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Me: "Aw, her emotions are dying. I don't want to kill her heart."
Also me, halfway through the final level: "DIE YOU STUPID HEART!!!!!"
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OMG dude! After I finished the game, the 2's irritated me so bad that I had to play through the entire game again to find out whether there was a two in every stage or not! Way to go for turning an upgrading shoot-em-up into a where's wally game XD
The only flaw I see with the game and what really gave me the poops was that the upgrades stopped all of a sudden (and with me being a suicide spammer I was only at level 5 before I hit the end of all upgrades) and it then became extremely annoying to try to see all those little buggers that fly at you through the massive stream of bits they leave when you blow them up.
All in all though, this game was quite enjoyable and I found to be the most depressing story line I have seen in a game to date. Other games have some kind of hope. This one ended like something out of a Thomas Hardy novel. I swear if I wasn't such a manly MAN *flexes muscles* I would have cried lol.
Good job and keep up the great work!
Rating: 5/5
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I am crying right now.
I don't know what was it that I found so moving, maybe it was the music eventually becoming nothing but silence, or the voice showing some real emotion from beginning to end. It was like getting to know a friend and then losing her because it would be best.
Really solid game, and got me thinking about my own clinical depression. This along with YFYIAR have made the last couple hours something to remember. Great job.
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I love the War Games reference. "I wonder what a conversation between two identical
AI's would be like. Maybe we'll play Global Thermonuclear Warfare, or maybe we'll stick to Tic-Tac-Toe instead." Awesome
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Just finished the final boss. Looks like that computer had a severe case of...
*puts on glasses*
heart attack...
YEEEEEEEEEEEEAAAAAAAAAAAAH!
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Isn't it appropriate that this is the Badge of the Day the day after Valentine's, especially considering the final boss?
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the ending is sad but you gotta put it out of misery. 5/5 great game-it has upgrades, its a shooter game and has a story to it. and the last upgrade with magnetism 0_0 unlimited awesome.
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Actually, I've found firing the Zero Writes at the ending portion of the final boss battle to be better. In the beginning, it's slow firing and easy to hit being so big. As you destroy it more and more, you hit it less often per time onscreen from it being much smaller and a bit fragmented. This is when I've found Zero Writes to be most useful.
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I have just earned the second badge on the game, and I feel like it should have been a hard and not medium badge. About half my deaths were on that final level, and I died quite a few times. Then again, I'm crap at these bullet hell type games most of the time.
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This game really hit home for me. Chronic depression is something I've struggled with ever since I can remember. I'm lucky though. My medicine works. There are a lot of people out there that don't have that.
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Just noticed that on the last level the heartbeat noise shifts to the left/right speaker based on where it is on the screen. At first I was confused at how accurate I seemed to be at subconsciously predicting where the boss would enter the screen, but I suppose that's what it was designed to do. Really nice subtlety.
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There aren't many times when I feel genuine affection for a video game character. When that does happen, it's usually in a studio-developed title like Portal.
Well, there's a first for everything, right?
oh god this is so sad
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my second run through, and besides some irritation at the blinding mass of upgrade points and the slow zero bomb (It'd work better if each bomb saved is an extra hit point),my only quip is that Y.F.Y.I.A.R.s' audience will be probably a lot smaller and many people will only see half the dual experience.
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Bugged. The game load fine, then I click new game and nothing happens (black and green screen with the cross mouse cursor, 0 and 1 and that's all).
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Touching and deep story which makes me uncontrollably hooked to it. I also liked the humour, the music and the art (almost everything in the game).
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This game was a solid, fast and fun top-down shooter that was only sligtly marred by the evil little homing viruses hidden beneath the blank data bits. What really made this stand out were the messages from your AI host. Many were funny, all were very well written and the last few were extremely emotional. When she complained about missing her 'dad', I truly felt sorry for her, despite knowing it was just a game. Overall, my only complaints are the short length (Which isn't exactly the biggest problem ever) and the hiding viruses. Great Game: 5/5
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This game is deceptive. On the surface it lures you to think it's merely a trivial shooting game with a couple of upgrades. But the real token is the story as you progress. Quite frankly deep. It talks about depression, emotions, and whatnot. The A.I.'s maker committed suicide but the A.I. herself wasn't able to conclude that. She was awaiting her maker desperately. She even developed emotional bonds at her core. To the point of calling him "Dad". Which you eventually.. had to destroy in a twisted turn of events. As you and the A.I. realize that those same emotions that made her human-like is what corrupted her system. It makes you wonder how true that is in our society too... in terms of emotions like greed and envy, among others... Yup. A deep game indeed.