I loved it, especially loved how the place that a Metroid usually has the "Minimap" on the screen instead had a Mini-screen showing the type of area you're moving through. Very cool concept, fun minimalist gameplay, and I was genuinely engaged for every step/click and excited about the little things I found in every new area. I hope some day to play a sequel to this.
You nailed it again, Mr. Eddynardo. I love your games. Always simple controls, unique mechanic, challenging gameplay, great music- Seriously, you do great work, man. Thanks for everything you do here.
Very cool, very atmospheric. I think that doing this gimmick in a metroidvania would be pretty awesome, personally. Levels are cool too, don't get me wrong. I just think it would be really cool to get different abilities for your light, come back to areas we'd already been to but now understanding that things we thought were just walls or platforms are actually doors or something. Very, very cool game and ideas, man.
One minor annoyance: I'd accepted it, already, that I can watch an advert to get money to upgrade my ship more. I'm fine with it. It's actually a good way to support a game instead of asking me to pay what little my unemployed, recently moved ass has.
But I just got to a point where I clicked to watch the advertisement, and the site said that they're out of offers right now, check back later. And I didn't get the 23,000 cash that I would have gotten. This kind of sucks; I was up for the commercial, I should get my ducats, you know?
I have to agree with other posters; I love the idea of spending AP to unlock clues and things, but there's too much of a punishment about it. I do want a sequel, but maybe have a Par system, like you are allowed to spend X amount of AP investigating and still get the full bonus for the next level, if and for every 1 you go over you lose 2 of the bonus. Getting stuck with 2 AP and a lot of suspects just gets you into a vicious cycle where you have to narrow down and guess.
This isn't a condemnation, again, I like the game and will keep coming back to it, but when I've got three fat guys with round heads, all who "should be settled down by their age," I feel a bit against the wall and am forced to spend my few AP and then guess.
Had a ton of fun with this, but that petered out after a while. Hours of fun, in fact. Just a few things I'd like to see in a sequel:
More planets than two. Maybe icy planets, an ocean world that has lots of mud, a planet with huge underground roots from giant trees, things like that. Each planet could be made easier or harder by using different combinations of hulls, drills, etc. Instead of a linear path of hull 1, Hull 2, hull 3, etc, let people have access to a whole garage of different components that have different abilities and strengths. Maybe the hull you used to get to the core of the Lava world because of its cooling systems is actually bad for that ice world. Maybe your hard tipped drill that made easy work of the Diamond Planet gets stuck in the mud world. Your "best" turbo doesn't work underwater in the water world, but that propeller blade that gives a small speed boost on any other world works GREAT in the ocean. Things like that.
Do more of these.
Two complaints.
1: I couldn't swap tiles without picking one up, moving it, picking up another, putting the second one in place of the first one, grabbing the first again, and putting it in the place of the second.
2) It was WAY too short for me. Took maybe an hour to get through it all.
Very nice! I just played through it all in one stretch. Every time I finished one board, I said "Okay, just one more," and then there were none left! Can't wait for part 2!
My only complaint is that over time, money became pointless and experience became too long to grind out. Also, changing the colors of my heroes just sorta confused me. Maybe if the secondary color was just an added effect, like, now they also get 1/4 attack from getting that color, in addition to their primary?
I'm diggin' it. Only complaint is that I can't use WASD to move, instead of the arrow keys. My arrows have been kinda messed up since I got this PC, in that every so often, the right arrow thinks I'm holding it down. That's my problem, not yours, but WASD movement always lets me ignore the problem.
I was in the top row, the room just to the right of the middle dividing line, and I jumped left to get to the one-way wall up there, just to try walking against it... and I fell through the floor into the little square in there. Now I can't get out, and my damnable game has to be totally restarted...
I love the sidescrolling aspect of it. Too many overhead Tower Defense Games. This way reminds me of "King Arthur's World" for the SNES. Which I loved (even if I was the only one who did.) Definitely try to make a sequel, if you can.
Took me a while to realize it, but if you always click "Play again" at the end, even if you plan to quit, it saves all the XP you earned in that round. For the longest time I would play a round a day and just quit out at the end, just losing all the progress I made!
Love it, love it! Only complaint: some party combinations seem to be more difficult than others, due to slow attack speed or non-directable attacks. If possible, in a sequel, give each character a choice between two weapons/spells, so I could, say, bring both Whats'er-face and Ponytail-man, without having to worry about slow fire rates on both of their attacks.
Very nicely done. You have a genuine talent at this, and to consider that you did this all in 48 hours. There are full budget, major developer titles that have taken two years to make that I've played for less time than I've already put into this here. Good show, keep it up!
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Hoppefully it will be out soon