The Inverted Castle

I liked the story, gameplay itself felt average, it was much more fun to read the story and tips ^^ I played your game on stream yesterday: https://youtu.be/QJG0bZJKyJU?t=6151

ps. Was name of twin a pun about the ending :D ps2. You get to the 'top of tower' by jumping down? :P

Rage quit at the flappy bat section. It's so fiddly you can't read the text and control at the same time. In general controls were abysmal. Get hit by an enemy you tend to get hit multiple times because there is no invincibility frames.

I liked the multiple ways you snuck the theme into the game/story. And the story itself was enjoyable, although (SPOILERS) it would seem that the Pation family were justified in the end (given how much of a SOB Alucard turned out to be in the final story scroll, haha) (/SPOILERS)

The bat level. THE BAT LEVEL... it needs input buffering or something. Less stringent delays between repeated actions, maybe.

A little more sound during gameplay would be nice. At least a 'woosh' on the sword swing, but lack of time may have been the culprit here.

Alucard mentioning the 'top' of his castle, when all you did was go down, was pretty funny. I didn't fully understand until I beat the game and realized it's called the Inverted castle XD

Good stuff :)

PS. I uploaded a video of my playthrough

PPS. THE COINS ARE A LIE

I knew all those hours I wasted on Flappy Bird would come handy some day!!

Having to read plot while also having to deal with difficult gameplay just means the plot will be ignored... So I think a better approach would've been to have the text in those 2 sections appear on screen between rooms.

But even though I didn't catch much of the story in those specific sections, I was still like "holy shit plottwist!" afterwards so I guess I absorbed at least a little?

The bat section was tough but well worth beating. The story was funny, unexpected and I thoroughly enjoyed it

The story was hilarious and the way it just inersected with the gameplay was actually super great and surprising. I dunno how the same surprise worked on me twice but it sure did. The gameplay was ok but there's a few things that should be easy to implement thatwould make it feel just a lil bit nicer. Like making the bat hitbox a bit tinie, I dont think I should die because the ear of my bat grazed a corner, and also starting the bat in a neutral position, instead of falling. When it first started and I barely got to see a purple blob fall into the ground before I got a game over I was super confused. Plus it was hard for me to read the story in the form of bat because I had no chance to stop moving. And finally when Navia and Capita get hit, i-frames are kind of useless if I don't get to move while I'm on them. I feel on top of a skeleton next to a wall and I hat to just watch my character slowly bounce herself to death. But I do appreciate nice witty writing, Castlevania references both in play and story, and just the super charming design of Alucard with his triangular head.

I loved this! The way the gameplay intersected with the storytelling made me gasp, the silly funny twists were PERFECT! The moment the cage falls, the moment the twin appears... Dracula's backstory with the bats was soo funny (though... gameplay there was a little punishing especially since there's text on screen at the same time). I enjoyed the hints on the death screen -- yes, everything IS a flashback, but very close to the present. I don't get why vampires had bone marrow transplants, though - thought they didn't need to drink blood? Anyway, great job! Made me smile and I'll be thinking about this for a while.

I beat it and the bat section was my favourite part. The first time I passed the last bat section I ran headfirst into the last obstacle and had to do it again :D The platforming was cool but the physics, especially the air control, made it not actually feel like Castlevania at all to me. Also at one point I did a horrible jump and got stunlocked between a skeleton and the wall lol but because of the generous checkpointing it was more funny than frustrating.

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Was so excited to play this game as it felt totally Castlevania. The title also prepped me to expect that you were dealing with the "2 sides" theme by making the castle turn upside down like in Castlevania. So your twist was very unexpected and a lot of fun to it!

When I read the description, I also felt you would deal with the theme in the kinda cliche "Ohhh there isn't a good and evil side". Alucard has his reasons! Your inversion of that trope by having the war end and humans still getting murdered was good.

I adored the story telling. Main issue was that when you're concentrating on being a bat, it is hard to read the text at the same time. I did love the little hints on the death screens though. They're hilarious. The history of the vampires was a story I also really enjoyed.

This feedback is a little all over the place but man, when you are the bat and destroy the cage and see it fall on the character you played before, it was a real great moment for me. I was a little underwhelmed when first seeing the art and the first initial gameplay but as you go deeper and see how it escalates, I can say you made a truly cool game. It was dark, funny, and a great time (: Very cool to see how different the games are that people make from previous jams!

Interesting take on the theme, I really like how you didn't completely invert the plot and spin Alucard as a good guy, definitely made it more interesting than if the sides had just flipped completely, haha.

Platformers that support gamepads get automatic points from me. The movement and platforming worked well, but felt really stiff. Most of all, I think that this needed something to set it apart from any other generic platformer. Still, good job on solid execution.

This was fun to play! the gameplay felt surprisingly good. I liked the different sections to the game, it broke up the experience nicely.

Twists and turns! I love how this game unfolded - A simple platformer with simplistic graphics at first glance, but a surprising and well-written and funny and interesting narrative that you absorb while doing some pretty tight platforming. So many floaty platformers in jams but you sir are doing the Lord's work here - it just felt good and I could have jumped and slashed through a lot more levels before getting tired of it.

Liked the change of pace between story / platforming / story / that the helicopter game from Newgrounds / platforming / story - it made it feel very complete and polished. Nice to be taken on a little journey through different types of gameplay.

I liked it a lot!

Enjoyed playing through this one. My favourite part was the story and how it kept escalating. The bat section was challenging but I was able to get through it in the end. Nice job!

that bat section was hard like dang