Oh dude! haha the title and screenshot dont do this game justice! Love the concept and the the gameplay is really fun, but VERY challenging haha. I could not get past the two windmills that are right next to eachother- its when it starts to get crazy because there is two of those crazy dudes flying around shooting at you and leaving bullets everwhere.

Overall it was a really good experience. goodjob!

Great game! I just wish the player could move a bit faster?

Dark Souls of golf games?

I loved the concept, I guess what attracted me was the really long title and weird screenshot, but I guess that could scare someone off to.

As for the game itself, again I loved the concept, but you shuould work a bit on the level design! It gets crazy hard real fast. Also, if you get in a bad position, it's game over.
Maybe just repositioning you and ball in a safe place when you respawn would be enough to help?

First of all: great taste in game engines :) The gameplay is really fun but also very hard. Actually a bit too hard for me - some kind of difficulty setting would be great (although I see how that's hard to implement in time). Music was nice and fitting. Just one note: you can resize the window - I don't know if that was intended and you could set the window title.

Nice game and idea 5/5!!! Good Luck!

Hey there fellow golf gamer! You made a really hard game that really nailed the theme of LD41. I never got past the two windmills. There just is no escape when you cannot outrun the bullets. Would love to hear if anyone has made it to the end of the level, if there is an end? Good job!

This was neat, but as others have said, very, very hard. Sometimes there was just no way to survive, which is frustrating. I finally got the idea that you could use the ball to kill some of the things shooting you, but that's difficult, and the windmills take multiple shots. I think maybe a softer ramp up into difficulty, and getting rid of the impossible scenarios, might make it cooler. But it was fun, and had good graphics and intuitive controls. Nice work.

There is bullet hell and there is this game. Nice idea though. Things to improve mud slows down way too much, charging while moving and many less bullets :)

@masha thanks for the feedback everyone, as for the difficulty it is what it is because I didn't have time to tweak it, but the game is indeed possible, I got to the boss and beat him myself.

Wow, that's not what I was expecting at all! So there is a boss that it's possible to reach?

I agree that the player should move faster and that there could probably be fewer bullets or enemies spawning, but everything about the game seems to work perfectly.

This game is really fun considering I can only play the first 30 seconds of it. The bullet hell elements are really great. The plane and the windmill have very unique firing patterns, but they are very predictable so they still feel fair to the player, but they are 10 steps past the basic "this guy shoots one shot", "this guy shoots 3 in a cone". I mean, it is borderline impossible for someone who isn't the dev to be able to dodge anything with the amount of bullets on screen and the move speed of the player.
I'm not a huge fan of the pacing of the game. The movement speed is too slow (compounded by the terrain that slows you down more), the scrolling is too slow, and the difficulty ramps up too quickly. It would be nice if scrolling was more dynamic so if you manage to kill the first windmill quickly, you could putt up and gain some good distance without being hindered by the scroll speed of the game.

The art is fantastic. The bullets background texture looks great and it tiles well. All of the art matches. The ball rolling animation is cute, but subtle, your gold swing is very smooth and has some nice heft behind it.

The music is pretty catchy actually. It got me pumped up so that I kept retrying the game even though I knew it was impossible.

All in all, I would've really like to have seen more of this game, but I'm garbage so I can't make it very far.

Really well executed. :)

Wow this is really good! I genuinely had fun playing it. Great music too along with a fun mix of game mechanics. Great job! :dog:

I'm not sure how close I got to the end, but boy was this game difficult! There were times where getting hit seemed inevitable but overall I had a pretty fun time! The bullet patterns were really cool and I liked that you could actually hit the enemies with the golf ball

Wow you actually caught my attention by making this game really hard :smile: I'll have to come back to finish this since I've got to continue working but oh boy this game has potential! As another user said, this might be the dark souls of golfing games :smile:

I’d love for you to review my submission as well.
# https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/41/keyboard-warrior

Really good concept and execution but it feels incredibly difficult :P

This was very fun!

Really fun, really hard and perfect execution of the theme. Great job.

Quite a combination, and funny one too! Super fitting audio and difficulty is inherent to bullet hell games so you nailed this one down.

It's a bit _too difficult_ though. Player character moves way too slow, it feels the map scrolls too slow, the gaps between bullets are often too small for your character to even pass through unharmed and one thing is that I kinda expected for the golf ball to collide with the character too if it bounces back from something, maybe even stop in it's tracks for easier putting.

It's not impossible by any means, but in my personal opinion a bullet hell game really needs super tight controls for the difficulty to feel enjoyable, which of course is harder to pull off now that you need to punch a golf ball around :P But it's certainly a good concept and with little changes the game could be very entertaining indeed. Well done!

Well this did exactly what it said on the tin. Mildly addictive and extremely frustrating!
I had a lot of fun playing it on my stream last night:
https://clips.twitch.tv/OpenWanderingPistachioPupper

Very nice game with a very cool idea!. Don't want to repeat what everyone has said but its VERY hard. Still ... I liked the graphics .. the soundtrack ... and the concept. Good job!

Great game just really hard. There also not a clear cut objective.

I liked the game, got a bit frustrated with the controls at times, pretty addictive though!

I love Danmaku but this one is hard !!! ^^

So, I couldn't reach the boss because it was very hard. I played about 5 attempts before reaching the conclusion that golf isn't my sport.. give me a gun dammit!

Enjoyed the whole time I played though! I'd suggest you make it a big more forgiving if you want people to actually see your content(Check out my game to see the idea I came up with ;) )

I really like Golf game. Your approach is really original from what I have seen so far. So it was really fun to try this Golf Shoot'em up :smile:
Well done!

Pretty cool, really difficult! I need to be able to move faster! Maybe not collide with the ball.. or be able to push it?

I like the concept but this difficulty isn't well balanced. In fact, I suspect it's not balanced at all. Seems not that far tho. I would like to try a version with faster move or less bullet or faster charge for shooting...

Challenging, well made game! I included it in my Ludum Dare 41 compilation video series, if you’d like to take a look. :) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LrYzQfgK9hU

I loved the retro graphics, but I found it very difficult to destroy the mills. They could be a hit just to be destroyed. I love navy games.

I left my rating of your game, if you can leave your feedback in our game, Witch's Escape.

I hope you continue with the project.

https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/41/witchs-escape

I love the style! The choice of portrait aspect ratio works very well. Very accurate name too; that's what it feels like to play the game. There could be a more forgiving escalation in difficulty, but I'm not one who can cry [fowl](https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/41/motherducker) on a high difficulty. Great music!

Didn't know what to expect from a title like that, but glad I played it! This was a cool mash-up; one of the most interesting takes on the theme I've seen this LD.

It's a little too hard for my tastes, but this is definitely a great entry. I'd be really interested in seeing a version of this which eases into the difficulty a bit more smoothly.