A very interesting take on the blind swordsman concept. While Evil Dog (creator of road of the dead) made a 1v1 duel game, this action oriented game proves to be a completely different challenge. The slow walking speed makes it quite frustrating at times, but it feels satisfying to barely dodge some waves and make it out alive.
If you couldn't block arrows during attacks and dashes, it would be impossible.
The concept on its own is great and it is really fun. But I have many small problems that ruin the experience for me
There are two types of difficulties in games for me. Actual difficulty, and the bullshit. Although there is actual difficulty here, there are many moments where the bullshit just overwhelms the experience. What do I mean? Well, the game basically does a really shit job of telling you what is going on. I know that thats the gimmick with the blind man thing but even when you understand how the sound waves work, the game just screws you over. Sometimes you just get gutted by 3 guys that spawn right next to you because you had no idea they were coming. and other times you will be doing a random slice to deflect an arrow and then you kill 3 guys for no apparent reason. Another inconvenience is the way the character plays. The recovery system just enrages me. For some reason it completely is dysfunctional sometimes. I get hit and I cannot move for five fucking hours or do anything and the guy kills me. And god forbid you have 2 or more enemies attacking you. When you have two that got onto you without you killing them its just game over. This is due to them hitting you, you recovering, you dashing and the other enemy hitting you, causing the cycle to repeat until you either die by them, get shot, or run to the end of the stage.
Also, please add the ability to change controls. Its really awkward to play on QWERTZ keyboards.
Loved it. Faved.
The game demonstrates a key concept about blind fighting: don’t believe the myth. Who knows who you are really attacking/killing? And of course arrows don’t go that slow and you don’t get to see these arrow icons when you are really blind. This means that people have to respect blind people.
This game is quite innovative in the concept of a blind swordsman and takes extreme liberties with what someone like that can really do. What you really need to do is just play with it and accept the fact that you probably wouldn’t be able to survive even one swordsman/archer with sight in real life if you were the blind swordsman, but here, go ahead and try to kill them if you can.
The game allows the enemies to spawn right on top of you if you are near the edges, so don’t fight there.
Minor issues are the lack of volume controls, which isn’t that much of a problem this time around since there is no music and there are only the weapon sounds and the breath of whoever it is.
omg this game
is soo simple and soo fun
i love how you made it
good job