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I definitely saw the NiGHTS inspiration in Fynn while playing the game. I'm thrilled to see he took inspiration from Dragonite, Flaafy, and Hooktail too! You pulled from good sources.

i just finished playing the game today and am catching up on these vids for some bonus info. really loved it, i played the demo back when it came out and the full game is just better than i even imagined. i loved how the collectable cards could give useful hints or expand on the story. my favourite of all is the colour design bc it feels both cozy and magical, just beautiful. everything seems really lovingly crafted, the art, characters, sound and music, there was a lot of warmth and all these little funny faces and smiles, but also well contrasted with the sadder and less happy themes.

Original song?

its really cool to see the development proces!

really loved this games man, I hope we'll get another one of this genre but with more content! :DD

Didn't expect the dolly zoom effect and gotta say i really liked it!! really added a spooky vibe to that level

I loved this detail!

I noticed in this, where the Yoshi egg looking drawing isn't Regina and Mac from what I played days ago. At the time, I thought it was Croc and Beany, but after playing Super Kiwi 64 right after I finished Cavern of Dreams and saw the character refs there, I started to realize it wasn't Croc. I'm curious about the connection with Regina and Mac being referenced in the final game. Which I currently playing and enjoying it. But man it gets hard!

Wow Impact just seeing this now as I recently beat Cavern of Dreams 100% without looking up anything. This cut level looks really nice.

I discovered this game and quickly 100% it, which is pretty rare for me. It's just so charming and engaging, I love it so much <3 Thank you for making it Bynine and crew!

Aww, man! Can't believe I missed this one! I'll do my best to tune into the future episodes. This is a really fun playthrough!

6:49 This makes me both really happy & sad, at once, somehow… Maybe it puts me back in touch with a sense of innocence I’ve partly lost.

Hello! Thank you so much for making this wonderful Game. Ive had so much fun completing it. And it so much fun going out of bounds and finding all these secrets. I dont know if ill ever get another blast of nostalgia like the one i got from playing this game. But as others have said, you have a lot of eyes on you excited for the next thing you make!

I love this game So so good. Got me teary eyed at the end 🥹

Just was wondering did you get any inspiration from splatty's adventure on dreams for the ps4?

What about the antagonist Luna? I love bats and am curious on how you went through the design process of her

The decision to not include them really was an overall mistake. Everything else came together perfectly. This was almost a masterpiece alike to the kin of Banjo. It's still a very good game, but the lack of enemies just makes the game feel incomplete like a prototype with less to do. If unique experience was the goal, then perhaps doubling down on the amount of creatures you can interact with may have helped. I don't feel the "less is more" thing worked out. There could have been an option when starting the game to ask the player what experience they would like, and simply choose between pacifist mode or regular. Kind of disheartening to hear that the decision to not include a big element of the game came down to an overall single developers vision quest. Still, I'd give it a 7/10.

Loved playing this game and was sooo nice to feel that oldschool vibe! It felt a bit like a first try with this game style, and i hope you’ll make another game like that but with more mechanics, more levels and a deeper story ❤❤

Your game is very impressive, to take out combat and health but making the exploration and world work. Personally I ove seeing what technology is able to do with these platformers that are like N64 platformers. Because you can add more and better mechanics than back then. There wasn't as much memory on the N64 so even with Banjo they had to compromise and the frame rates struggled.

I really would like to play those prototypes

Another favorite of mine by a solo dev with a small team of help is pumpkin jack

It’s incredible you were able to do this honestly. The amount of full staffed development teams that are getting styled on by solo / small team developers is amazing

So many of the mechanics seem like they need to be polished up a bit with the controls. As it's very hard to get really good at any of them

I'm wondering why it was so hard to control the torpedo in the ice prism level. It almost made me quit playing the game altogether because it made me rage so hard. You can't really get good at it and you just have to kind of get lucky with the torpedo and where it aims. It's just too unpredictable which direction it goes. The game is pretty fun overall but it does have a lot of problems. But hey I couldn't make a better game LOL

Yeah, honestly combat would have felt tacked on and silly. It's such a chill atmospheric game, I'm loving it

Just finished the game recently! Amazing work! Honestly, Luna is one of my favorite recent characters in gaming. Would love to see her get her own game.

