Ruin Rise

Really nice little metroidvania! The art and sound is great and suits the gameplay very well. The boss fight was cool, though maybe a bit slow paced. Overall, very enjoyable and complete gameplay experience!

Really nice solid metroidvania. Feels like a retro classic. I think the art is done really nicely and fits in well with the theme. Particularly the tiling.

I think for the enemy sprites, I'd have liked it better if you were a little more consistent on what sprites had white outlines. They did make some enemies stand out more, but they also made it seem almost like you had to collect them. Think consistency on using it would have helped. Though I'd have preferred if you adjusted the sprites values to make them stand out rather than relying on a white outline.

I think some telegraphing for certain things would have helped out. There is a room you need to get through with dash to get a power orb. I feel when I played it, I felt I could get through with double jump and wall grapple. I saw the same thing when my friend played and Peter too. But death isn't too big a deal in the game.

Though speakin of the wall grapple, I found it felt good. I also liked how the zoom in when you picked up a new artifact. Added some nice variety in what people are looking at. The air flying ability was fun as well. Movement in the game felt good, combat was a tad stiff but not overly so.

For the boss fight, I think the standing on hands thing was really cool. But I think it needs to be telegraphed more on when you can stand on the hands and when you can't. As a player, I expected to be able to stand on the boss hands even when they're moving because they seemed to be just like moving platforms. I don't mind that there is a small window to stand on the hands. But the hands visual state needs to change more otherwise you get the feeling of "why am I falling through". Maybe make the hands disappear or to keep on theme, if they were on fire you'd take damage from them and if they're not, you would not and can stand on them. For example, I wasn't aware that when the hands are clasped together, you are still able to stand on them.

Overall, it feels like a really solid metroidvania and the map design and abilities seem very impressively done for only 48 hours. There's variety in environments, rooms, types of enemies. There's a really decent bit of content here and they all fit together very well!

Awesome and very solid. The art was great, and the exploration/unlocks were pretty satisfying.

I will say that the enemy behavior didn't stand out very much - they worked, but they weren't super interesting to fight. The wall-cling/jump felt amazing though. The movement overall was good but that was my favorite thing to do.

The only other thing of note is that there is that the unfilled HP pips were not that much darker than the filled ones. For me and most people it's not too bad, but that's a bit of an accessibility concern for people who can't make out subtle visual differences as well. Same thing for the booby traps, I think they blend in just a tad too much.

Great game!

Solid game, an impressive amount of content! I like the camera effect when you get an upgrade!

I kept playing hoping I'd see something new/unique but that didn't really come. It was just another metroidvania.

Some level design was tough because of not being able to see where you have to jump to, especially on that bottom-right area. Sometimes ghosts would come out of nowhere, or I would jump and suddenly land on a snake that I wasn't able to see before. I feel that most of the times I died it felt like it wasn't my fault.

Cool that there was a boss! The 3D-tail design looked very cool! Thought it was bugged because of the amount of hitpoints it had and it not giving any feedback when you attacked him, but eventually I defeated it.

Nice job on some of the platforming-code-details like easing the player on a ledge and stuff! I think by now you're really starting to master those codes! :)

Pretty good, the enemies could come out of nowhere sometimes which felt a bit bad and the whip felt stiff to use, but not stiff enough to stop me from spamming it. Besides that though, the game played well and it was enjoyable exploring the island.

Really ambitious to do a metroidvania in this time! I really liked the gameplay for the most part-- a decent length, exploring felt good, and enough of a variety of enemies to keep me on my toes. The boss felt like it dragged on for too long-- It was fun, but it had too many hit points. By the time I finally killed him, it had taken so long, I had gotten so used to all of his attacks they were too easy to dodge. The lack of a healthbar made this issue worse. I also wish I could go back and collect all the upgrades for 100% after defeating the boss, but the game just ended. Really cool game though, just needs some minor tweaks and fixes.

Its a really well made game, and a solid little metroidvania, but i may have missed the boss if there was one :/

Fantastic Metroidvania. Great graphics, amazing soundtrack, and fitting sound effects. The island just keeps going and going and going! The map was a huge help, especially toward the endgame when I couldn't remember where I'd already been. I liked all of the upgrades, though I never really found a use for the dash, unless I missed an area where I was supposed to use it. The boss is simple, but the fact that you have a boss at all is impressive for a game jam. Awesome work all the way around.

Ok I went back and beat the game without pausing when I get an item. All in all it's a really solid mini-metroidvania. No part of it is particularly challenging, but it's enjoyable enough collecting upgrades and filling out the map. I wish there was some sort of additional mechanic to make it stand out. My biggest gripe might be some of the sound effects being really grating and the music needed some mixing. The boss at the end was really easy, but looks really cool.

I enjoyed it alot. Classic Metroid vania (it was actually the first metroidvania i've played). The world was layed out on a intuitive manner. I felt the order that I encountered the rooms in and the artifacts in was also on point.

The only flaws i saw with this was a little bit of hitbox registring when i attacked and the boss fight (I was confused since I didn't know how I was supposed to win it)

Wow it really felt like an adventure. I kept encountering more and more new areas and I was like no wayyy the content just keeps coming! Pretty smooth and satisfying platformer, and very slick indeed for a game jam - I like the whip and the wall grab thing, had a nice depth/mastery-ness to it.

I really enjoyed this entry. The game feel and exploration were a lot fun. I thought the amount of content was impressive, including having a boss fight which I greatly appreciated. Two other things that were big stand outs were the music, which I really loved and the "wall jump". I feel sometimes in similar games the wall jump can feel clunky and hard to control but I have to say that this one felt great. Overall, a lot of great touches and design choices culminating in a solid experience. Nice job!

Well put together metroidvania. I felt the progression was good, with an appropriate amount of dead ends, back tracking and upgrades. The small map and being able to death warp probably helped it not get stale.

I would've said this had a surprising amount fo content for a 48 hour jam, but at this point, knowing what singelshot games are like, that'd be a lie. Honestly I think my biggest complaint is that I feel you've made this before lol. It's good!—but I'd love to see you attempt something way left field and different one day

One thing that did surprise me was seeing a boss at the end, that was cool!

Thank you for not having a leaderboard this time :'D

I don't want to spoil anything by getting too specific but it's really great game design all around. Everything was top-notch

Really liked this game. Feels like you made a very good gamedesigning before making it. (I had't completed it but) it was a nice experience.

What a great entry! The amount of content and art here is amazing in my opinion. Im also a sucker for metroidvanias so I had a blast with this, I enjoyed most of the upgrades and was consistently surprised and impressed when I found a new area/biome, there was a lot here for a 48 hour game! I don't really have any significant critisms, but I need to know if the whip was an Idiana Jones reference or if it was inspired by it at all?

Impressive amount of content and really well polished, except that picking up 4 health made an uncomfortably loud sound and I couldn't seem to exit the game at the end.

Wow, I am lost for words, this is an amazing entry with a good amount of content, it's smooth, graphically impressive, controls well and is a great follow on from your last entry, I'm enjoying the lore you're building here, lots of fun! :)

This game is great. I love it. Great ending and progression. I think I scoured the whole area and got all of the items and health upgrades. It was a lot of fun, and if that was 1 level out of 10 or 20, I think this could be a full game easy. It was just so good! I'm not usually someone who likes platformers, so that means a lot coming from me. It was right at my level of difficulty too, so that was nice.

The art is alright, if a bit inconsistent. It gets kind of obnoxiously bright at times but it's alright. I went into this fully expecting to be piloting a plane, so that's a bit misleading. I generally like platformers and had some fun with this game. It's short and sweet with only a couple areas. Good game overall