The Tears of Lorem

I did like this game very much, because it had considerable good graphics and the way attack worked. I did manage to win the game only one of prayers left ^^" The music did not start to repeat itself annoyingly, which can be problem in some jam games (track being too short etc.), and your music worked :) You managed to finish the game, which is big plus, although ending scene was little bit corny :D Enemies had enough variety and you also managed to fit little spelling game there, which added more complexity. I did not remember how the powerups worked, so I just picked some randomly, also after using first powerup I noticed you could direct your shots, which I previously missed. But overall, it was indeed worth of play and maybe even podium place :)

That was a blast! Such a sweet take on bullet hells! Having an attack for each button is insanely good idea. And then adding in enemies that can only damage when certain buttons were pressed is genius.

Excellent job!

Woaaa... every button was actually a different attack. This is one of the coolest games I've seen, and the music and visuals are spot-on. Be very proud of what you've made here.

This game is really cool. All the attacks are great (I really like the random line of bullet going everywhere). The music is really great but don't really fit with the game for me. I don't really know why, but maybe the tempo is too fast, and it's sounding like "happy music" for a dramatic game. I really liked to use all of the buttons of the keyboard. Maybe the mouse should have been disable because when you are using your two hands on the keyboard, aiming is quite hard (and you forget the upgrade because "wow ! Monsters everywhere!"). I guess it is a choice like :"I can't save everybody with only two hands". It is just some idea, it is a really good game anyway ! Good Job !

Nice entry. The graphics are lovely, though the Lorem character seems to have had a lot more detail added than the enemies or environment. The music is very fitting too. The gameplay is fun, mostly from trying out all the different attack options, then finding what works best. The mechanic of having some enemies require a specific attack is a good way of getting players to explore their options, as well as stopping them from just spamming the same attack every time (the big laser was my preferred attack). I didn't realise that the mouse was used to aim at first, so that could have been made clearer in the instructions (or maybe I just missed it). I don't think it did much with the theme though, there was no context for the sacrifice and it wasn't clear what the upgrades did, it felt like an afterthought. Otherwise, great work.

Very Entertaining! Finding out what attack each button had was fun. I also like that some of the enemies can only be destroyed by a certain attack. Wish there was an ending or boss monster. Also how do you get the different bullet patterns? I was having trouble doing that in my game. Thanks!

Incredible game, the best of the whole jam so far for me, Had the right balance between quantity and quality.

The concept itself is pretty good, and the way you connected it to the theme was flawless, except in the end where I could make infinite upgrades at no cost, probably a bug.

The artstyle was nice, and the music was incredible, considering it's for a game jam, gameplay itself wasn't challenging, but it was a metric fuckton of fun, all the different attacks felt balanced, except for Z, that one sucks.

Overall an overwhelmingly good game, in pretty much everything from art to theme, I don't know if I'm expressing well how impressed I am, usually a good jam game excels in something and is more or less average in everything else. This one instead has something that most jam games don't have, consistency, it is consistently good.

What can I say, the artstyle was on point, the music makes the pump going, a tutorial, smooth animations and a big learing curve for replayability. The game grabs your attention from the games screen which is very important because people usually pick the game that looks the coolest. There are not a lot of negatives but the most notable of them are the upgrades; A text that describes what you upgrade would be great.

Really nice game. The graphics and audio are both great. The idea of having so many different attacks is pretty interesting, though maybe a little over the top. There's no way you can remember what every attack does so you sort of just have mash every key in the hopes something works. Having certain enemies being vulnerable to certain attacks does alleviate this somewhat, though. The only main issue is that the upgrades could have been explained more. I wasn't sure exactly what they did or what the cost was for using them.

Great art, music, concept, gameplay. I like the reverse bullet hell concept. The characters and setting are all nice and it played flawlessly. Very impressive and fun!

I had a lot of fun playing this. It's intense and stands out by switching the roles on you. The music adds to the intensiveness of the game. The theme didn't feel incorporated enough, which was sad, because the game has so much potential. Overall, I loved it!

So far, this is the game that I enjoyed the most! Really addictive, it makes you feel like a Bullet Hell boss instead of the other way around. :) The mechanic is really unique and what letters do changes each playthrough, nice detail! I like how enemies are weak against some attacks :) The music is also really enticing, not repetitive and very punchy!

The sole thing I didn't feel was as good is how sacrifices work; in the end, it's not that much of a choice and you kinda do it anyway because it makes the game easier. There is no score so yeah you kinda deal with it :T

Don't know if it was intended (I think not) but once you can't sacrifice anymore people (like, when you have just 2 people to protect) you can upgrade as much as you want and it makes the rest of the game super easy.

Also it seems that some upgrades are better than others, like the defense guy who helps a lot (especially since he can damage the monsters that are letter weak)

Fun and chaotic game! I included it in my GM48: Sacrifice compilation video series, if you’d like to take a look. :) https://youtu.be/PCTrkXRBDB4

That music is very nice. Game looks good too, and the different attack pattern are fun and making some enemies weak against one letter was a nice touch. The sacrifices aren't that necessary though ?

Also, I went to 0 by getting upgrades and monster could not come to me, they'd stay at the bottom of the room.

I gotta say your game is really addictive!
The art and sound are great too!
All the different shooting patterns and stuff, very cool indeed, though I felt the theme was a bit forced into it, dunno, it felt that way for me.

Wow! This game had me hooked for some time. Even though there was a limited amount of strategy involved in this game, sometimes it just feels right to turn the brain off and smash the keyboard to make awesome combos.

Super fun ! I ended up having infinite upgrades so made like a thousand of everything. Things got crazy but I don't think its possible to lose? Could map escape to a game end though.