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| Criteria | Rank | Score* | Raw Score |
| BOSS DESIGN | #42 | 3.579 | 3.579 |
| SOUNDS / MUSIC | #80 | 3.368 | 3.368 |
| Overall | #80 | 3.289 | 3.289 |
| ART / VISUALS | #81 | 3.737 | 3.737 |
| CONTROLS | #98 | 3.158 | 3.158 |
| USE OF THEME | #123 | 2.947 | 2.947 |
| FUN | #137 | 2.947 | 2.947 |
Ranked from 19 ratings. Score is adjusted from raw score by the median number of ratings per game in the jam.
Game's take on the theme
You can exchange a part of your character's soul with the bosses to gain their abilties.
Did your team create the vast majority of art and music during the game jam?
Yes
Did your game use PlusMusic?
No
Did your game use Playroom?
No
Did your game use generative AI art?
No
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Comments
Good game but really could benefit from some invuln moves or some kind of ranged attack. Also really sad that you can't just hold the LMB and swing the blade all the time, but oh well. Nice game, quite hard, but has a lot of charm in it!
The art direction of the game is cute and polished. The boss designs were clever and had interesting attack patterns, the bush boss surprised me. Combat is intuitive and fun. The only negative I can think of is health not regenerating between boss fights witch soft locked me. Overall great work!
I like the game and the boss design. This game was really fun. The art was really good. I loved the switching mechanic and thought that it was really creative. Good Job making this game.
If you are interested, could you please play my game. I would really appreciate it.
I like the boss design, gameplay and attack, the switching mechanic after beating a boss is weird and confusing, the game is buggy and I got soft lock on the second boss because life doesn't reset and the game saves before the fight.
Thank you for the kind words!
The health mechanic is intentional, but if that felt like a glitch then it is our responsibility to reassess it's performance.
Greatly appreciated.
Very cute idea, and I like the visuals! Could benefit from a controls screen and invincibility frames though.
The gameplay is really fun, I like how the combat works that you need to wait for an opening to attack. the visual are great, the animation of the boss and the abilities exchanging loosk really cool.
The control feel nice, music are very nice too, basically the whole game feel very complete.
Overall, very nice and polished game!
BEST TITLE EVER! Lovee the cute character and really well done sound design! Such a polished game :O
Great game! Cute art style and good looking animations. Good music, and fun and challenging gameplay. There are a couple of things I think that could make the user experience better: boss health bars, some iframes so you cant get hit by the same projectile twice or two projectiles/enemies ontop of each other, a sfx to let the player know if a fireball projectile hit, and some more in game info at least the first time you exchange abilities (about what it means and how it works). Overall it was a ton of fun to play, good job!
Thank you for the feedback! Glad you enjoyed it!
Love the game and the Exhange of powers.
The game is really fun, responsive controls, the movement is nice too.
Very fun and well polished!
Love the art direction and the music! Splendid game with a good boy
Really fun game! Cute art, great sound, and the exchange mechanic is well implemented. Good job!
I’m glad you enjoyed yourself! Thank you for the praise.
Who's a good boy? Who killed God? You're a good boy, you killed God.It's a cool game, and the visuals and animations are so silly.
I think the game looks really cool! It was really hard even on easy. It felt like the boss would always hit me even when I'm constantly moving. It would've been nice to have a dash or roll. I saw on the description that spacebar was secondary movement, but it feels like it might be for something you have to unlock after beating the first boss. Will definitely keep playing to try and get through the rest of the game!
We hope you get to see what the rest of our game has to offer!
I love it! Humanity restored
Thank you, Swig!
The game looks really good, but I couldn't get past even the first boss (On easy), even if I was carefull he would just one shot me out of nowhere, I think the main character could have a invulnerable time after being hit
Wow! As part of bugtesting, it seems we accidentally left normal mode on by default. Thank you so much for the heads up, as it has now been fixed. Thank you for playing!
The bug should now be fixed. Apologies for the inconvenience, and thank you for the bug report.
It looks good, there will be a Windows build?
Thank you for the comment kind stranger.
There is, indeed, a Windows build. It’s downloadable on the Itch.io page. As a team, we took down the HTML build since it was laggy, but the original Windows build is still there.