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The visuals are incredibly detailed and beautifully designed. \nI really love the idea of the turtle spinning and accelerating. The controls of this game are a bit challenging for me, but that doesn\u2019t affect me to play. The game is very complete and even has a unique ending.","format":"md","likes":3,"spam":"N"},{"id":1095948,"author_name":"Yufan Lu","author_uid":"yufan-lu","epoch":1728433433,"text":"Overall amazing game! I think the cut scenes might have broke up the pace a little too much. Great environment and nice comics in the beginning. The cat is super cute as well. 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Sound effects and particles would help give player feedback, since sometimes I wasn't sure if I was doing the right thing. Nice job, and congrats on your first submission!","format":"md","likes":3,"spam":"N"},{"id":1102957,"author_name":"Pete Valeo","author_uid":"pete-valeo","epoch":1728540754,"text":"Incredible storytelling on the cutscenes. The game itself was a neat idea and the look of it was solid, but it was pretty buggy to control. The just-in-time tutorial explanations showed a real attention and were really well done in a user-experience sense, especially for a jam game. The lack of audio was a little disappointing because I would have loved to get a peek into what this world would sound like, but understandable given the time constraints. Great work!","format":"md","likes":3,"spam":"N"},{"id":1103174,"author_name":"Iaroslavik","author_uid":"iaroslavik","epoch":1728547009,"text":"Oh so cute, I like it \u2764\ufe0f","format":"md","likes":4,"spam":"N"},{"id":1103196,"author_name":"Stefan B.","author_uid":"stefan-b","epoch":1728547423,"text":"I didn't know turtles have this hidden epic sprint ability before ;)","format":"md","likes":4,"spam":"N"},{"id":1103203,"author_name":"Derly","author_uid":"derly","epoch":1728547622,"text":"The cutscenes and the turtle are excellent","format":"md","likes":3,"spam":"N"},{"id":1103210,"author_name":"Dan_Nik_SG","author_uid":"dan-nik-sg","epoch":1728547801,"text":"Nice graphics, and cutscenes, the turtle spins rly funny as well, great job!","format":"md","likes":3,"spam":"N"},{"id":1103760,"author_name":"RuiqianZhang","author_uid":"ruiqianzhang","epoch":1728561579,"text":"Cute turtles, cinematic cutscenes, and fantastic storyboards! I hope the turtle sprint time can be longer, and the spin acceleration is too cool","format":"md","likes":3,"spam":"N"},{"id":1103991,"author_name":"Alem26","author_uid":"alem26","epoch":1728567404,"text":"Fun little adventure games and the cutscenes are great!\nAs others already said, the controls can be a bit odd and sometimes I was a little lost, but I saw that you already did quite a bit to explain what to do.\nHas potential!","format":"md","likes":3,"spam":"N"},{"id":1104255,"author_name":"Jeiji","author_uid":"jeiji","epoch":1728574321,"text":"cool animations, you can see that the guys are working hard, interactive training is also great, good job","format":"md","likes":3,"spam":"N"},{"id":1104355,"author_name":"Game-mon","author_uid":"game-mon","epoch":1728576625,"text":"Cool game, concept is very nice! I think the character controller needs a bit of refinement because it feels a bit slow and unresponsive, I get that a turtle is slow but still. Other than that, graphics look good and concept has tons of potential!","format":"md","likes":3,"spam":"N"},{"id":1105183,"author_name":"Kerdelos","author_uid":"kerdelos","epoch":1728590863,"text":"The curscenes you got there were very good and it's not something we often see in ludum entry so it's really appreciated.\n\nRegarding the game I got fairly confused by the controls and although I managed to break multiple times out of the aquarium it was a bit tedious each time. The turtle would frequently end up in a static state and I couldn't make it move no matter what I did. Maybe I missed something obvious ?\nSome respawn at the beggining of the sequence would have been great as I was quite sad to start all over again when I fell from the bookshelf.\n\nYou got a really nice 3D art and the little audio and achievements you implemented were a nice touch !\n\nGood job and congrats on your first ludum entry :sparkles: ","format":"md","likes":3,"spam":"N"},{"id":1106093,"author_name":"mdsalomon","author_uid":"mdsalomon","epoch":1728609592,"text":"The visuals are great and there's a good amount of love given to the turtle's movement. I wish I had more space\/stamina to spin around everywhere and that the initial pacing wasn't so broken up with cutscenes. Nonetheless there's a ton of effort that can be felt in the final product and I hope you keep adding to it.","format":"md","likes":3,"spam":"N"},{"id":1106318,"author_name":"Sharky3188","author_uid":"sharky3188","epoch":1728619675,"text":"A cool concept, unfortunately the game seemed to bug out quiet often for me. The story telling felt good, i especially liked the achievements. Its unfortunate i couldn't progress much further. ","format":"md","likes":3,"spam":"N"},{"id":1107151,"author_name":"Dominic Graziano","author_uid":"dominic-graziano","epoch":1728657273,"text":"what I like is that you have a lot of features you'd expect from a complete game. tutorial, progress markers, cinematics, a proper menu system. Gameplay wise it still feels rough but that's understandable! great work.","format":"md","likes":3,"spam":"N"},{"id":1108331,"author_name":"mhorth","author_uid":"mhorth","epoch":1728688715,"text":"Congrats to the team on completing your first Ludum Dare, hope you had a blast! Taking on a puzzle platformer like this with so many interactions with the world is quite ambitious! Great job on completing it.\n\nI only had one bug, which was the animation for legs getting pulled into the shell being opposite the slam attack. It didn't affect gameplay, just looked a little silly.","format":"md","likes":3,"spam":"N"},{"id":1111654,"author_name":"LDJam user 399845","author_uid":"399845","epoch":1728842663,"text":"I really like this turtle\uff01Nice game.","format":"md","likes":3,"spam":"N"},{"id":1111698,"author_name":"Tankou","author_uid":"tankou","epoch":1728844701,"text":"Funny game idea! You did a good tutorial at the start. 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