i found a glithch that helped me go all the way down and shoot the enemy and the other things wont hit you
Reviews for "Alaska"
Oh, that's cool. I felt like destroying something beautiful.
Could it be, though, that there's a deeper point to this? Is the ending maybe telling me that this game, when played by the rules, is beautiful (and graphically, it is), and I destroyed it by siding with a glitch and breaking the rules? Maybe? Probably not.
This game is so short and so difficult, and I think that's what makes it great. I would love to see more of this.
I actually played through the entire game without using this 'glitch'. I did had to F5 a couple of times due to the game not restarting after my death but besides that I haven't really encountered any bugs (maybe because I don't like to pussy away to the bottom of the screen).
This game makes me think of 'I wanna be the Boshy', a game that has difficult parts in it and where you die a lot before you get to the end (this game isn't nearly as hard tho, but hey).
At a later part where 4 waves with small gaps come close to each other is hard to navigate with just the keyboard, I thought about grabbing my controller and hooking it up to the keyboard controls for the finer movements but it didn't end up being necessary (in IWBTB it is needed, even for binary inputs like left right and jump, hard to imagine if you haven't experienced it, gamepad is actually better).
I think the beautiful thing that is destroyed is the mystery of what's next, I probably won't make it when I retry right now but I do know that I can tackle the problem, something that is always possible with a certain time investment but going through the mundane process of actually performing it and the sense of accomplishment after is another thing entirely.
I have completed that what I knew I would and I can move on.
People are bitching about this game like it's supposed to be a full game. If you'd read (which you didn't) that this was made in a single day, and can appreciate that, the game is pretty nice. It is challenging, and, intentionally or not, lets you cheat. The spritework is nice and stylized. Very simple, nice to play once. Great for a day.