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It took me a bit to figure out how to play, but once I did I had a blast burning everything to the ground :D\n\nSome of the upgrades were a bit confusing, and I'm still not entirely sure what everything did. Also, I didn't even realize you could kill knights until I saw on the score screen that I killed a few of them.\n\nThis is currently one of the most fun compo entries I've played so far, great job!","format":"md","likes":1,"spam":"N"},{"id":1070280,"author_name":"tamara188","author_uid":"tamara188","epoch":1713757190,"text":"Super impressive! Some interesting components.","format":"md","likes":1,"spam":"N"},{"id":1075686,"author_name":"Utopia","author_uid":"utopia","epoch":1714338257,"text":"Wow really impressed me. I was walking around and can't find the exit so I gather so many souls and, it's funny lol","format":"md","likes":1,"spam":"N"},{"id":1076017,"author_name":"Pawciu","author_uid":"pawciu","epoch":1714399008,"text":"Interesting idea, would be nice to have some kind of tutorial.","format":"md","likes":1,"spam":"N"},{"id":1077883,"author_name":"CiaranW","author_uid":"ciaranw","epoch":1714679139,"text":"Fun game. I think it could have done with some info about which character was which - I wasn't really sure about the choices I was making in the upgrade menu, I ended up rerolling a lot.\n\nAm I right in saying that your summons could not do anything to the enemies? The long range superfast fireball was really annoying - felt like there wasn't really much I could do to counter it. It was fun to create as much chaos as possible though \ud83d\ude08","format":"md","likes":1,"spam":"N"},{"id":1078361,"author_name":"Knatt","author_uid":"knatt","epoch":1714744798,"text":"@ciaranw the enemies are killable, but they got a lot of HP. It wasn't playtested, so the balance could diffidently be off. I was going for the GTA wanted system, where having 5 stars sends the most challenging enemies. 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As always these Jams are a lot of fun, even if I'm learning the same lesson over and over lol.\n\nIf this trips anyone's firewall, I apologize but I'm not sure how to fix this. Clickteam .exe files trip it. 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As always these Jams are a lot of fun, even if I'm learning the same lesson over and over lol.\n\nIf this trips anyone's firewall, I apologize but I'm not sure how to fix this. Clickteam .exe files trip it. 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