Score: 5
"Cool Concept, Cool Game, Flawed Implementation"
date: February 14, 2009
Okay, so overall this game was pretty fun. I do have a few complaints though.
In stage 1, in the first area you land in, you just stand there with no indication of if there's a puzzle, or should you jump, or what. Then you eventually just jump, and there are spikes right there below you, but a hole way off to the side you can get through. So the second time you try jumping, you make it through the whole and you fall through a maze of spikes and campfires. landing on spikes or campfires kills you. So does brushing the side of a platform. If you survive the deadly obstacles on your two mile fall, you find yourself in:
Stage 2, where you immediately have to steer to the right, because there's no warning that there's no safe zone. So you try stage two again, and you make it past this time, and it doesn't really make it obvious you can walk off screen, so you jump for the brain a few times, and eventually figure out you can walk off screen. Then you make your way over jumps and campfires and holes, and you go through a door. The first time I went through this door, both my characters legs broke or something, and stuck out sideways and I couldn't walk. I just stood there until time ran out and I tried again. I tried getting back, but this time when I jumped onto the moving platform, I fell through the middle of it into the pit. That was odd, but I tried again and got the brain and made my way through the areas. When I got the third brain, I expected the level to end, but it didn't. I was still there. So I walked around the level and eventually figured out that I was supposed to go through the elevator. In stage two, I learned the zombie was really fragile. If his foot so much as touched the camp fire, he was dead. This being a one hit kill game, things are either lethal or not. He's apparently immune to falling though... funny, i always thought of falling as doing 1d6/10ft of the fall... but that's just the herald in me I guess. Anyway, I went on to:
Stage 3 where I took a couple of times being killed by falling Jelly donuts to discover I could walk through the giant dragon to climb up his back, and that he wasn't dangerous at all, and that only Donuts could kill zombies, not huge dragons. So after that I killed him easily.
in stage 4 I discovered that my weapon arcs, making aiming it at enemies really hard. And if you don't hit an enemy before he even sees you, that's it. Once he shoots that gun, there's no jumping over no matter how fast you are: You're dead! So I fight with platforms with ends I keep dropping through to collect the brains and kill the guy and finish the level.
Stage 5 doesn't really have to many unique problems. Besides thigns already listed, it's pretty good.
Stage 6 too
Stage 7 though, you have to fight this huge freaking flying eyeball, and it doesn't mess around. It keeps shooting a bunch of crap and it's pretty tough. Then you beat it though.
The ending is funny, definitely worth the play. The only problem is, there's no "the end" after, so when the video stops, you've just gotta guess that the ending is over.
Over all, a pretty good game.
