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VBCPP, I uh...I get the feeling maybe you're reading into things that aren't there. I know tombstones tend to get people in a philosophical mood, but one can ascribe deep meanings to essentially anything in life if they try hard enough. Seriously, give me a big mac and I'll give you a philosophical rant about taking things in moderation, and how the sum of the parts in life are often far greater than each part alone, and maybe about societal apathy and how many things had to die just to sustain me for a single meal...but that doesn't make the dude in the back slapping together hamburgers freaking plato. Actually I could probably come up with better deep meanings for a big mac since food is pretty deep, but it's a tuesday morning and I just woke up. Everyone knows tuesdays are the least philosophical days of the week.
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@VBCPP Yeah, I keep thinking the same thing about Pacman: Gluttony will haunt you. Some strange things turn out to taste good. And most importantly: Inky is one sexy ghost.
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This is such a deep game, everytime I play it I find more and more meanings.... I'll share some:
You'll notice that the gravity is really strong, you drop almost instantly. This is like how in life, whenever you start climbing ladders and succeeding, one little mis-step, like walking off a ledge, will instantly drop you back down to the bottom.
At the end of the level the bottom path looks like the easier route right? WRONG, all it leads to is a pit of fire. This shows you not to take the low road in life.
When you die, you don't get sent back to the start of the level, this is because good causes can transcend the lives of the creator and someone new will pick up the responsibilities right where he left off.
When you die you leave behind a tombstone, which is then ignored. This is eerily similar to our massive cemeteries which no one visits, the dead are forgotten, leaving behind only a simple stone marker.
You have such a clear understanding of life, I love this game.
tl;dr rate 5/5
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I really really like this game and the idea, but for some reason, I just can't seem to get used to that going up the ladder is with the arrow keys and jump is with z. I kept on getting them mixed up. (Ladders were painful for me.) Other than that I really liked it and the polish is amazing. 4/5
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Great music, good gameplay, good graphics, god awful sponsor.
My only regret is that there isn't more of the game to praise.
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I'm looking forward to making a whole series similar to this game. We've already got a partially built game, miniQuest, which we are going to completely redesign with some of the feedback we receive from this game so let us know what you like and what you don't like.