Judge feedback

Judge feedback is anonymous.

• Cool soundtrack and main menu, really sets the tone! Initial text box feels weird uncentered. The transparent red box around the UI doesn’t quite fit with the rest of the visual style. Townsfolk hints should stay until I leave their proximity, allow time for the player to read and digest, and for them to decide when they’re done. Camera feels good off the bat. Could perhaps ease in/out of movement a bit more, but feels immediately cinematic. Click and drag would be cool to have for ease of player movement. Dashing feels a little weird going off the player’s direction rather than mouse location. I’m interested in buying wares, but don’t seem to have the option. If I’m proposed to do something, it would be nice to have the option to do it. Healing well vfx colour mismatch, is health red or green in this game? Tree branches aren’t fully masked, can see the square cards. Should check whether a mouse click has hit the ground or not. Pressing the top of the lamppost leaves my hero continually running towards it. Enemy number very quickly ramps up, am I supposed to just walk past them? Can run past all enemies on way to golem. Could be fun to play with traversing around enemies to avoid conflict. Lifesteal is maybe a little generous. The battles go 200% my way without needing to retreat. Enemies could return to their spots/split up after I go out of range to incentivise more strategic play Didn’t realise I had to hold the number and press at first, instructions just say to press the number key. Having to alternate each blow is perhaps a little excessive, maybe after 3 hits or so, otherwise I’m always going to cycle 1, 2, 3, 1, 2, 3. Shield seems a bit useless too? I managed to beat the game without ever picking it up. Could tie the shield in with the combat for sure! What reason is there to dash? Some AoE attacks could help warrant it. Dash did seem to help me beat the final boss, but I don’t really know why. Am I invincible while dashing? Did it just help me reposition around the boss well? Would be good to tell the player why/when to use dash. No healing before the golem is a bit rough, or even no health regen. Would’ve been nice to see another one of those wells near the boss arena, that’s for sure! A more interesting boss arena could be fun, maybe some more feedback on his attacks too as he has such a large weapon. When that thing hits the ground you want to see dust flying! Great foundation to expand on, and bring in more mechanics and concepts! Cool art and visuals all round! Nice player feedback when attacking enemies, good sfx and vfx. Really great work, and I would look forward to seeing this expanded and refined should you choose to do so! --- The core mechanic of Goblin Blade - switching between three different attacks - seems interesting, but isn't explored very thoroughly. Each attack seemed to be more or less identical to me, so in every fight I was basically just mashing the mouse and tapping 1,2,3,2,1,2,3 between hits. I think there is something there, but the player needs to have a reason to switch to or from a specific attack at a specific time. I didn't run into any major bugs, which was good, and it was a nice change to see a 3D game in a game jam - well done on being ambitious! My suggestions for future development, if you are looking to polish this up into a portfolio piece, are 1: Make the attacks feel different in a meaningful way. 2: Reduce the number of enemies the player encounters at once, spread them out a bit more and try to make each encounter feel different. 3: Change the mechanics for the golem boss so that the player doesn't have to run back to town to heal in the middle of the fight - it's really flow-breaking.