Well, I was intending to write this as a scene in an RPG and failed, so sod it and let's talk about the game.
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I really liked the previous one.
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This one is better.
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I love the new classes, despite me still being attached to the oh-so-outdated warrior-ranger-mage-cleric setup, and the item store is excellent, although the conversations lack polish.
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One thing that still really grinds my gears, though, is the dumb names that - as Sod's Law dictates - I will always be given the worst of. "Go forward, Wally the Warrior, unto thine divine quest!"
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Yeah, it doesn't really work, does it?
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The music, though, is really good, despite it being only a few bars played in an infinite loop. I never thought that could work, but you did it, and I'll be damned you did it well.
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Congratulations on a fine game, but make sure you put in some really huge changes for the sequel, if one is coming.
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And Moody, you need to find a portal scroll. Dig around for a bit and you'll find it.
I feel clever now, I even managed to complete the sucky easter egg levels. Thank you Pahvimato for telling me.
And thanks for leaving out Bonus 7. That was paradox-tastic.
Either the world’s one mad or there’s a selectively dodgy link here.
A good game is only good if it remains fun when all the sound is off, and all the graphics are replaced with placeholders. This game, after that process, becomes a game about clicking on buttons. If I want to click on buttons then FireFox has them in abundance. Don’t come back at me and argue that the point is to tell a story, because the story stinks. Don’t come back at me and say that the graphics are what makes it, because the graphics stink. Don’t come back at me and tell me that the sound is good, because if I want music I’ll go find it. This game can't even do button clicking properly, since I often hit the target dead on, and nothing happens.
So what is the point in this game?
More to the point, why is this rated so highly?
Thoroughly excellent. It's Portal's incredible "platforming with a twist" all over again. I love all the subtle nerd jokes (please be more observant of Asimov's third law in future).
I can't give you extra marks for originality, since I've already seen a game that is similar, but it is simply not a patch on this. Not a patch.
Yeah, give me some cute funky robots and a Simpsons reference and I'm happy.
5/5.
Either I'm missing something or this is, in essence, exactly the same as the last game.
Correct me if I'm wrong here, but isn't the point of a sequel to do something new?
Can I take this opportunity to stop the Carados hatred?
Seriously, if they don't like the game, they're allowed to do that. By your logic, the Nazi party was great, because months and months and months went into that.
Whoo! I got the broom too!
No, seriously, that thing's even better than the Downgrade.
Cookie for whoever came up with that.
Right, the game. It's very good. I like seeing the maniac floating in the air, the music is decent, the extra hold key takes a little getting used to, but once you are used to it it's fine. It is, in essence, SCGMD2 with extra songs, and I don't mind that at all.
What I do mind is that none of the singers can sing, which is really off-putting, but I'll get used to it. 5/5.
Right then, just so I can utterly spam this up with comments, THAT is what I call an ending. No I will not tell anyone what happens, but that was simply sublime. It cleared up a lot of existing plot, but left a couple of tiny strands behind; just enough for you to continue the story.
As I said before, the next chapters had better be as good as, if not better than, this one. And as I said before, good luck.
YAY! Ymbirtt’s here and is posting insanely long comments again!
OK, since I've just gotten 66 points from this game (soon to be 96), I should probably comment on this game.
OK, since I've gotten 66 points from this game (soon to be 96), you've probably guessed that I like it. I like it quite a bit, actually. In fact, I like it hugely. 5 stars worth of like, I'll have you know.
I'm probably going to get endless stick from this, but I like the graphics. They work. They stop the game from becoming too serious and allow you to say hilarious lines like "This potion is better than a normal potion because it has more friends" and make them fit, which Sonny seemed to struggle with in the form of Rockstar. The music is very well done, I especially like the sewer/grotto track, and so far it's on 3/5 at least without me even mentioning the gameplay.
I'll mention the gameplay.
The gameplay is superb, sublime, stupendous, there's a huge amount of it there, and it doesn't get dull very easily because you can keep your mind focussed on the plot because it does Portal's trick of promising you cake later on. The cake then comes in the form of a brilliant boss fight and some very interesting new items.
You have, however, made a huge mistake, in that you said you'd make 8 chapters in the first MARDEK. You'll need to make another 6 games that are as good as, if not better than, this one. You'll struggle with that, but if you manage it then you are a true hero of flash and ought to be worshipped on the Sabbath Day.
