FISSURE BLADE

Fissure Blade - A Hyper-light boss rush A short, melee-combat boss rush heavily inspired by Hyper Light Drifter. The game has 3 bosses total and takes around ~10-15 minutes to complete. I released the game on itch as well where you can find the well-formatted source code. Controls (explained in-game) Tap X - Slash Hold X - Shoot (uses ammo, replenished by slashing) Tap Z - Dash Hold Z for 3 seconds - Heal (uses a health crystal, replenished at checkpoints) Depending on your keyboard, you might run into weird hardware limitations when holding many keys together (i.e holding up+left+x might be dropped by some keyboards). I've found success trying alternate buttons using N and M instead of Z and X for some keyboards. There's an "easy mode" that you can enable in the pause menu, which increases player damage and decreases boss damage. I recommend trying every boss a couple times before you try "easy mode" though. Life has returned to the Fissure... Between the boss fights, explore the world and remark on the small pieces of resilient life that have bloomed in this deep ravine. This game helped me get out of a creative rut. I love PICO 8 and its restrictions. I had so much more planned for this game, but I'm glad I had to make cuts. The game is more focused and more impactful without all of the fluff I had planned. Hope you enjoy it!