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Update: finished it! The art and carpet mechanics were great additions!

By the way, what does the white countdown on screen actually indicate?

This is probably one of my favorite games I've played in the Jam yet! Great art design, music, and sound effects, a super creative interpretation of the prompt, and really tightly designed puzzles. I think the only thing stopping me from giving this fives across the board is that I'm hard stuck on level 12 right now so I don't know how the narrative ends (no spoilers!)

There are a lot of games here that are about completing some sort of task under a time limit, but this one asking you to be super precise makes it evil in the best way possible. It's a lot of fun figuring out the layout of the land and how to traverse quickly, and the gameplay is super tense too.

This game also looks way better than a game about moving two pngs around has any right to. It's a bunch of little things, like how the score pops in with particles or how the camera responds to your movements, that add up to a visual design that exceeds the sum of it's parts. I will definitely be coming back to this one at some point.

It was pretty fun learning the attack patterns of each enemy, even though it took me an embarrassingly long time to realize you can block :p

the shooting feels pretty weird, there's a bit of delay between when you click and when you shoot and it also barely registers whenever you actually hit something.

Absolutely insane art direction and sound design throughout the whole thing, super charming overall. Time slowing down as the clock runs out is aesthetically really cool and portrayed really well, but it also does kind of make it so that it feels like you lose a fair bit before it actually hits zero, since after a certain point you just move too slowly to get anywhere.

Game looks and sounds great (I love love LOVE the little comic at the start), though it feels like a bit of a missed oversight that the count himself doesn't really have any sound effects for his attacks.

The gameplay feels a little underdeveloped, I gotta say. You have a super meter, but the super takes kind of a while to come out and parrying doesn't seem to guarantee you'll have enough time to do it. Some of the count's animations also feel a little bit muddy, there's an attack where he hits on beats 2 and 4 which looks really similar to an attack where he hits on beat 3. I also saw a fourth, long attack with a bunch of feints, but he only did it one singular time in all my attempts.

My strategy kind of devolved into spamming left click, looking to parry the slow attacks while hoping I could get supers in after, and just tanking the first hit of the quick attack pattern before parrying the second, which feels a little bit off.

Made it to about 1000 points before I figured it was time to stop.

There's a lot to like here! The sound effects are nice and give good feedback, the art is cute (i like how the background gets brighter the less time you have), and there's a good variety in the multitasking you have to do which keeps things interesting. Kind of wish it maybe escalated more as you went somehow, because it does kinda feel like you could go on forever if you know what you're doing.

Also: absolutely unskippable title. 

I like the visuals quite a bit, gives me big Baba is You vibes. Could've maybe benefitted from an undo button, but I get that those are pretty tricky to implement and none of the puzzles are long enough that it felt too annoying not to have one. Great work!

The first six levels were great, very creative premise, and it does some pretty cool stuff with it. I really liked the level where it's the same as the previous one, but it forces you to realize you can use negative numbers instead.

After that it kind of loses steam for me. The platformer level was just annoying, I had to use tabbing and the enter key to generate the blocks on screen because clicking on them wouldn't work. The memory level isn't really a puzzle at all, it just made me open the game again in a new tab. And while the music in the darkness level is pretty cool, having to solve an easy puzzle in low visibility isn't really all that fun.

The core mechanics of the game are good enough that you don't really need to spice it up any. If those last few levels just built more onto the things from the first bit, this could've easily been a 5 in enjoyment for me. 

This reminds me of old trolly flash point and click games in the absolute best way possible. Super impressed how much variety in gameplay, sound design, and visuals y'all were able to cram into the game given the time frame you had. The happy birthday level was absolutely adorable, and the bonus level was also REALLY funny! 

The artwork on this one is so adorable, great job!

press space to AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH is great. I also wish it was a bit longer

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