D: I wish the poor girl had a way to fight all those baddies... definitely tried some Mario-esque enemy killing techniques, but they didn't work.

Pretty fun. The controls didn't bother me after I played it awhile.

The game was much shorter than I thought it was though:

heh heh heh

I enjoyed the game. There was a great deal of potential here. I'm hoping the author develops the concepts and produces an excellent sequel.

Good points: good variety of environments. The leveling up mechanic was gentle enough that I never felt the need to "grind" my stats up to progress. There were a great deal of stats to deal with, and most of them had clever, useful functions associated with them. The "Idle" was a fun easter egg, for example. Controls felt good, and the pixel graphics were attractive.

For the sequel, things I'd like to see...

This has a ton of promise. I am looking forward to seeing the sequel in the future!

-SirNiko

Was kinda disappointed,

This game should be called "Level Down!" instead, I seem to get my levels reset every single day... Can't figure out how to beat the flame guy...

As to the ending:

Has anybody managed to get all of those gems way up in the right corner? You know what I mean. ;) I can't quite reach them despite being fully leveled.

Guys, there's a really good treat if you go ahead and complete the 100% requirement. Gives much much depth to the overall story, and hopefully is a lead into the sequel.

Littleghost:

They frustrated me until I realized I'd forgotten somebody in the village :)

Wow.

Nice idea, good execution.

My only gripes:

* Couldn't find out the way to hit the shadow whatever I tried... putting some suggestions somewhere would have been nice

* Talking with the computer you don't really learn which stats have to be levelled up in order to trigger the ending sequence

* While the game in general has a nice difficulty level, finding those last gems is way too hard. The difficulty peak feels very weird.

And the twist ending is GREAT!

I'm stuck
does anyone know

@Albert
How do you get the

@chyro
you beat the shadow guy by

Anyone want to let me know how to get codex entry 49?

Almost to 100%, just looking for Codex numbers 21 and 56.

Great little game. ^_^

Codex:

And that, apparently, is all you need, despite the implications by the Codex.

@Jay2

What's 49 and 52?

JIGuest:

@Tianshuo

I beat this game 100% days ago. The nightmare gave me a hard time, but:

Really promising start, but I thought the ending was quite confusing. Maybe the next installment will make things more clear.

It's worth getting up to 100%, as mentioned by Albert earlier, then going back to speak to the computer.

I particularly enjoyed the Codex descriptions, and the fact that

I loved it, it was a cute and fun time-waster, though the text was off sometimes

Still, it was fun and am happy it was presented to me :)

Well, I finally managed to complete the game 100%, and I enjoyed it all the way through..
But I didn't understand the ending, Can someone explain to me what the ending was all about?

ps. English isn't my first language, so yea...

At the credits

I also beat it a while back, but I found it annoying how you STILL had to fight the nightmare after you use the computer.
Tip:

Great game! The ending was a bit cliche tough. And since I prefer casual games, I played only to the normal ending and didn't want to spend time to do a perfect ending. But it was great!! Thanks to the team for making this game. Looking forward to the sequel. :)

Nice idea, interesting concept.

Ceased to be fun when there were no hints on how not to get your levels reset every day, and even knowing how to beat the nightmare doesn't help because it's far too ridiculous-hard.

Shame, really. Ruined it totally.

Does anyone know where to find number 47? Otherwise, great game :)

Alright, here's my view - way too difficult. I just switched off after 15 minutes. For starters, what's up with losing all of your skills every day, and having to beat the same nightmare enemy every time - if you had a choice, or there were different enemies that would be fine, but it just got really frustrating and dull - the fight itself was tough because you HAVE NO ATTACKS! I wouldn't mind if you had to use some strategy, but I want some way to block or throw that guy or something. Same with the normal enemies - all I'm asking for is some way to stun them, especially the worms, which are seriously annoying.

I enjoyed the heck out of this. Any way to get on a notification list for when the sequel hits?

Fun game! I'm a sucker for pixel art, and collect-platformers, so this was right up my alley.

I got the same result as Marty, at the credits.

Also, does anyone know what Codex entry 56 is supposed to be?

I thought it was a pretty good game. Didn't get 100% since I couldn't find like five gems, though. Also it froze when I tried to use the computer a second time

I've been reading the comments, and

Grr I earned the 100% ending and had just

DrHardCore:

I actually got stuck at the same spot. You don't have to replay the game to get to the ending again. Just refresh the page and load from the menu. You might also be able to use one of the save state codes given above.

As for the 100% secret:

Once you get 100% and then

The only cool part about finishing 100% is you get taken to a beta test of the sequel.

