Overall: great, but please answer me this.
Well. This is a great game that caught my eye. I even promised myself I would finish it, but I have yet to keep that promise, but it seems I won't. Why?
As you surely know by now, the game has glitchy graphics. It glitches more and more as you get more gems (being a programmer myself, I would say that actionscript somewhere is 'unclean' or something). But as glitchy graphics are tough, but possible to overlook, at 20th gem or something the music started turning bizzare (changing tonation, missing one track of sound, et cetera). So bizzare, that it gave me creeps. It horrified me. I could not go back to the game.
Please answer me this: is this intentional? If yes, then well done, hardcore players might enjoy such fear. If not, well, please fix this, so that players with over-reactive imagination fueled with personal fears might finish the game.
SCORE:
Music: 1/3
Putting aside the 'creepiness' of it (assuming it never happened), it gets too repeative too soon. Mute button please. But it felt nice at first, so I'm giving one star.
Graphics: 2/3
It's good! Really felt like some NES game. Many flash artists try to recreate the 8-bit NES look and feel, but your shot is best I have seen so far. Many blocks seemed ripped from Contra, Metroid and stuff. Incredible work! But, the glitchiness took away one star...
Gameplay: 3/3
Excellent. It was a pleasure to explore the red planet. I would have liked some hints regarding the origins of hi-tech dungeon, but lack of such also was appealling in a way (adding mystery). The puzzles were just of the right difficulty, beatable yet satisfying. Very well done!
My liking: 1/1
Yeah, I liked it.
OVERALL SCORE: 7/10
Best regards! This is really a piece of art more than a game. Woman armed with flash is truly a rare gem, producing work of unique quality.
Witold 'Witols' Chojnowski
PS. Please answer my question about strange music. I'm curious.