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its not that bad people ive played q bert before and if i compare this to q bert its really no diffrent (if not better) than the original q bert on the origional the controls suck, this game all you have to do is point and click!!! its cool
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I agree that the original Q*Bert was better, but I like seeing old classics again as a flash game. It's a good idea to add special improvements, but for the nostalgic feeling it would be better if the player were able to switch all specials off.
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The whole point of the discs was to escape and clear the board of enemies. Here they just bring you to the top? Well if the green goblin is bouncing around up there, guess what? You die. Discs: Not better.
Firing is useless 50% of the time because you're facing into the walls. Even when you're not, I figure it's of limited usefulness. At the best, impractical. An improvement? Not a very useful one, so I'll call this one "meh".
Maybe the game gets better after the basic pyramid levels, but right now I don't really feel like trying to find out.
Hopefully you take my criticism constructively; I do generally try and want to get people to make better games.
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I've played a LOT of Q*Bert in my day, and this quite simply is no Q*Bert.
Sure, you copied the basic design and attempted some things to make it "better", but one thing people often forget to realize is simpler is often, quite frankly, better.
Let's start with the controls. The mouse is an absolutely horrible way to control Q*Bert, at least to someone who's played the game. You're so used to being able to go exactly where you want from where you are it just becomes second nature. Now I have to move the mouse awkwardly and click? Not better. (In MAME I have my keys set to 7913 on the keypad for easy control.)
As for the enemies bouncing all over instead of just downward, ok, whatever, I can deal with that. Q*Bert did just fine itself, however, with enemies having differing gravities to provide some mix.