A game hommage to Castlevania

Hello everybody,

My name is Cyril, and I have just spent the last year working full-full-time on my game Some Epic Stuff, developed though xna, RIP. One year with SOTN ost playing in the background...

Although the graphic design is not gothic, I thought it could have had your attention since it's basically a love declaration to both Castlevania and Mario (the pace is faster), with some innovative hints for a platformer ingredients like:

- switching real time between 3 pre-selected weapons, magics or items through the left stick

- dynamic split screen + 25% zoom (I just love playing local coop with my bros)

- to levelup or upgrade items, you collect souls. Along that you have a souls coefficient, initiated at 1, which increases on some nice moves (finish on rush attack or counter attack). If you get touched, the coef is back to 1. The thing is the collected souls are not yours yet, you need to cash them via L2, in which case you get the souls x coef, and the coef is back to 1. So you have to constantly choose between cashing the souls with a nice souls coef, or taking the chance to increase the souls coef. I wanted "regular"players just to go on, and to reward the skilled ones.

Here is the link of my trailer: 

and a fresh new one, walkthrough of the first level: 

Encoding quality is not that great, I will post some screenshots on my website to give you a better idea of the textures (hand-drawn backgrounds).

I precise that I have nothing to sell: in a perfect world, I would release a free demo in a not-so-distant future, hoping that some game lovers like me will enjoy it.

Please, feel free to comment, I'm really interested by your feedback.

IGA San if you are reading me, domo origato for all those years of fun!!

Cyril, Goupil System