Rotten Bloom

A fun little Metroidvania! It's on the shorter side and admittedly a bit confusing at first, as my brain couldn't quite grasp the fact that the map simply loops when you reach the edges. The art style is cute and beautiful, and the music is delightfully funky without being weird. I really enjoyed the different abilities and the fact that you had to create your own build for the final "fight" against the flower (although I struggled HARD, but that was entirely on me!). Overall, it's a super cute and fun game. I highly hope the devs plan on making a more fleshed-out Metroidvania in the future, because the passion and spirit are definitely there! :p

Very cool game. I loved the graphics and general aesthetic. The sound design was solid. The basic gameplay mechanics were all pretty cool and were worked into the environment well. The difficulty could be extremely high in unfun ways at times. The final boss fight was just me dying over and over and over until I finally memorized the exact route and timings. I'm not a fan of that at all. I did like that you can have different ability combinations that force you to take different routes, though. The controls were a bit clunky, which I think was mostly due to dash being on right trigger. If that had been swapped with X and attack was put on right trigger, I think it would have been much better. Unfortunately, you can't remap the controls. Jumping from vine to vine was bad. It seemed down to luck how much distance I got, so I ended up falling pretty often and having to start over again from the beginning. Using the vines really should have been much more forgiving. Still, the game was overall pretty fun. I definitely recommend checking it out.