didnt complete it, but it did feel like i understood how the game worked. gj. :dog:

frogravity 2019-10-13 10:02

Thank you, everyone, for your kind words! I really appreciate it!

As for the difficulty, after reading your comments and replaying the game, I realized that there really weren't enough weak enemies as @someoneman and @odeyalko said. I uploaded a fixed version, where some enemies are slightly weaker. The game should be more balanced now.

shaurya-juneja 2019-10-13 12:59

Nice game really liked the concept!

theyellowgreninja 2019-10-13 18:18

This is really fun! I got stuck once the only enemies left were the ones with the zapper guns, but it was fun right up until that point, and I'm pretty sure there was some way to get past I just didn't find. Really fun, great music, nice visuals, all in all a great game!

pixamentory 2019-10-14 16:53

“Impressive game, Very cool concepts. I left wishing that there is more. Had a lot of fun “

asfdfdfd 2019-10-14 18:10

It's incredible that you was able to create such big game in such short amount of time. Also I've missed minimap.

hyperscope 2019-10-14 22:10

First thing I noticed was the camera was a bit too zoomed in show off that nice environment art! Seems pretty ambitious for a COMPO entry although you obviously finished the game. I think we the idea scoped down you would be able to put more time/energy towards polish on the smaller details.

Overall really great work for only 48hrs!

hiroboto 2019-10-20 16:33

Hard to believe this is a compo game,,, incredible workload

zohar 2021-05-04 16:00

Fun game!