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[Tiny Fragments]

Solid and fun puzzler! Love the concept of the game and felt it delivered on it with a lot of level layouts that really wracked my brain! Not only that, but it has an addictive pace to it, what with introducing new or enhanced mechanics and obstacles each level. The graphics are no slouch either with some great animations and good mouse-feel with the way buttons and such react to roll-over and presses. Again, this is all that and a bag of chips!

[Pico Clicker]

Hearts in the right place for displaying all these great pieces of art, but I just felt like this wasn't much of a game and was wasted potential. At the end of the day, it's just a very simple gallery (especially when you give the option to forgo the clicking aspect) that, unlike other clicker games, doesn't really evolve in any significant way as you play, and I don't feel uses the clicker genre or any other aspect of gaming to make viewing the gallery enticing so as to make the player spread the love to the artists. Maybe I'm missing something or just expecting too much from previous titles? I dunno, maybe I'm just being a party-pooper. Anyway, like I say, it was a nice collaborative attempt nonetheless.

[Underneath]

Cool physics-based platformer! A little bit frustrating at times (movement can be difficult and I hate the ricochet platforms) and a little bit confusing as well (wasn't clear what the purpose of the flip was at first) but I had fun trying to get better and better at controlling my character and making it through the increasing challenges. I do wish the game would lock the cursor as I kept getting my clicks eaten when I'd leave the screen slightly.

[BOBA]

I'm a bit conflicted on this one! For the most part, I felt like it was a great game, and it was wonderful to see another charming game from this team that delivers solid graphics, catchy music and an interesting concept.

But while usually I would say this game is all that and a bag of chips, this just felt a little lacking to me. The main culprit is the level design and the boba mechanic: it just felt really underwhelming and underutilized to me. The levels would go back and forth haphazardly in terms of quality: some levels used the boba in clever and unique ways, some levels felt like they were desperately trying to make up excuses for the boba to exist, and other levels...just didn't even use the boba at all, forgoing it completely to just focus on bullets and sawblades and such. It was all still fun, for the most part, but it was just a weird experience where I wasn't even sure what game I was playing anymore. Perhaps I'm being silly and focusing too hard on the boba, but can you blame me since it's supposed to be the selling point? Whenever boba's not being used in a level, everyone should be asking "Where's boba?" (ok now i am getting silly)

To me, this feels like the Dark Souls 2 from this team: it's still a solid game and above many others in its genre, but if I were to rank it against the other games from this team, it'd have to be last place (hopefully that's not too overly dramatic, haha).

[Pink]

Another nice and chill puzzler! I love the whole minimalist approach to the puzzles where you need to experiment to figure out the rules, poking and prodding at the various pieces. Definitely ended up addicting me! In terms of negatives, the only thing was that I felt a bit disappointed to see some of the same puzzles repeated from previous games (such as the hanging curtain pull puzzles) as I hoped for all originals. Still, had a nice time with this overall.

[Rushdown Rivals ZERO (2021 Version)]

Wow, I really enjoyed the heck out of this! It was definitely a lot to get used to at first: the character moves so fast and there were so many controls to know and use very quickly (and it feels like a game you NEED a controller for, as there's too much for a keyboard). The game doesn't pull any punches either and throws you right into the deep end to the big boss fight.

But god, if it didn't feel good to get good at this! I definitely love the crunchiness of the hits: lots of satisfying feedback to them. I liked how all of the moves, for the most part, aren't throwaway moves: instead each serve their own best-use purpose against the various enemies, all of which give you a lot to have to juggle. TomBot is no slouch either with a nice moveset that feels hard, but fair, due to the great telegraphs and animations. It all just added together to make an incredibly kinetic and frantic combat experience where you gotta think fast and improvise, kinda like Doom Eternal, and you better believe I felt proud when I destroyed TomBot at the end!

It's a little janky in some respects: sometimes the physics would be a bit wonky, the hitboxes a bit vague, player damage not being as clear, and I felt like the interact button wasn't necessary (just attach to the rope if you jump at it, you can always jump off) but I had a blast. Would love to see more of this, or more like this, in the future!

[ONE BTN BOSSES]

Really cool game! I love me some boss fights, and I loved the creativity on display in terms of making such a cool boss fight with such minimal controls, yet still having much strategy and challenge to them! And all with some bumpin' tunes as well! The combat reminded me a lot of MMO-esque combat, like from FFXIV, where most of the fights involve dodging around various target shapes on the ground in all sorts of interesting patterns and sequences: fun stuff! Some of the telegraphs could stand to be a bit more clear in when exactly they are going to materialize, however, like the windmill/fan one.

