Score: 5
"Not bad."
date: May 6, 2009
Definitely not a bad little game, but it could still do with a bit more to it. Some sort of background story would be nice. The ending movie could also have been much more rewarding as what you had was very bland. The motion controls were a very nice feature, which worked very well. I haven't seen this done in flash game before, so you seem to have offered something new with these.
The various difficulty settings and achievements to unlock gave you reason to replay the game, but I only found myself playing through it three times as the various difficulties didn't really offer anything entirely new. Fortunately you included the option to speed up the end credits as it would have been annoying sitting through them in full every time you completed the game.
The unlockables menu couldn't be closed on the menu screen and even opening up the achievements menu didn't rectify this problem. This meant that the unlockables menu overlapped the achievements menu, which didn't look at all good.
The sword movement could do with some improvement. It didn't match the movement I made with my touchpad at all, when really it should have. Not only was the movement completely wrong (a thrust forward when I was slashing sideways), but the attacks were very rare given how rapidly I was moving my finger.
I wasn't overly fond of the ending sequence where you had to press a few buttons on your keyboard. It wasn't particularly exciting and seemed to be far too easy, although perhaps this was much harder on the higher difficulty settings. You worded it like the character you controlled was the one on the brink of death which seemed strange considering you'd just emptied the enemy's health bar and were nowhere near dead yourself. Perhaps a different font could be used for the keys, as I couldn't be 100% that the B was indeed a B. The snow during this sequence needs fixing as it was only a small square which filled the initial window. As the camera moved around you could see the square shape to it and everything outside the square was completely snow-free. Needless to say, this looked very unusual.