Mighty Castle Adventure [Was: Castlevania style game - demo]

[XeNoMoRPH]

https://twitter.com/StollG58654/status/1776600790779511094

[XeNoMoRPH]

https://twitter.com/StollG58654/status/1781563448121610615

[XeNoMoRPH]

https://twitter.com/StollG58654/status/1786706990539960663

[Prodatron]

All these animations are awesome, I wonder how many frames they are each using. E.g. when the skeleton is dying (disappearing as a cloud with a skull face inside) etc.

[dodogildo]

In-game music is also nice. Something I'm obsessed with and a must for Castlevania genre too. 
Praise the developers for this, because we almost never have in-game music in CPC.

[abalore]

it's looking very good.

[XeNoMoRPH]

https://twitter.com/StollG58654/status/1791710312590127104

[XeNoMoRPH]

" ... unfortunately it's time to go back to work, here's a little boss concept to start the week off right  #amstradcpc #gx4000 #metroidvania #mightycastleadventure #gamedev #retrogaming #pixelart "

https://x.com/StollG58654/status/1792450182086377899

[cwpab]

I think this game is great from a technical perspective, and some of the graphics are nice (the castle, some skeletons...). The idea of doing a metroidvania is also nice (quite refreshing after 50+ Rick Dangerous clones).

However, I find some of the characters quite ugly (main character looks too "Western cheap manga", some enemies are disgusting, one monster appears to have a "Clever & Smart head for some reason...).

The color choice is somewhat decent, if perhaps a bit too "melancholic". We've seen much worse color choices for mode 1.

But let's be honest: not everyone can create a total masterpiece by both programming and drawing a game. Clive Townsend and others managed to do so (incredibly), but even Ritman needed Drummond. I can't draw and I can't program moving objects, so kudoz for the developer.

It gives a bit of Bollaware vibes, though, with that mode 1 and those peculiar drawings.  Luckily, the world is not red here like in Bollaware games.

[cwpab]

I accidentally quoted myself, so I will use this message to write something else. Let's see, hmmm....

Okay, so the animations are cool, the game seems fast an responsive... it seems fun.

[dodogildo]

Having a dislike of Mode 0 and its garish colors, I liked both this choice of mode 1 and the melancholic color palette. 
I'd like to see more of this style in future. 

For years we've ben exposed to flamboyant, unplayable, low resolution mode 1 games (with no music) as a pseudo-remedy to terrible speccy ports (which stand on the other end of the spectrum*). I feel both extremes were terrible.

*yeah, spectrum 

[cwpab]

For me, the coolest thing about these games is that they show that the Amstrad CPC could do fast action... I mean, if you play some speccy port, you could get the impression that the CPC was slow as hell.