Reviews for Alight (in dreams)

[IIIDASH]

Not perfect

A lot of people tend to either love this game to bits or completely hate it. I'm giving it a 5: The graphics are good enough to illustrate whats going on here and the anticipation is a strong point for this game, it's what kept me playing. But unfortunately I was hoping for a twist at the end, and the smoke wasn't enough of a twist. the rest of the story was just a way to lengthen the game, in other words: it just wasted my time.
However, the game itself was pretty good, the physics, the controls (except I think the the space bar should be the only jump button), the sound effects and the style was all pretty good. but I'm a hardcore classic gamer and even I found this to be tedious at times, getting lost was a major concern.
But as far as I can tell, there were no bugs or any weird and confusing gameplay elements, its very straightforward and easy to pick up.
Good work!

[S4]

Touching

Now if you don't like this game then you shouldn't have touched in the first place, No offence it was a bit boring but this game should have been a little bit boring because this game is about life and in life you have ups and downs sad and boring parts, now if you were looking for exciting then you can choose the clock to get a challenge, and I like the way that this game had choices. Now the ending gave you a choice now that can be a sequel. Now the music was nice, calm and peaceful. I liked the graphics classic style because it reminded me of a earlier gamer age Beautiful game and deserves a high score and if gets one deserves every point.
Great Job.

[mitleachim]

It should have been a flash movie, not a game

First off, the whole thing is very creative and interesting, it's a pretty good concept that has some dark undertones, so the storyline works. I even felt that the design aspect was pretty simple and minimalistic, creating a clean world that visually worked. There could be a game here, but currently there isn't one, which is why I suggest this would be a great flash movie instead. Just treat it like a walk-through hitting all the little info things, without the pain of having to 'play' the game.

It's hard for me to label this as a game because there really isn't much to play. It's a story and your only real goal is to get to the next part in the story. The only thing that resembles a game is bringing back the item to wherever you started. Let me assure you that was neither fun or enjoyable. Someone else stated that the controls should have been asdw and I agree 100%. The other thing that was difficult was the fact that you had two jump buttons. It needed to be one or the other because numerous times I would hit the up arrow by mistake when gliding, causing me to fall and miss my landing.

I really wish things would have clicked better, but as a game this really isn't a good one. It's a story that you've tried to turn into a game, but unsuccessfully sadly because it really is an interesting story.

[manrayer88]

From the perspective of an "uncultured person"

All the elements of this game are stock. The graphics, the music, none of it is original or meaningful. There are no real gameplay challenges, the character is not fun to control. The environments are stiff and uninteresting. The metaphor is total contrived bullshit. This game has basically no redeemable qualities.

You can't just slap some trance music onto your game and call it art. You have to have a message. You have to work it into gameplay. What is the message here? It doesn't challenge anything, it doesn't erupt any feelings, all it does is meander around a vague and uninteresting metaphor.

The only explanation I can think of is that this is some kind of Wayans brothers parody of bullshit arty games but even then it isn't that great.

Sydney shark is more of an art game than this.

0 Stars

[Gaiacarra]

Excrutiatingly BORING.

This game is incredibly boring and difficult to play. The controls feel awkward and respawn times are too long. The level design is very poor, both difficult to navigate on a moment-to-moment basis (platforms too far, obstacles awkwardly placed making for many annoying jumps...) and in an overall sense (difficult to figure out where I'm supposed to go next).

Of course the fundamental problem is that I just don't care about what's going on in the game. How can I? I don't UNDERSTAND what's going on in the game, and it's not even an intriguing lack of understanding. It just feels like shit randomly happening without even internally consistent logic or point to it at all. All I can tell you after playing the first one and a half levels (gave up after that because of how annoying and boring the gameplay is) is that this guy is in a dream. Frankly from second one you've put me off... how do you expect me to care about what's going on in someone's dream, anyway? It's a dream. It'll disappear once he wakes up.