Good luck!
Horray! Another insane 2-post sized review from Ymbirtt!
Ugh. This game has really annoyed me. The thing that I loved about this game is the story and how well it was told. I knew as much about the world as my character did, which really involved me, and the world around me just felt so deep. I loved the fact that I just exterminated an entire race of Shaman, and then got annoyed when the same was being done to me.
And then I came up against Rockstar, and that annoyed me because the guy made no sense and didn't seem to fit anywhere, that cost this game a star.
And then I finished it. And it stank. I don't want to give the ending away to anyone, but it was really terrible. It felt like you'd given us half a game. It was utterly insubstantial, and not in the way that left me wanting more, in the way that left me really really angry. You've given me a table piled high with gorgeous food, said "Start eating!" and then dragged me away with my mouth stuffed full of food after 5 bites.
Finish what you have started! When you make the sequel, glue it on the end of this game, because what you've given us is not enough for anyone.
Despite all I've said there, the game up to that point was very good if I ignore Rockstar. The combat was well balanced, ran smoothly, and there were some interesting abilities there. The music was also spectacular and the graphics, while nothing special, were well made.
If it weren't for that last paragraph, this would be 1/5. I have given it 2 stars.
Right, if a game's worth playing, it's worth commenting on, so...
Meh.
That really sums this game up. It's nothing amazing, really. There are better games on this site, certainly. There's nothing disgustingly wrong with it, and nothing so unbelievably right about it. It's more a test of endurance than of actual tactical skill.
What would bring this up, and something I'm surprised you didn't do after Starfighter, is multiplayer; give people a budget and a race, see who comes out on top.
Oh yeah, and nerf the spearmen.
Mazapan.....
You're weird.
Very weird.
No, seriously, this was the weirdest thing I've played here.
Funky song at the end, but not as good as Still Alive, I'm still waiting for something that can top that.
OK, quick update, got up to the boss fight and, lacking a magical "make the game better" button, and replacing it with a really crap boss who can only by fought effectively with the lead pipe, this is being knocked down to 2 stars.
Seriously who told you to get rid of the health meter? And why do we have so many varieties of weapons which are exactly the same? There are 5 different pistols each, so far as I can see, using the same bullets with the same fire rate and causing exactly the same damage with exactly the same recoil.
And there's another thing, why is there so much damned recoil? Where has recoil that sends your gun above your head been a good idea? And who suggested that backflips make you invulnerable? Those of you arguing the realism point take note of that.
In fact, 1 star. Too many bad design decisions. Go back to watching Understanding Games for a bit, please.
Warsoldier, there isn't a health bar, there are random blinding blood splats. Insane health:enemy ratios ought to be the most nail-biting parts of a game, but here they're plain old annoying because you can't see a damn thing.
Right, due to the insane amount of bile about to come out, this is going to need two posts.
This is really quite dull, which is a shame since I enjoyed Thing Thing Arena. First off, what the hell happened to the health bar and what's this crap you've replaced it with? So when we're about to die, you blind us so we can't do anything about it? Simply idiotic.
That Reanimation Chamber. The fact that you run out of bullets does nothing to make it any more tense, and the fact that we're fighting off hordes of zombies with a lead pipe is just dull and drags on so so long, which I never thought I'd say about being dropped into a horde of enemies with just a melee weapon.
Another thing - if I've got a fully automatic shotgun, I do NOT want it replaced with a pistol. I want to be able to throw away the pistol, and then get two awesome weapons, which I will then throw away as and when they run out. OK, fine I can swap between the two, but that takes time, and at the later stages when a couple of seconds will kill you, I do not want to be picking up pistols which then replace my grenade launcher.
Despite those huge and irritating faults, it is endurable to the final boss, unless something insanely stupid appears in the however many levels it is between me and him. It's worth three stars, and I think I'm being generous. Maybe 4 if the final boss proves to be utterly awesome, maybe 2 if it goes even further downhill between now and then.
Well, that was odd.
I suppose it's a nice "Stuff You" to all those who complained about the first 2, but it doesn't stop it from being freaky.
And what happens if I don't have a Facebook account?
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