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You are a soul cast in the depths of Hades along with the other lost sinners. In order to escape you must make a suitable offering to the Gods. But as a simple soul you are weak and fragile. Use your powers of soul possession to take over the other enemies wandering around the depths of Hades and use their abilities to collect the 3 offerings required to escape.
Controls:
Arrow Keys
- Movement
Up Arrow
- Jump/ Double Jump with Soul
- Jump with Mandrake
- Shield Up with Spartan
- Fly with Ghost
Z Key
- Possess/Unpossess with Soul
- Enter Door, Activate Altar, Advance Cutscene
R Key - Reset the Room
Downloads and Links
Ratings
 | Coolness | 53% |
| #90 | Mood(Jam) | 3.82 |
| #124 | Graphics(Jam) | 4.15 |
| #126 | Audio(Jam) | 3.68 |
| #134 | Overall(Jam) | 3.74 |
| #176 | Fun(Jam) | 3.58 |
| #322 | Innovation(Jam) | 3.38 |
| #521 | Theme(Jam) | 3.35 |
| #754 | Humor(Jam) | 2.38 |
Comments
Brutally tricky platforming :D I managed to get two of the items though, wasn't sure how to get to the Ghost one. Nice mechanic though, some fun little sections with each of the characters. Wish the spikes were a bit more visible, a few of the ceiling spikes caught me off guard :p
Pretty tough game, but not impossibly difficult! The spartan section was particularly tricky.
The one suggestion I would make is to have the spikes stand out a little more. They blend into the environment a little too much and sometimes you'll die unexpectedly from landing on one.
The music and the art for this game were awesome! However, I agree that the spikes blended in too much, I died a few times without ever noticing they were there.
Really loved to finish this game. A good time with a platformer, this was a long time! Great art and level design.
Really fun platforming and having the different characters keeps it interesting. The graphics and music are great and I like the way the levels sprawl off into the distance. The lack of sound effects is the only thing that stood out a little.
I will better stay in tutorial. Your game is hard as hell, but I love idea.
Definitely good graphics, nice music and a general nice atmosphere. The controls are a bit hard and we're kinda lost, not really knowing what to do and where to go. Nice game nonetheless.
I like the switching mechanic, nice take on the theme. Could not record myself with Open Broadcast
It's hard to tell when Z can be used, or where some obstacles are...but the music/graphics are nice!
Very very nice game, I really enjoyed everything, really a hit on spot for me. It took me a while before I found out all the mechanics, but it was all done together very well. Very clever ideas, greate controls, nice and complete graphics (not sure if all by you, when it's jam), great level design (I finished!!), I can imagine this being a hit :) At least a small one.
I found a bug though - when you become mandrake, you can't sometimes move left/right, first you have to jump, after that it's okay.
Music is cool and the mechanics are nice. The spikes kept surprising me though because I couldn't see them always, the sort of blended into the level for me. That's more the way I see I think though!
Overall this is good. I really like difficult platformers! Also, special mention for the soundtrack, it's pretty neat
Great graphics! Very difficult but solid and fair mechanics - which is a good thing, every death is always your fault. Would have liked to see variable jump heights but thats a minor issue. As I made a platformer/Metroidvania myself I'm glad I found your entry. Good work!
I will tweet you with a gameplay and review video soon.
Graphics were cool, kinda reminded me of super metroid, very smooth gameplay.
Cool game, glad it was my 282th (aka 10% of all entrants)! At first it seemed a bit hard, but I "beat" it. Was the Mandrake supposed to be on a timer? High marks from me, good job!
Cool idea. Very difficult though. Great pixel art and awesome soundtrack. The spikes blend in to the background a bit too much, and I wish there were more checkpoints. It's also not obvious that your possession power can go through walls, maybe an indicator appearing over an enemy that you can possess would be good. Very solid entry overall though.
A neat idea, and really fits the theme, but instead of starting with the fun mechanic (soul stealing) you start with a series of very hard platform maneuvers... and the spikes blend in with the background. Despite that, it was fun and controlled well (I just felt the barrier to entry was too high).
Wow, impressive difficulty and style! The music is especially great.
Love the graphics, though the spikes really blend in. Great game. I included it in part 11 of my Ludum Dare 32 compilation video series, if you would like to take a look :) http://youtu.be/ArGc_dQ-3Lc
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Nice idea but really hard.