Samurai Game Project

the movement and combat reminds me a lot of ghostrunner but the added challenge makes it pretty fun. The parry window is a little big though

Hi! I tested your game and I thought I could give you some insights. I'm myself currently trying to make a game with first person melee fighting so testing your game was quite useful to me.

What felt great:

• the graphics and animations: the red slashes, orb picking animations, etc
• the impact is ok
• movements are great, the dash reminds me of Tracer's and feels great to use
• the parry move giving back posture and health is a good idea and works well in 1v1

What felt off:

• the parry move is only efficient in 1v1 or 1v2; as soon as 3 ennemies attack you it's impossible to defend yourself unless you dash in and out for every attack you want to land, which makes the game very slow
• landing more than one hit on an enemy might feel better it was staggering him instead of him just attacking like nothing happened
• not being able to block the shurikens since it's hard to see where the ninjas are throwing them
• animation driven combat with only hands being visible makes the telegraphs not very clear; when fighting more than one enemy it's hard so see when they're attacking

I think the main thing is that since enemies are attacking randomly, you can't parry them all and the block is so weak that you get pushed out of posture everytime you try to parry something.

I hope any of this will be useful to you and thank you for doing some devlog on this, it's cool having some insights on what may works and what feels weird.

bro i have been watching your devlogs on this game and you inspired me a lot making my own game and i tink the game is great thanks

This is based of some other posts and my experience aswell, if there was more of and indicator for parrying it would allow for the fighting to be more equal in a way,  another thing is movement speed idk if you have played with this im sure you have but slightly increasing movement speed may make the game feel more responsive to the player. Then try adding more vibriance to the world even in slight ways I understand you are going for a more monotone type feel (I belive at least) but if you havent tried it already id reccomend just messing with it a little maybe even with post processing. But overall the game is really well made but i do agree somethings feel off but overall is really good.

When I was playing I would try to add more flourish to my attacks, however there's only one type of attack I could do. I think the game would be more interesting if you had to mix different attacks to break through an enemy's guard. As in if you charge an attack mid air it becomes an overhead chop, or attacking after a dash becomes a stab. If some enemy types would block more, fighting them could feel more like a duel and make the player target the weaker enemies first. Right now the best strategy is to attack once then dash away and repeat. The game was fun and I found it inspiring.

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