Good concept, but oddly reminiscent of the bullshit Back to the Future III game (I think on Genesis).
Art is garbage. Not on pure quality alone, but because you made obstacles that practically blend into the background. Poor signalling. At least the farmers are signalled with a voice line, but meh.
Okay, I'm convinced the controls are broken. Every time I enter a new area the menu pops up and I can't exit it normally through any means (none are provided by the controls). Then I finally reached a dialogue where HOVERING over a shop item auto-bought it without clicking. This is terrible. I can't believe someone made this GOTW without even checking.
Terrible control scheme. Borders aren't defined, everything seems to be so vague, it seems like sometimes I have to drag... No thanks, I think this should be way more intuitive.
Also, yeah, 1 star. Out of all the Papa's games this has been the worst. The controls are terrible, they want you to do some pseudo-3d aiming with a terrible view as well as having two cupcakes at a time means there's some strange context-awareness going on (can't pour sauce or sprinkles over both cupcakes at the same time). You'd think such a formulaic game couldn't be ruined but here we go.
Only noticed this flaw now, I suspect the other Papa's games have them.
I made a big mistake on the tutorial stage, and tried throwing my cupcakes away... only to find out that you can't. Why not? The Tutorial stage gives a real result, why can I according to the rules of the game do the cupcakes over until I'm satisfied? It's a pretty annoying bug.
This is stupid. Why is "peace boring"? If I control the media then I should be allowed to reduce tensions as much as create them. The anvilicious moral is oversimplified and doesn't go into mechanisms that the game just blots out. I guess all those years ago this was more clever.
I remember doing another game like this before for a BotD. That one was way better. This is a 1/5 for starting with enemies and no weapon... who wants to survival-platform for that long? The first few game features should be easier to get to, else there's little fun in playing the game with artificial difficulty. I hope these games don't get BotD anymore, because that would be my only reason to play them.
Graphics suck, everything looks like a blur. Poor choice of colors (or lack of it) and sprites. Grays blur edges like no tomorrow. I have zero clue what's going on and just act on instinct.
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