The incremental games by adriendittrick are always a blast, and this one is much of the same; the different combos you can build up are great fun, and it's super satisfying to absolutely obliterate everything. The sprites are charming, too, and I especially like the flavour text of attacks.
The only issue I had was with the final area. At that point, I found the only way I could beat the final boss was with Nidhogg and Fenrir, and it did rely a bit on RNG, since it had to not pick the same move two times in a row . It was a shame to say goodbye to Boost, too ;(
Other than that, though, I loved this little game! Great work.
There is actually another way to beat the almighty, though it was a bit of a bug exploit. When you fight an enemy with explode, if you keep on boosting before it explodes, your boost will carry over to the next battle. So you can boost twice at the printer and just gravity the almighty to kill it.
oh, found a glitch, If you attack an enemy too soon after attacking one already you get frozen on the attack screen. you can still restart from here though. easy to do on the space level if you overlap with two moons and spam click where the attack button will be.
I actually thought this was a lot of fun!! :D :D I enjoyed the concept a lot and thought it was a blast getting to the very end, until I became the almighty hehe.
I found the game boring since last office level. However, I saw many comments saying that's a good one. I continued playing and eventually I met the final boss. Fighting it is not boring but simply annoying. Even if I get the right abilities, it would still take me about 2000 turns to win while making sure the enemy can't use it's one-hit-kill abilities. I really wanted to find a reason to call it a good game but I've only wasted time.
Sorry, I only had 2 days to make that one, so it might not be on standard with normal RPGs :p The core gameplay is about discovering broken big brain combos. For instance using coffee to double your attack power with a move that removes half of the enemy HP. Sorry for wasting your time!
you can. i did. you just need to bruteforce it until you get a lucky attack patern. start with the wise, then the powerfull and then the damned. finally get lucky against the almighty using fenrir once and then attack twice.
Glad you had fun with it :) Since we're under lockdown here, I will probably have more time to make another game like this, stay tuned! (also consider joining my discord server if you wish to be informed about upcoming games)
I loved this! Especially considering it was made in a jam... :D :D
If you were to further develop I would love to see ID stealing form part of the gameplay proper (I actually chose to be the plane by luck and then realised that would have been the only time it was a material choice). In my first playthrough I thought that the ID was going to be relevant so I decided to be a coffee machine to see if the manager was less eager to fire me. Turns out he still really wanted to fire me.
Love the game! I think I crashed it though - music is still going but the screen has gone black and unresponsive.
I had the moveset of Pummel, Copy, and Close, and I was up against a Stop Sign. The Stop Sign used Stop on my Pummel. I used Copy to use Stop on their Stop move (turning it to a Go move).
The Stop Sign then used Go to return their Go move back to their Stop move. I wondered what would happen if I used Copy. I tried it, and the text did get to the point of describing 'You use Copy. You use Go' but then, like I said, black unresponsive screen.
This is actually one of if not my most favorite game for the 2020 GameJam. I am surprised this game isn't further up. I really hope this gets worked on more and can be expanded. That's not to say this game is without it's flaws tho. ---FLAWS--- 1. The randomness really makes the game better in most cases, the true last phase completely ruins it. While I understand the idea is to defeat the 3 lesser gods to defeat the final god that doesn't excuse the fact that it is stupid annoying. Power god can 1 shot you if he does boost then his attack (I forgot the name). Healing God can 1 shot if he uses his attack and Special God is just plain annoying.
2. There is literally no point changing your ID. Excluding being forced to change your ID on bosses. Out of the entire game the only point where you ever have to change your ID is in the 2nd level of Political life, where you have to become the plane to get across the water.
3. There really isn't much replayability, sure you can try a variety of different sets but it's literally impossible to beat parts of the with just any move. On top of that, once you beat the game every way possible there isn't really a reason to ever play the game again.
4. The final god bossfight is literally the easiest fight in the game, I mean sure you could try to beat it without the other 3 god's powers but from my playthroughs that is impossible. There is literally no point to the fight.
