Stoic

Unique climbing game that's somewhat distinct from a lot of the others. Bit of a spiritual successor to jump king.

Congrats on your first steam release! As you can tell by my play time, I didn't get very far in the game; this is because I couldn't really understand the main mechanic of the game, sometimes I'd chain parries for a while and then not understand why it failed, other times I couldn't trigger a parry and not understand why. I like the art of the game a lot and I can tell a lot of care went into it, which is why this is a positive review; but my one wish is for like a textual explanation of the main mechanic. Some theories I had while trying to get it to work past the first jump were: - Is it based on the actual sprite of the rock, do I have to click the light part once and then the dark part the second time? - Is it based on the direction I click from the rock, like can I not pick the same direction twice? - Do you have to drag it out further and further each time in order for it to work? I might just be stupid, but I think this game would really benefit from a little bit more tutorialization of the main mechanics, I would be happy to pick it up again and get to see the rest of the game past the first level- but I don't really know why what I'm doing works/doesn't work for movement at any time. I know Foddian games tend to be esoteric in their mechanics, but I get the sense that this is more like Jump King than it is Getting Over It.