Kings of Hell

Hey, does anyone here know how to download/install the game? Can someone help out?

Absolutely love the character designs and what you're going with here. It took me a bit to configure this to work with a generic XBOX controller but after some fiddling I got it down. I guess only thing I can say is maybe have some kind of auto-mapping feature that detects the controller? it's not a huge deal really but something for the future. Looking forward to the episode 2 stuff. On a side note (apologies if this has been addressed already) will there be alt costumes to be unlocked? seems like with how flashy (not to mention good looking) some characters are it'd be fun to be able to swap their outfits with unlockable ones

I played a few games on the current version (1.6.5), and my opinion will be closely similar to the more recent ones.

This is a gorgeous game. Colorful, dynamic with a lot of camera work you'd expect from an AA game. The character design is great (the eye candy is a nice bonus), with voices that fit them (kudos to the main cast). It would definitely have a mainstream audience, if said eye candy was toned down a little.

On the gameplay itself, the hits feel really good to land, especially the grabs. However, the fixed camera makes the action hard to follow when the characters are on the far side of the screen. It's not really fun when you get hit from nowhere because you are in the middle of a far away melee, especially since there's no guard or counter.

The boss fights are reallly good, however the goblins are really horrendous to fight because of their way of fighting, the lack of targeting system, and the layout of most of the rooms. I would prefer them to be like the gnomes from Golden Axe: bonus enemies that are only on the screen for a limited time, and the player can choose whether to conserve their life or chase them to try getting more points.

Finally, I must agree with some of the criticisms about the credit system. I get that it is to emulate the arcade machine feeling. But the chapters are so long, and the difficulty so high, that it is more an exercise in frustration than anything. It is also a flawed emulation of an arcade cabinet in itself, since at this point a player would simply put in more quarters to continue playing.

I fear that you might chase away the audience that is mostly interested in the cool character action, the game's visuals, or more generally seeking a casual entertainment. 

If you do not want to part with the credits system, please at least divide the episodes in verses, or/and allow us to define the amount of credits in the options. Allowing the player to spend their crowns to buy credits could also be an option, since it has a direct cost for the player.

Love everything about this game, I really do. Just wish I could get my controller bindings all set up. I am mostly there, but unfortunately for some reason I cant scroll down with my laptops mouse pad on the input list in the options. Lol I'm not too tech savvy though and was wondering if I could get some help tips on that?

during the speed demon final stage his shock wave attack seems to high since its not on the ground and its to low to get you when you jump.

Hey so good game but i feel that the doors in the carnival section deal too much damage also in haunted house there is a chance too be launched door to door and lose a credit

the game does not detect neither the controller nor the keyboard

Having some major issues with 1.3 and 1.4 not recognizing the controller I'm trying to use. I tried reinstalling to no luck so far. Hop this can be patched in due time because this looks like a ton of fun!

I found these Let's Plays. Don't know if the devs saw them, but hopefully some people will go and and watch them!

only question I've got is if couch co-op/local multiplayer is a plan for the future? other than that the only real complaint I have is sometimes bomb's explosions will take up half or more of the camera space, and I cannot tell if there's another bomb on me or if there's anyone behind said explosion at all. other than that this feels really arcade-y where everything is kind of you're fault but if you don't know what the boss/environment is gonna do it makes sense that you'll get beat up by doors or seemingly random explosions/attacks for the first couple times until you figure it out, that and playing solo is just going to be more difficult than playing with buddies. Honestly though, I love playing through arcade games that are definitely way harder solo by myself, and I fuckin dig the artstyle and the smash bros brawl type extras, the menu design is sick as hell too, and wow I can't believe I recognized most of the artists on this through artstyle alone I am truly depraved.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        TLDR: game's based as fuck! just make sure you like arcade style beat-em-ups and/or have a couple friends on deck to kick some ass with, and keep in mind that there's some demo jank but I mean, it's to be expected, it's a demo.

I cant get the input menu to work when I try to click on a button using the mouse to change it doesn't register what my switch pro controller button is being pressed it just cycles between stuff like left should, north button east button etc. I don't know if this is something I am doing wrong 

This is an amazing game! But its tough as hell if youre not careful! I havent been able to beat the demo yet because i keep getting my ass kicked on Limbo. Though i do wish for at least single player there was a scene selection for where you died on. It can take a long time to get where you died when you have to start from the very beginning. But over all the game play is pretty fluid and you can see the passion that was put into the game.

sorry for the inconvenience but i seem to not be able to progress past the menu screen, even after pressing all the keys on the keyboard, i can't even go into the options to fix something.  wasd work fine but i cant get past here is all

game is fire and gremile is a cutie i just wish it was easier lol

Keyboard works fine, but my controller won't work at all

yep i cant play...it just doesnt move when i try to select and i cant change controls

for some reason im just completely unable to get past the main menu with or without a controller?

