Soulo

Great idea and decent execution - like others, I wish that enemies wouldn't still cause damage in their death state. Otherwise I had fun!

Solid ideas but the bugs hold it back pretty severely. Enemies remaining hostile in their death animation is something I found particularly annoying. I know the point is to fly around with guns but the complete lack of air control outside of that mechanic felt awful. This likely could have been better if the gunshot movement was balanced a little differently. I couldn't finish the game, and I couldn't tell if that was because of bugs or me not understanding. I thought the animations were wonderful, though!

There's a lot of cool stuff in here.

I like the main character design and the general concept.

Personally I feel like it's a bit of an easy choice to just give the player a gun, especially since it feels so out of context with the ghost person thingy. But that could just be me.

love the monsters. Music is great too!

Starting with the positives, I really really like the art style of the game, and I think the general concept is pretty cool. I won't comment much on the issue with the level transitions being out of order, and with enemy particles still being deadly - as I'm aware that both of those are things that you've already heard a lot about.

The idea of not being able to move while in mid-air using A/D (but instead, being forced to use your guns recoil to move around), is one which I think is pretty cool. Though it took a while to get used to, and it was definitely a tad frustrating at first, I fully understand the mindset behind the decision. However, the implementation of it may not have suited the levels design too well, as, by using the recoil of the guns, and the abundant amount of shield provided, you're able to skip straight to the top of the level in a matter of seconds, without needing to fight any enemies.

Overall, I still feel like I had a positive experience with this game, and I feel that if you were given more time (and didn't have to spend a lot of it dealing with version control issues, which is super unfortunate), that you would have been able to provide a much more polished experience. You did well, given the time provided and the setbacks you ran into, so good job!

The concept of this game was pretty cool, just maybe a bit hard to control. The art was nicely stylized and the sound was pretty good. Unfortunately when I played, the game would reset when I beat level 1. That aside, a really fun entry!

Others have pointed it out before, but the controls, especially the fact that there's no mid-air control after jumping, was really frustrating. It took me a little bit to figure out that weapons will also make you "jump", so at first I just kept getting stuck at the bottom. Other than that, the game looks great, and I love the idea of it as well! You made a great game within such a short time!

Artistically, this game looks great. I think the visuals are amazing. There were a couple of issues I'd noticed, in that you can shoot at an enemy and when it is dead, you will still be hurt as it's disintegrating, plus some level of indicator for how much life I had left might have helped. That aside, the control mechanic is fun and it's an interesting, albeit short, experience. Good job

First of all, the art, spritework etc, was very good! I liked the whole look and feel of the world. Shooting was functional and quite fun. I didn't like that you could not control your jump midair, but as I got used to shooting my way up, I wasn't jumping anymore anyway :D Another thing that frustrated me was enemies that I killed still hurting me (I know it's a feature, as in, deadly particles. But i didn't like it) And somehow, when I reached the top, it just spat me out at the main menu again. Another nitpick: you might want to enable Fullscreen switching in the game options next time. It happened several times I clicked outside the game window when trying to aim, and wish I could've just switched to fullscreen. One of my entries a few game jams ago received the same feedback regarding fullscreen switching, and since then I just enable it ever time, since leaving more options for how people want to play your game are often better :)

Overall I'd say there is a lot of potential, but the game probably suffered a lot from time constraints of the gamejam :D

I enjoyed my time with the game anyway!

I liked the idea of the game, but it felt very strange to control. I'm sure if I got used to it it'd be a lot easier, but having to move with the gun while in the air was a bit confusing, since A/D worked on the ground. I'm not sure if it was a bug, but the enemies seemed to be crazy bullet sponges, to the point where it felt worthless to try and kill them. I got to the top of the level and the game went back to title screen, so I assume I won, but the cutscenes you showed in the description never popped up for me so I'm unsure.

Overall, this game would have been greatly served by a slightly longer time limit, but that's just the nature of game jams. I think what you have is a decent base, and it just needed some more time polishing, tuning, and balancing.

Fun concept with a nice art style, but massive amounts of information missing on how to progress like with gun recoil movement. Bugs and such preventing enemies dying dampered the experience a bit. Given more polish it would have been a smoother experience. :)