Really good entry. Lots of interesting mechanics and good puzzles with no waste. I felt smart when I put the crate on the pressure plate. I really like how the level design makes the front door a "right there" map shortcut when I first open it. Each area I spent a lot of time in because that's what it took to complete it. It reminds me of the old really good Quake maps where you see an area but you don't know how you're going to get to all the cool spots and then the game pays it off letting you solve puzzles to get there. Really a good entry!

The intro was wonderful, and the closing as well!  Very nice look down telegraphing before actually jumping down, made it easy to see when I was leaping down into danger.  The Flyer I found early seemed overpowered compared to most weapons I found later, although with the randomness in damage it was a little hard to tell.  Combat was a little uninteresting (except when they had ranged attacks I could dodge), but felt solid enough.  Gaining max HP from collecting new items is a really nice mechanic, rewards me for exploring everything even if the items are useless =).    More items = more fun!  Very nice visuals and atmosphere, it was fun to explore.

Oh really nice work! The movement system was really well done. Someone else said the vertically doesn't add much but I thought it was a really good addition, made the exploring more fun! 

I noticed you were trying to give it a little bit of edge or crass to it like I did with my own project but I felt yours was too little (While most think mine was too whole hog). 

I think I shared some of the same complaints as other people though;

• Too many items (It's not cleaning up a mess if I am required to drop items when I run out of inventory space and create more mess xD ) 
• Ghost girl "Dirt" hint is not really a good hint at all 
• When going down the well it places you at the rooms other entry not the ladder

Anyway really good game, good work :) 

One of the only games I actually managed to finish :) It was quite intuitive even though there were a loooot of items and it ended up being the flyer that was the most op weapon (for some reason). Some nice little story, I didn't understand the use of wipping blood until I actually needed healing and saw you can heal by... drinking blood?

Anyways, nice little game, a bit frustrating on the movements but still correct :)

The intro cutscene of the game is pretty cool.  Graphics look great especially considering all of that was done by only one person.  Love the dithering effect. The full moon night and all that athosphere feels great complimented with the nice ambience sound. The graphics of the game reminded me of Ultima: Underworld a lot, especially item images. The parkouring is quite innovative for a crawler game, i haven't seen it implemented on another crawler before. Although as far as i've seen it doesn't affect the gameplay too much in the current stage of the game. You can find some common items and you use to get to the cultists base at the other side of the river. 

I find the inventory system confusing and not very intuitive. There are no consumable items. For example you need to equip healing potion when you want to heal yourself. In the inventory it shows we have 5 potions but after i use one, it always go back to 5. I don't understand this. Also there are too many items for a jam game. I found too many weapons with same stats. Most of the items we find aren't that useful but i appreciate the variety of items you added to the game.

The combat is not very engaging and mostly easy but doesn't feel bad either. We can spam arrows on enemies from a very far distance and  this doesn't aggro them. So shooting arrows feels kinda cheesing the game. There is a bug which when you stand on the same tile with the enemy, you can't hit them. You're not supposed to be on the  same tile with them but sometimes when you get down from a higher ground or something it can happen.

Some things in the game felt crpytic to me, dind't understand what to do and i got stuck in the game, finding myself running in circles at some point. For example what's the deal with the Ghost Girl? I trapped her soul into the soul gem but then what? What am i supposed to do with it? I got stuck in the cultist base. I entered the big building then hit a dead end. There is another bug on the roof of that big building. If you try to walk down the ledge behind the roof, you don't fall down but start walking in the air.

I think overall it's  a very impressive game which was made in 9 days, art, coding, level design etc. all done by a single person. Climbing/ parkouring mechanics and the gorgeous visuals really make it stand out among the other great games in the jam.

Really nice! I got stuck but was enjoying the parts I played.

Atomosphere worked well.

Sometimes it seemed like combat wasn't working as I expected (although overall seemed to work very well) so I think I wasn't understanding something there.

I like how many verbs you have in the game and how you work with elevation in the maps. It does make them come to life quite a bit.

There are a host of things to pick up too, but there, I think starts my problems. I didn’t quite understand the split in the inventory, why some slots had numbers and others don’t. I got the feeling that a big part was just picking up stuff which meant no real reason to keep reading their info. Also especially since the system confused me and there seemed to only be two slots that did things to my available actions. That meant quest items maybe got stuck there and in that big heap there really wasn’t a way to try which interacts with what. And since people would go through their standard loop if you interacted with the wrong thing, it taught me not to do that.

The movement felt a bit sluggish at times and so did the fights, due to excessive queuing up and not clearing queues when bumping into things or fights ended. But the jumping and scaling and peaking over ledges was really neat.

