Finally finished
Okay, I finished it--from beginning to end. It started out funny. I started by thinking the level design was good and smart. I also started thinking the game was fun to play. But after about 15 minutes, the gameplay became stagnate. I started paying more attention to how awful the character design is and how bad the cut scenes are. The music was mostly good the whole wau through, though. I liked how the gameplay seemed more...complicated in the beginning with finding items and talking to people, but after that it was just juping around, and after your internet connection starts slowing down, it gets infuriating to watch the character jump and spin in slow motion.
I played the whole thing because I was really bored. That's the only reason. I kept waiting for it to get different and better, but it remained the same old drawn-out thing with mind-numbing jumping around and ugly characters.
I would have given you a higher score if the game was MUCH shorter. I am sure this was not easy to make, and I admire your perseverance and complicated boss fights, but it was ultimately not any fun to play after a while. You need to spend more time on your characters and make the levels more than mindless platformers. Give Vlad a different attack, too, or at least a more masculine finishing stance. Also, it didn't seem right to me for Vlad to have his hands behind his back in the cut scenes like he was on a Sunday walk--he's trying reclaim his power, isn't he? Finally, if you are going to have melodrama, at least draw the scenes (including the characters and effects) better.
The scripting was impressive.