---POSSIBLE SOLUTIONS---
1. For the power god, change boost to a different special move. For the healing god, i'm not sure. For the special god, you could change Fenir to change every move except for the previous move into GO. Or for all 3 you could make it less likely they uses their respective god move.
2. Give every (or at least some) enemies a unique feature that allows you to a certain thing you could not previously do. (Like how planes can fly) The make it required to change your ID into something else to continue.
3. While i'm not entirely sure, I do have some ideas. You could add a Hard Mode where it's like before the update (Stealing half HP and not able see what the enemy does next). Adding some form of endless mode or even adding optional stuff like collectibles and achievements.
4. Make thee boss's moves unable to be turned into go and give other (new) moves instead of just everything be instant kill, maybe for a good twist even make it so it attacks first instead of you.
---CONCLUSION---
Overall, this is a really fun RPG game with a very unique twist but I would really like to see these things fixed/changes and just have the game be generally expanded. Also if you want, I personally really would like to help with this game or even just modding the game. So if you don't mind, consider either sending me current source code on either Discord (UltraNinja#1666) or via e-mail (superultraninja11@gmail.com). or updating the source code you have for download.
Boost is actually working perfectly as intended :) after the city you have to defeat the mayor to progress. He's in the third city map. Also, you eventually need to steal the ID of a plane to cross water.
When you beat a "world boss" you're given no choice but to change ID which moves you to the next world, other than that it's mostly aesthetic other than one point halfway through where you must take the ID of a standard enemy to be able to continue.
This game is pretty simple but it's really cool. I just think the end is reeeeeally bad. Like, it's the idea of it is really cool, but the execution basically relies on luck entirely!
When I FINALLY got extremelly lucky and got Nidhogg and Jormungandr, getting Fenrir is super easy, but then! I used fenrir on The Almighty, he unlocked one of the "GO"s, I used Nidhogg and guess what? He used the only Ragnarok he had! It took me like, half and hour to get to him and when I finally do, this happened?! Sorry but I had to rage quit the game at that point.
Still, the concept is really cool, and seeing how absurd things start to get is pretty fun, I just wish I could see the ending.
Been thinking more about my issues with the game . I think the main problem is in the latter half, there's no strategy. Or rather, any strategy other than the intended one will get you killed. I gave up after the final fight one shot me (I had the moves but often instinctively double click going into battle and accidentally clicking a move I didn't mean to) because the final fight wasn't even a fight, there was no strategy, just "do the one thing that is guaranteed to kill him", more of an easy puzzle than strategy. Not to mention if you take a wrong path you have to grind up all over again. Like, why? It's not that I don't know what to do, but either I'm locked in with a bad moveset and it's just a case of RNG, or I've got the moveset and it's just a case of doing it despite how mindless it is by that point.
Sry if this comes across as harsh, but this game has an enjoyable factor that mean all the issues are so much more bitter.
Brilliant game! Like Final Fantasy crossed with Katamari Damacy :-)
A few quality of life improvements:
1) Speed up the fights, especially getting to the post-fight picks (or give the option to). The Space phase became a bit of a drag because of the number of trivial fights and how long it took to get through them, bearing in mind I could one shot the enemy.
2) Stackable moves should indicate what level they're currently at when you hover over them
3) Moves like Gravity should show how much damage they're currently expected to do
4) The final phase could perhaps be more puzzley. I beat it eventually, but it was more the compounded luck of my enemies' move picks than a particular strategy on my part. On some level, there's a sense that you should be tackling the enemies there in a particular order and taking particular moves off them, but the encounters are still more defined by luck than judgment. The final enemy, especially, could maybe use a design pass. My strategy involved a highly effective form of the stopping mechanic, but why does the AI opt to 'Go' twice in a row when it's got a winning move available?
This games really great, but there's two major points against it.
1.RNG, its best to just take on tough enemies and hope they don't use their strongest attacks at the start, in part because
2.It feels like there's always one intended path, and if you don't take it, you're screwed. After grinding for way too long, I decided to keep boost incase we ended up with a numeric damage attack. Then the sun 1 shot me cos I didn't divide its HP and all that time was wasted.
