gah! excellent game and all, but the dwarf that gave me lightning screwed up my save >_< and i had gotten all the gems, killed 20 creatures, and was just about to climb up the left wall too - .- ...which I must admit was a bit of overkill... but its not like I'd want to replay it all over again just for the endings - .-
I really liked the mechanic where looking back meant game over. would have been really powerful if that was brought to the fore instead of the usual jumping around, maybe a shorter game where, if you had looked back you'd lose instantly. and have to start from the very beginning o .o The story itself didn't move me as much as I expected, though the ghost's gasp as she disappears was itself very powerful. Wished the guy at the end, in front of the tombstone had looked back though, instead of his soul just disintegrating on its own =/
ending was rather weak but could have been way awesome with just some tweaks. was totally expecting the "waiting for participant" to just keep blinking and fade-to-black >_<
loved it. mind-boggling difficult, only up to level 25 so far >_< as for other games of this kind Numberlink, or what is more popularly known in japan as Nanbarinku, is almost essentially the exact same game except using numbers instead of colours. small difference in that for Nanbarinku it is essentially 'Number Pairs' whereas here you can get singles or triplets etc. Still got to say its pretty unique here, but I grew up playing games like Sudoku and Nanbarinku in a monthly puzzle mag so ya =p
I confess, I knew of Numberlink before I released Flash version of Linx (though not before the first, downloadable one). But as you noted, the gameplay is still pretty different so in my humble opinion it stand well well on its own as a game :).
cleared about 60-70% of the game when it was 64 stages long... now theres only 16 left?! i mean, sure, it was a bit long at first... but what about the time i invested in thatttt DX the ending was funny though =D
doing a mouse-over on the power-ups should at the very least tell us what they do.. as is, it took me a couple of replays until I could memorize what each icon represented with a quick flick of the eyes. First few plays were a pain though as if i forgot what the powerup was, the only way to find out was to utilize it =/. other than that, its an awesome awesome game. I very very rarely replay games, especially arcade games, but this is just one of the exceptions.
wicked game mechanic. would've been more awesome if there had been many totally divergent timelines though.. like One Chance, where your choices can lead to suicide, infidelity, or death in a park, etc. which I think, coupled with the Logbook here would make for awesome re-playability, something that was intentionally absent in One Chance (no replay button after all o _o)
awesome game. found a bug where u infinitely attack and kill a single monster(with charge), resulting in probably infinite exp and items (as well as part of the map not rendering), sadly only got 4 levels before exiting the bug and couldn't find a way to manually employ it again =/ ah well =p
settling for someone with atleast 2 similarities, starting before 20, hope you get good characteristics and keep it up til your 50 seems to be the sure-fire way for a high score. =)
On another note, this game held quite a lot of potential to, as it were, 'say something' about love, with a bit of thought and some grounding concepts this could have been much more than a 'girl-ier' game (with graphics that arent as good as the rest of your games??) would have been awesome if there was an entire list of 'achievements' that we had to figure out (like in jmtb02's Achievement Unlocked) where you only get the name of the achievement and you have to figure out the means by yourself. Could have had a lot more funny asides like killing 7 boyfriends (Black Widow?) or going through 50 boyfriends?? (slut???), racist, black pride, asian pride, glasses, etc etc. 5/5 but could have been way cooler rather than just an 'experiment'
would be nice to have a stats page with info like number of runs, total floors played, total time wasted, maximum damage, monsters killed, items collected etc etc. would make that feelgood glow after beating the somewhat mediocre shopkeeper that much better =p awesome game btw 5/5
would be nice if i could configure buttons without having to restart the whole game and lose everything - -
also a point of contention is how much life is lost when press the wrong button for a long-note... and keep holding it.... i play almost perfectly x4 play throughout the whole song and press 1 long note with the wrong key and i've lost >_< annoying as hell
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I confess, I knew of Numberlink before I released Flash version of Linx (though not before the first, downloadable one). But as you noted, the gameplay is still pretty different so in my humble opinion it stand well well on its own as a game :).