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[Swingin' 2]

I really want to like it since I really like grappler games, but man, I just cannot get used to the controls. The whole Q/E strength mechanic seems really unintuitive and I just can't tell how much strength is actually being used, nor if I should press or hold the keys. The grappler seems a little glitchy as well, shooting through walls occassionally. The game just seems to get way too difficult way too fast, maybe it assumes that I would've played Swingin' 1 beforehand, perhaps. I still do appreciate the funny presentation, especially when it comes to the ragdoll physics and the popping of limbs: it made my constant deaths a little less frustrating by making it quite funny.

nulledwine responds:

Thanks for your honest feedback.
I have had multiple reviews concerning the grappling bugs and the Q/E strength mechanic. I will be working on fixing that.

[Tank Defender L.A.]

Seems to be very well put-together: graphics and presentation are very cool, music and sound are great, enemy variety is diverse with cool strategic elements to consider, the game has lots of nice little touches like the rolling cinematic start and the tank treads getting bloodied up, and so on. Having said all that, though, I feel like it still needs a lot of work in terms of gameplay. There's no HUD to tell you crucial information like your health, ammo, score/progress, controls and so on, and without it I couldn't even tell when the game initially started. The bridges, which a nice graphical effect, are very annoying since they hid enemies for me constantly. Feedback was wonky as I couldn't tell that running over enemies hurt me, nor when I was out of ammo. Wasn't sure what the game was: if I was actually making it to the end of a level or if it was just endless. People will probably suggest making the tank turret aim with the mouse, but the way the enemies are designed doesn't work for that and I don't think it's necessary to make that change. I think it has a really good core and just needs some help to make it great! Will look forward to a final version!

Cloud-yo responds:

First of all, Thank you for taking the time both to play it and to write a review. I appreciate all the compliments and your notes, I will say this, in the info for the game I had to specify that it is necessary to click the full screen option for the game. for some reason I cannot get the game window to resize properly based on the display. So, if you try again and use full screen you will see the whole UI, you will have a wider view of the game and a little more room to maneuver. I have tried using the mouse to aim, but it has made the game harder to play. Please, if you would try it again full screen just to see the rest of it, I am particularly proud of the score element.
Thanks again!

[[BTNverse] Curse of the eastern god]

An interesting experience that I enjoyed, but is marred by a few frustrating points. The chest blocking your way which requires you to go back and touch the left side of the screen can be really confusing: most players will not expect to have to do that since it's not intuitive that it would have any effect since they already know going back is useless, and they'd probably assume they are stuck and reset the game to try again or just stop completely in frustration. The last chase scene was really cool, but it kinda took a long time to get to it in the first place, and it wasn't clear whether it was even winnable: I tried it three times but couldn't find a way through: if it does expect you to do more attempts than that despite the end being a brick wall that didn't seem to change from my subsequent runs, that might be asking too much from the player. Cool music and presentation, however, made it a unique and cool journey!

adriendittrick responds:

Thanks for the kind review :)
Also yes,the game is meant to be frustrating and confusing, I basically built it as a gamer torture experiment X)

[BeamLike]

Neat little game! Made it all the way through and enjoyed myself by setting up awesome kills. Enjoyed the multiple varieties of enemies you had to contend with. The mechanics can be a little confusing at times though and could maybe use a bit of tutorializing. It wasn't immediately apparent that the laser would spread out into the adjacent rows/columns: perhaps a damage indicator when you are next to a star could help. Also I loved setting up double/triple/quadra kills, but the combo system didn't seem to reward this as a quadra kill only increased the combo by 1 instead of the supposed 4. Anyway, had a nice time!

amidos2006 responds:

Thanks a lot for trying my game :) so the laser cover your tile and one tile extra on both side (helping hand). The combo system doesn't depend on killing enemies, collecting stars will increase the combo and the value of the score depend on the value of the combo not how many enemies in that kill :)

[Lure: The King's Gold]

Really fun game! It didn't blow me away at the beginning, but I ended up having a ton of fun! I really liked the concept of gathering up weapons from the environment while dodging enemy fire, and then firing back yourself while running around like a madman! The goofy story was great and made me want to keep going just to see what insanity would be next.

I do feel like the levels were designed in a bit of a weird way where the really good stuff (boss battles) is kept at the very end and it peaked a bit too early upon reaching that. Just as I was getting a little bored from the normal levels, suddenly it introduced that super cool cannon boss that was incredible to fight! I expected that to actually be the ending, but then it introduced a boring castle afterwards, only to suddenly have another super boss, and so on! Maybe sprinkle the bosses in a little earlier to hook and space them out a bit more to keep the player going (though you do have an alright hook through the story with the whole princess business). Also, I felt like the whole 'like for 200 spears' was really weird and unnecessary as I didn't want a way to cheat around the interesting core mechanic of tactically gathering ammo myself.

moorlandgames responds:

Thanks for the great review! we appreciate it :)

[[BTNverse] There is nothing here.]

