The startup was all fun, but when you get in the middle... pfff. All rage breaks loose. Damn those bombs.
Reviews for "Swindler"
Nice idea but I can't stand even the second stage, too dizzy man. Would be nice if you could put something to make it more user friendly.
i appreciate the game over all and normally love nitrome games but i don't like this one. not sure what it is but i didn't find it fun. thats just me though. keep up the great work!
Great game, fun mechanics; but seriously? You guys still use left-handed controls?
Alright. So the graphical quality and the sort of "gloopy" theme is both appealing to the eyes and also follows the game flow and look very well. The use of a tether and the elements you could encounter created various challenges that all required different strategies, forms of thinking, and even different forms of skill to a certain degree; not to mention the learning/difficulty scale is great. Now, with all this said I can truly say this was enjoyable with excellent game mechanics and awesome background and foreground.
So then why am I giving a 3/5 if I have nothing good to say?
Well it settles like this. Nitrome sends out high quality games with great aesthetic quality, fun musical backgrounds, and various game types; but you guys still have very little value towards gaming with your control schemes.
There needs to be more options aside from graphical quality of high and low, there needs to be at least a choice between left-handed control scheme (arrow keys) and right-handed control scheme (WASD keys). Gaming is far easier for most people with the WASD keys. This is a proven fact. I'm a left-handed guy but honestly, I can't stand using arrow keys. You guys have released lots of great games, but people have been constantly complaining about no use of the WASD keys. I would be happier if you responded more to user input by producing more options in control.
Other then that great game, but I refuse to give a higher rating when this issue with control has never been changed.
3/5.
unfortunately, it did not seem to work for me at all, I had no control. once I hit a direction on the keyboard, I was unable to change it, so I would either drop all the way to the floor and die, or become trapped spinning around again and again, which is a shame because it looked like fun.