very good game
just a few comments(if you are even reading this)
yeah it gets very frustrating dying over and over again..
the controls were a little messy..
other than that very good job, really liked the backgrounds and the art !!
Reviews for "Raider: Episode 1"
Pseudolonewolf responds:
I still can't understand how people consider a standard arrow-keys-and-letter-key-cluster control scheme to be 'messy' or 'strange' or 'difficult' as so many people have reported...
Is it mainly because UP isn't jump?
I suppose this control scheme is made for people who are used to using emulators... Hmm.
I Think This Is A Good Game...
It is a good game as far as I can tell and reading other people's reviews perhaps it is just my comp, but there is slow down almost every where I go. Unless I am standing still, the frames drop dramatically making platforming jumps very hard, almost impossible. I tried to see if I had any thing running in the back ground, but it was still hard to play. I even tried playing in a pop up window with only that one screen running and no ads and that didn't help, so then I deleted temporary files and cookies, and tried again, but it still ran too slow when ever the screen "scrolls".
I give it an 8 because I couldn't play it, but it may be of no fault of the creator, unless he or she didn't check to make sure they had nothing jumbled up in the back ground or behind the scenes. Perhaps if I had a better comp this wouldn't be an issue, I am playing this game on an almost 10 year old computer, but there was barely any action so even still I am not sure why it is running so slow, I play other flash games (Besides fully 3D that require a certain graphics card.) just fine.
I like the idea of just one long level with future chapters promised. The controls were not complicated and I liked the nostalgia of it all, but as I said it is almost unplayable to me.
Pseudolonewolf responds:
It most likely is your computer (especially if it's 'ten years old'), though it could also be a browser-related issue if you're using something like IE.
The game is rather complex though and made with the relatively slow and clunky AS2 rather than AS3, and it uses bitmaps for most of its graphics rather than the faster vectors, so all of these are probably factors.
This brings me back...
Damn good job. I have to admit I started playing it without looking who the creator was, but the whole way through I was thinking "the soundtrack and dialogue remind me of Mardek somehow..."
The whole thing was pretty much spot-on. The controls didn't feel clunky in the slightest, and there wasn't the usual wonky hit detection that usually plagues these old-timey games.
I found myself getting cocky for getting through the spike hell stuff without much of a hitch because I'm really good at the platforming stuff...then the boss ate my face in the space of literally five seconds. It took me a while to react to the second shot in his pattern quickly and consistently enough to beat him, but I got it eventually -- and it didn't feel like you made him too fast or anything, it felt just right to be hard-but-doable without requiring dumb luck at all.
The only thing I'm really concerned about is your attention getting split too badly between this and Mardek, but if the variety keeps you from going insane, more power to ya. Best of luck on both projects, and I still think it's high time for a real developer to hire your ass :)
Pseudolonewolf responds:
Interesting to see that my style is recognisable like that!
I'm working on several projects at the moment, which is why MARDEK 3 is taking forever... since if you've ever tried to work on one creative project for many months, you'll know how hard it is to keep your attention on it even when the end is so far from sight.
I wanted to make quick games like this though mainly for the *money*, since I do get paid for Flash games that I release, after all.
Great game....
Can't wait for the sequal. It actually deserves an 8, but I give you ten because of the Music. It's inspiring and brilliant. Could you please tell me which music would that be?
Pseudolonewolf responds:
All the music in this is stuff that I composed myself specifically for this game. You can download it on my website, www.fighunter.com, if you want (well, sort of... Currently there are only the original midi files, but I'm planning on getting around to uploading mp3s too).
Good Game
It was a very good game. I liked playing as a lizard character to. The controls could be better. I also enjoyed how you made it seem like a classic SNES game. It was fun with a good chalenge. One of the best 16-bit games on Newgrounds rright with Outzone. I didnt get as far as I hooped but I did get far enough to give an average review on such a masterpiece. Keep up the good work :)
Pseudolonewolf responds:
For future reference, remarks like "The controls could be better" could actually be useful to me if you were more specific. In what way could they be better? What was wrong with them? I don't know what to fix if people don't give suggestions, since the controls seem fine to me...