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2006-06-29 14:02:06

A cool game!

Although I really liked it I felt like it was a interactive blueprint of something huge.

This game has alot and lacks alot in my opinion. You have done a really great job overall, a nice intro to the game where the space ship leaves the hangar ship and go out to the open space. Enough to make you get that "ok let's ROCK" feeling!

... but I never experienced that feeling fully. The first thing I reacted upon was that the game was pretty slow overall. Not that that is something negative but I would absolutely LOVE it 10 times more if it was a game of which tested your MICRO skills above any other skills. The top priority.

I don't know if you COULD get extra speed of something. Either way I think it was too hard to reach it even when you did. Make speed boost permanent and more easy to reach. Then when you die you lose them (kind of like Gradius).

One thing that disturbed me with the controls was that you could not shoot in any other angles than linear and upwads/downards. I so wanted to shoot up the corners. And that combined with the slow shuttle speed made the overall fluency pretty uninteresting.

The graphics... well, they were indeed interesting and retro. BUT!!! They made it pretty annoying after a while to see what you actually crashed into when you did crash into something. The small enemies and the metroids was almost like invisible to me. And did huge chunks of damage to you when you hit them.

The health overall should be easier to track. Since when I died I was almost not aware of what happened when I did die. Which felt pretty unfair.

The sounds were though the part I liked the most. Definitly nice retro and "shouty" sounds like old Commodore 64 sounds. The explotion sounds felt nice and they made it feel like the enemies really died violently.

To that you get a slight score of humor since It's always a little funny with retro sounds and retro-like graphics.

It's a good game definitly, but like I said it feels a bit uncompleted. Perhaps you could add more spice into the powerups aswell. With a time-period buff to your ship. Makes you alot stronger for a short while, then you will really FEEL the power of the powerups.

Thanks for the gaming experience overall, it's always good when peope make simple to play games which you can enjoy over and over again!

A vote of: 3

pixeljamgames responds:

thanks for the in-depth review.

some of the issues you brought up (speed of game, size of enemies) could probably be resolved by downloading the home version, which plays faster and bigger (fullscreen if you want it). this is pixeljam's first big game and future versions of gamma bros will definitely be much more feature-rich. overall i think we did the best with what we had (which was not much time and no money)

Crisis in HFRC

2005-07-17 18:04:14

Not too good

Short... pointless... stupid story, yet ok.

The controls and movements of the character were out of style. When he jumped it was both weird and unsmooth. Took him the same time to get upwards, as downwards(?!). Then when fighting that boss it was very frustrating. Since you weren't really touched those times you were burnt by the fire. I didn't play on after that boss, i really felt like it wasn't something for me since the horrible programming.

Graphics were kinda charmful. But tons of mistakes and misses. His feet were under the ground most of the time and there were many gaps in the outlines of objects. The "forward" arrows that you pushed looked slinted. Also the window had a little gap, these are really not big mistakes but its the little things that counts, they still effect the overall feeling you get for the game.

The music choise was acceptable although I didn't think sonic was the number one thing I would choose to a platform game like this, the song was all too hectic too the tempo of the game and since it was kinda retro style it was a bit too loud aswell. Take good time on the music since music is what touches you more than anything else in a movie/game.

You are on your way to something, if you continue you might become something big. But I hope you know the challenge that lays ahead then. Vote: 2

joe-kangaroo responds:

good critisisms, thanks

Take to the Streets

2005-02-15 20:38:18

Awesome!

That seems like a hell lot of hard work. All the characters, very variating! Indeed a incredibly job!!! All moves aswell... how the heck you managed that? You knocked your neighbours doors and asked if they wanted to be beaten up in a flash game? :) The style just has to go 10, i mean, not many makes their very own fighting games like this. With this quality and so. Sounds, well as non-variating as these games are. But still charmful! Interactivity was very well, but buttons were a little odd placed, squared. But worked out anyways. Pretty humorous aswell, "Do not read this sign" :D And some of the enemies... that hunchback lady xD Very nice job! Who came up with the attacks btw? I recognize some of em from Karate :D Vote: 5

gavD responds:

Thanks Mp3Durahell - the "hunchback" is in real life a rather beautiful woman by the name of Helen - she's just a good actress!

I came up with the attacks (for myself and some of the other characters). One of my arts is kickboxing, which is basically freestyle Karate.

Basically, I bribed the guys with free beer to appear. Once I'd got a few in, everyone wanted to get involved - so I ended up spending months cutting out sprites!

_ULTIMATE TUTORIAL 2_

2005-02-11 05:30:09

WOW

This is the first time as i have seen a turorial cover plenty of programs and still be GOOD! Graphics are very ok and you can read it all with ease. Good mix of help boxes and downloadable test files! That is something new! This is going to fav list so i can use it as help when i am animating. THANKS MATE

GAMECUBICLE responds:

Thanks dude! Glad to see so many people like it :)

Ultimate Mario Quiz v.2

2004-08-28 22:10:48

HAHA!

YOu add the crazy mario brothers song in the end! I watched that show when i was younger! Completely awesome work! But for a quiz it could still be very much longer (since i dont suppose it takes much space). Feed our game entangled brains with more fresh quiz's!

CrawlAway responds:

yes i definalety will make more! about different subjects, maybe sonic, kirby, etc. thanks for the review!

Where's Waldo?

2004-07-17 20:22:25

NOT good

The people are too small and you cant see a damn thing... eaven when i found that thing i didnt see that it was him! And all looks so fuzzy! Its nothing more than a crappy slideshow! And those are not to be saved! But blown at with the whistle

That-Is-Bull responds:

It's a little too late to blow the whistle. The only reason you're complaining is because you can't beat it, because you suck so much at life. Now shut up and get me a coke.

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