The sense of scale was great but now I leave it feeling like I just wasted my time for trying to be ambitious.
most encounters can be cheesed :) for instance, you can just steal "magnitude" from one of two planets (Jupiler or Youranus) and then use it twice on the sun.
Cool premise but a bit tedious to play at the start. There's probably more to the game but I don't have the patience to grind there. Great presentation though :D
The concept of taking over the identity and abilities of opponents you defeat is very clever. I did find it a little more grindy than I’d have liked though toward the end. I guess it wouldn’t be an RPG without that haha
The graphics are exactly in the theme that I like, the music is very pleasant and this principle of play is very interesting! Only downside, we can not play this game with a controller.
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10/10 you can fight the almighty god of the universe as an intern.
OP intern!
This game was awesome
thanks :D
The creator should expand i
Maybe if I have time one day I'll work on a similar project :)
The incremental games by adriendittrick are always a blast, and this one is much of the same; the different combos you can build up are great fun, and it's super satisfying to absolutely obliterate everything. The sprites are charming, too, and I especially like the flavour text of attacks.
The only issue I had was with the final area. At that point, I found the only way I could beat the final boss was with Nidhogg and Fenrir, and it did rely a bit on RNG, since it had to not pick the same move two times in a row . It was a shame to say goodbye to Boost, too ;(
Other than that, though, I loved this little game! Great work.
Thanks a lot for the thoughtful review :)
There is actually another way to beat the almighty, though it was a bit of a bug exploit. When you fight an enemy with explode, if you keep on boosting before it explodes, your boost will carry over to the next battle. So you can boost twice at the printer and just gravity the almighty to kill it.
oh, found a glitch, If you attack an enemy too soon after attacking one already you get frozen on the attack screen. you can still restart from here though. easy to do on the space level if you overlap with two moons and spam click where the attack button will be.
final world is easy enough once you figure out what order to fight the gods
there are also ways to exploit tiny enemy mechanics (like coffee) to build up extreme combos!
ah did you try the multiple boosts thing? :p
Yep. That intern probably just exploded.
I actually thought this was a lot of fun!! :D :D I enjoyed the concept a lot and thought it was a blast getting to the very end, until I became the almighty hehe.
being the almighty is a big responsibility!
I found the game boring since last office level. However, I saw many comments saying that's a good one. I continued playing and eventually I met the final boss. Fighting it is not boring but simply annoying. Even if I get the right abilities, it would still take me about 2000 turns to win while making sure the enemy can't use it's one-hit-kill abilities. I really wanted to find a reason to call it a good game but I've only wasted time.
Sorry, I only had 2 days to make that one, so it might not be on standard with normal RPGs :p
The core gameplay is about discovering broken big brain combos. For instance using coffee to double your attack power with a move that removes half of the enemy HP. Sorry for wasting your time!
Could you add a way to get all moves in the final level?
you can. i did. you just need to bruteforce it until you get a lucky attack patern. start with the wise, then the powerfull and then the damned. finally get lucky against the almighty using fenrir once and then attack twice.
congrats!
This is very funny and imaginative!
Thanks :)
Finished. Very satisfying!
Glad you had fun with it :)
Since we're under lockdown here, I will probably have more time to make another game like this, stay tuned! (also consider joining my discord server if you wish to be informed about upcoming games)
Sure!
I loved this! Especially considering it was made in a jam... :D :D
If you were to further develop I would love to see ID stealing form part of the gameplay proper (I actually chose to be the plane by luck and then realised that would have been the only time it was a material choice). In my first playthrough I thought that the ID was going to be relevant so I decided to be a coffee machine to see if the manager was less eager to fire me. Turns out he still really wanted to fire me.
hey, thanks for the nice review :)
I didn't have that much time to implement the ID stealing part yes, maybe it will get more fleshed out in another game!
interesting idea!
me uh uh into the ground you manhole
yes
Love the game! I think I crashed it though - music is still going but the screen has gone black and unresponsive.
