07-29-2021, 04:21 AM
This looks super fun! Those little mushroom guys are adorable, and man I love how the platformer feel and look of the tiled level design brings up feelings reminiscent of building fun Mario terrain out of spritesheets in fangames. I can definitely see the Shovel Knight influence in the gameplay and the little RPG elements look nicely implemented.
I haven't played the demo yet but from looking at the trailer, the one constructive piece of advice I can give (and this is a common criticism I've felt with a lot of cool in-development games, including even TD's Psycutlery) would be regarding the main character. It's kind of hard to make out what they look like or what they are, the sprite feels either too small or maybe like it could use a redesign exaggerating some aspects of say, the face expression. Just to give it a more notable or iconic look. Or possibly recoloring it to pop out more in its world. I'm not sure exactly, there isn't anything particularly wrong with it and it is cute, but if you really want the character to have that, like, popping-out-of-its-world identifiable look that say, Shovel Knight or Hollow Knight has, it could maybe benefit from an extra redesign. The sword animation however, looks great and does that pop-out feel perfectly.
I haven't played the demo yet but from looking at the trailer, the one constructive piece of advice I can give (and this is a common criticism I've felt with a lot of cool in-development games, including even TD's Psycutlery) would be regarding the main character. It's kind of hard to make out what they look like or what they are, the sprite feels either too small or maybe like it could use a redesign exaggerating some aspects of say, the face expression. Just to give it a more notable or iconic look. Or possibly recoloring it to pop out more in its world. I'm not sure exactly, there isn't anything particularly wrong with it and it is cute, but if you really want the character to have that, like, popping-out-of-its-world identifiable look that say, Shovel Knight or Hollow Knight has, it could maybe benefit from an extra redesign. The sword animation however, looks great and does that pop-out feel perfectly.