IDDALAI'S PROFILE

I'm playing this on my DS, through an emulator. That alone is fantastic! Nice going! (I didn't use save states as not to cause any random issues)

The title screen music and image look cool.

The intro has some well drawn images and an acceptable music.

The castle needed some depth to the background, the graphics quality is almost there but could use a little more work. The hero and enemies look good, only the backgrounds could be more appealing.

Sorry, but the music in the castle is atrocious, my poor ears.

I think you should have switched the functions of button B with button A.

The jumping is OK! But the movement is very slippery and it's tough to jump to small platforms because of it.

It's difficult to get treasure chests/keys and save the game since the game doesn't always recognize my input or maybe you need to be in just the exact pixel perfect spot which makes it annoying.

Hit detection is wonky too, since I am hit by bees when I'm not even touching them.

Oh no! The princess is in another castle!! :D

Wait, why did I lose my sword after beating the castle!? Not fun :(

The humor is cool.

I much like the graphics in the storage level. I feel they are a step up from the castle.

Cool, I got a bow! Useful.

Then it got too frustrating to get the key to beat the storage level, so this is where I leave.

With some more work, this could become a nifty little game! Congrats for finishing the game for the event!

Right from the title screen I could tell a lot of care was put into this game and that I was probably gonna have a good time playing. Love that dithering and the color pallet harking back to DOS games.

Just so you know, I played in full screen but changed the aspect to 4:3 so that it didn't distort the graphics. I care.

Beautiful music. Nostalgic, sad and relaxing all at the same time.

Love the frame around the game area and how the maps are built in a sort of surreal fashion.

It was so clever to keep the text in one line at a time at the bottom, not interfering with the screen aesthetic.

A place to relax? Man, I needed this, thanks.

A flipping curtain falls to reveal the next screen! That's cool.

It isn't always easy to figure out where you can walk and where you can't though.

Now the game is reminding me of the importance of keeping hydrated. Thanks game!

The inverted pillars and the balance of broken ones, really makes for a cool look.

You strike me as a very visual person.

I could be just me, but some of the text seems to scroll too fast for me to read it on the first try.

Everything will work out if I just hang in there. Unfortunately that doesn't work a lot of times :/

The gear puzzles take some time to figure out but they are manageable. I'm not sure it was a good idea to make the character able to walk on stuff that the gears can get stuck on since it makes the puzzle rules confusing.

Man, that part with the reflection looked good.

Your game also alludes to the state of the world, but it does so in a positive way, so it didn't pull me from the experience.

The level and HP in the save slots are symbols, that's cool.

The way certain paths are made clear through the use of arrows is very charming.

The use of black to frame the maps and delineate invisible walls was very well done.

I would've hidden a bonus path in the location behind that locked door with the old man in the waterfall. But that's just me :P

This part reminds me of the dream world in Twin Peaks.

That map with the sphinx and the waterfalls behind it looks specially beautiful. And it leads into a Japanese style garden!

The sound effects add to the experience. They really fit the mood.

I'm not too big on “self-help” stuff, but I can't complain about it much here due to how it's framed.

So the door that's unlocked is to return to the real world, clever. It reminds me of a certain PSX game.

We're even treated to a credits sequence! It's so uncommon to see one in RPG Maker.

Thus the curtain falls slowly.

What a relaxing little game. You nailed it. Quite enjoyable. And to think that this was created in this limited time-frame! Congrats!

As a fan of "Legend of Denadel" I went into this with high expectations.

The text could use some work, but given the time frame, it's quite acceptable. The concept is interesting and has potential.

The battle system working like a puzzle of sorts is very interesting. I'm enjoying the graphics a lot.

15 minutes in when the “anti-hero” was transported to a beautiful REFMAP scenery, I then check the menu and find that there's a skill named “Pandemic Slash”... then the first treasure I grab is a “Vaccine”.
This completely pulled me out of the game experience and I stopped playing. Not a game for me.

Congrats on finishing a game for the event! And a large game at that, quite the achievement.

Using the event creator as a main character to get on his good side, huh? I see... :P

I'm playing this on my DS, through an emulator. That alone is fantastic! Nice going! (I didn't use save states as not to cause any random issues)

The splash screens look gorgeous! Nice detail to add RMN.

The title screen image looks very “Gameboy-ish”!

The text is humorous, but sometimes it tries too hard and misses the funny because of it. It does get into an enjoyable rhythm after a while.

I also think the story segments are too wordy for a game that plays on a small Gameboy screen that displays very little text at a time.
A good example of this is the conversation with Frogge before going to Australia by bus. It's a really long conversation and if you decide against taking the bus to save first, you have to go through all of it again and notice how long it is.