It's so gratifying to know that there's a dev out there willing to make another game like Power Stone and Wario World at a time where such games are sorely neglected by their parent companies, especially when the game is a blast to play and learn.

I noticed in the Trophy Viewer that Junior's model (Split's bro, in case anyone here forgot) doesn't include his Paul Stanley star. Not sure if that's been written out of his design or if it's a minor graphical oversight. 

Having a issue with the game. i'm trying to play it with my Dualshock 4 controller but for some reason it just wouldn't start the game, and then i tried using my keyboard and mouse.. same issue

am i doing something wrong?

I can't choose the character and chapter of the game by myself. The game just chooses everything and launches me into battle. How to fix it? :С

i played through (what i think is) most of the first episode on easy and normal mode.
overall i think it’s pretty fun. i like the character designs especially!!
i’m gonna try to play through it some more times later on harder difficulties and different characters to get a better feel for it.
i definitely have a ton of quality-of-life complaints, though.
this comment is very long so i just want to reiterate here that i like the game a lot!!
again, most of my comment is going to be about quality-of-life stuff or bugs
i played with mal and gremile so far, so some of my points might not quite apply to the other two characters or on the harder difficulties
(i’ve played some on an older version and some on the most recent patch, so it may be the case that something i said here doesn’t apply anymore)

Potential bugs/errors

• you can grab multiple enemies at once, but only one enemy takes damage.

• on the train section in the second stage of episode one, you can fall off of the backside.
  the game otherwise doesn’t let you fall off of the stage, so it feels like an error

• i also experienced the glitch that i think someone else did where the first boss glitches out recovering from stun and infinitely spawns dust clouds and doesn’t do anything (on v1.1.5).

• with gremile’s jump B, if you touch the ground while he’s putting his guns away, he doesn’t snap to the ground like he does when you’re shooting.
  because of that, you still count as being in the air so when you try to attack you get aerial attacks.
  i mostly encounter this because i do jump B, then i want to land and start doing moves on the ground, but when i tap B i get j.B again.
  sometimes it’s happened to me when i run into king yama and it sort of boosts me into the air a little, or after a super recovery when you’re not quite on the ground yet but you can still perform an action

• the game flings you up into the air when you occupy the same spot as another character.
  depending on how much overlap or momentum there is, you can go really high, it’s a little jarring and hard to predict

• this is kind of an unhelpful bug report since i don’t know how it happens, but somehow in the middle of one playthrough my inputs suddenly became very glitchy.
  i thought it was my controller acting up, but i switched back to keyboard controls (meaning i quit the playthrough) and it didn’t fix anything.
  for some reason, any buttons i pressed wouldn’t count as being held for more than a few frames, and also the game would seemingly drop inputs at random.
  unplugging my controller completely resolves the issue, but now anytime i plug the controller back in, i have the same issue.
  i guess it’s somehow a bug with the controller support in the game? it can interfere with my inputs even when i don’t have any controller buttons bound and am only using keyboard+mouse. and in other programs, my controller wasn’t glitching out.

Gameplay

• i think the health system is a little weird. your health is displayed in a bar like you can take a wide range of damage, but in my experience you can basically treat it like “four hits and you’re dead”.
  that kind of seems to hold true whether you’re fighting bosses or normal enemies and whether you get hit by an up-close punch or a far away projectile.
  of course, there definitely are things that do more or less damage, but i feel like it’s hard to really feel the differece.

• i think it would be better for gameplay flow if you didn’t get knocked down from every single attack.
  for the most part, it didn’t really seem worth it to super recover unless you were about to get launched into a stage hazard or something.
  enemies don’t seem to be able to combo you on purpose, so the only benefit to super recovering on most hits is to get up faster which isn’t usually worth spending a super orb on, to me.
  i think having attacks that don’t knock you down would be better so that you don’t have to wait a really long time every time you happen to get hit. or at least, maybe you should be able to press something when you hit the ground to recover faster.

