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Slow Mo Samurai by Rawb

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made by Rawb for Ludum Dare 51 (JAM)

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Beat all 15 levels, each within 10 seconds

A great evil encroaches on your village.

Use your unparalleled skill and speed to fight it.

Vanquish the bandits to keep your people safe.

Made using Unity, Aseprite, FL Studio, Audacity, ChipTone

How To Play:

Hold Left Click to charge dash attach and slow down time

Aim with mouse

Release Left Click to dash attack

Watch bar at the bottom to control how far you dash

Kill all enemies in 10 seconds to win

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Download for optimal experience and cool slow motion audio!

Note: This game doesn't save so be careful going back to the main menu. Sorry!

Link https://r0ckems0ckem.itch.io/slow-mo-samurai
Link https://r0ckems0ckem.itch.io/slow-mo-samurai
Original URL https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/51/slow-mo-samurai

Ratings

Overall 36th 4.244⭐ 41🧑‍⚖️
Fun 27th 4.256⭐ 41🧑‍⚖️
Innovation 138th 3.91⭐ 41🧑‍⚖️
Theme 449th 3.795⭐ 41🧑‍⚖️
Graphics 271th 4.077⭐ 41🧑‍⚖️
Audio 100th 4.013⭐ 41🧑‍⚖️
Humor 604th 2.8⭐ 32🧑‍⚖️
Mood 141th 4⭐ 40🧑‍⚖️
Given 34🗳️ 57🗨️

Feedback

Gus the Shark
03. Oct 2022 · 22:36 UTC
Wow! What a gem, I loved this game. So stylish, so sick. Highly addicting and very well crafted.
Kenzie
03. Oct 2022 · 22:39 UTC
This game is AWESOME! So much fun and the camera work is special. The music felt kinda weird for the gameplay but other than that I really enjoyed the whole experience.
Mr_DanH
03. Oct 2022 · 22:40 UTC
That was great, got a little too tough for me around 3-2 but when it's going well you feel like a badass. Nice job
BugByte14
03. Oct 2022 · 22:42 UTC
This game is so sick, It feels so satisfying dodging bullets and slicing up enemies. I love the fusion of samurai games with the 8-bit graphics. I don't think I've ever seen that before. Amazing job! :D
Grandblood
03. Oct 2022 · 22:44 UTC
Like the music and art style. Fun game, hard to see the bullets sometimes. But feels good when you clear the levels.
🎤 Rawb
03. Oct 2022 · 22:45 UTC
@mr-danh Nice job! Yeah it gets a little hectic at the end. 3-5 is the last level so you are almost there!
🎤 Rawb
03. Oct 2022 · 22:46 UTC
@grandblood Yeah it is hard to see bullets, I had them like that as placeholder art and never got around to fixing them :/. Thanks for playing!
Ryan Miller
03. Oct 2022 · 22:49 UTC
Fantastic game. It's like being in an 8-bit version of an old samurai movie. The controls are a little tricky, but when you string together a perfect set of moves it feels awesome. It looks really polished. Nice job.
Falk Hoeppner
03. Oct 2022 · 22:57 UTC
Holy cow, this one is soooo good! I loved the music and the gameplay was great. The white bullets are a bit hard to see on the light yellow backdrop, so introducing some more contrast for better readability would make this game even more enjoyable. Really really like your game!
Ismael Rodriguez
03. Oct 2022 · 23:19 UTC
Very good! Nice and juicy, very fun to play. As other mentioned those white bullets are super hard to see, I had no idea what was killing me at first.
hammerfrenzy
03. Oct 2022 · 23:23 UTC
This one is excellent. A solid core mechanic, and then forcing the player to alter their approach to different situations (moving around water, hiding behind rocks, avoiding explosives) and think on the fly.

Minor nitpicks are the bullet contrast that was mentioned, and move the 'Menu' option away from 'Replay' a bit since there's no stage select (I clicked too fast).

