Aimless
My second game! Aimless is a small metroidvania with a rougelike twist. Explore your environment, unlock abilities, conquer platforming challenges, and fight monsters until you find your way to the end!
Gamepad controls only work in the downloadable versions.
Original music by Ecremprown (me) and Tokiru.
Tips/know issues:
- If you randomly lose the ability to jump, press the jump button while paused and then unpause
- If you are stuck and not sure how to make progress, go back to the shop and read the ability descriptions more carefully
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on the surface, the game looks poorly made, but then you get upgrades, they work amazingly, and you can do some cool tech. the sounds are also amazing. good job! :)
Thanks! It was my second game so visuals were not really a priority
A bit late to the party. I really like the game but the controls are very tricky. particularly the jumping on enemy heads. I cannot manage to get the last ability. I finally got the bomb to blow up at the right time but then just died right away after that and I think my blood pressure has reached its max so I got most at least
walkthrough of the game
Love the game played it for over 10 hours. Any tips for the final boss? I have collcet every thing exept 2 heart things.
Wow! I'm so glad you are enjoying it! 10 hours, thats impressive! The final boss is my first boss so it isnt perfectly balanced but it is fair for the most part. Heres some advice:
There are two variations of the bullet hell move, each of them has a safe spot either in the corner or the middle. When you reach the halfway point the corner variation becomes very hard to dodge but you can do it by staying in the middle and continuously dashing left and right to avoid the projectiles.
Basically just spam projectiles and bombs as much as possible. You can also kick off of the laser which lets you get more damage instead of ducking under it. You can also destroy the falling rocks with your sword.
dont stand too close to the boss because the jump attack might hit you on the way up. Also when he does the jump attack its best to jump over the projectiles and get a few hits in before the next attack.
Two sort of advanced things you can do: after kicking off of the boss itself you can hit it with your sword during the flip if you time it correctly for extra damage. You can also cancel your sword cooldown by quickly ducking and unducking which is kind of broken cause it significantly increases your damage output but it's pretty fun.
I hope you beat it! Lmk if you do
I beat it after over 100 trys.
got lucky to not get the corner bullet hell move at the second half.
Kicking is really, really hard...do you think you could add, like, health refill points along the way (besides just the red stars that are one-time-only deals) That would be very helpful. Also, is the only way forward really kicking? Or can I do something else?
Hey, unfortunately I'm probably not gonna update anything soon, I wanna be done with the project and I'm working on other stuff now. I realize people are having trouble with the kicking, if I had some more playtesters I probably would have tweeked it. Kicking is required to beat the game; you need it to get wall jump and to reach the final boss, I think that's all you need it for though to beat the game, but it is required for a lot of optional stuff. Thanks for playing though, I really appreciate it!
I'm at the same point as the person below and I think I'm throwing in the towel. The bouncing on enemies mechanic is incredibly frustrating to use and feels wildly inconsistent. It's especially annoying when you end up taking damage from the next enemy you're supposed to hop off because they're spaced so close together.
Thanks for letting me know, Ill take that into account in the future, I'm probably gonna include this mechanic in future games. I'm glad you tried it out, I hope you had some fun with it apart from the kicking.
I've been enjoying the game a lot! I've been stuck for a very long time though and I think my next spot I need to unlock is top left or the one in the blue-gray area or the maze one in green. Can I have help or some kind of walkthrough please? Thanks!
Hey! I’m super happy to hear you’re enjoying it and impressed that you made it this far! You are actually at a point where you can beat the game, you just need to go to the very top of the orange room with the spiral. If you want to get more abilities you need to go to the green maze room. Go along the top to the second secret, then go down and left, there’s a little spot in the left wall that isn’t solid, if you go there then duck and hold left you’ll find a secret passage. Once you fall down the hole with 4 ledges on each side, do the same duck thing on the ledge with the coin tree.
The final boss is in the big dark black room at the top