That was surprisingly fun once I got past the ice-like footing (nicely put by the reviewer).

100%, to my surprise (but really I wasn't sure what the goal was so I spent a long time hitting every nook and cranny!)

Are the codes unique for percentage completion? Well, here's mine, for 100%

@Tianshuo

To all those that are looking for the elusive #56 on the Codex:

I am looking forward to the sequel, mainly because of the potentially awesome backstory it may give to this game. To those who have seen the 100% special:

Looking forward very, very much to the sequel Duncan. Excellent job on this one.

Very good game. I wish there was a way to break out of the dash though... Flash in Linux sometimes has trouble with holding a key down, and it kept double-tapping for me, so I was dashing everywhere and continually stunning myself by bashing into walls.

I caught on to the first half of the twist once I realised

Unfortunately, I'm not sure what to make of the 100% secret:

Besides a glitch that for some reason let me finish the game with 4/5 Huge Gems (is that allowed? I thought the game said I needed all 5?) the only gameplay issues were in relation to the Roundians. The Squarians not only had perfectly reasonable prices in my mind (especially since I did not find the Roundians until I had bought everything - yes, that's quite possible!), but the race was not very clearly explained, such that it was only when I was looking for my poor lost 5th Huge Gem that I actually figured out how to run it.

There's also an issue in that it's impossible to buy every upgrade unless

That's just irritating, but was probably intentional.

Lastly, I couldn't take the "serious" writing seriously. It's probably the sudden, artificial jump from comedy to seriousness, but I don't think the designer wanted me to be rolling my eyes at

All in all, though, I liked it. The reset-to-level-1 system is downright inspired.

How do i level up learn? I'm at level 4 and I assume it goes to level 5. It's the ONLY thing (aside from the computer) I have to do until i get 100% :(

haha, power of posting:

Was anybody able to defeat the shadow (ie. bring its health all the way down to 0)? I'm curious what happens... or does the dream always end before you can get that far?

@keith
yes, you can defeat the shaddow, though generally you need to have full fortification and healing.

If you do beat him, you wake up without loosing all your jumping/running/healing/fortification/collecting stats. Also, if you beat him, the gems do not reset.

On a different note, where do i go to play the sequel. my code is

Man, this was a really interesting game until I accidentally did something funky like press C, press down a couple of times, and then press X, all through random happenstance... landing me on the reset button. Yes, I accidentally clicked the reset button.

....don't have a reset button.

Other than that, I LOVE THESE KINDS OF GAMES, just make it have more direction.

Definately one of the better games ive played....can u say depth?

Once I read about the black gems, the game was really fun and challenging. Before - just frustratingly difficult.
Balance issues... you have to perform crazy stunts for the Roundians, which are (almost?) impossible without actually having the skills you would get in exchange. Therefore, just save the hassle and buy upstairs.

I loved the self-addressed humor, the efficient level-design (including teleporters) and the (double-)jumping physics. Consequently, I didn't like the controls of the sequel trial.

Getting the storyline straight, so that the focus goes from comedy to seriousness, could become quite hard for the sequel. The regular ending did nothing to increase my hopes for a well-written transition.

This game is pretty engaging.

I seem to be stuck in regards to getting all of the gems.

I cannot figure out how to get to the top of the outside of the tower. I am at the buildings with Junior (who has the television head) and cannot jump high enough to reach the ledge despite being at a Jump 6.

Can anyone give me a pointer?

Thanks!

The game became unplayable after learning the dash technique.

I loved that. I started it thrice before completing it. At first, I found it tedious and the first time I lost the levels after sleeping, I found it so depressing so I just quit it. But it was truly worth playing on, as I found out.

To those who have/are thinking of giving up on that basis, it actually gets easier to gain levels as the days go by.

I loved it. Everything was pretty awesome, game designs, characters, plotline and such. My only hatred was the dash feature. It was useless, I found it impossible to control and I'd knock myself in the middle of the nightmare. Not what you want.

@WillYum
I was puzzled for a bit too. It's simple to fix. Hold the jump button down until he's at full height, then press again.

Standing still to heal and then you cannot go outside of the game without making it pause, gee waste my time why don't you.

It was quite a long game, without the bonus it would not have been worth bothering, not that great of a bonus, but better than it just ending.

Apparently the code is a save point, if you have not completed the game you then can later for the bonus.
Complete Code:

WillYum
Gems:

Skills:

Extra health:

Completion:

This game is hugely fun, but no matter what I seem to do beating the Shadow is just out of my reach. Despite having Fortitude at lvl. 4, Run and Jump at lvl. 5, 8 hearts of life, and that skill the makes you heal even when you move, and I still could not win. I even had a path so that by the 5th try, I knew exactly where to go to get all my gems and level up the same way. And by then the game had become annoying and not fun. I kept playing because I wanted to see the ending but just reading the spoiler comments had satisfied me at that point. Please, please make Gather Up ever so slightly easier!

