The Way Home is a precise 2D platformer with a dark atmosphere. Play as a recently deceased spirit, who wakes up in the underworld and realizes that he can try to find the love of his life.
Sacrifice your memories for powers that aid you in your adventures, and reunite with your love once again.
Absolutely beautiful game (could see where you were headed with the story), but the controls are a rough combination. ASDW + Shift + click? I didn't make it past the larger river even with the powerup.
@vipaka Thanks for playing! The game is definitely on the difficult side as we didn't have time to introduce a proper difficulty curve. The controls are definitely a bit difficult as well, and maybe if we added controller support it would be easier.
This game reminded me a lot of Hollow Knight, which is a great game, if quite hard. And this one is as well. I had no problems with the controls, only with mastering the mechanics, which is exactly what I would expect from a precise platformer.
Great art, music, and atmosphere! The gameplay itself is also fun, but the hitboxes are really unforgiging and makes it too difficult to proceed forward with the controls. A bit more tweaking could do good for it :)
Game is really really good. Probably one of the best in LD43. Sound design is at top level, soundtrack aren't feeling like its an indie game. I can't say I liked mechanics with dodging those spikes with keyboard, thats just painful a bit. Overall I think this game is in top 5 of all I've played on LD43.
Awesome artstyle, graphics and animation, the level design is also awesome since it's following a nice rythm trying to introduce, evolve, twist and conclude... most off the timees the user really attempts to turn left to meet the cloacked spirit (so you succcesssfuly, stablished a contract/language with the user)... everything is nicely tied together
The spiky zone after the big lake cross defeated me - the checkpoints were a little too far apart and the timing a little too tight for me to continue. The style for this is great and you really nailed the mood and visuals.
The idea for this game is really good, and both the music and graphics is amazing. The story is also good, but in the beginning the story telling stops the gameplay a bit too much. And then sadly the controls and to some degree also the level design, makes the game too difficult to play. Overall is this a good LD game, and with a bit polish it can become an really amazing game. Well done.
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The graphics are awesome!
Controls are hard.
The more i die, the more sound gets laggy.
Nevertheless I liked the game.