Dark Lair

• Balance between sound effects and music is off. We can barely hear the music (since we shoot constantly)

• Speaking of which, was it made with FLstudio? Reminds me of the default Slayer instrument. Sounds weird imo

• Way too difficult to avoid shots. I mean, it doesn't really affect you much, but it feels unnecessary

• Overall the arena is a bit too chaotic and the weapon buffs are so random

• Avoid R for restarting in shooters! In shooters, we assume that R is for reloading, even if the game doesn't have it. That kind of conditional reflx, you know.

• That said, it's a cool game. I like how the music slows down when you get hit!

• It's nice to see a first phase were you stack up power while the second phase uses it (same kind of thing going on in my game now that i think about it, you stack up life for the second phase)

Too bad that there isn't any victory screen, that really felt weird. It's also unfortunate that you didn't have time to make any progression system for weapons, because I was really too random. In one game I spent 2 minutes trying to get a decent gun and only had shotguns, then the next one I got the super machine gun in 5 seconds and beat the boss pretty fast :D

Good game overall though!

Oh and the sounds are too loud. For reference I'm at 20% with windows' sound, I have a twitch stream open (gungeon, what a small world :D), full level, barely hear anything, yet your game was still a little too loud.

Love the Nuclear Throne inspiration, the audio warping when you get hit, and the overall polish of the game's mechanics.

Enemy bullets were a little too fast and were hard to dodge because of this. Instructions, goals, and stats weren't very clear but I managed to get to the boss twice.

Interesting take on the bullet-hell rogue-like genre. Could tell you guys put some real effort into this. I expect an even better game next time!

Neat game! I included it in my GM48: Countdown compilation video series, if you’d like to take a look. :) https://youtu.be/5_pXg7wyEyc

Really cool game. I like how you have to build up power in the first phase before tackling the boss. Dodging attacks and shooting is a lot of fun, though some of the guns felt a bit lame (the pistol mainly). It's weird how the game instantly returns to the title when you beat the boss. Obviously that's just a game jam oversight kinda thing but the first couple of times I thought I had just died randomly.

The presentation is overall fantastic. The sprites all look cool and I really like the glowing effect around the enemies and such. I also really enjoyed how the game counts your kills and time before facing the boss, plus the boss intro is pretty cool. The music also fits well and adds a lot to the game.

I really like this one, it reminds me on nuclear throne and enter the gungeon!

I think it would be better if the weapons have a progression and are not random!

Mannnnnn I really enjoyed this one. You can really feel the vlambeer influence and I'm not sure whether that's a good thing or not, but I enjoyed it. The whole art department on this one was great.

One thing is: please make the mechanics explicit! I didn't know I had to get the weapon so I just tried to survive until the timer ran out. Only when I got to the boss I realized it wasn't a good strategy. In fact, up until the timer run out, I thought I'd did good because the boss fight was only 5 seconds long. I thought I had to survive for five seconds total, which was easy.

Good, good entry. Where can I follow development on this, if there's gonna be more?

Great game!

If you do any post Jam work on this, please remove the pistol.

That way I don't have to ALT+F4 whenever I get it.

Fun game. I'm not great at bullet hell games, but the art is nicely done and the music is appropriate for the setting.

The music distorting when you get hit is so nice, but it seems that getting hit carries no penalty whatsoever that I noticed. The boss dies rather unceremoniously. The enemies, also kind of bland. and the bullets from them are rather too fast for how many of them there are. other than that, cool cool game.

Really cool. The game is fun, the assets are really well designed and all the graphic assets in general are well done. I love the character's animations. The game is hard but it makes him live longer. The boss is well designed and the music seems to come right from the hell :D Feeling of the weapons is good too. I loved your game.

https://www.twitch.tv/videos/288043132 Timestamp 02:06:22

Reviewed your game on stream!