Seven Sacrifices

This was great, my favourite entry so far. Damn, it was hard though. I couldn't finish it, even with the grapple and dash. That was both frustrating but also compelling. High difficulty platformers have never been my forte but there is definitely an audience for it. The graphics were simple but clear and did everything they needed to do. The music and sound effects fit well. The gameplay and level design were the strongest aspects though. The game I made for this jam has some similarities to this but falls far short, I wish my game was more like this :) The tutorial at the start was well implemented into the gameplay. The gun acting as a temporary lantern when it fired was a great touch. Making sure the whip was more powerful as a weapon than the gun meant you balanced it more when it came time to making a sacrifice (also whipping skeletons looked great). Yeah, just all those little touches, combined with tight controls and good (though challenging) level design done in 48 hours, wow. A strong contender.

Having played every game this jam I can say this is one of the best entries, The tie in to theme made for some very difficult choices and interesting level design. Excellent tutorialization, something many jam games could take note on.

For me the last two levels were quite the challenge. They pointed out the biggest issue I had with the game and it was the platforming. Cheating the ledges a bit will dramatically improve game feel. The jumps at the end of a ledge should be more forgiving.

Try your second to last level past the first two bats and before the 4 spiders. There is a jump with spikes on the roof, that jump is one I missed repeatedly with the expectation that I could jump later than the game would allow me. Compare it to jumping in any Mario game.

One of the most frustrating things for a player is when the input doesn't match the output, or at least their perceived expected output. This game was so incredibly well done. Excellent work!

This was great! Art, sound, music, everything reminded me of an NES game. Well, except for the difficulty. Was juuuust difficult enough not to be frustrating.

Your sacrifice abilities mechanic is nicely done. Believe it or not, my first idea for the theme was something similar but I couldn't get it organized properly in my mind. I'm glad to see someone else made it work.

Totally amazed at how this was made in just 48 hours yet feels like a complete and polished game. High five!

<3 Love IT!

Neat concept! I included it in my GM48: Sacrifice compilation video series, if you’d like to take a look. :) https://youtu.be/owM22-wcZP4

The level design in this game was just incredible, holy moly, you made so many cool different paths to take based on what you didn't sacrifice yet, and that plot twist at the end! What a great game.

Art and audio were both really good too, and the overall polish in the game was so much it was palpable.

The idea was pretty basic, but executed so well that I can't really say the game suffered from it.

I must say this is one of the games I had more fun playing so far, congratulations!
I loved the art, the sound fits the environment and the levels were really well designed for you to be able to beat them despite the sacrifices you have made.
Some stages made me wanna see a checkpoint but then I stopped crying and moved on. I haven't really counted the amount of items at the beggining so I wasn't expecting what was waiting for me at the end, so innocent...
Again, great game! :)

Really fun, and did a really good job at incorporating the theme. The fact that depending on which gear you had meant you could play each level differently was quite impressive. Although for the first play through at least, it leaves the player having to guess which item will be the most useless in the levels to come. The art and sound were well done and gave the game a very fitting style. I think I'd agree with parts of what Kwisarts said in terms of the technical aspects of the game. I wasn't able to complete the game due to what felt like a pixel perfect jump that I only managed to do once or twice. Which is a shame because I really liked the game an wanted to beat it! That being said I was quite proud of how far I had come :)

Hi! It was pretty cute, had nice progression abd it's nice to have many items to sacrifice. I love how the way you sacrifice stuff opens or closes different paths!

However, the problem is that the game feels unfair. When you have a challenging game like this, you shouldn't feel like what's stopping you is the controls. The problem is this: it's not smooth. It's good to be able to control the jump, but whenever you move, you're constantly at full speed. Generally, to have a smoother movement, you would want to make a very slight acceleration instead of being either at 0 speed or either at 10 (random number). Here the movements are a bit rigid. Also, ease up the gravity a bit, everything feels a bit too fast and you feel like you're sucked by the grounds and traps. With a game with that speed i'd make the hitboxes a tiny bit smaller. Also, levels are a bit too long without checkpoints, was tedious Gave up on the last level (actually no, i closed the window by mistake and didn't feel like going there again)

This game is really great and super fun! The art is spot on, with cute animations, and the music and sounds are nice too. I liked the mechanic of sacrificing one item at each stage, as I could see new paths closing and opening for me with the choices I made throughout my run. Although I didn't finish it (it was really hard), I loved what I played. Good job!

Very good, a little too hard but that's okay. The gun seems a little too useful though compared to the rest ? (the grapling hook became useless because of the spikes, but the gun still had a big shortcut)

EDIT : yep I was thinking about that one :)

Really fun, and incorporates the theme very well. I had fun trying different things to get past areas. The levels seemed well thought out from the potential sacrifices the player might've made at certain points.

I liked the game game. It has some really interesting ideas like the darkness and light. It felt kinda bland by the end when you had lost most of your items, but it was interesting trying to find ways to pass the obstacles without the items you have sacrificed.

The controls where really nice and responsive and the sound was good. Not something exceptional, but it did it's job gracefully.

I hope you win. This is such a perfect use of the theme! I loved seeing the different paths i could've taken had i sacrificed something different! Very nice graphics. Foot steps got a little repetitive but the music and sounds overall were great!

Great job!

Very good game. However, did you leave in room switch commands? I accidentally shifted past the last two levels without completing them. Love the art and level design. Very innovative!

Great game and very challenging!

Dang this game is fun! The only thing I would say that it is a little too challenging, for me at least. On the last level after I had sacrificed everything I couldn't get through it. Maybe implement a save from this position feature. Great game though!