Solid action platformer just like the good old days.

You are the son of the hero who vanquished the bad guy the last time. Now it's your turn to beat up the baddies and save the world!

You start with a throwing dagger that can upgrade in size and power by collecting a power up. There are also throwing axes and a blue energy spell you can find or buy from a traveling merchant. Jump and double jump to platforms to defeat enemies and maybe find hidden things like food to increase you life or gems. Collect a key to open doors to continue to the next section.

Controls feel solid. I used the Xbox controller but you can also use keyboard. I had no trouble with landing on platforms, which sometimes happens with indie platformers. No slipping like the platforms are covered with ice (unless there really are platforms covered with ice in later levels, I don't know yet) and falling to your doom. Nope, in this game when you jump, you land solid. The only problem I ran into was enemies on platforms above you can hit you sometimes because your character jumps so high, even with single jump. But that's just a matter of getting used to how the game works.

So far it's been fairly easy, though I am no expert. From the title I assumed it would be hard as balls, but it's actually really fun. I died in the first section once, then restarted and made it into the second section before dying again. If you're a hardcore platformer you might be able to just whip right through this game in one sitting, I don't know. I assume it gets harder as the game goes on.

Graphics are nice, sort of a combination of pixels and cartoons. You can see from the screenshots if you like them or not.

Sound: The story is voiced by actors. There was a short intro and then another short scene before the first boss. I don't remember the music much, which just means it wasn't super good nor super bad.

Oh, I found one spot where you go could in one of two directions. You get 1 key but there are 2 doors. So that's pretty cool. It looks like a one-time choice, not like it loops around. That's nice for a bit of replayability.

Price seems right for the quality. Though, like I said, I don't know how long the game is yet.

Not a bad platformer, but in 2015 you would expect more than just a clone of some Ghosts & Goblins with a better graphics. Well, while we are at it go and try Castilla Maldita - 100% free and better than this game.

This game could be nice, but it lacks some of the features of most classics - replayability, rewarding difficulty and atmosphere.

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Holy hell is this game not worth your time. Your character controls, feels, and moves like a box. Your hitbox extends beyond the size of the character. It's clear when jumping and trying to fit through situations, you are simply a square or rectangle.

The feel of this platformer is simply awful, and that is an absolutely critical thing to nail in this style of game. You don't need to play more than a few minutes to understand how awful this game feels. A double jump is nice, but everything is so stiff. This game insults classic 16-bit platformers by comparing itself to them. This is not on the same level, not even close.

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TLDR: Ghosts N Goblins: Cheap Flash/Unity engine Edition. Xbox pad works. Limited assets. Camera too close to protag and massive hitboxes everywhere.

Review: Controls feel okay. Camera too zoomed in. Often changing Z levels on platform exposes you to immediate danger and there is no way to know ahead of time with those blind jumps. Character model and foe models are all way too large and make a lot of the screen a hitbox concern. Weapon where you throw a lance does not have a weird arc or anything. You shoot straight and you can shoot a lot in a short span of time. Its also possible to pick secondary ability power ups but those do not come into play nearly as much. Level design was not half bad and kept you mostly engaged in progressing further striking a good challenge balance for the most part. Xbox360 pad detected and working correctly. Quality of the visuals was debatable, there were some half decent animations like the death animation. However it seems lacking, flat, and very mobile-like. Foes and crates can take way too much punishment and the game is a slow grind, of jumping blindly and chipping at monsters by tossing 8 swords into them. Occasionally you get a sword power up that helps with the pacing but those need to be found every level and add an unnecessary and unpleasant ncessity to go on a silly easter egg hunt across entire levels all the time because the dev decided to slant game balance against the player if he did not perform his chores. Not my idea of fun. People are complaining a lot about the voice acting but It might have gotten redone as I thought that part was very very good. Audio arguably better than the game. Some sound effects were by nature of the game extremely repetitive and even kind of goofy. Game fullscreened correctly. Only saw three enemies, orcs, pigs and bats. Level variation introduced in the form of color reskin of tiles

Conclusion: Playable. You can get your fun out of it. But the experience comes across as substandard and the competition is just too strong in the platformer market for this to really stand a chance.

Nice project to make an attempt at creating a game, but to actually sell it that is a whole different story.

For a school project: 10 points. For a game you'd actually want to play: nope

It's glitchy, boring and I'd be embarassed to ask money for this.

a competent atempt at caputring the charm of old school games. The art style is interesting as well. Try to find a gaming bundle that has it because $6 is a bit much for this kind of game in all honesty.

2/10

Developer is refusing to give steam keys promised to bundle buyers, the people who helped this game through Greenlight.

I'm very excited to see this game hit Steam! I actually got to play it awhile back and it hasn't gotten any less ruthless than it was back then. Crazy challenging, simple controls and a unique art-style... What more could you ask of a platformer? Here's the 'Quick Look' video I made for Doomed'n Damned awhile back. I hope it aids you in your purchasing decision. ;)

https://youtu.be/irFYdyJVHbs