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Beautiful work, cheers!","format":"md","likes":1,"spam":"N"},{"id":1038145,"author_name":"Kevin Ray","author_uid":"kevin-ray","epoch":1713233710,"text":"Game kept lagging and crashing but the time I did get to play was fun. I quite like all the animations, especially on the arrow keys when performing the summoning, along with the grunts from the character. And the loop of summoning a monster just to slaughter it for food is so funny. Dungeon Meshi to the extreme!","format":"md","likes":1,"spam":"N"},{"id":1038167,"author_name":"XXXI_","author_uid":"xxxi","epoch":1713233824,"text":"pretty juicy and fun!","format":"md","likes":1,"spam":"N"},{"id":1038219,"author_name":"Tinker1175","author_uid":"tinker1175","epoch":1713234156,"text":"Loved the graphics of the game! It was my favorite part. Needed some background music to really tie all the aspects of the game together. Also, loved having to summon using the arrow keys, really made it seem like casting a spell. Only con I really saw was the mechanics sometimes got me stuck in a corner when trying to grab food and then sometimes I couldn't grab food at all. Had to restart the game at one point to continue playing. Overall, a very fun and interesting game!","format":"md","likes":1,"spam":"N"},{"id":1038227,"author_name":"nox282","author_uid":"nox282","epoch":1713234185,"text":"The art style is crazy good! I couldn't progress past the second spawn though :(","format":"md","likes":1,"spam":"N"},{"id":1038241,"author_name":"funemaker","author_uid":"funemaker","epoch":1713234279,"text":"Great art style and character animation!  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The art is top notch and your concept is super fun!\nI had some trouble with the game play and interacting with certain things, but that might have just been on my end. \nLove this one though","format":"md","likes":1,"spam":"N"},{"id":1039161,"author_name":"nymroot","author_uid":"nymroot","epoch":1713240081,"text":"The gameplay loop is quite captivating, and discovering new combinations of abominable summons is awesome. The idea of having a fleshed out combat system in a cooking simulator is also really cool.","format":"md","likes":1,"spam":"N"},{"id":1040710,"author_name":"Rogue Tomato","author_uid":"rogue-tomato","epoch":1713256160,"text":"Clever idea! Summon creatures to feed some more powerful entity - love the loop!","format":"md","likes":1,"spam":"N"},{"id":1041886,"author_name":"GreenRadiation","author_uid":"greenradiation","epoch":1713264834,"text":"Fun game! Unfortunately, the game often glitched and the enemy wouldn't spawn, but when there were no bugs, it was fun to play. Besides, I really like the concept. Great job!","format":"md","likes":1,"spam":"N"},{"id":1042190,"author_name":"Pfannkuchen","author_uid":"pfannkuchen","epoch":1713266678,"text":"A very cute game! I liked the concept, it's fun and simple. 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