Yuletide Gore!
Amazing game! Great use of the retro graphics, great music. (What was the song on the upgrade menu? I can't think of the name...but it's fairly modern...)
Pros (many):
Graphics
Music
Great upgrade system
Sort of a mix between defense and 8-directional shoot-em-up.
The fact that when the Tree died, the game was not over. This is good. The tree was like a means of support, not the primary goal. I really liked that.
Color coded gifts! Very cool.
Red - Double shot
Green - Machine Gun
Blue - spread shot
Black - Rocket launcher - my favorite, also bugged, see below.
White - mines?
Orange - Grenade (ornament) launcher? lol
Purple - Saw gun?
There are more pros, but you get the point.
Cons:
The reticle...omg. I wish the pointer was a different color, or at least a larger shape. I think a bold crosshairs would have been nice. Maybe either dark green or some similar dark color that WON'T hide into the bloody snow.
Pretty simple. I didn't get much of a challenge from it. (but I still loved it!)
Only 8-directional. I would have liked a full 360, but that would have taken away from the retro style I guess.
I think those are about the only cons!
The bugs:
Killing the children (never thought I would say that...) before they left the spawn area meant that sometimes they would drop their shit in a place you couldn't reach it. This meant that if you needed health...you would have to wait to kill them...sort of retroactive if you ask me...
The biggest one: I assume this could happen with any gun, but I only did it with the rocket launcher. If you kill all the enemies that spawn right as the round starts, then it says you cleared the stage...but the enemies keep coming until the stage is REALLY complete. This makes it extremely difficult to see. I only made it happen once, really early in the game. So it was a bad bug, but wasn't game-changing.
Suggestions:
360 degree shooting.
Maybe you can make it where we can reserve the last gun we picked up. Lets say we have the machine gun, and we see the black box to get the rockets. We pick up the rockets, then once that runs out, we go back to the machine gun, THEN down to the basic weapon. I think that would add more strategy, but maybe make it a bit easier. Dunno.
More special ...children... (I wanted to say zombies...) I think adding more specials, like ones that shot back would have been nice. I didn't get to the end before I finished this review...I hope I am not missing out. lol.
/review
Great game man. Keep it up.
This is my longest review, you deserve it.