I had the moveset of Pummel, Copy, and Close, and I was up against a Stop Sign. The Stop Sign used Stop on my Pummel. I used Copy to use Stop on their Stop move (turning it to a Go move).
The Stop Sign then used Go to return their Go move back to their Stop move. I wondered what would happen if I used Copy. I tried it, and the text did get to the point of describing 'You use Copy. You use Go' but then, like I said, black unresponsive screen.
Very fun otherwise!
ahyeh i need to fix that
---INTRODUCTION---
This is actually one of if not my most favorite game for the 2020 GameJam. I am surprised this game isn't further up. I really hope this gets worked on more and can be expanded. That's not to say this game is without it's flaws tho.
---FLAWS---
1. The randomness really makes the game better in most cases, the true last phase completely ruins it. While I understand the idea is to defeat the 3 lesser gods to defeat the final god that doesn't excuse the fact that it is stupid annoying. Power god can 1 shot you if he does boost then his attack (I forgot the name). Healing God can 1 shot if he uses his attack and Special God is just plain annoying.
2. There is literally no point changing your ID. Excluding being forced to change your ID on bosses. Out of the entire game the only point where you ever have to change your ID is in the 2nd level of Political life, where you have to become the plane to get across the water.
3. There really isn't much replayability, sure you can try a variety of different sets but it's literally impossible to beat parts of the with just any move. On top of that, once you beat the game every way possible there isn't really a reason to ever play the game again.
4. The final god bossfight is literally the easiest fight in the game, I mean sure you could try to beat it without the other 3 god's powers but from my playthroughs that is impossible. There is literally no point to the fight.
---POSSIBLE SOLUTIONS---
1. For the power god, change boost to a different special move. For the healing god, i'm not sure. For the special god, you could change Fenir to change every move except for the previous move into GO. Or for all 3 you could make it less likely they uses their respective god move.
2. Give every (or at least some) enemies a unique feature that allows you to a certain thing you could not previously do. (Like how planes can fly) The make it required to change your ID into something else to continue.
3. While i'm not entirely sure, I do have some ideas. You could add a Hard Mode where it's like before the update (Stealing half HP and not able see what the enemy does next). Adding some form of endless mode or even adding optional stuff like collectibles and achievements.
4. Make thee boss's moves unable to be turned into go and give other (new) moves instead of just everything be instant kill, maybe for a good twist even make it so it attacks first instead of you.
---CONCLUSION---
Overall, this is a really fun RPG game with a very unique twist but I would really like to see these things fixed/changes and just have the game be generally expanded. Also if you want, I personally really would like to help with this game or even just modding the game. So if you don't mind, consider either sending me current source code on either Discord (UltraNinja#1666) or via e-mail (superultraninja11@gmail.com). or updating the source code you have for download.
Boost is broken. ended up getting 100 damage
Also not sure if its the end of the game but after the citys i get stuck with nowhere to go.
Yea, also stuck. Maybe we shouldn't have killed all those innocent citizens. Bad karma ...
/edit: Figured it out - no bug.
(use https://rot13.de/index.php to decrypt).
Tip 1: Lbh pna fgrny vqf ...
Tip 2: Guvf vf gehr rfcrpvnyyl sbe cynarf, juvpu pna syl ...
Tip 3: Naq lbh pna erybnq gb trg vg onpx vs lbh nyernql unir xvyyrq vg.
Boost is actually working perfectly as intended :)
after the city you have to defeat the mayor to progress. He's in the third city map. Also, you eventually need to steal the ID of a plane to cross water.
U have to use the Plane's ID to fly over the water
neat idea, good mechanics. dont see a reason to change ID
When you beat a "world boss" you're given no choice but to change ID which moves you to the next world, other than that it's mostly aesthetic other than one point halfway through where you must take the ID of a standard enemy to be able to continue.
This game is pretty simple but it's really cool. I just think the end is reeeeeally bad. Like, it's the idea of it is really cool, but the execution basically relies on luck entirely!
