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[SymmetryCats DEMO]

in the intro/tutorial'ish thing it started playing the bell noise over and over again.

don't do that again.

[Slimeslinger]

i don't lose games. i win them. or quit them. because they are unfair

[UpSlash]

it feels weird to talk about but my shrink says to open up about these things. i was fighting the enemies and they killed me

[Stones of Medusa]

wish the abilities were explained. some of them didn't even make sense WHEN i used them.

[Deep in the Lab - Chapter 1]

the way the screen shifts a mile one way or another just because u swap the direction you're facing is such bad design.

the controls are so weird and unintuitive and uncomfortable

the way your character rolls.. i mean.. is it just me or does the character fall to the ground and smush their face into the ground and then suddenly appear back on their face? it's like you cut out the second half of the rolling animation.

the weird way your horizontal footprint int he game is so massive.. it makes everything feel insanely cramped.

the way the firs tmonitor is a ridiculous bullet sponge.

the way 'r' doesn't reload

much of the design here feels like it was created by someone who had done some gaming in the early to mid 90's but non in between then and now. so it's kind of like "retro but not the cool kind of retro that's informed by common sense things figured out int he past 30 years. more like retro.. in the weirdest and most unattractive sense possible"

i could go on and on about this but i guess all i really wanted to say was.. i can't believe this is also on steam.

it's barely ready for NG.

[The Colored Moth]

I found the art, lack of any music or sound effects, but above all, the theme, of very low quality.

[Örnöga: Idle]

i get the desire to simulate the CRT aesthetic.. but you took it too far. message me privately and i will allow you to take a look at some of my significantly better implementations of this design heuristic.

penusbmic responds:

Hey Thanks for the feedback!
The CRT can be turned off if you hate it that much... (I'll be adding a slider to adjust it to your likely in the full version as well, since this was made in 100 hours...)

any feedback on the game itself would be nice as well!

[Driven Wild]

baller

KilledByAPixel responds:

you know it!

[Bunny Smoosh (Nokia3310)]

10,000 times more visually stunning and musically innovative than any game in the bit trip runner series

[waxweaver]

this is awesome.

what a great atmosphere.

i'm actually inspired and am making a similar prototype with o1-pro. (it's fixing a problem with the lighting system as i write this review)