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Reviews for "Pain That Binds Us"

In your game you point at themes that are deep and poignant, but do not develop or explore them at all. Conceptually it is too flat even to be considered 2-dimensional. Your game's emotional payload is a 1-note melody (death of gay lover is sad) with a thin veneer (draining superhero journey) on top. You cannot call it a twist, as it is unsurprising, studiously unengaging, and lampshaded from the beginning.

Be less stingy with animation frames, a handful of these will smooth many jagged portions of the hero's journey. When your basic game mechanic is lateral progression, spare more attention to smooth mobility and controls. There are more concerns but I'll stop there. I understand you have limited time and experience(not only coding, but project management and concept development as well), and of course putting the effort and time to make this game is better than nothing (in fact better than many of the people commenting will have done). Continue to work and create and progress your own competence and you will be better off than many.

The game is rather nice as a whole product, but with bigger story, let's say couple of episodes, it will make it better, the gameplay uses different mechanics, which is nice, diversity in gameplay, the difficulty is definitely meant to be beaten without effort. The music is amazing. The graphics are ok for my taste.
The game can use improvements to become a 5 star game if it's longer with bigger story, more challenging difficulty and maybe even a boss battle.
A little bug, when you start moving slowly from the blizzard and have to jump, I jump right into the pit and continued walking.

oh my its sad. Very nice for LD. I'll go vote on the ldjam entry.

My advice: maybe mix up the sfx so the pitch is varied. It got a bit repetitive e.g. when I was shaking off the guys in the beginning. Also, for as a web game, it was a bit boring at certain intervals because nothing was happening.

Well it could be worse, but there's nothing fun going on here, obviously it's meant to tell a story. But then there's no interesting story either.

Not and adventure game, nor RPG.
Just a crappy art game about a tragic gay love story.
Can you be more pretentious?