You need to work on the jumps- some of them are WAY too frustrating early on.
Reviews for "Simple Love"
amidos2006 responds:
I know the diagonal jump is difficult some how but it is possible and I wanted it to add some challenge :) and keep the environment lovely :)
oof. that was hard thank fuck for the run and fly abilities
Well made but there is a huge increase in these kind of lovey arty games recently and it's all a bit pretentious for my liking, like I say well made though. Good job.
Too simplified, glitches; 3 out of 5.
Love is a complex emotion. The music and the heartbeat are nice, and one could debate on whether or not the use of colour was good or not.
However, the actual journey the player goes through, was not good. It simplified love, as if it was merely the act of moving. It isn't.
The words and sentences used in this game were full of clichés. They were empty and had no real meaning, precisely because they were so interchangeable with any kind of simple emotion a child may have, without understanding the meaning behind them.
If instead you had given more precious examples of why this love was so powerful, or why it was so special, or given a journey to the player with less abstract gameplay, or story, it would've been emotionally more powerful.
Simple love happens all the time and as such your game can easily been seen as cliché. Love is especially powerful when they are combined with another emotion, in a compelling story. The love of a man or woman means far more when that person has been through tragedy, and love was their salvation. It gives extra worth and value to the power of love, and also immediately demonstrates that power.
My suggestion is that you don't oversimplify love next time, nor should you neglect to demonstrate its power.
Also, run + jump don't work, except when you are moving to the left. So you have to jump and then go down or right. Tiny glitch.
So, improve your emotional story, and get rid of that glitch; 3 out of 5.
Found the glitch:
You can run up and down and jump at the same time but you cannot do it side to side.
It's very very challenging but that is definitely a glitch and I don't think you meant to do that on purpose. If you did though... I hate you. A lot.
I was wondering why it was IMPOSSIBLE to jump side to side while jumping, then I found out that I cannot run from side to side and jump at the same time. Please fix this :(