SAGE 2023 - Demo Project After: Shadow Theory (SAGE`23)

Has a lot of potencial but also has a long way to go. It has unpolished controls and broken controller controls. A basic jump takes a lot of effort, combat needs a lot of work and Chaos abilitys are cool but not fun. But concept is so DAMN GOOD. But like I said it has a long way to go I hope this project gets finished one day and we have a good modern Advance style 2D Shadow Game.

Didn't get far at all, honestly pretty frustrating to control atleast with a controller (360). Hitting the X and B (teleport + kick) at the same time makes Shadow freeze in place, jumping with A doesn't do a proper jump and instead only does the shortest jump possible (plus jumping on slopes is weird), and yeeah damn, the charge time for the different levels of Chaos Spear takes too long. Also a wacky high jump seems to happen when rolling and holding down and then jumping, the jump is like five times longer than normally, crazy high. I did have a... kiiind of a good time with the game, but eh yeah not really for the right reasons. After playing around in Chaos Grind and getting stuck multiple times, then trying out the first level and again getting stuck after hitting X+B I just closed the game. Or uh, we closed the game I should say, was playing this with a bud. The best thing in the game was definitely the graphics for the cutscene and the intro cinematic, it's a nice style that fits Shadow pretty well.

But yeah hey, a good way to test if your controls and gameplay work as they should is to try just mashing every button. While yeah it might not be the intended way to play, it's a good way to see if things interact and work together as they should, learned that when a friend of mine tested my own game and went crazy with it lmao