Dancin Divas

Dancin Divas

Shell Feb 26, 2023 @ 11:30am
Demo feedback
Hi. While I'm rather late to the party, I've been playing the demo for a bit and let me say this looks very promising. You nailed the presentation in every single aspect: crazy characters, funny animations, catchy music, colored backgrounds, funny voice acting and at least one fetish for every weirdo out there. This game is just filled to the brim with personality!

That's the positive, now for the remarks and issues:
- My main gripe gameplay-wise is the auto-grab when an enemy is close. That's a problem because you'll generally be grabbing on accident, as enemies get in your face more often than the other way around. It's also a pace breaker that leaves you vulnerable way too often. I even found myself stuck one time while fighting the boat's boss: I would keep grabbing and throwing a mook, unable to move, which gave the boss plenty of opportunities to grab me. If you want to keep the action keys to four, why not give grabbing its own key and assign the ultimate attack to the Attack 2 key when held down or Attack 1 and 2 when pressed both at once?
- The lack of key settings is a major deal. I also hope future builds will automatically detect Xbox controllers - some players are just less confortable with a keyboard when it comes to certain games.
- I was hoping the training mode to give you a list of each character's moves.
- Some enemies feel too fast and could use one or two pre-attack frames before striking.
- Enemies knocked off screen can take a while to come back, which is a problem when time is running out. It can also hide animations, like when bosses are defeated.

Now, I don't recall playing any arcade beat-'em-up until this very game, so please take some remarks with a grain of salt! I could also have said that navigating in 3D and landing hits as sprites can be troublesome, but that's something you get used to and shadows are here for a reason.

If anything else comes to mind, I'll let you know. In the meanwhile, I'd like to ask if you have plans for other playable characters in the future (there's probably one or two other flavors of divas qnd other characters you can come up with) and if the Character profile section in the main menu will include a gallery for every enemy's animations and voice lines. There's such a wide variety of foes, it'd be nice to be able to check them out when not beating them to a pulp.

Good work and good luck with development!

EDIT: Oh yeah, and can we hope for a Switch port in the future? This game would fit right in.
Last edited by Shell; Feb 28, 2023 @ 11:19am
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mrpr1993  [developer] Mar 13, 2023 @ 10:54am 
Thank you so much for the critique!

And I have more plans on giving more features in the game and have been implementing more stuffs in development.

And I to hope to have this game be in a Switch port some time in the future too!
Shell Apr 4, 2023 @ 7:23am 
Awesome! I'm looking forward to seeing more!
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