Cerberus wants to escape from the realm of the dead! Kill the creatures of the underworld and defeat Hades to earn your freedom.
\nControls:\nWASD / ZQSD / Arrows to move.
\nTeam ADRS:\nAdrian Lissot\nBarthélémy Renucci\nFlorent Perez
\n","source":"Harmades/js13k-2022","stars":0,"comments":[{"at":315673290,"author":"Rémi Vansteelandt","login":"remvst","gh":3472387,"url":"http://www.remvst.com/","text":"I was able to finish the game! It’s one of those simple games that just resonates with me. I was able to buy an upgrade right away, which is good because it made me want to keep playing and see how far I would get. There’s even a nice soundtrack.\nAlso, the boss fight was the icing on the cake!
\nThings I would improve: particles, animations, fonts, add more levels, delay showing the shop when dying, polish the shop UI.
\n","games":["Incident at BIO13K"]},{"at":315701488,"author":"Jonas Olmstead","login":"sanojian","gh":428082,"text":"I enjoyed this even though bullet hell games are not my favorite genre. Often a wall of bullets would come at you that you just cant avoid, which did not seem fair. The sprites were nice and I played all the way through the final boss battle. Great job.
\n","games":["DEAD AGAIN"]},{"at":315703789,"author":"Renceee","login":"r3nceee","gh":103666262,"twitter":"r3nceee","text":"Final boss was great =%. Great game!
\n","games":["Curs3d"]},{"at":315810055,"author":"Brian Hambley","login":"Hambo3","gh":10634997,"text":"I really liked this, and played until the end. Liked the progression. The boss was actually the easiest part? All the boss bullets seemed to go vertically, not sure if that was be design?
\n","games":["Death or Gloria"]},{"at":315964910,"author":"Sebastian Dorn","login":"sebadorn","gh":1146318,"url":"https://sebadorn.de","text":"Nice boss fight!\nSome issue: With Chromium I had repeated stutters which made the boss fight impossible, because the image temporarily froze and then I was dead. But it worked perfectly fine in Firefox.
\n","games":["Hel's Trial"]},{"at":316180297,"author":"Ryan Tyler","login":"tyler6699","gh":50468,"url":"https://carelesslabs.co.uk","text":"Simple gameplay, nice upgrades, music is good and a more complex boss fight. I liked the variations on the bosses bullets/ lasers.
\n","games":["Soul Jumper"]},{"at":316522445,"author":"Jerome Lecomte","login":"herebefrogs","gh":1383818,"url":"herebefrogs.com","text":"The shop/skills mechanics adds a nice spin on this shmup genre. I was hooked and had to finish it!
\nI wish the shop screen was in the same cute pixelart style as the rest of the game.
\n","games":["Stand By Me"]},{"at":316602980,"author":"Gabor Héja","login":"gheja","gh":1894642,"url":"https://gabor.heja.hu/","text":"I liked this bullet hell game, the music, sounds and graphics are all great! The upgrades are really useful and I loved the boss fight, too!
\n","games":["Cooking for Skully"]},{"at":316656703,"author":"Jasper Renow-Clarke","login":"picosonic","gh":26137750,"twitter":"femtosonic","text":"I liked the graphics and music in the entry.
\nThe pixel graphics worked really well and the palette choice was good. The music might have been a little jolly for the theme of death.
\nI ended up going as far to the right as I dare at the start of each wave just so I stood a chance of removing some before a “WALL” of virtually impenetrable shots from the enemies rained down on me.
\nThen moving left to avoid the existing shots whilst trying to find a way through.
\nI would like to have been able to shoot backwards from the start and been able to move faster. Also being able to shoot the enemy shots would make it more fun.
\nA good entry
\n","games":["Bee Kind"]},{"at":316672572,"author":"Rob Louie","login":"roblouie","gh":5448110,"url":"roblouie.com","twitter":"rob_louie","text":"I like the concept of being able to upgrade when you die, and the parallax scrolling of the background vs edge was a nice effect.
\nHowever, there are a couple staples of the bullet-hell genre missing here that make the game feel quite unfair.
\nThe largest issue is that in bullet hell games, generally there is only like a single pixel in the center of your ship that collision is checked against, or worst case a collision box that is much much smaller than the on-screen sprite. Here it’s like if a bullet gets anywhere close to your player, you just die instantly. This makes the game feel quite unfair.
\nTo a lesser degree, usually bullet hell games have a shoot button to shoot, and if you don’t shoot, you move faster, letting you choose to go offensive and destroy things, or stop shooting and dodge bullets. Having auto fire and one movement speed takes this away and gives the player less control and makes the game feel less fair.
\nHowever, both of those are really easy to change issues, and I’d honestly love to give the game another go with those changes in place, as I think a lot of care went into making this one and I do still like it. Keep up the good work, and if you do make changes in those directions I’d love to play it again.
\n","games":["Charon Jr."]},{"typ":2,"at":316812964,"author":"Maximilian Schaum","login":"ixam1","gh":74653168,"url":"https://ebay.com","twitter":"ebaytechberlin","text":"Really cool game, with very nicely made fitting visuals. The music is supports the game well.
\nI really liked that you could upgrade with each death getting stronger each time.
\nSome opponent waves seem unbeatable, but maybe thats per design since you will get stronger and beat them eventually.
\nOverall awesome game. Great job!
\n"},{"typ":2,"at":316856056,"author":"Filip Dukat","login":"fdukat","gh":87642690,"url":"https://people.andersenlab.com","twitter":"filip_dukat","text":"Tales of Cerberus is a nice time killer, I really like the idea that you can upgrade your Cerberus to make it stronger, I did a little experiment and maxed out everything and basically you don’t have to do anything, with 5 shields you just roll through the map like some tank :D
\nI like the artwork, controls are very simple so it’s easy to get into the game and start collecting money.
\nOverall, game is fun and really well-made, the only downside that I see is that it’s sooo short but I guess you can’t have everything with such size limit :D Nonetheless, very good work guys, looking forward to play more of your games!
\n"},{"at":316861023,"author":"Justin Gilman","login":"EyeOfMidas","gh":3173530,"url":"https://eyeofmidas.com","twitter":"eyeofmidas","text":"Really well done SHMUP! The boss battle music really sold it for me. Solid music, nice pixel art graphics, and a whole bunch of upgrades to get!
\nReally solid entry, nice work!
\n","games":["Merchant of Death"]},{"at":317177889,"author":"João Lopes","login":"lopis","gh":2715751,"url":"www.jlopes.dev","text":"Solid game. Great music, great graphics. It’s quite short, and could definitely evolve to a game with several levels. I like the power-ups, but I wish we could power up even more to have a crazy about of bullets.
\n","games":["Planet B"]},{"at":317230510,"author":"John Edvard","login":"johnedvard","gh":656024,"url":"https://reitgames.com","twitter":"ReitGames","text":"I like how the theme is interpreted. The game is not about avoiding bullets in the beginning, only the boss fight.\nI like how the music changes when we meet the boss.
\n","games":["Hang by a thread"]},{"typ":2,"at":317320069,"author":"Noël Meudec","login":"Noel-FB","gh":71314518,"url":"https://facebook.com/instantgames","text":"Note: this is the first game I played for this year’s edition of JS13K.\nWhat a great little game. I completed it (killed the final boss).\nThe things I liked:
\nNice graphics, and nice upgrade system. At first I thought it was super slow and tough, but after few upgrades seems started to feel way better :)
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