Echo: The Oracle's Scroll

Wonderful game and really enjoying it so far! I love platformers in the Meat Boy / Celeste vein and Echo scratches that itch (just finished the Lava Lake trial!).

As a recovering game journalist, I've toyed with making games myself, and would love to know how you tackled scene management like the menu screens, etc. I made a working prototype following SquidGod's LDtk tutorial as well, but got completely lost on even just adding a title screen 😅

Bought this game on catalog and really loving it but I have just one request. As a pretty busy person who plays his Playdate during commutes I’d love for there to be an easy option where you don’t get spawned back to the fireplace after a certain number of deaths. I know Souls-like fans love all that but personally I end up never playing the game more than a few minutes because I find it too discouraging having to do the same trajectories over and over. Either way, thanks for doing an amazing job on this gem!

I’ve been away from my Play date for a while and having returned, this was the first game I picked up and holy moly, what a superb game to find.

I’m very early on but I’m thoroughly enjoying the slow reveal of the depth of the game. The controls are extremely rewarding and the discovery and challenges pitched exceptionally well. I have a sense of a similar challenge level of VVVVVV which makes me excited and a little anxious at the same time.

Love it. Well done team.

Really love this game and have been speedrunning it lately. I was wondering if you're still working on any patches/updates because I seem to have a somewhat repeated crash/bug. Each time it starts with the audio repeating the same half dozen notes and then the game crashed out when either trying to save or when losing the final heart and returning to the last campfire.

If it helps, you can see it twice in this vid

Happens around ~20:51 and around 27:08. 

Wonderful work!  Took the liberty of posting a short review: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0ZJbLfCd3Bw Hope it's cool to post a link here?  

Seems very interesting game. Any chance of a pc release in the future?

Great game! I really enjoyed the exploration and the good platforming challenges. I'm trying to get the 100% (around 5 hours of gameplay). The only (small) downside is that the ending was interrupted by a bug (I wanted to screeshot the epilog and the Playdate crashed when I did it... When I restarted, the character was gone forever).

the game is great, but it has 4 levels not 250. I think you must mean 250+ screens.

Anyhow, i absolutely loved it.

What a great game! Sooooo happy to see such an amazing adventure game for Play date <3 hats down for the developer! But I am stuck at Lava Lake start :/ I am walking in circles and there’s no way for me to continue:)) pleaseeee give us a little tip

Just wanted to express my support for such a great game! Only at Lava Lake, but enjoying it so much!

amazing game! Just helped the blacksmith clean his chimney - he said I can now smash through boulders or something? How do I do that, did I run into a bug?

Been in my wishlist for a while now, really happy it was included in the recent catalogue sale. However, any chance of a demo (just 1-2 rooms), in order to get a feel for the controls and atmosphere? I love me some demos.

A proper, multi-hour metroidvania, one of the best games on the Playdate!

Just excellent! In my top 3 Playdate games for sure! Atmosphere is amazing, the controls and gameplay are spot on and satisfying. This is a metroidvania I WANTED to explore every bit of. 

Very minor nit picks:

• I wish the player character had a just a touch of flare or character... example Quote from Cave Story and Celeste from the original Celeste are pretty blank-slatey characters too, but their design had something that popped and make them less generic. White-kid-with-pompadour (who also has very little stated motivation).. just doesn't elevate the game.
• The ending isn't enough. Up to the VERY end all the dialog and story were charming and just the right balance of brevity vs. motivation. 
  • Really if those two things were fleshed out, even just a little - I'd be speaking of this game in the same breath as Cave Story and Celeste. Especially considering the limitations of the Playdate, it's just that damn good - well done.
• The "Brothers in combat" riddle is not satisfying. The word "Apathy" doesn't make sense in context of the answer. "Library" is a stretch as well. The other riddles were spot on!
• The second time challenge is a bit too unforgiving, given 1) the slow down in these section - especially with the sound on and 2) the imperfect alignment of sound and graphics.
• I'm at 97%.. I think the last thing I am missing is a final heart piece - but there's no way for me to find it without simply scouring the map. The dark sections and "top" sections of the map make it unclear what areas I may not have explored. Wanna DM me the locations of any hard to find heart pieces ;) ?

I only took the time to type out this feedback because of how really impressed I am with Echo: The Oracle's Scroll. If you own a Playdate this is a must play if you even kinda like platformers and metroidvanias.

No longer on catalog?

It is very great. But the riddles are too hard.