Reviews for Pilo

[Knuckstrike]

Not too good

It wasn't bad at all, but everything was just too normal.

The awesome face was kind of lame. It would be nice if you could change your face after you complete the game. Maybe even create your own player?

Speaking of that, it would be nice if we unlocked something after you beat the game. Maybe some of the harder levels you mention in the author comments?

I also noticed a few flaws:

- The most imporant one, you often can't know how far you can get into a wall. In some levels it's nessecairy to go through the wall for a small part (for example, 9).
- In level two, you can just go through the wall
- Due to the random coin placement, coins often spawn in spikes, for example in level eight.
- If you mute the music and then return to the main menu, it starts again.
- Due to the backgrounds being the same, you often can't know how fast you go. Small variations in the background would solve that problem.

And of course the things like painful fingers due to the lack of a pause button/checkpoints that the other reviewers already said.

Although in general, it's a pretty solid "platformer", and the flaws aren't so bad that they ruin the fun. It's not too hard in my opinion, but certainly a challenge. There were a lot of levels, more than what you would see in normal games of these sorts.
The level design wasn't great though, that is my only real complain. Especially the mazes, they were more like incredibly long roads.

norfor22 responds:

Thanks, i will work on it! :D

[NekoMika]

Sadly bland

Not trying to be truly harsh and that such but this sadly seemed to be pretty lacking and beating the game took me a bit more than ten minutes as well.

I think that some people could possibly enjoy the game more if the smiley wasn't always falling all the time and rather stayed in one place until you were moving it. That was probably the biggest problem I had here was trying to keep it from touching the walls in the early levels to finish the game because if I wasn't doing anything then it was falling and touching the walls and since there is never any kind of checkpoint I always ended up having to start all the way from the start once again which can be a pain sometimes since level 6 took me a couple of minutes to finish sadly.

The song of choice was alright but I think you could have chose something else as in something that loops perfectly so we never hear a couple seconds of no music as well. The song is nice though, just not entirely fitting here unless you decided to clip off a few seconds yourself anyways.

The animation was pretty bland as well sadly. Just a kind of poorly done awesome face, although the one at the start menu was funny since you could make it look cross eyed anyways. Some of the backgrounds were pretty boring too I think such as the rainbow backgrounds for the maze levels, I think you could have used some variation there.

For the maze levels I think adding pieces of walls could have made them better as players can readjust their fingers so they can take a break for a second then readjust their fingers and continue off from the wall resting point. That would have been incredibly helpful.

The game play is OK but as I stated earlier, not having the face in free fall all the time would be incredibly helpful to some players.

Overall, the game is lacking in originality but then again it beats some of the games that come into the portal anyways. Not too bad for a game that might annoy a couple of people with the gravity physics. I guess that could be weakened a bit is all to make it less challenging to some players.

Review Request Club

norfor22 responds:

Thank you for reviewing this game :)
I will probably implent all the things you mentioned in my next game(s) :)

Very helpful review, thanks again :P

[Gimmick]

Um.

I didn't particularly like this game, mostly due to the bad graphics and the in-originality of this. You could've just as well used an awesome face sprite.

The graphics / animation: Meh. A poor replica of an awesome face sprite. Not only is the meme poor, the drawing is even worse than the original awesome face. The coin, door and wall (including spikes) are just basic shapes, with the only exception being the spikes -- brush strokes that are more smooth than sharp, per se. The maze is even worse -- a large rectangle with erased out parts, which looks unprofessional.

The sound: Downright annoying. When I started the game I was presented with a loud background music, and when I clicked on play I was directed to the level screen, where there was no Mute BGM button. I had to go back to the menu and disable the sound. That doesn't help the fact you can't autosave, either.

The gameplay: It's rather a collection of minigames involving the awesome face named "Pilo", than an actual game, per se, mostly due to the fact that there are levels such as coin collection in one level, and suddenly some levels ahead you jump into mazes and forget about coins altogether. I couldn't finish the game, and see the "sound" section where I said I had to go to the main menu to disable it -- I'm lucky I did that on the first level. If I had done it any later, then I'd have given one star less. Put at least a *little* effort into organizing the level system into chunks, where you could save every time you got into a snag for later. That or add a mute button; I hated the fact you put the "5 commandments of Pilo" in the tips section...that's just downright bad, but that's only my opinion. The only good thing that came out of that commandments was that it was challenging. Also, I'm writing the review while playing the game -- I'm still seeing the death counter increase while I'm writing this. Add a pause menu, for god's sake!

That's all for now. I hope to see a better version where the graphics and other things are better, because even though this idea's not original, it at least has some potential in it.

~~ Summary ~~

~~ Good points ~~
1) Challenging

~~ Bad points ~~
1) Bad sound
2) Poor graphics
3) Unoriginal
4) No pause menu
5) No save system
6) No ingame mute button

[Review Request Club]

norfor22 responds:

Thanks for all the harsh criticism :)
(I'm serious)
I have nothing to say for myself except - i will try harder next time :)

Took all what you said in consideration.
This game was mainly to "test" my as2 mad skills.
(i'm not serious)

I will, however, make a more serious game then that in the near-ish future, since i got my mind on other projects right now :d
But seriously, thanks for taking your time and reviewing this game.

[Xalrun]

uhhh....

you couldn't just use a real "awesome" face for it?

norfor22 responds:

that was the best drawing i did..ever :'(

[MBT]

OH MY GOD!

This Game Has Good Graphics, Good Music, Good Controls, No Rage, Good Drawings! What Else Do We Need For A Good Game?

norfor22 responds:

:D
(but i smell a pinch of sarcasm..)