Hanoka by Wolve
I added a button for the "original version" where i removed the music. Hope this is good enough to still qualify for compo! :D
Thank you all for playing and for the overwhelmingly nice reviews!!
This was one of my favorite jams so far!
Thank you all for playing and for the overwhelmingly nice reviews!!
This was one of my favorite jams so far!
Ratings
| Coolness | 51% | 3 |
| Overall | 4.13 | 21 |
| Audio | 3.62 | 110 |
| Fun | 4.20 | 11 |
| Graphics | 4.61 | 8 |
| Humor | 3.25 | 165 |
| Innovation | 3.92 | 90 |
| Mood | 4.16 | 24 |
| Theme | 4.16 | 13 |
Game looked nice, music choice was fitting and the basic gameplay concept was solid and fun. What I did not like though was the fact that you had to have some of the updates to be able to progress (mainly swim speed). This meant that I had to grind for a bit because I unlocked all the damage bonuses first. The updates also felt somewhat unbalanced and I managed to skip the update screen once in the heat of the game. The volume and quality of the voiceover was also all over the place, and they did get somewhat repetitive.
I loved the graphics the animations and the mood !
The intro was a little bit long as we can not past the text, but it worth it !
Great work !
Would love to see this as a full full fledged game!
You should have really made the intro skippable in some way, it takes way too long.
While the core gameplay is fun and works nicely, I felt that it got very repetitive rather soon. Also the shooting feedback was weird, would have helped to have the lines in a stronger contrating color to the background. I'd even considered completely dropping the charge mechanic, would have been way more fun just to shoot away all the arrows you can while in air.
Maybe you should have applied to Jam more than Compo, cause several persons helped you and coz of the music thing...
But its a great game anyway ! :D
The art is lovely and the gameplay mechanic is really fun, I just wish the fish were quicker and there were more of them near the top. It takes too long to build up enough to buy an upgrade when you have to swim down a ways and then wait for them to catch you up.
Maybe a little too much grinding tho.
(i did not understand in the first begining, but after that.. just awesome !)
The game feels good and is rewarding to play. The sense of progression could be reworked. As it is, it's a bit tedious
I killed the 4 spirits and that was really fun :)
I love the graphics and the mechanics. Much fun!!
The game is really fun, the graphics are beautiful and the polish... It's so frigging polished! It could be a "common game" (as in "one not from a game jam") that I wouldn't find it surprising.
Oh, and the snippets in japanese were a great idea! I found it really funny.
But I have one complaint. Although I find it fun (and fitting) that at first you can only shoot from outside the water, the health meter feels really broken. It starts decreasing then I suddenly die. When I'm circling enemies to jump again, many times I grazed one, took what seemed like little damage, and then died before getting away from it.
But other than that, the game is already awesome!