Score: 8
"This is getting downgraded because people are lazy"
date: August 20, 2008
The guy below who suggests timing is partly right. It's more about placement.
HINT: You can swing at people from about 1.5 cm away, but the construction workers only swing at you when they're right on top of you. PATIENCE IS KEY.
The game is fun. I died several times before I figured it out. Even the short music loop was fairly entertaining. The gameplay was a little monotonous once I figured it out, but it's so short that's not really a problem. A decent challenge to the gameplay element and a unique style in the graphics make this a solid minigame.
EXTRA HINT: Jumping is useless.
SPOILER: Wait til they're about a cm away, then swing, then walk away, just a little bit. Hit and walk away again. Repeat until dead. The only tricky thing is leaving yourself enough room to back up, which is very hard with the first guy, so you'll probably take some damage. After the first construction dude, it's a breeze. Unless you're incompetent. Or blind. Or have no hands. Or have Parkinson's. Or if you don't have a computer at all. You get the idea.