Elephantasy: Flipside

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Hi! We played your game on stream and really enjoyed it!

So after watching Sylvie's 2-item 100% challenge run, I decided to try a similar 1-item challenge run to see what the limits would be.

My initial expectations were low, so colour me surprised that I eventually managed to get all the way up to 91% completion!

(Note: The finale isn't completable within the rules of the challenge, so I did have to cheat a little to get my percentage score)

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Here's the exact list of collectibles I wasn't able to get, as denoted in the checklist posted on Steam (Warning: Item location spoilers, of course):

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Gems:

Valley - Flooded Chamber

Underwater - Pot/Aquarium

Underwater - Shrink Cave Under Catfish w/ Octo

Castle - Moat Shrink Tunnel

Sewer - Caged Gem Wand/Switch Puzzle

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Ores:

Caves - Bomb Secret

Hymnir - Floating Platform From Below

Hymnir - Bomb Over Lava Secret

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Keys:

Sewers - Falling Pillar

??? - Above Crusher

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Chests:

Valley - Great Tree Top

Sewer - Shrink Secret Room

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Other:

Upgraded Book

Duke

Just started playing today, but a couple quick bits of feedback.

I find myself wanting to look at the map frequently, but it takes two separate button presses to get to it.  It would be nice if I could bind one keypress or button to go from game to map, and the same button brought me back from map to game.  (But maybe also is a design decision not to, to keep the player from using the map as too much of a crutch.)

Also, I maybe found a minor glitch: in the coastal waters, if I very slowly and carefully approached the screen transition edge, I could move to the next screen but maybe someone not be floating in the water yet, and my air meter counted down and then I died.  I could have just moved out of this state, I had to intentionally try to exploit existing on the very edge of the screen boundary to make this happen, but just FYI.

Absolutely loved the game! Found sound bugs:

[Spoilers Below]
1. Between Cracked Brick and Conveyor Crossing (east of castle) there is a gap. Using this gap to transition screens soft-locks the game (you just keep falling).

2. This one is a doozy. [MEGA SPOILERS] After using the needle to bind [Spoiler], I called Polnareff and he flew me out of the room during the cutscene, which has put my game into a very glitched state. I no longer have any of the ghosts and I can equip the needle anywhere on the overworld. I do have all my other items though and a 8 carrying capacity. I can re-enter the fight though and win the fight instantly with the needle but even after that, I still have the same inventory bug. This has (from what I gather) also locked me out of ending #3 (I have the sword).

3. The runes in the Dream room tablet read SDIRE instead of SPIRE.

4. This one might not be a bug, but I have opened up all of the chests on the overworld and find myself locked out of acquiring Death's Key.

Again, I adore this game! Gonna try out the original Elephantasy next.

Hmm, I'm not totally convinced by the new tutorial change. It feels like it would've been obtrusive (and made for a worse first impression) if it was there in my initial exploration in my first playthrough, and on the flipside I'm not sure that every player who actually needs it will notice the significance of it.

I think my preferred solution for making the intro more understandable would be (if it's possible in the engine?) to have a small portion of the map leading up the the needle be automatically revealed from the start, with the needle room itself being marked (Ludos' hint could be altered to match with the change, too).

That way, people who're stuck would be easily able to see where to go, while anyone who wants to explore is free to check out everywhere else without repeated visual reminders of which way goes to progress.

If that's not enough the entrance to the needle room could be bigger too, it's a bit easy to miss with the perspective, for being the first required objective at least.

Hi! I bought the game yesterday and I've been enjoying it so far. I do have some bugs to report:

[SPOILERS]

1) Leaving the room in the early part of death's monologue after returning his head caused the cutscene to be cancelled, without the head reappearing in its original spot (similar to the previous bug - the save file fix thankfully worked for this bug as well).

2) Trying to complete the wall jump challenge in the room under where Delphi is frequently caused me to clip through the floor in the room above, placing me right next to Delphi. Not only does this let you reach Delphi excessively early, but it also makes collecting the ore the challenge is supposed to be for really annoying too.

Hi! I bought this game on Steam but am too dumb to progress. It's not that I haven't explored plenty and collected lots of gems, and unlocked all sorts of doors--it's that I can't find the [SPOILER] underworld area that is mentioned in the game manual, and am totally stuck. Using cheats has not helped me find this area either! Any pointers?

Hello! I've been having blast with the game so far!

Just wanted to let you know about a bug I found? If you pause right as the screen transitions you get trapped in what appears to be a combination of both rooms!

Edit: Upon further testing, this seems to be possible any time you enter a room from below! :)

This looks really good! Any chance of a Mac build?

Love this game; it feels like a really nice mix of Solstice for NES mixed with Link to the Past. Is there a discord for it? Would love to learn more about this game. 

Hi, I'm not sure if this is the best place to post this and I'm sorry if it's not. I got into this room where it was all dark somehow. The room was called 'Separated' I'm not sure if it is a glitch or intentional. But thought I better let you know just in case.