I was also a bit fumbling grasping the world. Why did we end up at a smuggler’s den after being shipwrecked? Why was there a village just outside and everyone was fine with it? I’m not saying the questions need be answered questions, but it might have been part in becoming lost and not knowing where to continue.

Play-through (but I accidentally had chromium muted so I got no game sounds):

Nice game!

I made it.  I think the removal of blood on the walls were purely optional thing, but not sure.

There is a lot of items in the game, but they do little to the gameplay I think. Maybe a bit to many for a short jam game as this. Also having quests might be a bit of a stretch unless they are very streamlined with the completion of the game, which is semi done here I think.

The option to allow player to jump over gaps, and climb up stuff could have been implemented more and used throughout the game in a more indept fashion or maybe scrapped totally in favor of other gameplay mechanics.

I liked the option to have armory slots and inventory and being able to move stuff in and out of it. Its a cool mechanics which I think should be used more often. There is fun inventory management and there is non-fun management, this is the fun one :)

Game has a good length as a jam game though. Combat is a bit to easy so it kinda gets spammed to completion for efficiency. I was never in any danger of dying, net even in the end.

Thank you!

Wow, this is real neat!

Played up until you find the villager’s runaway daughter, but wasn’t sure how to progress from there.

I wish there was a bit more depth/difficulty to the combat, but there’s only so much you can do with a limited jam.

I also think I found a bug with combat: I was using the spells with a passive equipped in the off hand, and punching with the off-hand would often cast the spell for free (but not every time).

the box blocks ur menu for some reason, the parour, artstyle, gameplay are all great! Didn't understand the storyline a little tho but that's just me, i got stuck at carryring the  blocking menu crate of doom and despair up

The parkour mechanics were really interesting, did not expect it in a dungeon crawler! I think my only major gripes were hp regen being totally busted, the pressure plate rooms that others have commented about (I just randomly walked on the tiles after running around looking for the switch), and the crossbow being to OP for the boss fight (I didn't get hit).

Overall really solid submission! I know from our submission that adding all of those items and stats was for sure a pain! LOL

Very polished and enjoyable game with a dazzling array of objects to collect!

The visually varied 3D maze combined with the climb/jump mechanic makes this world a lot more interesting to explore than a standard 2D dungeon. Love the gotcha puzzle elements; I spent a while wondering how to get the first crate up to the higher level before realising there was a second crate :-)  

Also appreciate that following resurrection, my inventory is intact (phew!)

Must mention the audio, simple but atmospheric! Love the use of the single drip FX to add atmosphere, big benefit for a small use of memory.

No real criticism, just a minor bug report for the web version on Firefox: sometimes during combat, the item I use first (say '1') is then used for subsequent attacks, even though I am selecting the other item (i.e. '2'). Rectifies itself after a few rounds, so not a big problem... I just cast a few more fire attacks than I intended :-) 

Awesome game!

I love the look of the levels, feels really organic. Some cool secrets too. Nice Troll 2 protagonist haha. Is the flyer the best melee weapon in the game??

Man I don't know where to start, please make a full game. Only real complaint is that I can't just hold the attack/spell button to auto spam it. I love the inventory and equipment system, and the sheer amount of loot was impressive. The only real issues I had was figuring out the floor switch puzzle with the tiles on the wall, and being able to climb outside the map in the ruins. Also love the little parkour flair you added.
Anyway the game was a blast awesome job!

Saved the hero! For the positives, the drawings are funny, the verticality is awesome, the collecting loot to power up is great! For the negatives, I think the lighting are too dark, and the torches didn't help much. My dumb ahh didn't notice that there are 10 rows of inventory so I threw out lots of items. Also I think I wouldn't get to the boss without a guide, especially the stepping plates in the cultist room (I read the comments first), Cool game!

Wow! There is nothing I didn't love about your game! The art looks absolutely gorgeous, I loved the illustrations, the humor, the verticality of the level design, the lighting... And so much loot, not just for stats but for gameplay style, too. I didn't get lost, everything felt really intuitive. 

Fantastic work!

Incredible game! Love nearly everything with it. Everything feels really polished, and I loved the small thing of adding verticality to levels. Really fun to play :)!

Great game! Interesting combat and item combinations, funny story and drawings. More will follow in my video.
Just for everyone looking this up for hints:
There is a room in the Cultist House with a door you can only open with a "mechanism". You need to run onto two pressure plates within the room. But these are not visible, so unless you walk there by accident. you might not find them. Just walk around in that room on every tile. I didnt see that, then looked up the video by Zoltan Kosina and he solved it without even realizing why the door opened. ^^

I love the verticality in the the level design and the combat feels great. The whole thing feels very polished. Great job!

Well done. I enjoyed the puzzling, fighting, and overall feel and look of the game. I just wish I could of held all the items because it was fun playing around with the different combinations of passives but hard choices had to be made :)