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| Criteria | Rank | Score* | Raw Score |
| Gameplay | #17 | 3.909 | 3.909 |
| NES Feel | #37 | 3.636 | 3.636 |
| Overall | #43 | 3.375 | 3.375 |
| Graphics | #48 | 3.500 | 3.500 |
| Audio | #84 | 2.455 | 2.455 |
Ranked from 22 ratings. Score is adjusted from raw score by the median number of ratings per game in the jam.
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Nice game!
The theming may have been Castlevania with the subweapons but it felt like I was playing a Mario game (not a bad thing), with the coin rooms and bullets and such lol
* I liked the art on the enemies and character! Cute!
* The lack of music made me very sad. Maybe there is free chiptune music or something somewhere, this game deserved a banger song!
* The rotated pixels when you die are kind of impossible for the NES, tho it's a bit nitpicky. They break the pixel grid and the NES couldn't really rotate sprites so a more realistic approach would have been having it be limited to maybe 4-8 sprited frames. Other than that and the modern particles though I think the game felt very NES!
* I think the secrets were very well placed, discovering them felt pretty natural, I was surprised!
* I liked the patterns you came up with for the final boss, I wish he moved around a little more or had some sort of introduction, I was surprised when he was the end of the game.
Nice entry overall, good work!
Thank you playing and I’m happy you enjoyed the game. Also yeah I agree music would’ve been nice next year I got to work with a composer. Thanks for the wonderful feedback and your game was really good.
Fun gameplay, enjoyed finding the secrets. Good pickup design in that stuff only dropped health or item charge if you had need for it, and otherwise gave points.
Wish it had music, but otherwise was pretty solid.
If I can add a slight critique with the level design, it'd be in the very last enemy stage before the boss. The point where you drop down with fireballs shooting in both directions has a bit of geometry that goes inwards at the bottom for no particular reason. I thought it might be hinting at a more subtle secret room, but I just fell to my death lol. The actual secret areas are well hinted at, but you might want to just make that a straight line down like the rest of the platforms to avoid curious folks like me plummeting to their doom xP
Game was quite enjoyable, the character art was very cute, gameplay was well balanced, nice work!
holy snap the gameplay is actually balanced. AWSOME
Yeah my entry leans a bit more on the easy side
yoo i had a lot of fun playing the game, i def liked the implementation of secrets and they are super hard to find or anything which is good, i managed (hopefully) to find all the secrets and managed to do a deathless run and got this score (down below), the art looks nice and the level design was pretty good too, although there weren't much going on with the audio (there wasn't any music sadly :') ) and the game could've been more, but that isn't anything big tbf,
the camera could be better by maybe not making it follow exactly the player perfectly yk especially when jumping (idk if i explained that well lol) you can look at super mario games for example (since i can see that you took some inspiration from there maybe lmao), but the last i'd say for faith is to "have some gad dam faith" ;) (ahem don't mind the reference :) )
happy to hear you enjoyed the game there are only 3 secret rooms in the game so if you found 3 you’re good. Also you better than me at this game I still never completed a deathless run😂. Also thanks for the critique about the camera someone else mentioned the same problem. I will look into the solution you suggested about making it work like Mario’s camera.
yeah i can tell you that the super mario games excuted the camera movement pretty well, but other than that you did a good job, and also yeah i did found all 3 secrets lol, they were nicely placed that you can see it but you'd have to think on how to get in there, which is good
I really loved your game, is not too dificult, not too easy, not too short, no too extense
Loved the secret zones, that was a really nice touch. Overall really fun!
thank you for trying my game and happy to hear you like the secrets
Solid game! Found 3 secret zones.
The only negative I can talk about is the camera movement and the room bounding boxes. Camera jumping alongside the player can be a bit eye-straining at times.
The movement is responsive, shooting and breaking stuff is fun, there's even items even though I only found the shield useful.
Good job!
Nice that you found all 3 secrets and the shield is my favorite too. I didn’t even thinks about that with the camera and how that could affect some players.
Very good! I only missed one song!
yeah I don’t really know how to make music. But I am still happy to hear that you like the game.
I love the spooky vibes of this one. Nailed the NES feel. I like the gameplay, audio, art and pretty much everything abt this! Tho i dunno how to use that boomerang crap, i found out that you can use it by pressing b+up, used it a couple o times but now i can't use it!
Thanks for the kind words and playing my game. As for the issue with the boomerang I will have to look into that. The boomerang does have a limit of only 2 on the screen at the same time.
nice game , i loved the easter eggs!
thanks for playing my entry and happy to hear you found the Easter eggs I put in.
I have to say, I'm a big fan of spooky themes and graveyards and such. I think the character design is great and I like the rolling eyeballs as an enemy. Overall, it was a pretty fun little game that hit the NES vibe. My one main critique would be that the sound effects are kinda hard on the ears at times, but other than that, I thought this was pretty cool :D
yeah I love graveyard and spooky themed things. Also I agree with the sound effect critique sfx and music are not my strong suit. But still happy to hear you like the game.
No worries because I'm very beginner-ey at making music and stuff too. For my game, I used two instruments for my whole song ;-;
Didn't expect to have that fun while disappearing in the map, I liked the freedom that game gave.
happy to hear you enjoyed the game
thanks for playing that would’ve been a cool mechanic if ghost couldn’t be hit I didn’t even think of that.
I spotted your game in the Most Recent games list ;). During my last run I found 3 secret rooms and ended with 122150 points.
The game is cool, I enjoyed it. It looks, sounds and plays like a NES game and I specially like the animations. It feels good to control, the 3 items are fun to use and the challenge is also fun in part due to the spikes killing you in one hit. Finally secrets always give me joy and in that case I like both how you need to find the hidden paths and the rooms themselves which are satisfying rewards.
Thanks for sharing!
happy you enjoyed my entry and I’m also a big fan of secrets in games so I happy to hear you enjoyed them.