Wow, this game really surprised me, especially for something that was made in just one day (though I usually try not to let that affect my judgment)! While the game was very minimalist graphically, the presentation and flow of the game as it introduced concepts using musical cues and text was superb and really got me into the whole purification business. My only frustrations were that I would prefer being warped to the previous room, not the beginning, on death, and that I feel like the final purification spree didn't need so much resistance from the tough enemies as it kinda halted the flow a bit. A great example that you don't need super intense graphics to make something so hard-hitting!

adriendittrick responds:

Thanks for reaching the end :)
Also what, did you expect ending the world to be EASY? :p
There are overpowered beings who actually LIKED this world and don't want to see it destroyed.

[Vestavia Hills]

A very nice proof-of-concept and an interesting twist on the Hotline Miami formula to combine it with zombie horde modes! The general core gameplay felt very good, shooting up and punching zombies was satisfying and it was cool to see the difficulty ramp up bit-by-bit (though maybe it ramped up too slowly as I didn't get to the behemoth without feeling like I had already seen everything beforehand). Would love to see this game fully fleshed out with bigger environments, more enemies and more weapons to give a real sense of progression and a goal to go for as it has a real good core to work off of!

There were some glitches that were annoying though. Reloading single shot guns like the shotgun and magnum allowed you to keep reloading past full and waste ammo. Doors were annoying to open/close at times, and pointless: surely doors should be a way to impede zombies by using them as barricades by tactically closing them or knock over zombies by opening them ala Hotline Miami? Maybe allow windows to be blocked as well like other horde mode games?

MD-Wade responds:

Thank you very much for the kind words! The reloading bug should be fixed. New features and improvements planned as well! Thank you for playing!!

[Desun]

A bit strange to call it a tower defense game when you don't build towers and don't defend a tower, but nonetheless, it's a fun little horde game and I understand the naming despite the confusion. I had a good time for around 15 waves or so, but by then, it kinda wore thin as it didn't feel like the powerups or the levels or the enemies were expanding in significant ways fast enough to keep interest. Still, the game has a nice, all-together good feel to the art, sound, animation and design that I think with some additional content such as new mechanics, enemies, levels and such it could be really great!

DagonDev responds:

Thanks for the feedback!!

[Stones of Anarchy: Flight of the Stone]

Got some cool goofy style to it, but right now its a bit too janky for me to make progress. The clicking is way too demanding for my old bones unfortunately, and even when I go all super saiyan clicking, it doesn't look good to watch the stone jitter around: could stand to see some smooth movement. Death comes way too fast as well: would like to see the stone crash and burn a bit more before going to the death screen.

StonesOfAnarchy responds:

"Would like to see the stone crash and burn a bit more "
;(

[Spell Guardian]

Very cool game! Once you get upgraded and such, its a lot of fun blasting, dashing, slicing, and jumping your way through the dungeon! Feels good to chain together the different types of moves you can do. Learning how to do those moves at the start, however, can be difficult. I feel like the game has too many buttons at the moment, and could stand to condense them (for example, you could get rid of the interact key and instead use up/down as interact, which gels with the way the game uses arrows over interactable objects). The game also does not help with teaching you controls: press jump to jump doesn't tell me what key to press, haha! Sword also feels way too weak: I feel like the sword should have one more point of damage to be able to one hit basic enemies instead of two-hitting them, as it deserves that since its a much more riskier weapon than the staff to use since you gotta get so close. Really love this game: felt great finding all the secrets and loved the boss fights and everything about this was so awesome (its just that learning the controls is a pain at the start!)

EDIT: Made it all the way to the end! Last few levels were rough, but I liked the challenge! Final boss was a lot of fun; felt like the attacks it had were good to fight against, and they had some good touches, like how the fire pillar doesn't do damage immediately, which lets you time a last second dodge to look cool. All in all, a great experience!

IceDrumGames responds:

Thank's man! Glad you liked it. Just watched you twitch channel. I agree with you about all things you mentioned. Sword was pretty hard to balance but it's good in the fights against flying skeletons. I released the game with the button description in the tutorial. But than I added the custom controls because I was tired of different players with different control schemes. I had some programming problems with the description so there is "Jump" to jump tutorial. I agree that it is not good.
P.S. You finished in two rooms before the final boss :)
Thank you for your reviews!