TO HELL WITH DEATH

It's a fun concept and something that has a lot of potential. Maybe something to keep working on?

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I liked the idea for the game, but since it takes so long to beat it, it got pretty repetitive very fast. Eventually I cheesed it by just sitting in the bottom center, clearing the entire screen with the charge attack every few seconds, which got enough charge back from the enemies that I could just continue doing this forever, until the boss eventually died.

I found the game satisfying even thought it is pretty long. Killing enemies and using the laser felt good. Congrats on your first jam buddy!

I loved this game. The art style really clicked with me and the characters had a lot of character. The visual effects were also very pretty.

I found it to be a little bit too long without any new mechanism being added later in the game, but it was still a very pleasant experience.

Well done with your first jame game :) I liked some effects, and the beam was satisfying :) It is good that you made enemies have buildup before shooting, small things but gives better feeling of the game. The player was bit slow and there was no treath. I feel this game wasn't totally finished, you had boss phases (faces, haha) implemented, but no way that he would attack player. But I would see him using different tactics with different phases. This could have been more fitting the alternative theme "Boss rush", which was in top 10. You should avoid large flashing areas for prolonged times, and the lava was bit, ugh :s But otherwise well done, and take these jams as a time to learn and try new things. For example next jam, think what mechanic you want to do beforehand (and to learn), hand how effectively you could implement theme in that.

I played through and got the donuts ^^

Okay so this game is addicting. Its like 1 am and I had to keep playing. Although there a so many great things ( the awesome boss, the AI, the great art, the fluid mechanics) I found two things maybe to work on. First, I know there was not a lot of time, but I do have to agree with the others, not having a death state is perfectly fine for a no death state competition but, you being so talented seems like you could have thought of an interesting take. Secondly, Oh my gosh the poor epileptics. The flashing white was so fast that at first I didn't notice it, but once I did, ouch. But that probably doesn't matter as I'm gonna play it again. Other than those two critiques, This is a great game. Good Luck!

Wow, this was long!

• A bit too long. It'd be fine if it had different gameplays, but
• The gameplay gets exhausted a bit quickly cause the most you're going to do is spin with your sword open, wander around and laser beam everyone when it's ready while also aimging at the floating head. It's fune to mow them down, but you gotta do this for so long without much changes. Yes, juicy things are cool, but it's not keeping me that long ^^
• I mean, as a result, the sword should just be kept drawn out. It didn't feel like you had to manage it, just had to keep it always out. :D
• I concurr about the theme. I'm not a fan of the concept of "you just don't reach the death state" as I'd prefer something to happen instead . For example, instead of dying, you're teleported to another world insteady of dying, you could for example turn into a bagel. Maybe that new state would force you to play differently. ...And I should have definitely have done something like that, why didn't I get that idea before. xD
• The boss changing forms was hella cool!
• The atmosphere as well fits.
• The music is a tad to uneventful considering the action going, but I'm guessing it's best to have a fitting them as simple as it is. Cause it fitted the atmosphere!
• The flashing colored background at the end hem... Thank god I'm not epileptic, I didn't expect it. Caught me off guard and made things harder to read!

Was still fun, would have mostly liked a way lower health pool from the skull aha

I really dig the attack mechanics, and the art was pretty cool. Unfortunately, the lack of death, while appropriate for the theme, made the whole game lack tension and feel rather tedious to play after a while. It was the same short gameplay loop of sword a bunch of guys, then blast all your energy on the boss, for what felt like an eternity. There's definitely a good game in here, but I think it could have used some tweaking.

I think this game is pretty fun. The graphics fit well and the special effects are good. Unfortunately, there were a few parts I personally didn't really like. The constantly moving red and black background was interesting at the start, but after a while it was too much for my eyes. Instead of having that effect the entire game, I think you should start out the game with something like a pure black background and then only introduce the glitching background in the final stretch. The screenshake was also a bit much. If you plan on putting in a lot of screenshake, it's usually a good idea to add a menu to allow players to tone down the screenshake amount. I know that it is hard to fit in extra features like this in a Gm48, but it definitely hurts the playability of the game for people like me who will get dizzy easily. This doesn't really apply to this game, but I think having a bar visual instead of just text for the charge amount would be useful so you don't have to glance up in the corner every once in a while. Since you can't die in this game it isn't really necessary, but if you could die I think that would be a good change. Overall I thought this was a good game. The gameplay is enjoyable and it fits the theme. EDIT: No need to be sorry about it! I still had a lot of fun playing.

1021 enemies killed, 3080 souls absorbed, unlimited bagels. (Why the bagels? Is this the new fish with legs?!)

At the start I was wondering how many hours I'd have to be going to kill the boss since it takes quite a while to save up souls. Then I figured out you can spin around to kill them faster which helped. Then I figured out you can get 20% energy then clear the entire field with the beam and let it basically charge itself. So, I did that, and it went much quicker!

A game that let's you discover ways to beat it that are more efficient each time, that's always a good sign, so well done there.

I wasn't completely sure if the enemies are doing 'damage' to you? Or removing souls when they hit you? I could have checked that but I was too busy swinging my sword around and firing my laser.

It would be cool if the boss did something, some sort of attack maybe. You could do that and reduce it's health a bit to add some more tactical gameplay if you were going to carry on with it.

I enjoyed it! First time GM entry too right? Good job!