The boss fight was intense. I liked it.

How are you supposed to max relation after you already wasted all you gems?

I can't wait for gather up.

I could be confused, but I think in order to win you only have to level up

to level 5. All the other skills are optional. I won without getting Dash or Double Jump at all.

And though I couldn't beat the boss, every day you get an extra hour to play around in, so it's easier to get your skills to level 5 in that day. That's a nice balancing mechanism; the longer it goes the easier it gets. Another thing about the skills you need is that

I think it'd be nice to have the Codex list your skill levels though. (There might be another way of checking them that I missed.)

Very neat game -- I like the sandbox feel, and I like the fact that I didn't have to do any of the quests that I couldn't do to win. And the plot sucks you in. I hope they'll be able to make up in the sequel.

"Stats" on the Codex menu. Duh.

Nice game until the shadow. That thing is impossible to beat. If there was some way to fight back this game would be awesome but the shadow really puts a giant stinker on the whole gaming experience. it is simply so for beyond my ability as a gamer that I can't believe it. I get all the skills and max stats and I still get crushed. And I'm sick of it. Hey game developers: Challenge is good. Frustration is bad. Learn the difference.

how do you get codex 35?

There's a trick to easily beating the boss. Using it kind of feels like cheating, so read at your own risk.

I usually care for platformers, but this game was one of the best I've played in a while. Thank you!

Ok, I've seen everyone posting how to get abilities but no one has mentioned that there are two ways of doing it. One is going to the Squarians and paying lots of gems but there is another way. If you go to the Roundians, they will give you a certain task. If you complete it, you can buy the same ability for fifty gems. For example, one of them wants you to collect 450 gems in one day. Once you do that, you can buy the RADAR ability from him. 'Mama' wants you to heal fifteen parts of the hearts in a row. Etc...

Um.. what do you actually need the big gems for? You can get your memories back without them, but when you talk to the guy after beating the shadow you say the gems open the door. They don't, you only need 100 small ones

This game is perfect for the upgrade, explore, and breaking the 4th wall themes.

Thanks G.P. without that trick I would never have beat the shadow.

Does anybody know how to get codex numbers 22 and 35? And does anybody know how to get the Times hit in a row stat to get to 3 or more? Details please, not some useless answer like "get hit 3 times without touching the ground".

I absolutely DREAD going to sleep.

Okay, so I just need one huge gem. My radar keeps leading me to the grassless patch in front of the bottom Tyrant. Is that a glitch, or do I need to do something? THere's a pipe leading to it....

I thought this game was really brilliant. Loved the pixel art, the concept, the way each day was divided by the "final boss" basically, how absolutely everything leveled up. Totally 100%'d just to see everything, because it felt like a game worth exploring.

My only gripe was the avatar and cut-scene art was not up to quite the same standard. It looked awkward and hastily done...or meticulously done by someone who isn't an artist. One of the other. Otherwise, I loved it. And the demo for the next one looks equally as promising.

Just throwing this out there: if the non-game art were ever improved and the world made perhaps a bit larger, I would happily pay money for this.

@Piros12: The only place to get the 5 hits in row that I found:

I haven't figured out how to finish Joy's quest i.e.

Where is this computer everyone is talking about???

To all that are having a bad time getting hit 5 times in a row, plus getting good airtime:

To get the Hardy attribute for free, go to the lava pit, jump into the lava and keep mashing the jump button. You'll lose 1 quarter of a heart each time, meaning that if you have Relationship 2 you can also get the Regen attribute from this.

The reason you have to press the jump button is because of Air Recovery, which cuts out your invincibility phase.

Note that this doesn't work at Fortitude 5 because your character DODGES THE LAVA.

Wow! A lot of negative comments for what I see to be a wonderfully innovative game.

I feel as though many of the comments made here reflect the ever shortening of people's attention spans and their need for results NOW...

I LOVED the way your stats were "reset" everyday... Only to learn everything forgotten the day before gradually faster and faster...

Another thing people may not have noticed, was that your stamina in being able to stay up longer each day grew after every sleep time...

My other problem is that the people who complained about the plot line are probably the same one's completely satisfied with Super Metroid or Mario but some how "can't accept" what was created here...

So many complaints... at least the crowd voted properly.

To me, double/triple cheers to a wonderful casual gaming experience.

