Score: 5
"Overall, not that great"
date: July 20, 2009
Another game medley, another set of reviews...
Pumpkin Yard
I've already reviewed this as it's own seperate entry submission, and not that highly. It's not that great of a game, and is hindered by a poor control scheme and no replayability. Dissapointing.
Hoverbot Halloween
This is a very fast-paced game, somewhat enjoyable with a couple of niggling flaws. The hoverbot as it were is a little bit airy in his control, he tends to drift about a little bit when he has landed from a jump, making some of the more jumpy parts awkward as he has accidently fallen off the edge on more than one occasion. Also, the parts with the crushing walls, hoverbot explodes like he has been crushed even when he is just hovering next to them, very annoying. Overall, quite enjoyable though!
Trick or Treat
Very dissapointing game of the generic "catch falling stuff" variety. Not much challenge involved, not that impressive visually. Fairly boring to be honest with you.
cucu Blackmetalleer killer
Ridiculous name, ridiculous premise. The game doesn't play that well either. The enemies are fairly difficult to kill, and look not that attractive looking. I don't know what the idea behind this game was, but it would have been much better as some kind of hack and slash side scroller, with an actual health bar instead of one hit to kill you.
Spider Killing
Interesting idea, but poor implementation. This plays like a kind of Asteroids clone with spiders falling and attacking you, and you trying to fend them off. There are added ghosts floating around for some inexplicable reason, and they get quite annoying. Was also gutted to find out I only had limited ammo, as I wondered why I wasn't firing any more, and was left basically waiting to die. That was a big mistake.
Gravedigger
Another interesting game hampered by poor implementation. The fact that the screen doesn't scoll at all, leaving you on that one small patch of graveyard fending off an over abundance of enemies at once. This game doesn't ease you in at all, loads of zombies just start coming straight for you. There should be some kind of health bar here too, instead of one hit deaths, which are all too common.
Overall, this collection of games isn't the best, although they all fit quite well into the Orange and Black motif, and thusly the Halloween theme. A lot of the games here were good in concept, but poor in execution.