Kirby games have the best music

Love this game.

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Just a heads up, I only heard about this game because SwitchUp just reviewed it. Otherwise I never would have known such a cool game existed. Gonna pick it up asap hopefully. Good luck with your future games.

Chao garden music. :)

This was one of my favorite games of all time. It's ability to take me back to my childhood but also let me experience something totally knew was absolutely wonderful! I hope one day I will get to see another project or maybe even a sequel.

Can you do Kirby triple deluxe slowed reverb next please?

This game was absolutely amazing, an absolute treat in every way that made me re-live those Saturday mornings with a new n64 game and a sense of wonder and mystery unfolding before me. The lore of the world was just enough that I drew solid conclusions and let my mind wander, but wow, I would play another game of this series so fast! I look forward to your future projects, and I'm telling as many people I can to buy the game (most of them are switch owners so they'll buy it later this month!)

No combat in a game with a genre that has it as a staple... Bad decision imo. How do you stop the evil bat if there is no combat? Do you cute him to death? (examines the final boss fight) Oh you run up to the bat and they faint from the smell of your presence. Hahahaha, I am sorry but combat is an unfortunate reality of our world, and it always will be. There will always be people who you can't reason with and it is for them that violence exists. How you temper yourself when being forced to use said violence and the cause you get behind is what determines whether the violence was justified and morally ok. Puzzles and scenarios where the player would have to try to reason with world boss individuals working with the bat to sway their opinions and achieve a compromise that results in both the player getting what they need and the boss mob getting what they need would have been a better way to implement a "no combat" thing you were going for. You would make combat an option for the player but, with sometimes negative results based on the different scenarios you as a developer would put in front of the player. The player's choice to avoid combat, compromise, or go into full violence mode would then have a lasting impact when the player visits a hub world and communicates with NPCs. Those NPCs responses and actions towards the player would vary based on the choices the player made to either use reasoning over violence. In the end the bat would 100% require combat as they would be the only boss in the game that couldn't be reasoned with and the player's character feeling remorseful for having to resort to said violence to deal with the unreasonable bat would have been a better way to go about this. A lesson is taught to players of the game when implemented this way. If they refuse to try to reason with individuals first and immediately resort to violence, they are seen as a bully, mean, etc by the world's NPCs. Many of the NPCs can be triggered to refuse to help the player depending on the player's actions and refusal to try to reason first but, still make the game complete-able with nothing but violence. If the player uses nothing but violence, the world turns dark, desperate, sad, etc, and if they used reason as much as they could the world has a bright future with hope from all the NPCs, etc. Just some food for thought developer to achieve the same result but, in a more fun and realistic way that makes the game end up being more memorable to people who play it.

The textures in the game look great but how did you it? What Pixel size and resolution did you use? Also for the texture's, did you hand draw all of it, or by any chance did you find some online and then edited them a bit to give them that N64 vibe?

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I recently bought a game called CornKidz 64, and its going for the same thing but now ever since I bought that I've been seeing platforming games with mad potential , so I look forward to getting the game someday

*Alley-oop!*

recently beat it, and I still enjoyed despite never having any combat, there's still a challenge during the experience which is great

love your game im addicted i need help

I really hope this game comes to switch in the near future 🤞🏻🤞🏻🤞🏻🤞🏻

This sold me on it. I will be purchasing your game next time its on a (major) sale. Id rather have unique creatures than enemies that just vanish or respwwn

even if you can't attack enemies there should be enemies that can kill you

Use rom patcher with original n64 version of Banjo and Kazooie and zip file of New Horizons. Thank me later

Clearly late to the video, but making game features decisions rather than defaults is always good. Played way too many games with stuff in there because they're a default for the genre. I feel like mario series in particular has clung awkwardly to lives for years despite that only originally being a mixture of a way to extend arcade profits and to extend short playtimes.

Forgot the level select themes from each star 😢

I'm glad you mentioned that feeling of exploring past the boundaries of where you "should" be able to go in games, I know exactly what you mean and that was one of my favorite aspects of Cavern of Dreams. I loved this game and I look forward to whatever you make in the future!

Hi.

I actually like how the lack of health came into play during the lava stage where you have to take a hit to move upwards that was fun