Was a fun game... Until it screwed up =/
Imma rate it a 7, was fun to play though when I got to the "Finals" in the second phase of evolution the game completely bugged out and was spamming through tons of training screens and the menu screen in a random order really fast and lost any kind of functionality ... Would rate the game a 9 since its fun but that bug has kinda annoyed me.
Good, but not enough fun-challanging and too much pointlessness. First of all, if you train all skills max before racing, there's no challenge. Heck, the only challenge is trying to get the bare-minimum training in order to succeed. Since getting the minimum isn't an in-game objective, nor will it give you any benefits, energy is just a way to waste time, and spend coins, which you get by the truck-loads. Also, running is completely boring, annoying and in the final stage became almost effortless. The other three mini-games were actually a little entertaining.
My suggestions:
- Give players budget. Make it so they were only able to get X amount of funding to spend on training, feed, and perhaps other special enhancements/gear. They receive more money when they win a League race (not a qualifier). Or have qualifiers and league races have entrance fees. Both can be Bet on to get you some extra cash, or at least pay for the entrance fee (perhaps you get more money from your bets if the odds are stacked against you), but only the League races guarantee cash-winnings.
<> With this the player must make good decisions as a coach/manager, not squandering the budget on things with less priority.
Also, just my opinion, but making the ducks more human-like, with human legs and human muscles is really ugly. I didn't like it in pokemon, digimon or monster rancher (look into this game if you haven't!) and I still don't like it. I prefer more natural, smoother evolutionary progressions. Again, just my opinion.
Hope this helps, I think you got real potential, which is why I took the time to say all this! =^_^=
boring
it was alright in the beginning. but later on it become a lil repetitive. its just the same shit.