Decline's Drops

Oooh I lovw this game!! can't wait for the rest of the game to finish! it's a good game.

Hello Drazglb! I LOVED your game! I made a review, but in portuguese XD

I hope full game launch soon! Good Luck in your Dev :3

Nice work! I'm a dev too, so I thought I'd check the game out.

I think I encountered a bug here: 

The character was in the bottom-right corner, but when I jumped up to the roof, the camera bounds moved over to this other room with the boxes. Not sure if that was intentional or if the bounds of the box room was placed incorrectly.

One more thought: I like that you can't cancel your attacks into a parry, otherwise you could cheese the boss by parrying on reaction. However, because of this, it feels like the best strategy is to jab the boss instead of comboing. If you get locked in a combo when the boss attacks, you'll get hit, so it's safer to use individual attacks and wait for a chance to parry. 

Could probably be fixed if the boss enters hitstun when you combo them - but you also don't want the player to button mash, either, so it's a little tricky. Just something to keep in mind.

Either way, great work so far!

This is a very cool game. I love how you implement versatile verbs in the combat system.

Made a video

Hi Drazglb. I have played your game and I say that's a fenomenal work of art here. The graphics and the music are so gorgeous. I just loved every aspect of your work, I loved to play that and I took the chance to post on my channel.

Maybe the only problem here is the lack of more enemies, in my humble opinion. Despite that, I give you kudos for this beautiful game. 

This is definitely a very neat and stylishly animated game, I love the concept and the art style. However, I don't know what current plans are like, but I'd warn against making too many bosses that are just big unflinching damage-sponges.

These sorts of bosses work for Smash because they provide a style of gameplay that every character can approach in the same way with less risk of bad matchups, where everyone's moves have the same effect (just do damage until you win) and everyone can avoid attacks with the generic dodge/shield/jump moves. But... because of this, they're too far separated from the standard gameplay, and somewhat homogenized. More of a fun sideshow than a culmination of the mechanics.

Since you don't have to work with this constraint, you should be able to make bosses that follow the mechanics of the rest of the game, and provide more satisfying "make use of what you've learned" challenges rather than basically making the player adapt to a whole separate playstyle for boss fights

I really liked the demo.

✔️ Graphics - The overall look is cohesive. Very easy to the eyes. Beautiful. There are many ways to describe how good the graphics is. I like it very much. The screen transition is really cute as well, and I also liked its color palette.

✔️ Sound effects and music

✔️ Character movement and attack - Moves smoothly and I like the variety of attacks

✔️ Level design - I only played one level. I like the design because it wasn't monotonous or boring. It was fun exploring, collecting stuff and fighting the enemies.

Minor stuff:

The default controls are a bit odd for me though, WAD instead of ASD. But that's just a minor thing that can be fixed with customizable controls. And on the tutorial decals, W and A are switched.

It may just be a one stage demo for now, but Decline's Drops definitely shows potential. Quality character animations, fun visuals, chickens to punch, and a good kick of nostalgia. It's a good time and I'm curious to see what comes next.

I am play game.

I love game.

the controls of the game were difficult. (Pc)

But the game was good.

I wrote this article with translate. may be wrong.

Absolutely loved this game. Played it on stream with a friend and enjoyed the aesthetic, art, sound, and gameplay. Love to see what it becomes. Brilliant game that gives off "Lesbian Cottagecore Sonic" vibes.

It took me a while to find all the drops, but it was worth it (despite the lack of a payoff), especially since the theme of this game resonated with me so much :D

amazing vibe you got going on there! Keep up the good work :)

i think it would be better to have the glove sign say keep running or a small animation of them running and then transforming

Very relaxing game! 

I think the frog boss fight's hit box could be more accurate (on the tongue fist attack). The game could also be harder. Nevertheless, a fun game!

I wish I could draw like you, so I could make my dream game. Any tips on drawing??

Weird question but what did you use to make the visuals for your game? I would assume that the character animations were made in adobe animate (as that's the only form of vector graphics GMS2 supports in sprites besides Spine), but if you wouldn't mind I'd like to know just a bit more about your method (especially in regards to environments), speaking as a fellow GMS user who wants to avoid ye olde pixel graphics artstyle.

Obviously you don't have to answer if it would be too revealing in regards to your work methods.

I love the art design, the music works very well, the gameplay seems very comfortable to me and somehow a nostalgic feeling that remainds me when I play with my Nintendo Ds when I was a kid, I am exited to see how much the full game can offer, good work

Right off the bat, the game art-style screams at the viewer. Beautifully done and the music is very catchy. Buttons are smooth, but somehow doesn't follow the traditional mapping as other genres. I am also having difficulty performing the power punch move. Not sure if I am inputting the buttons wrong or what not. overall great game and here is my Video Review of it!

I enjoyed the demo: great graphics and good music. It would be interesting to see what later levels are like.

Nice work, but i wonder what you call this art style?