Hey, I need help with the 56th codex page (If there is one) and help re-locating the Sacred Grounds. I got there (and it's in my codex), but I can't find it again! Help?

What is the save code for?
I don't know where to go to load.

@bumoftheums: I agree, it's a wonderful game. Your days get longer every time you sleep, also, you learn faster the higher your "learn" level (which is related to your game progress, I think), so it's not really that painful to reset.

@wiiareonfire: From your house, you need to go generally to the right, and then up, and probably back left, and then up again.

@wat is the code for?: I think it's for the sequel, Gather Up! Save it for then.

Great game. I think it would have benefitted from a map (I was really hoping that is what Radar was going to be).

I got all my abilities from the Squarians... is there any reason not to? Did I miss out?

The ending is really sad. =(

Has no-one made their own map yet?

Who knows the locations of all the red gems? I reallllly wanna play the gather up demo! Or a map would be really useful.

Just for everyone who is complaining about the lack of depth with story:

This game should come with a map, or at least a place that tells you where you are. Anyway, where do you find the demo? I have been looking everywhere!

tip for fighting the shadow guy... when you have the dash ability, just dash from left to right (you will run into the wall and stun yourself) when you recover from the stun you will be momentarily invulnerable. rinse and repeat. he will hit himself with rocks and you will get the gems as you're running from side to side.

I'm working on a map. Can anyone help me though? On my current playthrough I have all the gems but somehow can't afford dash! Where do I need to run to to get dash off the Roundite?

About the shadow:

if you enter the consul there's TWO things that are marked false:

Heartbreaker
Insomniatic

Any clues people?

People, don't be discouraged about losing your levels. Your learning level stays the same which makes you level up faster. Once your learning level is 3 or so then you will level up very fast and get farther each day until you can win.

The Sequel is called well you will know and get to play the sequel only if you get 100% and you only get to play the just made bit not the fixed bit and the name ends with UP and has two words and the first letter is G and the first word has 6 letters and 2nd word has 2.

HERE IS A FULL CODEX, LEVEL, and "QUEST" WALKTHROUGH!

ADDITION TO THE WALKTHROUGH:

HOW TO BEAT THE FLAME SHADOW GUY:

Personaly I liked the game but

Actually...

Just asking, has nobody noticed that in the codex entries that it said that there was another civilization in the Giant Tree? Is it actually possible to get to the "hexies" that are in there?

Ok, I was enjoying this game very much, then I had to stop playing; I saw no save feature so I assumed the game would save my progress automatically.

Imagine my surprise when I logged back in the next day and found all my progress was lost and I had to start over again.... screw that.

Game is a failure as far as I'm concerned; next time either make a true casual game OR implement some save method. Either one.

There is a save method. Hit a postbox, and when you come back on the same site, hit C to pull up the menu, then go down to load. It will load your game unless your cookies are messed up....

This has nothing to do with cookies. Flash movies place their savegame (SOL) files in %AppData%\Macromedia\Flash Player\#SharedObjects folder.

I wish the girl had weapons and I hate restarting my skill points after the fire guy!!

@DrHardCore

I got stuck at the green lion's head too, and I pressed accidentally pressed "x", which seemed to work as jump.

I can find all the gems except 6. I have searched everywhere that I know!
Does anyone have a map to show the location of all the gems?

I found this useful. Thanks!

The conversation portraits and the cutscene...weren't very well drawn. But the sprite work was pretty well done, which is what you spend most of the time looking at anyway, so hey. The girl looks like she has sideburns though.

I think the most irritating thing was the fourth wall humor. Perhaps I'm the exception rather then the rule, but I never really found fourth wall jokes funny, and it grates on my nerves how people that do use them tend to revisit it over and over. John Freeman's zombie goast was funny, but the ensuing conversation was a little disappointing.

Beyond that, I think the world could have used a bit more happening. A lot of it feels very empty, and exploration got a little dull when there weren't a whole lot of places to go. But the mechanic is neat, and the 100% demo has my interest. In spite of all its little flaws I think it's a cool game.

Wonderful game. the skills were nice , although it would've been great if

If you want to look at it in a critical way it's a good story, the back story's great, foreshadowing here and there( if you bothered to look through everything the codex tells you AND listen to brains )

If you want to look at it as a human however...

After completing 100%

I know it's all about depth and everything, but I couldn't get over how obnoxious the girl was. She's always like, "fix the &!?* fence!" and, "you arn't giving me any information." Seriosly, girl. Take a chill pill.

My % in the upper right of the screen was "94.6" and

when I got this code:

What exactly does the % measure -- has anyone figured that out? Is it based on stats, Codex entries, areas explored, gems ... some combination of the above ... something else?

