Score: 7
"A Giant Step Forward In Flash Programming."
date: November 1, 2009
I almost regret submitting a review, due to this game being so early in production and to the fact that with 40 pages of them afore me you have little reason to pay my words.
The original Bloody Rage having been one of my favorite flash games in times not too long past, it pains me greatly but also gives me great hope for a future of a more polished game.
Most people probably lose grasp of how complicated it is to create this game that you have accomplished to create. The fighting system and 3D flash alone are a great accomplishment, but the PAINT mode is an amazing feat. To be able to create a model's skin on the fly, both painting in 3D and 2D is absolutely incredible. Though the painter is no Photoshop, it has one of the most important feature in creating skins... "Airbrush", but to me the airbrush seems more a spraypaint option from paint and the "pen" with a low flow more like a true airbrush effect.
I remember submitting my ideas for fighters to the first Bloody Rage, and I like to think it was me who recommended Jesus ^^ and hell Obama is only one letter from Osama. But in reality a twelve-year old leaving a review 6 years ago probably had little effect on a flash created today.
I didn't want this flash to run on, because that only further discourages reading but it seems to have gotten pretty far...
Anyway, the game really just doesn't have the same "flow" the original had. The attacks feel stand-alone rather than combos and the only move that seems worth doing is the spinning kick. The problem is not having a lack of custom moves for characters or the like, it is having the moves too static and not fluid enough. After each move I feel and see my character hesitate and pause before continuing to the next.
Please work on the combat becoming more solid before creating custom moves.
Saving would be a nice addition :-/ though I think you've already said NG is the problem there.
And finally, the Model seems to have some mesh errors especially around the side. The painted skin also leaves a white line vertically through the center as far as I can tell. And oh my god please just remove the ears if you are still willing to edit the model, characters are simply hurt from the Dumbo-sized grotesque comic-book creations that are meant to be ears.
Again, I apologize for the length but as a fan of the original and a fan of the sequel I would very much appreciate a reading and reply.