• i think the attacks in this game seem pretty committal, which is kind of unusual for a game in this genre (not that that makes it a bad thing!).
  even though a lot of enemy attacks are reactable, i think often times when you notice one happening it’ll be too late if you’ve already started committing to an attack.
  there’s no dodge mechanic or anything, so i feel like it might be nice to have more jump-cancels on things so you can bail out. otherwise your only invincible option is a grab attack. perhaps supers could be more invincible so that you have more options to deal with that kind of situation? especially since you have to use a super orb, i think it’d be fair and not a choice you would always make

• it might be nice if you could pick different grab attacks, at least on normal enemies
  like if you had one grab attack that did less damage to the single target that you grabbed, but it deals AoE damage, or something like that i think since it seems like your primary finisher, grab attacks currently feel a little repetitive because there’s only one animation on normal enemies (as far as i can tell), they last a long time for how often you might want to use them, and they also only work on one enemy at a time.
  the length and special camera angle end up breaking the flow when you use grabs so often. you also lose track of the other enemies because of the camera change, so it’s kind of easy to get smacked in the face right after landing one if there are other enemies around so it might be nice to have grabs that give you extra utility like crowd control or repositioning or something like that. or at least make the animation a little snappier somehow.

• an actual pause button would be nice, mostly if you have to go to the bathroom or something, but also because it would let you change your controls and stuff without having to quit back out to the menu

• in the train sections, i think the hitbox for the laser stage hazards seems really tall.
  every so often, i think i’ve jumped clean over it and then i somehow get clipped by it when it doesn’t seem to visually collide with my model.

• the collision detection on the water slide section should probably be changed so it’s not so slope-y.
  it’s not very fun when your character is constantly flying off of the sides of the raft, you just feel like you have no control

• i don’t think enemies should be able to fall off the stage on their own.
  it kinda just feels weird how often enemies end up doing that, especially when the player can’t fall off the stage

• related, knocking enemies off the stage should probably just KO them.
  it is kind of easy, but it’s a simple pleasure in a lot of beat-’em-ups and i think blasting enemies off the stage only for them to just reappear with a little bit of life lost is a little unsatisfying. maybe it could at least hurt enemies more?

• gremile’s A+B+C has a deadzone right in front of him. i dunno if it’s on purpose but i just think it feels kinda bad
  actually, in general i think the super feels underwhelming. aside from the deadzone (which is also a big deal, imo) it doesn’t seem to have great damage output or accuracy, and you’ll instantly drop it as soon as you jump or get hit.

Aesthetics

• the game can get very visually busy, so there are some extra touches that could improve visual clarity a lot.
  like, if characters had colored outlines that always rendered on top of everything, or if effects are rendered on top of characters, you could still see the character through the effect like it’s partially transparent, or something like that.
  one time i had a goblin place a bomb near the front of the screen, so probably a good 60% of the screen was totally concealed, and i couldn’t tell if i was near any stage hazards, or see that a second goblin had placed a bomb next to me that was also hidden by the explosion and about to explode! likewise, on the car fight in the tunnel section of the second stage, a bomb blowing up in the front can obscure the landing zone of a bomb that’s going to land behind the explosion

• the camera should probably be able to go a little further out of bounds.
  it’s hard to see what’s going on with your character if you’re right up at the bottom edge/corners of the screen
  especially on the racetrack stage, you can go totally off-camera!

• there’s not really a lot of hitstop on attacks (if any?) besides grab attacks, so i think a lot of normal attacks end up feeling pretty underwhelming even if they do blast enemies across the screen.

• gremile’s gunshots should probably have bullet trails or something.
  it’s hard to tell exactly where you’re hitting and it would also help give them more impact, i think

• there could probably be a little more slowdown/zoom-in when you land the final hit on a boss (like guilty gear XRD/strive, i guess) before it goes all rainbow and melty.
  the screen going rainbow is too sudden when the camera angle changes at the same time, it’s really hard to process what exactly you’re seeing when you KO a boss. to be honest, i might just suggest not making everything go rainbow-y? it just feels out of place somehow.

• i feel like the boss’s name should probably be shown somewhere near the health bar?