Well done overall!
Eric Nguyen
04. Oct 2022 · 01:03 UTC
Love games where one mechanic has multiple functions (attacking and movement). This is extremely well executed and I would actually love to see this game turn into something bigger. Only reason why I stopped playing was because I started to run into performance issues on 2-4, but that's probably my bad for playing the HTML5 version. Great submission!
fuzzybut
04. Oct 2022 · 02:31 UTC
This is so creative! Really solid and easy to pick up. I also had some trouble seeing some of the white bullets and orange gas(?). The mechanics feel good, too.
Andrew Hoyer
04. Oct 2022 · 04:28 UTC
This control scheme feel very unique to me. Well done. Had a nice overall feel.
thegamearchitect
04. Oct 2022 · 10:38 UTC
5*, as someone who generally hates most clicking games, this is somewhat of a masterpiece. Excellent graphics and audio that suit the style, theme is employed in a fun way. Gameplay feels smooth despite the staccato rhythm of the characters movements. Very well done an excellent game!
LDJam user 298496
04. Oct 2022 · 10:49 UTC
Really cool vibe to this game, everything works together really well.
VenFola
04. Oct 2022 · 10:56 UTC
Nice graphics, well polished, very enjoyable!
To know how far the character is going can be quite tricky even with the blade filling up. But still very nice to play and juicy.
🎤 Rawb
04. Oct 2022 · 11:43 UTC
@thegamearchitect @andrew-hoyer @matt-ravenhall @venfola Thanks for kind words about the game. I really appreciate it!
Doot
04. Oct 2022 · 12:41 UTC
Very good game!

The visuals and audio are beautiful, readable and clear. I love how everything is super intuitive. Level design is clean and offers several paths.
A lot of polish everywhere, I love the slow mo + zoom at the end of every level for exemple!

Maybe more contrast on enemy projectiles would have helped a bit.
I made the mistake to go back to menu at something like level 12 oh noooo ☠️

Thanks for the game I had fun, very strong entry ⚔️
🎤 Rawb
04. Oct 2022 · 14:48 UTC
@doot Thanks for playing. Yeah sorry about the main menu issue. I didnt have time to actually figure out how to save the level progress. I tried to put warnings in the description about it but yeah it is very annoying.
SLEEPYMENACE
04. Oct 2022 · 15:09 UTC
Simple, fun, really stylish and cool - great game! I clipped out of the level in a couple spots, but always managed to get back in so it's all gucci. Love the strategy aspect of planning your moves under time pressure.

Super solid, color me impressed!
pinnyo
04. Oct 2022 · 19:22 UTC
What that was great! Someway to inform what the radius of my attack is would be nice, eventually I just started to innately understand what I was going to do and what I could hit. Very fun!
Lomby
05. Oct 2022 · 00:23 UTC
Fun game, took a load of attempts but finally beat the beholder. Very clear on how to play and felt great getting the timing right!
Great music and art style! Congrats!
later_named_w00f
05. Oct 2022 · 05:53 UTC
Not simple game at all, lol. Highly polished and sophisticated game. Don't believe that you've made it for 3 days!
Fairly the best game on this jam/
d j o v i c
05. Oct 2022 · 08:15 UTC
Only in 3 days :O !? Your game is really awesome, my curretly favorite jam game ! ^^
LDJam user 4886
05. Oct 2022 · 08:45 UTC
Cool idea! I'm not sure if spamming the attack button was the intended way of playing, given that it's a slowmotion samurai, but I found it made it easier to play! Otherwise I found it difficult to make it properly so the sword hit the target at the right time. On the other hand, that felt like playing a game of golf!! Which was quite cool (but I ended up dead because of enemies shooting!)
lectvs
05. Oct 2022 · 17:44 UTC
Fun game! I think the hitboxes could be a bit more generous (sometimes a bullet hit me when I think it shouldn't, sometimes my character just went through an enemy without slashing him). I had a lot of fun with this, though! Love that every level features something new and exciting, and a boss battle to finish it all off! Great work :smile:
Jaked
05. Oct 2022 · 21:28 UTC
This is a fantastic game and a neat idea. When is slo mo not a good idea?! Had fun zipping around and slashing people up!
GreenRadiation
11. Oct 2022 · 17:47 UTC
I managed to beat this game, and it was HARD. The game has a very cool style and interesting gameplay that suits the theme perfectly. Sometimes the character passed through the walls, besides, the non-obvious control and death at exactly the moment when you kill the enemy caused frustration. In any case, great job!
Jonathan Lorenz
16. Oct 2022 · 15:32 UTC
Made me feel badass with just a few clicks. Well done!
epeachyband
21. Oct 2022 · 03:26 UTC
Fun
little game!