Crimson Tragedy

The game: *horrifying stuff going on*

The music: eh, seems like a normal day.

This sucks

work on the game

A part of me feels like the campiness of the original game is lost here (the palette-mixing death animations and the clipart devil "helping you to your death!") but the polish up in everything else here is a great reason to try this remake.

This is a decent custom engine, great to see more horrorbrews that really care about the player experience. It's not far off from native SMB1 physics with a bit of the fat trimmed, which is put to the test aptly in stage two and four. The crouch-jumping is intact, which helps with weaving through the poisonous mushroom obby, but your jump height isn't affected by your horizontal speed, so there's no worry for running starts when the platforms start to shrink as you go along.

The split ending was also a welcome surprise: I appreciate that the secret is tied to simple, reasonable game knowledge and not based on a grab-bag of invisible conditionals, digging through the AppData folder etc etc.

Great job on this, was a really interesting playthrough.

boy oh BOY this was difficult as hell, just wish there was a better way to handle things like not needing to play through EVERYTHING all over again just to get back to where you lost, other than that this is pretty damn good