When I FINALLY got extremelly lucky and got Nidhogg and Jormungandr, getting Fenrir is super easy, but then! I used fenrir on The Almighty, he unlocked one of the "GO"s, I used Nidhogg and guess what? He used the only Ragnarok he had! It took me like, half and hour to get to him and when I finally do, this happened?! Sorry but I had to rage quit the game at that point.
Still, the concept is really cool, and seeing how absurd things start to get is pretty fun, I just wish I could see the ending.
sorry! It will get easier in the post-jam version :)
star bomba hurts my ears :(
that's intended :p
I had bug. 2 enemies attack me at once and after the first battle second started but after my attack game freeze
woops, will have to fix this in the post-jam.
Been thinking more about my issues with the game . I think the main problem is in the latter half, there's no strategy. Or rather, any strategy other than the intended one will get you killed. I gave up after the final fight one shot me (I had the moves but often instinctively double click going into battle and accidentally clicking a move I didn't mean to) because the final fight wasn't even a fight, there was no strategy, just "do the one thing that is guaranteed to kill him", more of an easy puzzle than strategy. Not to mention if you take a wrong path you have to grind up all over again. Like, why? It's not that I don't know what to do, but either I'm locked in with a bad moveset and it's just a case of RNG, or I've got the moveset and it's just a case of doing it despite how mindless it is by that point.
Sry if this comes across as harsh, but this game has an enjoyable factor that mean all the issues are so much more bitter.
yeah, the post-jam version will have better balance :)
love the game <3
awesome job
Thanks a lot for playing <3
Nuked earth,game crashed 10/9
it happens (I(llmake a post jam version where it crashes less)
Brilliant game! Like Final Fantasy crossed with Katamari Damacy :-)
A few quality of life improvements:
1) Speed up the fights, especially getting to the post-fight picks (or give the option to). The Space phase became a bit of a drag because of the number of trivial fights and how long it took to get through them, bearing in mind I could one shot the enemy.
2) Stackable moves should indicate what level they're currently at when you hover over them
3) Moves like Gravity should show how much damage they're currently expected to do
4) The final phase could perhaps be more puzzley. I beat it eventually, but it was more the compounded luck of my enemies' move picks than a particular strategy on my part. On some level, there's a sense that you should be tackling the enemies there in a particular order and taking particular moves off them, but the encounters are still more defined by luck than judgment. The final enemy, especially, could maybe use a design pass. My strategy involved a highly effective form of the stopping mechanic, but why does the AI opt to 'Go' twice in a row when it's got a winning move available?
Those are all very good points, I'll definitely do all that in a post jam version :)
Also I was planing on easing the grind by making you steal all HP instead of just half.
This games really great, but there's two major points against it.
1.RNG, its best to just take on tough enemies and hope they don't use their strongest attacks at the start, in part because
2.It feels like there's always one intended path, and if you don't take it, you're screwed. After grinding for way too long, I decided to keep boost incase we ended up with a numeric damage attack. Then the sun 1 shot me cos I didn't divide its HP and all that time was wasted.
The sense of scale was great but now I leave it feeling like I just wasted my time for trying to be ambitious.
most encounters can be cheesed :) for instance, you can just steal "magnitude" from one of two planets (Jupiler or Youranus) and then use it twice on the sun.
Pretty cool rpg. Nice retro art style. Good luck!
Cool premise but a bit tedious to play at the start. There's probably more to the game but I don't have the patience to grind there. Great presentation though :D
The concept of taking over the identity and abilities of opponents you defeat is very clever. I did find it a little more grindy than I’d have liked though toward the end. I guess it wouldn’t be an RPG without that haha
moons are completley unessecary
Fantastic game, but found a bug; I used Go to get a move back after using Land and the enemy Recycled it which crashed the game.
oh no. EDGE CASES T.T
You can skip levels to get back to where you were by holding down spacebar and pressing numpad+
The graphics are exactly in the theme that I like, the music is very pleasant and this principle of play is very interesting! Only downside, we can not play this game with a controller.
Sorry, it would be kinda hard to implement too since I use mouse controls :p
Also unfortunately I don't own a controller, so I wouldn't be able to test it.
Oh ! ok I totally understand ;)