Foon → Ludum Dare Explorer → LD52 → Reaper
| Category | Rank | Score | Count | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Overall | 369 | 3.54 | 24 | |
| Fun | 354 | 3.45 | 23 | |
| Innovation | 751 | 2.54 | 23 | |
| Theme | 694 | 3.09 | 23 | |
| Graphics | 144 | 4.20 | 24 | |
| Audio | 134 | 3.77 | 24 | |
| Humor | 567 | 2.46 | 18 | |
| Mood | 251 | 3.69 | 23 |
You weren't joking when you said the game was brutal! Those creepers are so damn fast. It's all about finding a good chokepoint to kill them before they can get in behind you. It feels good to play though and I like the music and the visuals, it's a nice game to look at. I wish the powers dropped a bit more often because I only managed to get one. Wpwz4pP.png Also the score didn't reset for me, but not a huge deal.
Incredibly hard, I got overrun by creepers almost immediately. Something about the scythe swing timings was just off for me.
The scythe swings a fraction of a second after you press the button, so you have to attack slightly early to account for winding up before you swing.
The games visuals got me excited, it looks great. But the gameplay didn't deliver it.
With the games current state enemies just clump and walk towards you, eventually you don't have any platforms to jump to and you go back and forth to press attack. Not so fun to play.
Could be super fun if it was like fruit ninja, enemies jump at you from all directions and you dodge with dash, move around platforms, slash them like if they were fruits :)
There is this one platform further to the right where creepers will mostly attack from the left. That was the only spot where I could stand still xD I also thought that it would have been nicer if there were more ways to dodge creepers because otherwise it feels like you can hardly defend yourself properly. But the graphics and music were pretty nice :) bad.gif
"Easy" is not easy at all as for me :)
Ooft I got rekt hahaha overall a pretty cool game tho! Really nice visuals :) I wonder if you could get a AI bot to play it
Ps love the devlogs :)
I really love your game. The graphics look so polished which I think is really impressive considering the limited time. I also like the sound design a lot. It is nothing very special but it works well because the sound effects worked with the music. All in all: A well polished game with pretty graphics and arcade gameplay. I like it! :D
Very fun and polished game, feels like those old arcade games in a few ways. Firstly, the artstyle and sound effects fit very well together. And secondly, the jam version is brutally hard :)). I can definetly relate to that, since I also end up sometimes with games nobody else can play due to lack of playtesting. If you want to continue working on it, it would be nice to have more types of enemies, or a guide to what each power up does.
The art style and music is really great, I can easily see this game on retro arcade machines. The gameplay (especially in easy mode :D) seems solid. Maybe we would like to see a dash ability or something like that, because creepers can corner you and it can be difficult to get out of such a situation. Overall a great game! Well done!
I'll put a list in the description of what each power-up does. I think some of them are pretty intuitive, but I was wondering if a couple of them weren't immediately clear.
Gosh this game piss off with atmosphere ! I love challenges, it gave me Vampire Survivor vibe.
I enjoy the smooth, fast-paced gameplay, and the graphics really fit well together.
For me, hard mode was much too hard, but at the same time very motivating to try again and again... easy mode on the other hand, was a bit too easy, and felt less fun in a way.
It's a pity that I could not distinguish the different powerups - now that I see them on the screenshots, I see that they look differently, but during all that high speed action they mostly looked the same, and only after something like 30 power ups I got one that looked so different that I noticed it.
Love love love the art and music, right up my street! Like others I found the game very hard but appreciated that you added an easier version for those of us that lacked the skills 😁
Very well executed 2d HacknSlash.
This is a really well put together game stylistically, sound, music, art, but gameplay wise it falls a little bit in that either feels incredibly difficult or incredibly easy (if you stand in a particular place in the game, the AI bugs out a bit and you get only a few of them attacking you at once instead of the absolute swarm you get otherwise)
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It became a little more doable once you'd stayed in one place for a while and the powerups had dropped and you could recuperate a bit, but I didn't actually realise when I was playing that there were powerups that did anything except restore health, so having that be a little clearer as @lenaschimmel already mentioned :)
Nice work!