Also, I thought the ending was awesome. But then I also enjoyed the heck out of films like

and

largely because of, rather than in spite of, their

Different people have different tastes. (:

Now, onward to check out that

hopefully.

Oh yeah, and maybe a note about how you can in most cases recover your progress after a browser crash by simply choosing LOAD from the menu (and it isn't necessary to be at a save point in order to load a saved game from the menu) should go in the body of the review, so it's easier for frustrated players to find?

Thanks to everyone who pointed that out, btw; I was ][ this close to being able to finally beat the "boss" when Chrome choked on me, and even though it probably would've been easier the second time, I might not have bothered playing again from scratch if I hadn't known about the LOAD option!

I can't find the tenth mailbox...

I'm stuck with 99.5%, all gems collected, i just don't have the RADAR. :(

The dash is very dangerous

really! Fun game. Worth all the time and very good all together.

the cutscenes rimind me of infamous meet kingdom hearts 2

Hunh. Well, that was certainly different than I expected. At any rate, I'm glad to see the comments about an upcoming sequel, because there's no way I'm gonna let the game designer end it there.

Joe, I completely agree with you. After bought dash, I only used it once- I ended up running into a wall and knocking myself out.

At the end of the game, after the credits and stuff You can complete to 100% if you haven't already and talk to the computer in sacred grounds and it'll give a demo. And the character you control is THE BOY!!!! It's really cool. You control with the arrow keys and the [x] key to shoot.
I think it's for the next Level Up! game.
-Ruby out... :) ;)

No time, must leave code!

Dudes,you beat the flame dude by jumping and avoiding attacks.Jump from side to side and collect the black gems,which are the power of the shadow. Don't give up.you will beat the shadow

Your percentage can be calculated in the "stats" screen, and composes of red gems, blue gems, codex entries, etc. But NOT current skill levels.

oh man, i actually got all the gems and got every codex except for 29, i got all my skills from the computer screen guys and now i don't have enough gems for the computer codex.

The black ghost can be killed by the falling cookies. Though the cookies fall to kill the girl, but if you keep moving the girl around and somehow get the ghost get trampled under the falling cookies then you will notice that each time the ghost gets trampled, some of his life decreases. so the dark ghost can be killed by getting him to be trampled a number of times under the falling cookies. this is very difficult to do but maybe possible when the girl has special powers such as double jump and dashing speed.

I have to say that while I thought this game was a complete failure with some poor attempts at humour, I warmed to it and the storyline was the icing on the cake. The game did play well, I think, and it kept me entertained for a good two hours or so before I found how to finish it.

I never defeated the Shadow in the nightmare, but I like the idea of what it turns out to be.

I'll have to check out the sequel: this was very clever and very well done.

:)

I originally thought the shadow in the dream was actually the boy who crashed the fence down. But when I completed it.....

"...had been there all along. Since the day when he broke my fence."

It changed the whole view of the storyline.

But all in all, it was good. I found out a way to defeat the shadow boss.

Very, very cool game. Got 100% in the end, though in order to learn Codex 49, you need to beat the shadow, and that was *darned* tricky. I got everything else - all the gems big and small, and completed the game - before I managed to beat the shadow. It was hard to get the rocks to fall on her when there are the assorted damage sources around the nightmare level.

But that's no problem, because it just means you dread going to sleep - and that feels appropriate. It makes you want to get as much exploration done as possible. It's great the way that you re-learn skills faster and faster as the days go on.

I agree it's a bit sad how the ending turned out, because I was enjoying the relationship as well.

I didn't think the slippy-slidiness was a problem at all. I did find Dash was a bit too easy to activate sometimes and a bit too hard to activate at other times, but otherwise the game was a lot of fun.

I'm very much looking forward to the sequel, although

But nonetheless, a great Metroidvania game, and I'll be happy to see anything more from this developer.

Returning to this game, I found myself beating the Shadow without double jump, and without using Dash (although I had it). Just felt like sharing that with all the people who complain that it's too hard. And while I really don't want to brag, it's... kinda unavoidable with a comment like this one >_>

I could not defeat the damm shadow at all even with all the skills. Then i ended up beating him with the the skills but only four health hearts :D Ive searched entire map and cant find the last of big gems though :/

Code:

What the heck! I finished with Regen and that's it!!!!!!!!
I wanna replay....

Giant 'blue' Gem Locations

How do you get the last big gem. Do you...

If i'm jumping from the right area, can someone tell me where to stand when I start dash. I can get close, but never close enough.
I'm at 96%, fully leveled with Dash and double jump.

Hmmmm, something I've been wondering: