Reviews for The root of evil

[Tainted-Trixter]

Well...

First, absolutely beautifully made game. I wasn't sure what to expect given the authors comments I was really pleasantly surprised. I think the story came across fine, and I didn't really think the game needed to be any longer (though I would have enjoyed the extended play it if it was). I do have a few comments/things I noticed though:

1. The control layout was not so hot. I got used to it but it definitely could have been better. Try switching to a small grouping of keys (asd, cxv, etc.)

2. Before collecting the ball I accidentally pressed throw and became unable to move. I restarted and didn't have the problem again (though I was able to reproduce it.

3. After collecting ball, but before realizing I can't go home I again accidentally pressed throw, became unable to move same situation as number 2 basically.

4. Some people need/want to play muted, this can be a problem given there is instruction in the vocal aspect of the game. Also some of the conversations are not super clear. Consider adding subtitles, it would fix both of these problems.

5. After introduction to 'Mushroom' trampolines I missed third trampoline, guy went into climbing position and was stuck. I restarted and made it past, but again was able to replicate the error.

6. In the level before the last if you overshoot the trampoline thing there is no way to get back save suicide. You may want to consider a way to get back, even if it isn't a way up. Because the first part of the level is a bit time consuming.

7. The end screen just blanks, Try setting it to return to the title.

8. Considering the number of times I had to reset because of bugs or getting stuck, and especially if you intend on expanding the game you may want to think about adding either a restart level button or a button to return you to the menu. As things stand I had to restart the game (close the window and restart, not start over from the beginning) each time to get back to being able to functionally use level. Yes, I liked the game enough to do that six or seven times.

Ultimately, this is well worth playing, has a wonderful atmosphere and story, and the graphics are very nice and fitting for the game. The game could use some minor tweaking, but I am certainly not complaining, I look forward to seeing more from you. Keep up the great work. 5/5 10/10

jaglitegrann responds:

really fun you liked my game :D this is the first time a publishing one of my games and maybe i need to do better authors comments :) its really fun that you have put down this much work to comment my game and review it :) and also really fun you liked the story i was pretty concern about it :)

1. Yeah many of my friends also complained about it :) maybe it just me that is a little bit weird and like those controls ^^

2. yeah i thought i fixed that bug, but i probably didn't. maybe forgot to save or something because i thought i tested it but anyways it's just a boolean that is set to true that should have been false so not very hard to fix :) I got a pretty stressed deadline to my project so thing was getting a little bit sloppy. thats why there is many bugs to :)

3. yeah pretty much the same as number 2 ^^

4. yeah i wanted to make the option to mute the game but i'm not so good at sounds in flash. thats probably something i should be working on :) and as usual, if i had the time a probably should have try to make a mute button. and also thought about subtitles but time make it hard there to :) i want some free time :D

5. hmm that one is new to me i think. Do not really know why that happens, probably some hitTests that goes wrong in some way :)

6. yeah did not really thought that of that. it sure had been nice whit a way back there :)

7. yeah thats pretty weird, I thought it would go there automatically because the game was going to loop but i was probably wrong. should just had put an gotoAndStop there :)

8. yeah a restart button had been great in that way :) but i did not really wanted to destroy the atmosphere of the game whit a button, but maybe that had been the best way :)

again really good comments by you, its really fun to get this much feedback :)

you probably going to see more from me because i have just discover how fun there is to upload things to newground when you get so much good response by peoples. and not just comments that says "this is lame or somthing like that" ^^

wow my respone got pretty big to :D

[WolfgangDS]

Very well done

A few bugs that should be fixed, but otherwise a solid game. I managed to beat it (and I found the ending to be quite creepy, but fitting for the story, and also a solid explanation for everything).

To Ken: You follow the squirrel because it took the ball. Also, you're playing a kid, of course he's gonna go after the squirrel to get his ball back. You can't go home because your character gets lost in the woods. Or its possible that something about the woods prevents you from leaving. Either way, your character is a stupid kid who wants his ball back.

jaglitegrann responds:

Yeah the bugs are bad :) I did not got the time to fix it because the lack of time to my projects deadline. i could have fix it afterwards but after working really much on it for really long did not make me so motivated to fix them right away. maybe i be fixing them in the future ^^

Yeah it maybe is a bit creepy xD but god you thought it worked :D

if i had more time, i was thinking of one more scene after the end where you get back to the house and depending on if you had picked up you ball it would have end diffidently when you talk to your friend. (he get mad or glad) and also my end level would have to involve the ball in some way to make the option to pick it up or not :)

and like your explanation of why you following the squirrel ;D

[tragger]

Great game!

A couple of annoying glitches i found were:
- The level where you chase the squirrel the game freezes if you press c
- The level before you reach the old man's house at the beginning theres an invisible spike (not sure if it's a glitch but really annoying to remember when you die near the end)
- The level after you reach the old man's house where you learn how to move things, if you push the log to the end, die, and continue to push it when you arrive again, I somehow managed to get it slanted upwards and couldnt continue so I had to exit to menu then retry
- Same level as above, if you go to the other side of the log when it's at the end you can move it a little more to hopefully reach the rope, but sometimes it will glitch here and have the kid floating in the air grabbing nothing and continuing to
move the same way until he hits something
And thats as far as I got so far because I can't seem to reach that damn rope :| Besides that it's a pretty great game but slightly ruined by the glitches it contains :D

jaglitegrann responds:

yeah i noticed the most of the things, but why you cant reach the rope is probably cause the jump button is pressed down when trying to catch the rope, it does so that you fall of directly, because you use the same button to jump as to leave rope. that's probably something i should have think'd about and make that impossible to happen :)

[HappyBlack]

Really enjoyed its' atmosphere. (:
Great, minimalistic graphic, too!

Good job. (:

[Loopykitty]

Nice

What a loverrly little game! Obviously there are a few little things that need titivating up especially the s being jump my fingers somtimes found that confusing lol but I really liked it nice graphics sweet gameplay well done :)

jaglitegrann responds:

hehe thanks :D really appreciated you liking it :D next time i upload a game there probably going to be some bug fixes before i upload ^^