Reviews for Tombscape

[BGuardian]

Very adventurous :D

surprisingly good for it's genre, you really get the tomb exploration feeling :P

very nice graphics, good puzzles and a fitting sounddtrack on top of an awesomely done theme make this an enjoyable 10/15 minutes.

-SPOILER ALERT-

And now for the critisim part:
The note you found at the end was really well done, awesome idea. It had me wondering what kind of infernal creature could be lurking in the tombs below. The bossbattle was well done, though i'd at least expected some kind of ancient creature instead of just a big spider. Also, it would be nice if the boss had multiple stages, and not just do the same thing. I did like the little addition of you only being able to damage it at a specific point for a short time, cancelling out the brainless "fire at will" type boss.

After the boss however, i was quite dissapointed by the ending.
There was plenty of opportunity for a cool "Let's get the f*ck out of here, NOW" scene. You should definately put that in.

Also, the game was relatively short. I'd really enjoyed it if you made more areas like the first one with the swinging axes. More boobytraps in the next version!
And I think you should make more of these "bosses" besides the spider, giving you different directions to go to for some variations and facing multiple bosses at the end of each tunnel.

Finally, the inventory. It was nicely done, but it seemed a bit of a detour to open the bag with the mouse, selecting the shovel with the mouse, shoveling dirt with the mouse, reopening the bag with the mouse, putting the shovel back... well, you catch my drift. Hotkeys would be nice.
Also, more -useful- items are always a plus. It could really be a nice addition to find some keystone-translation thingey or something, and remembering you have it and need it to solve a puzzle 10 rooms later.

Overall an exellent game, congrats.

Psionic3D responds:

Thanks for the in-depth review and ideas, I will definately bear em in mind for the sequel!!

Thanks for playing, rating and reviewing, Much appreciated!!

[Kamichi]

great game but...

enjoyed the game but didnt really see there being much of a story i would have liked there to have been :) the dot dot to is bugged but good game i enjoyed it muchly :)

Psionic3D responds:

Its not bugged, a lot of people keep missing a dot, then thinking because they've done the others they dont have to do them in order from that point again...

i.e if you miss 6 then go back to it, you still have to to do 7,8,9,10 as they ALL HAVE to be done in order!!

[AirBrontosaurus]

A fun game with a problematic issue

It was a very well done game. However, you didn't include a "Back" button on any of the puzzles. So, once you got in them, you HAD to solve them before you got out.

Normally this isn't a problem as your game is very linear. However, on one of the dots puzzles, my game wigged out and wouldn't let me continue. I would place my cursor over the dots (in order), and the Finger-Point cursor would show, but I wouldn't get the flashy-green points and the game refused to continue. I click, I dragged, I went through the puzzle 10 times in order, slowly, and quickly, but it didn't matter. I even drew pretty pictures in hopes of appeasing the game (that didn't work either) before finally giving up.

Now, if I could have backed out of the puzzle and simply redo that whole bank of dot puzzles, I would be mildly annoyed, but it certainly wouldn't have detracted much from the game. But, since there is no way to back out of a puzzle, I had to close the game down and start from the beginning. Not fun.

Other than that it's a fantastic game. Unfortunately, that is a pretty big flaw. Fix it and you'll get a 10 for sure.

[ViperWorm]

flaws...

last row in the mathematical puzzle has a flaw, since it does not take in account that division comes before substraction. Also axes puzzle is wrongly set since best time to cross would be to start running when the axe reaches its lowest point, giving yourself up to 2x more time than you would get if you'd start running when the game wants you to....

Otherwise it is a very fun game to play :)

[loptimes4]

Very good graphics, but some of the puzzles took a few tries to complete. Connect-the-dots was definitely the hardest one. The game was fun, but I would have liked it more if there was more of a plot.