Awesome game, I don't know if it's just me being colorblind, but I couldn't tell triangles apart from each other, all looked white to me. So couldn't finish the game, still good
Reviews for "This Date Blows!"
Dude was mumblin way too hard, couldn't hear him even when i was focused on the phone.
Hey, that's my arm. I must've lost it.
Pretty fun game, great concept.
crow-seeds responds:
Just added subtitles, thanks for the input!
Hmmmm, this is a really rough one for me!
I actually really, really like the concept and the game was exactly what I was hoping it would be, where you need to manage two tasks simultaneously in a chaotic juggling act. Trying to maintain eye contact with your date and answering her questions correctly while also memorizing complicated bomb defusal rules and cutting wires is a hell of a combo and, once I finally grasped it, I found very fun!
But that's just the thing: the game is very difficult to grasp and play due to so many confusing and janky elements. It took me multiple sessions to even understand how to play and what people were talking about as it dumps so much on you.
I understand that you added subtitles to try and help with the overlapping audio and such, but I felt like your execution incredibly hurt my experience more than helped. It made no sense to me that I could only see the subtitles for the date and not the bomb guy when I'm looking at the date, and vice versa: they're both clearly talking to me all the time, so why not display both of them? The entire point is that you're trying to listen to both of them at the same time no matter who you're looking at, so it makes no sense to only be able to read one at a time. At the very least, you could maybe have a set of subtitles grow or shrink when you switch who you're looking at, but again that makes no sense as you should always be seeing subtitles for bomb guy since he's in your ear and is more important.
The game also just gets really hard way too fast without any break and it was exhausting. It felt like the bombs were constantly going without a single break to look up and talk to the date. Might be a case of the game being set too hard because the developers have been play-testing it too long and didn't feel like it was a challenge anymore. I feel like I should be able to quickly defuse a bunch of bombs to reward me a sufficient break period to then talk with my date, but the bombs just kept coming and coming! Anyway, this led to the game feeling way too bomb-focused instead of date-focused: I wanted there to be more questions from the date to feel like I needed to keep both juggled equally, but the date questions only ever seemed to be dumb jokes.
Also, and maybe this is just a nitpick, but the whole defusing bombs through a phone just seemed really weird and nonsensical: felt it would work a lot better if maybe you were defusing an actual physical bomb in your lap and you just keep getting deeper and deeper into it. I know it seems like a minor thing, but I think it did add to a lot of my initial confusion.
Definitely not too shabby considering its a game jam game as it sells the concept: just wish there was a better, more polished final version of this that fixes a lot of the issues I had with it. For all the difficulties I had with it, I do want to come back to this and try it some more and get an actual good ending, so well done in that regard!
It's a really fun and utterly silly concept and I loved it. However, I spent way too much time trying to get the perfect run... And I did! But I never got my medal. T_T
EDIT: I got it after some delay so... :)
pro tip: don't look at her boobs,she goes fucking crazy