Lost Parasite

by martoko
co-authored: @hierarch
Overall★★★★★★★★★★3.14
Fun★★★★★★★★★★3.29
Innovation★★★★★★★★★★2.93
Theme★★★★★★★★★★3.79
Graphics★★★★★★★★★★2.81
Humor★★★★★★★★★★2.53
Mood★★★★★★★★★★2.85
You are an alien life form that crash landed on earth and managed to take over a bee. World domination or bust!

Comments6

LDJam user 266061
LDJam user 2660618 Oct 2024, 07:45
Opinion overall: it looks more like a prototype, a proof of concept, but it works.

Successive impressions:
- see the keyboard keys: noo I don't have a qwerty oh it works nevermind.
- Moving is easy, but it has this stiffness. Maybe it would have been better to have a system of velocity?
- I mistook the tree trunks for moles you could assimilate, and spam the E with the fear that keyboard won't work after all.
- Are defenders more than extra lives?
- Good feedback on controls, with the easy to understand cooldown bar. However, damage (inflicted and received) is not visible enough. I did not dare to use dash.
- Lore and gameplay... I think it would have been better if the "tiny creatures" were alien and not Earth animals, because spiders and snakes shooting bullets? It looks too much like "these were the only sprites we had".
- Next level and the biiiig green void you roam aimlessly. Maybe it would be better if the clusters of ennemies were linked with visible paths (such as the usual beaten earth)?

And since I'm not good at gaming, I did not continue. But it was fun.
LDJam user 216538
LDJam user 21653815 Oct 2024, 02:50
It was a fun concept. I enjoyed that it acted a bit like a bullet hell rpg. One improvement I would say is an indicator or "enemy" sense to avoid aimless wandering.
Kurosawa Aoi
Kurosawa Aoi23 Oct 2024, 12:07
An interesting concept, and quite convenient controls. Plus I like the graphics!
Don Fouts
Don Fouts23 Oct 2024, 14:33
Cool concept for the theme and it ran really well. The second level was a little too huge with stuff maybe spaced too far apart but I still thought it was pretty cool. Overall nice work.
Muphinmahn25 Oct 2024, 21:15
Definitely fun, the beginning tutorial was really nice too. I would indicate that you have to be in melee range as it took me a moment to check the side to see the button that said melee...also I'm kinda dumb sooo take that with grain of salt.
Ydindamin
Ydindamin25 Oct 2024, 21:35
Fun game! I enjoyed that this is a clever, fresh twist on a classic genre that fits in perfectly with the theme. Well done!

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