The first basic switch-direction movement felt the most intuitive to me. I loved the balancing act of safety and risk that came with it: you can play it safe by switching constantly to stay still, but really you want to try to not switch as much as possible so you can speed up your fire rate (at the risk of running into obstacles).

The dash movement was alright: it ended up being a bit too easy since you're moving fast constantly, and since moving fast means you shoot fast, the boss ended up dying before I knew it (which was a shame since I wanted to test more). It was here that the game started to get a bit clunky: I couldn't gauge how much remaining dash I had or even if it mattered, since the gauge would regularly go into negative numbers without me being able to tell what that meant, and there were a lot of times where I thought I should've taken damage but I didn't (since I think it only counts as damage when first touching/entering an obstacle, but not turning off invincibility when still inside it???).

The ghost movement...absolutely sucked for me. I hate-hate-HATED it, haha! I like the idea behind it but it was just executed so poorly: maybe it could work if time screeched to a halt or, at the very least, drastically slowed down when you are channeling your teleport. As it was currently, moving so fast and some of the obstacles being so long meant it was impossible to account for the channeling time required to dodge.

Definitely exciting to see where this goes: hope the feedback helps!

EDIT: Argh! Can I not go back and play with the original methods? Please, get me outta ghost mode, please!

[Tower of Towers]

Pretty cool game, but a little bit of a mixed experience for me! I quite like what this game is going for in terms of challenging platforming, and I loved some of the variety in obstacles and little touches like left over blood from deaths, but the controls, while decent, weren't quite tight and intuitive enough to make me feel confident and, well, 'in control' going through the challenges, and that's when the game started to cross the line from 'challenging' to 'frustrating' for me.

I can't quite explain it, but it's just a lot of little things missing like input buffering, and the character movement being a bit odd, with one of the primary culprits being the dash: for me it was just way too fast, zippy and annoying to gauge and account for the exact distance it takes you. I loved playing Celeste to 100% because as hard as it was, the controls were so solid that I always felt mistakes were on me and I could win: I can't say the same for this.

Don't get me wrong, I still had an alright time with this, and I'm gonna try to get farther if I can get used to the controls, but right now, that's a big 'if'.

[Deepest Sword]

Very nice game! A fun series of challenges that escalate as your sword grows bigger and bigger, all wrapped in a wonderfully funny story.

The controls were a bit frustrating to get used to at first, as they weren't quite intuitive to me. One, I didn't expect the sword controls to be around rotating the sword and it took some getting used to: I expected to be able to control the exact positioning of the sword a bit more with the tip of the sword being synced to the mouse pointer, similar to 'Getting Over It' controls. Two, it threw me off constantly with the way the player 'adjusts' by automatically walking forwards/backwards when you rotate the sword around them: yes it does add some weight to the feel of the sword, but it's a bit annoying to have to account for and I would prefer they just stand still. Also the level design/physics was a bit wonky: I'm still not exactly sure how I wiggled past the 2nd level obstacle and whether it was intentional, haha!

Still, all in all, I had a blast getting used to controls despite their initial confusion/frustration: it was all just part of the challenge with this charming game!

[EFHH]

Felt like a pretty charming game! I really liked the whole goofy premise of it all, and I am always down for some adventure gameplay.

Gameplay was a bit awkward though. I couldn't tell if punching people was doing anything to them and if it was even possible to kill anyone: I think it's just to stun them as a last resort so you focus on stealth, but then why make it so you can punch forever and rack up these huge combos with all sorts of fun messages if it's not the focus? Just felt like a missed opportunity where I would've liked if the game was either just a beat-em-up or just a stealth game instead of this awkward mix where you just walk past and bop people with no consequence.

Also, some of the puzzles were a bit...pointless? It's like, very early on you've got three people right next to each other: you find an item for one, they give you the item for the next person, and they give you the item for the next person. Boom, done. There wasn't anything clever or hard about it: at that point, it just felt like unnecessary padding and would probably better be reduced to just trading with one person. I know that's how a lot of these games work where you trade items but...at least try to distance them a bit so you need to remember their locations or think about routes, or add a bit of a puzzle element to it so it's not so obvious and tedious, haha!