Quite good, and as challenging as promised.
Late in the game I managed to get stuck resurrecting in a pillar of white laser though, unable to shift as I kept dying instantly
Reviews for "Antichromatic"
I don't see why this needed Stage3D. It's a fairly basic pixel game. I think Flixel, FlashPunk, or Stencyl could've handled this sort of thing.
My computer doesn't support hardware acceleration so games like this that use Stage3D while thinking they're helping the game run faster just lag all to hell.
arkeus responds:
By using stage3d I can port this to things such as Ouya in a matter of minutes, and have it run nicely using the GPU. There's a bunch of other reasons, such as liking the library better, and being able to do neat effects not possible with other libraries, but that's the main one. Unfortunately the side effect is that people who lack stage3d supported hardware do suffer, which really does suck, but it's a necessary side effect for the other positive effects.
Haha, I'm pretty sure the only reason I won was because it was lagging like crazy at the end. That boss level wasn't very nice, lol. For anyone angry at it, the ending isn't really worth it, so feel free to quit early. ^^ Not that I can blame you too much, I hate making endings myself, so meh, not a big deal.
The game was kinda fun. I played all the way through, which is saying something.
The final room (or what I'm assuming the final room is) is difficult to the point of being tedious. I spent over half an hour destroying the three crystals again and again dying several times every step of the way having to redo the room over and over and over again.
Heck I had to halfway cheat on the red crystal, rather than climb up to face it directly I just shot black bullets at it from the floor.
After FINALLY getting the three crystals destroyed fighting the rainbow boss I end up dying before I can even get a feel for the rhythm of the fight. Usually this is from me shifting from black to white or vice versa directly into a projectile.
In the end I got fed up with it. I'd like to beat the game and see whatever ending there is but I honestly don't want to spend the hours it's apparently going to take repeatedly failing for each and every slight tiny mistake, misttiming, mispress, or even just plain bad luck when I happen to fall on top of a projectile.
All in all you have a well put together game. The visuals are excellent, the premise is clever and the puzzles are challenging. The final puzzle is disproportionately difficult simply due to the length and steps involved.
But this can be fixed in several different ways.
1. Retool the puzzle to be slightly less difficult.
2. Enable a respawn point after destroying one or three of the crystals.
3. Allow the player to leave the room and while saving the status of which crystals were destroyed.
4. Implement some sort of health system (which may be as simple as allowing allowing the player to be hit twice before respawn).
5. Prevent rainbow man from shooting until he is once again viewable by the player. (I think once I fell on his projectile, but that may have just been an earlier room that my frustrated brain is mixing into this problem.)
6. In a similar vein to 3 and 4, split the final room into two, like so: After the player breaks the crystals rainbow man runs to the next room in a fit of panic since he is now vulnerable. The final room makes the final fight even deadlier (maybe more shurikens, maybe rainbowman can jump/shoot upwards) but more forgiving as a whole because the puzzle section has been split from the battle. Thus removing the annoyingly difficult tasks of dealing with the three crystals AGAIN, after the slightest mistake results in your death.
Anyway. Rant over. I might try to beat the level again in a few days... Maybe. But right now I'm thinking probably not.
very nice game, BUT SOOOO HARDDDDDDDDD!!!!