Score: 10
"Truly a great game."
date: April 22, 2008
Ah, this couldn't be any better. A nice mix of Breakout with RPG elements makes for a great game.
Graphics - Very simple, nice graphics. The explosion effect looked great! The guy you played as looked cool too.
Sound - The music was that 'calm' kind of music that matched the game perfectly. Although the boss battle music wasn't really that great; it was too quiet.
Gameplay - Very simple gameplay as well. Destroy all the seals (Bricks) while avoiding the attacks from the special red, light-blue and dark blue seals, as well as staying away from the angels(?) that fly across the screen, and also destroying the Boss that appears every five levels (And on the 21th level)
To break the seals, you use your red orb to hit them, but you don't just hope that the orb will bounce off the wall at the correct angle to hit a seal. Instead, you can use your "Orb of Destruction" attack to send the orb straight upwards and cause big damage to a single seal as well as cause an explosion that damages seals around the orb. You can also summon "Shadow Orbs", smaller orbs that are just like your main orb, except they do less damage, but appear in groups.
At the start and after winning a level, you can use points to improve various stats.
HP Max: Gives you more HP, meaning you can take more hits, and also improves your HP recovery rate a little
MP Max: Gives you more MP, which lets you use your two special skills more often, and also improves your MP recovery rate
Spirit: This is your "Magic Attack" stat, increasing this makes most of your skills more effective.
Strength: The higher this is, the more damage your main orb will do and the better your HP recovery is. It seems that increasing this also gives your main orb a higher chance of piercing through seals
Luck: This can affect almost anything. It may boost the damage you do, it might help your HP/MP recovery or even power-up your skills. A higher amount means
more noticeable effects.
Other - Well, not much more to say, except that the "Angels" looked like they would appear on playing cards, King and Jack to be exact.
Replay Value - [Very High] Its a lot of fun trying different playing styles (by giving more stat points to 2 or 3 stats then the others) each time you play, but just playing the game without focusing too much on what stats should you spend your 5, 2 or 4 points on is really fun.
-Things to add/improve-
Hit Sound Effect - There wasn't really much indication that you just got hit except for a very slight screen shake.
More Lives - Starting with 0 lives isn't exactly good for beginning players. Maybe at least 2 at start? Or an option to start with 0, 1, or 2 lives.
HP/MP bar color - Maybe the HP/MP bar could flash red when we have only 20% of our Max HP/MP left.
Overall - An excellent game, perfect in almost every way. Maybe not the best "Game Over Is Near" system (Not knowing you are getting hit + 0 lives = Sudden
Game Over), but the simple, fun breakout-related gameplay combined with various RPG-Elements makes this a very good game. Excellent Job!
-K-Fox