The graphics looks super appealing and make a good use of the Gameboy color palette. Really great work by Mirak and Avee (and everyone else I haven't heard about before).

I like how you can examine almost anything and it will say something amusing.

In most screens you can only enter from the park/garden with the animals, but in the East screen I can actually follow the road South into a new screen. I found this out by accident since in all the other screens with roads, they lead nowhere. A good solution would be to put cars or other objects at the end of those roads to justify not being able to go there so that the player attempts to go South on that one road, otherwise they may not even try it.
Honestly, it's not a big deal in this game since you can enter both locations from different places, but it's a good idea to keep the game rules consistent.

Out of all the Gameboy event games, this one has the best music! It's all quite acceptable and fits the locations well.

I started with the action RPG dungeon. The sword swings look janky and the gameplay lacks the satisfaction that usually comes from slaying foes in this type of gameplay (since the animation is very limited and there's little to no sound effects). BUT! It is functional and works for the game, I also have to take into consideration the time-frame for the event.

There's an issue here where slain enemies can still attack the hero despite being dead.

The top of this particular slice of cake uses a color very similar to the ground color, making it hard to identify what it is (could be an issue from my setup).

Why is Cash a villain!? :O

I love the slime sprite!

“Go do the thing.” Is a great line for a locked door to say.

Having different styles of gameplay was a great idea!

I love the turn-based RPG section presentation. The graphics are specially charming.

I used Slash but it didn't cost MP the first time for some reason, then the next time I used it, it cost 5 MP. This only happened once, so it could be a random thing.

I wanted to be able to read the notice on Ozzy's building, but there's nothing there.

Given the context of the event, this was a pretty well planned game for the time-frame. It just has just enough content, areas and gameplay. Cool-yo.

Finally went for the platforming section. It appears that this one is the worst out of all the gameplay sections due to bad hit detection and weird physics.

All of the GB Studio games have this issue, but the functions for buttons B and A should be inverted to be consistent with all other plaforming games on the Gameboy.

The platforming is very slippery and not very easy to control. Most Gameboy games had weird platforming physics though. I can get used to it.

However, one thing that truly dampens the enjoyment is how broken the enemy hit-detection is. I got hit by an enemy when I had a huge gap (the size of the hero sprite) between me and them. Other time I jumped on top of an enemy and it died but still killed me somehow.

In closed spaces I expect to hit the ceiling when jumping, but outside I don't expect to hit a ceiling since there's only sky above, so that caught me off guard.

During the cattle section I got my first game over in the game. If the hit-detection was better I would probably have enough lives to beat that section on the first try. What killed me was a jump where I first hit the ceiling and went into the water.

I'm not quitting here though. After all, it was just my first game over and I think I learned how to compensate for the hit-detection (although it would be better if you fixed it somehow, if that's even possible to do with this engine).

It was pretty kind of you to restart me from the cattle section instead of forcing me to play the platforming section from the start! Just what a short, fun, community game should strive for.

I feel like the platforming sections weren't as hard as people have been complaining about. I played through some platforming Gameboy games recently that were actually hard. I guess people aren't used to playing challenging platforming games any more.
Your platforming section was pretty manageable, challenging enough but not unreasonable in any way, what made it harder to complete was the enemies randomly killing me even when I didn't touch them.

I beat it on my second try.

I wouldn't eat any cake that glows in the dark! That shit is radioactive yo!

Time to speak with everyone once again. I like how you made dialogue after every slice and how some conversations follow a mini-story. It adds quality to the game.

The ending image looked pretty cool! Even though I wouldn't touch that cake with a 3 foot pole!

Nice to see another game with a credit sequence. I like credit sequences, it makes the game feel complete.

You misspelled Avee's name on the credits, by the way.

LOL at the NEW GAME + joke!

This was a fun little game that I enjoyed much! Considering the time-frame, it's quite an achievement in planning and completion! Congrats!

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...however, I didn't show up in the game. Therefore it sucks!!!!!

I really dig this mix between ACII old-school rogue-like with modern effects. Reminds me of Monaco.

I managed to equip a spear, kill a bunch of easy enemies, found a cave or something and got killed by a wolf.

Tried again a couple of times, but I think there were some incompatibilities with my computer since I pressed some keys and they randomly did nothing (like the key to enter dungeons). Which made it frustrating.

I played for some minutes but couldn't beat it. I somehow didn't feel compelled to keep playing this game to the end, but I did manage to beat the other event rogue-like on my second try. Then again, the randomness is a big factor in these games, so that could be it.

I'm not huge on rogue-likes but I think this is a cool little game you got here. Some years ago this would be the type of game people would stealthily run at work to relax a bit ;) Well done!