Alchemist's Castle

Alchemist's Castle

released on Nov 01, 2017

Alchemist's Castle

released on Nov 01, 2017

Fight your way through the dungeons of the Alchemist's Castle, collect power ups and take back what is rightfully yours from the Alchemist himself in this old-school metroidvania!


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A bare-bones, shambling corpse of a Metroidvania.

Several frustrating bugs hold this back from being a decent-but-short Metroidvania. Trying to change controls crashed my game, so I kinda just had to make the controls work. In one instance, my dash and projectile attacks just stopped working, so I went back and checked the controls menu again...and found that they had mysteriously been remapped to keys from the controller bindings.

I also managed to do a dash jump through the air and collide with an invisible wall at one point, which dropped me instantly to my death. I don't think the wall was intentional.

The main thing I want to say about this game is that it incorporates a mechanic I absolutely love -- the ability to execute a jump after leaving a platform at any point before you hit your next surface. This leads to unique ways to strategize platform navigation and I can't appreciate that enough. If this were less buggy, I'd probably have finished it and given it a higher rating.