The game is excellent, I loved the difficulty, but I couldn't pass it, since I found a bug in which whenever I kill the second boss a black screen appears and the game stays like that. I would be fine if you try to fix it because I liked the game a lot and I wanted to continue playing. I hope you keep making good games :)
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A platforming boss rush where the bosses all die by being jumped on! This was made in 4 days for the Gelli Jam. I also wanted to upload it here though because i thought the game had something to it. I will also be making an post-jam version! so stay tuned for that!
3/22/22 Update: The game has medals, better jumping control, and a better title screen with new settings that can be saved!
4/6/22 Update: The final update! Added Hard mode (check options), added more music options, and tweaked the normal bosses to be easier to deal with.
4/26/22 Update: The Black Screen bug should be fixed! I have made it check way beforehand to make SURE that it is connected to newgrounds before it attempts to give a medal to a user! if it still persists do let me know! ^-^
First Boss (Hard): Nerfed White eye balls speed
Second Boss (Hard): changed it to be more consistent, Added more flooring to give more space, and nerfed the bullets. (They are slower and spawn less in the final phase)
Third Boss (Hard): Added Spikes to places you could stand still at. (Normal was unchanged because I like the idea of it being skill based on how you can stand still and time jumps, there is ONE section in hard you can do that in but it is very skill based). The spike speeds have been lowered and the bosses top hitbox is also lower down. This prevents accidental hits from the sides of the boss when attacking.
Switching Between Hard and Normal Modes deletes Save Data. This is to prevent people from playing on normal then switching to hard for the medal at the end. (There is a warning in game)
4/27/22 Minor Update: Added NG Passport to the game! I have updated the NG API so that it would work now for me. Had so many issues with this thing XD. It should be ok now
7/18/22 Minor Update and Last Update: Changed the way NG works on the game. This is the last time i want to fix this issue. For future games i will do my best to get some help into understanding the NG Api more!
Unfortunately, there is still no end screen. I couldn't think of a cool way to end it so it's still a endless boss rush. However there is some more medals to try and collect! Give it a shot!
TwistedFW responds:
Thanks for the comment! ^-^ I might come back to this project eventually and make it a lot better but no promises :3
This game is awesome! Love the pixel graphics!
Hmm 1st boss medal is not working for me. Using firefox.
And the game doesnt save. Otherwise its fine.
TwistedFW responds:
I'll be updating this project again eventually ^-^ thank you for letting me know. Still unsure about why the api doesn't work
ok so, update on hard mode.
i managed to clear hard mode, but game crashed on the third boss, so i had to do it again because it didn't save the medal.
it would have been absolute pain, if i didn't accidentally discover a bug: as long as you don't refresh the page, you can press esc on the main world to return to menu, then play game to resume without losing progress; long story short, you can clear the first two bosses on normal mode, then switch to hard mode only for the last boss. might want to get that fixed somehow.
in regards to bosses, the first boss is considerably harder, between the disleveled floor, increased speed and density of the attacks, which makes them harder to dodge.
though none of these compare to the difficulty that the white orb alone poses by simply existing. it's much faster, you have to constantly dodge it and it lingers for an insane amount of time. honestly that one change alone is what makes the first hard mode boss difficult, everything else simply locks you out of movement options while you're trying to avoid the white orb.
the second boss is probably the hardest of the 3 by a large margin. the missing floor is pretty annoying because you have to watch out your movement just to not get damaged, but the boss itself seems to have 3 different jump speeds and frequency of jumps that sporadically change between attempts, which make its movements wildly unpredictable.
however, phase 2 and 3 are simply unfair. you're already limited in your movement options by the missing floor, so you don't have many opportunities to deal damage, but then when the small window to attack shows up, you still can't do anything because you get damaged by the spawning bullets.
even if you just end up running away, you still get hit because you either jump and get hit by oncoming bullets, or don't move and get hit by the boss. and if you move and don't jump you fall and still take damage.
in the end i was forced to get the double jump upgrade and get to the 3rd phase on full health just to damage boost and get enough hits in, otherwise it's nigh impossible.
i can't really comment on the third boss, since i always cheese it by not moving from the spawn point and just timing my jumps. having double jump due to the previous boss also made it insanely easy, so there is virtually no difference between the easy and hard mode of the third boss, which makes the glitch to clear hard mode that much more appalling.
if i were to grade the difficulty of each boss (relative to each other), it would be:
1st boss (easy) - 3
2nd boss (easy) - 7
3rd boss (easy) - unranked
1st boss (hard) - 12
2nd boss (hard) - 20
3rd boss (hard) - unranked
for real, the second boss is such BS compared to the other ones.
the reason for the 3rd boss being unranked is that you can clear either one without moving, which removes the difficulty caused by spikes and the missing floor entirely. honestly i'm not sure how difficult they would be if i had to jump around while avoiding obstacles, but as they are now they're about as easy as the first boss on easy mode.
still some issues with the sporadic black screens out of nowhere, although it's not as annoying depending on whether the hard mode glitch gets fixed or not. honestly if i didn't discover that i would have never bothered trying to get the medal again, the second hard mode boss is too hard (too many lingering bullets; their slow speed makes it so different layers of bullets stack and form a wall as the boss moves towards you, so you can't really jump past it without getting damaged)
TwistedFW responds:
Wow! I really appreciate this review! Honestly. There are a lot of valid points here. I feel like the third boss is very interesting to find out about. The spikes on the ceiling were supposed to deter the player from standing in one spot. But it seems you have bypassed that, or, I suck at placing spikes lol. The second boss (Hard Mode) actually was doable for me and I thought it was actually too easy tbh. But I will take the time to nerf them. The third boss will most likely be changed to have another form of attack (similar to the white eyeball) to deter you from standing. This will of course also means that the number of spikes will decrease in the stage or they might get removed entirely. The black screen issue I am still not sure of. I've tried everything to fix it. The only thing I could think of, at this moment, is the game is crashing at a certain point. But that can't be true if you can exit back out. At the very least you can do that to solve the issue for now. The white eyeball seems to be the deadlist of all enemies however lol. Everyone so far has said it's been a problem. It seems I fixed it for easy mode but I will see what I can do for hard. Thank you again for reviewing my game again!
Great game. I would give feedback but the entire games freezes and turns to a black screen when you beat the second boss, so yeah. I saw qwerty714 have the same issue too. so i'm using ASUS computer, and on windows google chrome. Just wanted to let you know so that more people wont have the same issue as me and a few others such as qwerty714. Its a great game but you might want to check that out. Edit: I just had to redo the game a few times and it worked!!!
EDIT 2: I beat the final boss and the game broke to a black screen, huh. oh well, still good game.
TwistedFW responds:
Alright thanks for letting me know! I'll see what I can do. I didn't test on Chrome (i use firefox) so that's the first place I could check. And my second theory is something to do with the medals. (Maybe API is having issues on Gamemaker) I really do appreciate you letting me know!