WASarD Demo 2024

I can't run it in my browser, I get this error message:

"Error
The following features required to run Godot projects on the Web are missing:
Cross Origin Isolation - Check web server configuration (send correct headers)
SharedArrayBuffer - Check web server configuration (send correct headers)"

I'm running a Chromium browser, if that's helpful.

Overall good. I’m still excited for the eventual full release, but I’d like to comment on a few things.

The art, though charming in its own way, is definitely a downgrade compared to the previous iteration. The best of both worlds would be the use of color present in the new (darker, less saturated palette with bright & saturated player, enemies, & projectiles), with the detail & fidelity of the old, though I’m guessing the change was made mainly due to time?

The difficulty should definitely be raised. If aiming is going to see less emphasis, then more emphasis should be put on dodging. As is, it just feels like aiming was removed, but no compensation was made in other areas. This game should lean more into bullet hell than it currently does, with most, if not all, enemies having a projectile. As is, the game very often feels like waiting for the enemies to die, rather than frantically dashing all over the place, trying to find safe spots, which I believe is the intended play experience.

Love the feel and the weapons / upgrade paths, I wish it was harder so experimenting felt more meaningful, but I like the elemental affinities buffing spell parameters

The html5 version has that classic godot lagspike when loading sounds or things

The new art feels great, sounds are really really loud for me even on 1% volume on my pc though

I wonder how more bright backgrounds/floors would look?

the complete change in visual style is sort of jarring. not complaining too much though it is cool to see.

If you purchase the tiger's tail while at 1 heart and 2 max hp, you end up with 1 empty heart and become unable to interact with coin pickups, heart pickups, and the sneaker relic (I left it in on the floor in the starting room). You are still able to interact with the boss room spellbook and the stairs, and can still die by getting hit. idk if you can still interact with the shop because I had 0 coins lol.

Edit: It also happens if you buy the tiger tail with 1 max HP.

When choosing secondary spells and buying items: maybe you could just put the symbols instead of the words, in the parentheses? 

So spells just had their dmg and then a (*symbol*) afterwards and in the shop, items all just had their element at the bottom of the text also written like (*symbol*). 

I think it would make it easier to understand what you are looking at.

I really like the elemental aspect, could the main character maybe switch color when reaching like lvl 5 or 8 in a certain attribute? That would also make it more intuitive, what your strength is. You could even mix the colors, so both yellow and blue at a certain lvl could make you a green wazard! Although getting all three would make you brown, which would slightly be anticlimatic.

Hearts don't seem to drop when you have full health. Normally that doesn't sound like an issue, but it means you can't get full use out of the powerup that turns hearts into money unless you're hurt. Especially bad if you're playing with heart curse all the way up.

I got a second of those axes that gives me +1 attack and +2 rush while at 1 hp, but my attack and rush didn't go up.

I started a run with two max hearts, maximum strength and maximum starting gold, and got the artifact to turn hearts into coins and then the one that reduces my max hearts by two.

I was expecting either to have a single heart or instant death. I got a single empty heart, and I couldn't collect hearts or coins.

It was fun but really easy. I got the Duplicator spell early-on which doubled my damage, and then I invested solely into red attack upgrades and weapons with lots of projectiles. Then as soon as something would spawn, I'd stand next to it, and it would explode, so there wasn't much strategy left.

I love this game, i also love the color system. but why does the sound taking damage sound effect sound like a sigh,  and can you make it so you can see what your previous spells and items do. it would also be cool if you added one time use item like healing potions and such. and different charecters with different stats and different pros and cons for each. but an extra challenge would be nice.

Played through the demo and here are some observations.

First is that there is no tension going back to unexplored rooms after defeating each floor boss room. I feel there should be some decision of either moving down the stairs or risking more exploration for more reward. Something like ennemies get stronger if you don't go down the stairs fast enough, or the rooms get filled with poison and you take a damage. Only examples to illustrate the feeling, not  necessarily advocating for these specific solutions.

Second, every attack and spawn are telegraphed with red circles and rectangles but not the projectiles like the red slime and dragons fireball. That felt awkward because you are trained to avoid red indicators but the fireball are identical to your projectiles and don't have collision indicators. I feel you should either expect all attacks to have collider indicators or none.

Bonus, the yell sound effect when you get hit doesn't sound good, it feels out of place.

Overall, it felt like ArcHero meets binding of Isaac. Even in this early alpha prototype stage it's clear it will be a buy for me.

With the most recent update this game goes from super easy to quite difficult, midas touch and shopkeepers dagger both received huge nerfs, meaning no more absurd builds based on those two with survival burger and bat fang charm, and extra floors just add more to the game, great game, I can't wait to see where it goes next

I had a small glitch. The bread reads as adding +2 gold instead of +2 hearts.. I think it’s because I had Midas Touch on a previous run which changed its effect to the +2 gold and it didn’t revert back on restart. Picking up does add +2 hearts as normal though. Great game so far btw! Been having a lot of fun!

the demo doesn't seem to be working

Midas touch + food is overpowered lol

Really enjoying this so far.. though I really feel like the current state of the game doesn't reflect the description of "wacky" too much yet.  I love the spider design and hope to see many more enemies, rooms, bosses, and items that help reinforce this theme.  This may be something that comes later with visual design iterations, though please don't forget this in the long run!  I personally believe this is an important aspect in establishing the game's identity and theme and would hate to see it left behind

i beat triple heart curse (the good part about triple heart curse is that the tail (i think that's what it was) item was basically free damage (sort of like the lost with devil deals)

think i might try a triple heart curse no item no book bost run next time. (not sure if that will even be possible)