HOLY SHIT
THIS GAME IS AWESOME!
Reviews for "Snailiad"
Quite simply, the best Flash game I've played.
This is an amazing game. The controls are wonderful, the story is even better, and do NOT get me started on the amazing music.
The gameplay is simple, but unique enough to be intriguing. Also, you are AWESOME for using Z, X, and C, rather than A, S, and D, or X, C, and V, as others might do. The best keys to use with the arrow keys are definitely Z, X, and C.
I'm a little biased when it comes to the story. I freaking LOVE snails, which is quite honestly the reason I first played this game.
And the music. 8-bit music is (generally) awesome. You have taken it about 20 steps further. I REALLY want to download the music and put it on my iPod. I REALLY, REALLY do.
In short, this is an amazing, amazing game, and Newgrounds does not give me enough stars to rate this high enough..
Well made.
Did a good job hiding the shells and hearts, I found all the hearts but I still can't find 2 shells, one of them is in Snail town (which by the way seems way to littered with secret passages for my taste), the other is in Lux Lirata (Black section of the map).
The terrain is very colorful and creative but a bit random, for instance, in Lux Lirata one minute your in the sky where there are clouds and the next your in space... in a what appears to be a space station.
Even though it is generic, I find that the way the bosses die is just awesome for NES style.
I feel like your put some thought and effort into positioning the enemies to increase the challenge, makes it hard to just whale through it all, at least until you get the better upgrades - in particular, the devastator.
In the boss rush, I don't see how the Space Box (Time Cube in boss rush) is much harder though he just seems a little faster but I'm not seeing any increase in a challenge, in fact it actually seemed a little easier to kill him. You could have given him higher endurance. The first two actually had features that made them harder in a way, the shell breaker (Super Shell Breaker in boss rush) had a ton of those circles acting like a shield against your attack, which sorta made it so you could only do serious damage when it was shooting at you because the circles disappear when it shoots.
For Stompy (Vise Vires in boss rush), not only are there more cannons shooting at you but the boss is also shooting you with those colorful ring blasts.
As for the Moon Snail (Sun Snail in boss rush) I'm not seeing any big difference in his first stage - he might be moving faster but I'm not sure, as for his second stage the changes I'm seeing aren't making him any harder to fight. But since he was a big challenge to begin with and your fighting him with only 5 hearts and a few less upgrades, I can see why you did little to change the fight against him.
The "super secret boomerang" - What so special about it? does it like super amplify the power of you boomerang or something? Also the way back out from the area where it is at, you need to kinda have to glitch jump. You can get out but you can't just slide along the wall and expect to slip through a secret passage
The music at the Shrine of Isis kinda sound like music you might find in a really old pokemon game (A "mysterious" area or something)
The main path to the are where the shrine is hidden (which by the way looks like a hacked NES level - what's up with that?) wasn't hard to find, but you could easily miss the way to actual shrine itself (I suppose THAT is the only real reason the area looks so weird then).
Great game.
The gameplay and the controls are quite simple, yet fun, i just loved the music! i love retro-styled stuff, and somehow this game reminds me a bit of elephant quest.
i see what you did there!
you can't hide stuff like that from me.
the most obvious reference in the game:it's dangerous to go alone,take this!
anny ways,on to the review.
i found this pretty fun,although not challenging enough.
in the times of NES games,games were short,but tough.
in this game,i saw alot of stuff that reminded me good ol games.
metroid,with in particular those stupid snail enemy things >.>
that old game with the guy in a moon car of some sort by the controls of the character:climbing to walls and shooting in the air as we want to
megaman:jumping shot
legend of zelda:the weapons and references.
overall,the game is pretty colourfull and enjoyable.
for all of you nostalgia gamers at home,this is the game that might bring you back memories.