• i’m not sure if i missed it, but there should probably be some indication of how long a boss will be stunned for
  like the armor bar should probably be recharging or something while you beat ‘em up
  i don’t think it’s super fun to just have to estimate how long a boss is stunned and how much of that time you think you’ve already used, especially because once the boss gets its armor back you can’t land a grab attack which massively increases your damage output for that cycle.
  extending a combo on a stunned boss feels like a risk the game is forcing you to take because there’s no on-screen indicator, rather than a risk you can take of your own accord if the boss is about to recover

• related to my complaint about grab attacks, to avoid repetitiveness and flow-breaking i think maybe the KO slowdown and voice line should only happen when you clear a wave, rather than for every single enemy that you KO?
  it also becomes jarring when an enemy gets KO’d by a stage hazard, because then your game slows down at an unexpected time since you probably weren’t paying attention to that enemy

• i do hope more optimiation or options to help improve performance get added in the future, like maybe rendering resolution scaling or something like that.
  it is part of the aesthetics of the game, but if someone is running on a weaker machine they might also appreciate the option to have corpses disappear? they didn’t really serve any gameplay purpose as far as i can tell
  i could mostly run it fine on a not-especially powerful machine, but it would be nice if there were options to make it run a little better

Controls

• the turning radius for running feels like it’s implemented strangely. of all of my complaints, this is definitely the biggest issue to me
  you can’t run in one direction and then directly backwards without taking a huge arc.
  i’ve definitely run head-first into so many attacks (especially stage hazards and projectiles) just because of this, and in general i think it makes following enemies in combos harder than intended

• keyboard and controller bindings should probably be separate.
  i was definitely very confused when i saw that there was controller support but it didn’t seem work at all in the game.
  so i played on mouse+keyboard, and basically right before i wrote this comment i found out that the controller still works in the control binding menu anyways.

• it seems like you want to be running most of the time, so it would probably be better to make running default and change shift pedal to be something that slows you down (like maybe a guard that reduces your damage or something).
  otherwise you’re going to spend 90% of the game with your finger on the run button which is a little straining on your run-button finger.

• i think there might be too many button combinations?
  basically, if you’re playing on a controller then you’re going to have to deal with at least one uncomfortable button combination for most layouts. you can add macros to combat this (and there are macros for A+B+C and B+C+D), but i think maybe changing the fundamental control scheme would be better
  the current controls make the shift pedal feel kind of underused. instead of just making you run, i think some of the things you do with button combinations now could be done with shift pedal + button instead.
  or you could maybe add a second button that’s purely to modify the function of ABCD (basically the same suggestion, just making a new button instead).
  there could also be button-hold and button-release commands, maybe? like, mal and gremile have a B,B,B,A+B combo, but it could be B,B,B,hold B or just B,B,hold B instead. it’s just an idea, though
  in gremile’s case, he doesn’t have a B,B,B,B attack like mal does, so i feel like there isn’t really a reason that he should have to press A+B to get the fourth attack besides the fact that it seems like a universal chain (which is fair enough, but just a little odd in my opinion)

• i also think button combinations with the jump button are kind of awkward if you’re using mouse+key board with the default controls.
  you have to coordinate pressing spacebar with one hand at the same time that you click with a different finger on the other hand, which is slightly difficult, and if you mess it up, you’re probably going to get a jump instead of an attack.

• the detection for button combinations needs to be more lenient.
  my first experience of the game was getting to the practice room before the game starts and wondering why i couldn’t start the game when i pressed B+C+D, and it was because i just didn’t press them close enough for the game to count it.
  of course, i got more consistent over time, but i still fail them every so often when i tend not to in most fighting games since they have a little more leniency.
  you should definitely add button macros for A+B, B+C, and A+C since i feel like there’s no reason not to and would help with freedom in mapping controls

So far the game feels good! My only gripe that I hope gets fixed is not being able to have shortcuts for button combinations

The presentation is great, enjoying my time with it.

More continues/health would be appreciated on Heaven mode. I can barely make it to the last boss after 4-5 tries.

It's so good to play, everything is pretty fluid,  the performances from the actors are on point, the music is amazing, so are the character and set designs and effects. The only problem I have with this demo so far is that I need to git gud, lol Much luck with further development!

I'm not totally understanding how to get Online Multiplayer to work. Can anyone explain?

I really like the game's presentation and I'm invested in seeing how development on it continues! One issue I did run into is that the demo runs distractingly slow at times, especially during cutscenes - voice clips will play and finish long before what's actually being shown will match what the characters are talking about. This kinda makes the single player campaign a slog just from having to wait for cutscenes to finish, but ironically the gameplay itself isn't quite as laggy so perhaps this is just a matter of optimization? Still, very interested in seeing a full release!

Edit: Upon further inspection it appears the demo is VERY greedy in the graphical processing department, which is a bit odd since the game's visuals don't seem too graphically intensive? Dunno 100% if that's the culprit for my slowdown issues but either way, here's hoping it can be patched up!

having trouble downloading, says its a .7z file?