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This is a fun little endless climbing game. To climb you have to shoot your two grappling anchors diagonally to climb.
Tip: if you shoot both right and left anchor at the same time you will climb upwards and stabilize.
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Ratings
 | Coolness | 94% |
| #131 | Fun | 3.68 |
| #150 | Humor | 3.23 |
| #335 | Overall | 3.42 |
| #361 | Innovation | 3.35 |
| #372 | Theme | 3.86 |
| #420 | Audio | 2.76 |
| #490 | Mood | 2.94 |
| #719 | Graphics | 2.62 |
Comments
Very fun, and as it had been said, it would be so great to have a high score :)
I think it would've been great if you could actually control where your hooks are going. That would add more depth to it than just pressing left or right at the correct times.
I felt your pain every time I died :) I thought my game was hard, damn..
Damn this is difficult. Fun though, keeps you wanting to try just once more. AAAUUUUHHHH!
Good work
this is very difficult, somehow remind me of one of the battle toads level lol
it sounds really scary when it died
This is fun. I think it would be nice to see a health bar or something, since you can hit the wall sometimes and be fine, but immediately die other times.
I'm not sure if the death sound was supposed to be funny or infuriating, but it was kind of both. Had me cracking up.
Can't manage to rate other games cause i'm stuck on yours forever until I die.
Hey, nice work! Gameplay is fluid and interesting (and hard), congratz!
If you could, it would be nice to add more control options... as someone with only one control key and a touchpad, I had some trouble at the beginning - then I decided to use one hand keyboard other mouse (nail'd it!).
Great game, enjoyed playing. Only got up to 30m in the 10+ attempts I had.
It was quite challenging, but still enjoyable. A solid entry, nice job!
I got 64!!! haha! Nice mechanics, and I could find many ways of playing it!
pretty fun! and the dying had me everytime lol. it's simple it feels good.
I do find it hard to keep the vertical momemtum after you used one grapple to adjust a bit. I can never get back to the momentum I had.
also I found it's pretty useful to switch from using both buttons at the same time and using them altenately. great execution on the theme.
Tough but really satisfying to master! I wish there were other controls though, as my laptop doesn't have a right Ctrl and I'm on touchpad. But other than that this game's really fun. 5/5 would AUUUUGHHH again!
@Supernaught @mrStrings
Added more buttons for the game including S and K that should work for pretty much every keyboard. As it's also uses unity Input it can be bound in the launcher.
Also really love the positive responses to this game! Seems like this is my most sucessful LD game yet. :D
Excellent game! The controls are simple to understand, and act consistently enough for the game to not feel unfair, even when it's difficult. I'm not very good at it though, I only managed 54m!
Nice, it's hard to get correct rhythm. Simple, but really addictive.
Death sound is epic )
Really nice entry, very addictive. Death upon colliding walls is very confusing, it would be better if there were certain places to die (saws or spikes), not whole wall )
@Gipzo I was considering doing that first but I noticed that I found it more fun that the walls became both your enemies and friends.
@jeroenwimmers alternating does goes faster if you really know what you are doing but if you do too slow it will just kill you. Using both at the same time is better for newcomers so I recommended that.
Hard game!!! Liked the concept and the theme matched perfectly. My best was like 30m.. I really sucked.
The audio could be improved.. it is comic art, not horror, you know.. ;)
@nunesbarbosa I know that they don't completely add up. I was kinda planning going more serious and horrific for a while so that's why the visuals and sound kinda is going different directions against each other.
129!!!(!)!
Simple, yet very fun and addictive :D Add some highscores/leaderboards and you have the new addictive game of the year!
Funny little game. A bit difficult at first but it grows on you.
Most addictive game that I have played so far :D Very cool idea!
Super clever idea. It would be maybe cool if springs have higher damping. Anyway great entry. Thanks!
Pretty nice, great idea, but I'd say the velocity at which you die is a little too sensitive. Maybe it's just me though..
Sounds effects could use some work, but the fact that you had them at all is good though! Pretty nice polish overall with the little details like screenshake, stretching etc.
Also the level graphics style is cool. Great job!
Nice simple idea. Great use of physics! You get an extra point in audio from me for that death sound.
Very, very simple game. But it has original idea. Nice work!!!
Good job! I think it's a bit easy when using both mouse buttons at the same time. I recommend restricting it to one at a time.
SOOOOOO HAAAARD AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAUUUUUUUUUUUUHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!
Man that was hard! I couldn't pass 42m for some odd reason! Very clever idea, loved it! :D
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AUUUUUUUUUUUUUHHHH!!!!!
Simple. Fun. I enjoyed it. My high score is 66m. On that note, it would have been really nice to keep/show a high score.