Reviews for Heart of Ice

[mattnav]

Very good

At first I thought "Meh, another side scroller?". Decided to give it a try anyway. Lucky me.

So for the first few minutes it was just a typical sidescroller. 2-3 hit baddies and the occasional "How do I leave this room" areas. I wasn't going to quit, though. I wanted to see it through to the end. And this turned out to be the best decision I made for this game. Because that first boss fight was just amazing. There were a myriad of attacks. Not your typical sidescroller. A lot of attacks and ways to evade them would juggle in my mind in a duration of 3-5 seconds per attack of his. This addicted me. What were the other boss fights like?

And, my friend, you did not disappoint. The second boss fight was even better. I was going crazy trying to figure out how to hit him until a stray charge hit those platforms. I was jumping around for a good 3 minutes before I figured that out. Amazing game. Amazing.

It took me 3 tries to beat the watcher's first version. The second version wasn't so tough, though. Maybe you should've interchanged them. Because even their attack styles aren't suited. The first one was more of a "final form" version. The final version would've made a more suitable first version.

And I noticed that you can double jump at certain time intervals? Just a suggestion. Either put an icon that indicates that you CAN double jump again... or just take it out completely.

Other than that, AMAZING job.

[crdunn]

Sublime

Well, well, well. What an achievement. The twitch platforming of the classic NES side-scrollers merged with a narrative and structure reminiscent of the Metal Gear Solid series (Ice Quest, the game-within-a-game, must certainly a nod to the Kojima's sense of humour).

Excellent animation, voice acting, music and gameplay. The atmosphere was mysterious, and the boss battles epic. You really do have to spend some time learning their patterns and behaviours. To me, this is the mark of a good, challenging boss fight.

And what an ending! Bring on the sequel, I say! I don't often write reviews. But this was spectacular.

[XlxnTorrez]

Wtf

by some reazon the game got paralyzed and i get killed by nothing ;o , by the way the ninja pirate was funny lol

[Librarysage]

Nice Style

Overall the feel of the game was very good, you clearly put a lot of time and effort into it. The reason you didn't get the full 10 stars however is a fundamental one, and that was how difficult it was to tell platforms from the background. There seemed to be no real clear differentiation between ground that was solid, and merely background snow. This meant I often found myself leaping into chasms where I believed solid ground existed. Otherwise, great game.

[malomano13]

Nice game, but I hated the ending xD

I saw platformer and thought awesome.

I saw who the main character was and thought, gay.

I kept going and I liked it ^_^.

I like the creepy little voice of the 2nd boss, but like PhantomsWraith said, he doesn't know how to count right. I don't know about 3,1,2 but usually he'd say 2,2,1 when I got out of the gun quickly, and 3,2,2,1 when I was slow in finding the E button to get out. IMO, spacebar would've been a better option for getting in/out of the gun.

I didn't like the ending. OK first after I beat up Watcher all the way down to 0 health, I kept hitting him, like WTF man, die already motherfucker. Then I felt like stopping but then both health bars went away, so then I just kept hitting the dude, until... well I guess I won't spoil it.

After about 3 of "those", he comes back alive... ONLY TO DIE AGAIN?! WTF?! That ending pissed me off, I should've just let Watcher kill me -.-.

Anyways, when that really ended, it was weird... maybe setting up for a sequel?
I would love to see more of this, maybe a backstory .