The Orchid's Edge

I just wanna say that this game is amazing.

I love it's cute style and the gameplay really feel like an action platformer from the 2000s and i love it, makes me feel like a kid again.

The characters are cute and the amount a destructible objects in the environment really goes to show how much attention to detail the developer put into this game.

The world itself is cute and highly unique and imaginative.

The dash is fun to mess around with as well.

The music is fun and upbeat to listen to as well.

And although a few challenges were difficult to get through (Especially the final mountain climbing challenge.) it wasn't too impossible and is able to be managed just fine.

My only complaints is that those flying jester enemies can be too difficult sometimes and sometime fly too high away and if they're defeated too high then the crystals they drop are too far out of reach. I was lucky enough that there was a ledge near by i could dash off of to get to it.

There's also a glitch where the camera keeps rotating around Willow when a DualShock 5 controller is plugged into my PC. Not the first time a 3D platformer on Itch.io has this issue and i find that strange, i wonder why that happens.

But on that topic, DualShock 5 support would be nice.

There should also be an option in the menu to quit the game as well as a pause screen with said quit option as well, but i'm sure that the dev is working on that and it will be available next update.

All in all, it's a fun, pleasant experience and i will be following both this game and the developer CornflowerBlue from now on as i know they will deliver good stuff in the future and i'll be sure to check out his other games later today as of writing this review.

Keep up the good work. I don't know who Ludum Dare 52 is but i know they love this as well.

Thank you so much CornflowerBlue, thank you.

Despite all the issues i listed with this game it's not enough for me to not love it so i still give it five stars!

i beat the game without beating the boss

cant even start lol

I played this a while ago and after playing Just Roll with it, I see I played this and JRWI and Super Drill Diver

nice game

Love how cute this game is.

Not used to the slow speed.

Such a sweet little action platformer game. I like it a lot! I wish there was more than one level to this game however. The art style is awesome!

Moving platforms feel a bit too fact for comfort, but otherwise a great little game

this is beautifully made, however i'd like to say that personally, it feels clunky moving around, when you dash in air you get frozen, same with getting hit, it's like i'm waiting for her to wake up every time, but the graphics, animations and style are great

I won on the first try! It's a very cool game!

I can't let the squad know I fw these. -_-

I love the art style and the combat! But here are some things I encountered:

• The hearts heal the same amount that the enemies deal (5). Especially if you’re very low on health, then you’ll have to collect at least 6+ of these heart flowers scattering around the map.
• The platforming is pretty tricky, especially if it’s going so fast that there’s a small window of opportunity to jump into the platform. Else you’ll just fall into the pit that’ll just shoot you straight into the beginning of the level instead of having checkpoints (I’m glad falling into pits didn’t suck away your health. I’d be mad if it does).
• The Wizard Heartles- er Clunkers are ANNOYING to deal with!! They have little cooldown between shooting and firing at the player. Even worse if there’s two of them, and the dash system where it has this weird dashing and then stopping in midair before falling. This prioritizes into running away from the enemies so that you can deal with them one at a time, because these enemies can go high above you and you can’t hit them.
• Wait, there’s no pause menu?

However, it is pretty enjoyable! I got pretty used to the combat because of my Kingdom Hearts knowledge.

I like the design and vibe a lot. Unfortunately combat system feel clunky.

I don't feel that much in control and it's a but frustrating to move precisely or when I get sent back to the start

I like the combat and mobility, but they could add a minimap, and as a detail to fix, for the wait animation after dodging, I would reduce that wait time for more fluid combat or exploration ✨

The sounds are atrocious

I love the game, epecially the dashing feautre. but can you add chekcpoints, its annoying for me to run from across the map.

Also for some reason, the heart for healing dont always heal, 

great game would play for fun

Somebody already posted my critique, so I'll just say I enjoyed this demo. Great job!!!

Simple yet fun! 10/10 even as a “beta”.

achei legal espero pode joga uma vesao completa seja em um pc o console

I think that on the web version it is Laggy, it's not playable on the device I'm using. I think you could make a mode where I can be played on small devices making it more playable on the web.

Please tell me that you're planning to build upon this because this little demo is absolutely fantastic! I would gladly buy it if it was a full game. Charming visuals, nice audio, excellent level design, with some work around the rough edges (i.e. too much stunlock from the flying enemies) and some additional features such as perhaps some more advanced moves for an expanded moveset and you got a 10/10 game. The work here has a lot of love and passion in it and it shows.

Well, visuals and music are fine, but what's wrong with controls?
There is too much frames after completing dodge or recieving damage when character is just finishing her transition into idle animation and you have no control of her movement except fall controls. That makes dodge much less usefull in combat, because while character can't obey it's commands before finishing all animations, enemies are already got near and trying to hit again. Also why can't I keep playing after collecting 50 souls? It would be nice to let the player finish level on 100%.

very cool

Hey CornflowerBlue,

You were my Gem of the Stream! Check it out:

What a beautiful looking game, which I can't believe runs in my browser! The character design is fantastic and the gameplay is simple and fun. It would be cool the see this expanded upon and have more story about willow and her adventures. Great work and all the best with your future games!

I have created a Discord as a space for game devs to talk about their experiences and share their games. Would love to have you join!

https://discord.gg/TWHwqQuRrx

Very cute aesthetic, really digging it!

Cute! This game has a lot of potential but the WebGL build is a bit uncomfortable to play, when I click it highlights the whole game and makes it blue, and the camera seems to be drifting slightly if I don’t move my mouse which made me really dizzy. The aesthetic is really cute, reminds me of Celeste 64! The vertical momentum preservation was really fun.

I love this game , it looks so cute and enjoyable but when i fall of the world the game just spawns me at the start maybe you should add a checkpoint or something like that,have a nice day!

good game

por favor faça algum tipo de parry pro coringa

this game have a much potential!!!

For a demo it shows potential, I did try playing with a mouse and keyboard which is clearly not intended, I imagine it would be a lot smoother with a controller, apart from that, if I could make a suggestion, add a shop where the player can buy upgrades, maybe with those blue tear crystal things, right now their only purpose is to collect them to win the level.

Nicely done platformer. I would consider delete joystick keys if player plays at PC. Its not necessery showing buttons from joystick at all.
Also when player fall of from the clif/platform i would consider to take dame to player and gives him better spawn, starting from beggining is anyoing.

But the sounds are greate, graphic is coasy. Keep it up i knida like it.

if you get hit in the air, you get back your dash