Amazing game; deserves more recognition!
I swear, when I got the final crystal, my heart skipped a beat!
I thought at first I was experiencing a glitch while playing, but as I went on...
Love the game. Creepy and nostalgic all at once. It's Metroid meets Monuments of Mars. Oh, the memories!
Keep up the awesome work! This is now a favorite.
Sweet
I love the pixel art, and the atmosphere that the game generates. Great job, can't wait for a second!
A Great Game.
The first time I saw this game,I played it for a minute,thought it sucked and promptly forgot about it. Yesterday,I got bored and saw this again. Deciding to give it another try,I played it again. For a few minutes I felt aimless,jumping around and looking for the gems. When I found the first one,and being a competitive person,I was determined to find them all (or at least get out of the planet.)
It may be aimless and boring at first but as you play through it's really amazing. The graphics aren't much,true. But a game doesn't have to be ultra 3D or whatever to be great.
I think it's smart,witty and brilliant how,when you get quite a lot of gems,(maybe 20 or so) the planet starts to glitch,lag,becomes really weird. It took me a while to figure out (or maybe I only made it up,my mind makes up lots of things on the go) that maybe those gems somehow stabilized that planet,or in other words held everything in place. And those sometimes helpful but often more irritating green and red barriers were designed to specifically keep and protect those gems,to keep that red planet stable. Those guns and robot-things could also be keeping them safe,protected. But as you collect them,everything glitches.
Umm...got carried away. :P Anyway...great game,in other words.
Exploration is key in this game
REDDER is a Metroid like game where you star as a astronaut that lands on an unknown planet looking for gems. When you start the game your spaceship lands on the surface of the planet and you have three directions to go from here. At this point on the game basically tells you "go nuts the entire planet is your playground", since basically every area is accessible through your basic abilities, aka walking and jumping, and these are the only abilities you have in this game since there are no power-ups. Instead there are pickups and they take the form of diamonds, and you need to search high in low throughout the nine zones to find them, and yes they are required to complete the game. Even though they are required you don't have to collect them all, the required amount is 24 so you could only ignore three gems if some of them are too hard to get.
Also if you found a gem it would be recorded in your map which is somewhat handy, and the reason I said that is that this is a old school map (aka NES zelda style map) it doesn't show you the terrain, but it does shows your current location, your last checkpoint, and your spaceship. Also expect a lot of backtracking if you want to figure out how to get to a certain platform.
There are many types of hazards to look out for, like the electric poles and a turrets that has unlimited bullets. There are also robots in the game that usually goes back and forth, since your astronaut is a pacifist you have to avoid them through the best of your abilities. If you suck and die to one of these hazards you re-spawn at the last checkpoint you touch, so make sure you pay attention and activate each checkpoint unless you want to walk a very long distance. There are also red and green switches that completely change the terrain, and from them they make pretty good terrain puzzles, and these puzzle can be challenging and made me scratch my head a couple of times, and the reward for solving them is either a gem or a way forward into the maze.
The atmosphere of REDDER makes you feel like your alone in the game, and the music helps add to the isolation feeling. The terrain for each room looks completely different and it gets even more interesting the further I explore the game.
//!!Spoilers from here on out! If you beat the game or are too lazy to play this game keep reading!!//
Eventually something weird happened, around half way through the game I noticed very few graphical and audio glitches. At first it might have been the fault of the developer for not fixing those bug's, but once I got very close to the 24 gem goal the terrain glitches got worse, the sound affects sometimes change, and the music got more scrambled. At that point I realized two things, one the developer did this intentionally and it was incorporated into the game, secondly; REDDER finally came out of the closet, wield out its paint brush, and yelled out "I am a art game". This fact was so well hidden it felt like I was cheated and lied too, but in a good way because I never saw it coming and it was very creative. Once I got the required gems all the glitches stopped, but there was three gems left so I went ahead and collected the rest. Around the 26th gem the glitches got very unbearable and made it very difficult to play the game properly, it also gave my cat a seizure, but once I got the last one the game surprised me yet again and completely shows REDDER as an art game. So you want to know what happens, too bad! I am not telling you! Play the game to see it yourself. I will tell you this though, lets say that the games graphics went to its lowest setting.
Overall REDDER its a very good Metroid style game, and the re-playability will last if you want to collect 100% of the gems or find all the secret rooms. Also its a good candidate for speed runners since there are a lot of ways to go through the game. Now excuse me while I figure out how this brick got under me while I was playing this game.
It glitched for me too
If u think THAT, well I think this only happens to me, but when i play this, the tiles seem to change. like when the tile is a pink squared tile, it changes to a corner one. but i like this game so im giving this a 10 but if this only happens to me then its ok.