Super Sacrifice Square

Pretty good! Liked the concept (though not fully new), and the execution was done pretty well! Things felt smooth and fair. The music however, was... off? Like the drums and some notes just felt poorly spaced, but then again, I struggled with my music too.

The mechanic was repeated some times in this jam but this game is where it shines the most. The level design was awesome, challenging and fun. Do you know what developers do when they design such difficult stages like the ones on your game? Of course you know, they put great music with them, what you gracefully did.

The second to last stage although was straight up annoying, I had to restart the game three times to complete it. Besides it, the game was super cool!

Pretty good and polished game, definitely harder than it looks.

The idea isn't too original, but you used the level design in such a way that it feels pretty fresh, I'm also a sucker for 1bit games so there's that too.

My only complaint is that the boss didn't use the main mechanic of the game at all, it's almost like at some point you were like "I have to add a boss but have no ideas, let's give the player a gun and make it quick".

Nice game! I included it in my GM48: Sacrifice compilation video series, if you’d like to take a look. :) https://youtu.be/WwCrESwX77E

Not a terrible idea, but one that I feel has been seen many times before, including other games in this jam even. Regardless, you managed to do a lot with it, packing a crazy amount of levels and mechanics into this game. Bravo, sir.

Unfortunately ran into a number of bugs, including altars occasionally not registering my sacrifices correctly, spikes occasionally not killing me, spike collision mask felt slightly too tall (stand on the edge of a block that has spikes poking out the side = death??), and the BGM starts over but doesn't stop the previous instance when restarting from a game over :(

This was a fun platformer game. I liked the mechanic, and the level design was overall good, but with a few places, where I had to wait or it was a bit too slow.

Sacrificing at altars is blocking progress if you don't have a certain amount of lives, but you have no way of knowing how many altars, and thus how many lives you need to proceed, that it feels bad that you can't progress and have to restart from scratch.

A solid entry on the theme.

It was a good idea, with just a few flaws. The controls felt a little tight, and it wasn't clear at first you could hold Space to jump higher. A lot of my deaths felt unfair (especially from moving platforms), and I seemed to be running out of souls very easily.

Also, this happened at one point?

Joining Fachewachewa's feedback there, not bad but issues. Not sure that type of gameplay is enjoyable enough, makes you restart a lot and sometimes it gets annoying.

Other than that, not bad!

I loved the idea that you have to use your previous body to get to places. Found a few bugs along the way & you could get stuck with your previous bodies blocking your way. But overall a great game.

Good job! Very smooth and responsive controls. On one of the alters, when i sacrificed myself, it didnt take so i lost. That was my only complaint. Other then that it was great!

I only had 3 souls left and had to guess which altar opened the room with the 20 souls in it. I lost the coin flip and had to restart the entire game. Everything other than the restarting was fine.

It's visually simple but cute, sound is ok, even though like siridakis said, the music plays over itself after a game over.

Now for the concept, it's a thing a tried prototyping once and quickly abandonned because I couldn't find any good use. You def. tried here, but I don't think the idea can carry a platformer on its own. Sure there's different dangers & altars, but it's always the same thing. The only time it felt different is when I used my bodies for cover against the boss.

The limited lives were a good idea, but if you make more than 3 mistakes in the first levels, you're stuck. There are also some problems with the gameplay, esp. hitboxes that are a little too large, and some jump are too precise. I also wasted a life on the first altar because I wasn't sure how to position the 3rd corspe, it was still on the altar but too much on the side and didn't count. (btw altars can also detect corpses way below their position). Last thing, some help was out of place (you can jump on moving platforms).

Would you believe if I told you I had the exact same idea for a game when the jam started?!
I decided to go with a different idea though, which was good, I think my implementation wouldn't have been better.
The only thing I disliked was that losing souls in early stages makes it impossible to go on later in the game. Maybe you should just restart the current stage with the bare minimum necessary to go through...
I didn't get to finish, but I really wanted to see the boss :/ maybe I'll try again some other time.
btw, I found a "bug". I think you're not checking if the music is playing when beggining stage 1, so when you get game over and start again, the music plays twice (one on top of another).

This is a good game. The graphics are nice, and the core gameplay is ok. I think that the altar things are a bad feature though. Because of them, it is possible to lose even if you didn't actually fail. Other than that, I think this game is good.

I really like the core mechanic of using your dead bodies to progress. It's interesting on it's own and is a good use of the theme. I enjoy how you managed to find multiple different ways to use it (though it feels unnecessary requiring three deaths to activate an altar). The boss at the end feels a bit out of place as it doesn't use this key mechanic in any significant way (though I guess you can use your bodies for cover).

I'm not so keen on the fact that you have limited souls. On one hand collecting souls provides some nice optional challenges, and you need to have some penalty for dying. On the other, it's very frustrating having to restart the whole game because you don't have enough souls to progress.

The presentation isn't particularly remarkable in any way, but it works well for what it is. I do quite like the effects when you activate an altar.