Music: horrible
Graphics: "
Controls: acceptable-
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Thw game is too simple, but the idea, is beautiful
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To make it simple, the game sucks, the story is amazing and makes it worth it.
Impove difficulty, controls, music and graphics, and you'll get 6 stars!
Reviews for "Man Who Sold The World"
As a game (ignoring the deep meaning within) I would say it's a game with good qualities and needs to be improved but the meaning is what this game is about.
Music: I liked it. Fits in nicely with the stages and doesn't distract or annoy the player.
Graphics: I enjoyed the simple backgrounds but can't bring myself to say the graphics were good. (I know it's a game with a deeper meaning but I dislike this excuse when it comes to quality.)
Controls: simple and works but would be nice to have a quick introduction menu where it shows controls even though players should be able to find it easily, it would be good for those who have a short attention span and are too lazy to figure it out.
Difficulty: If you can't at least get the normal ending then that's just sad (yes you can blame your computer or this game but it's still sad)
Meaning: I'm not going to ruin it for other players or put in my own perspective but this is what the game revolves around it was executed poorly. I'm not sure if it was the way it was presented or maybe I already have my opinion about it but it didn't stop me and make me think... With games like these the meaning really needs to stop a player and make him think otherwise the message hasn't been passed on. I spent more time thinking why the meaning didn't make me think long about it than the actual meaning. Maybe if the meaning was harder to achieve or was presented differently.
This game can be improved upon in so many ways but as is it still kept me searching for the meaning and kept me entertained. Would be nice if it had better hidden secrets.
all in all a decent game but nothing to exceptional about it.
this game isnt worth much instead of easy medals
why is it so hard!!!!!!!!!!!!
Honestly, this game disappointed me immensely. I went into it expecting a minimalist style game with a couple puzzle pieces added to it and a great meaning to interpret in my own life. You got the first one down, the second one, not so much, and you completely bombed on the third aspect.
First off, the controls were fine, i don't know what has everybody upset about. An exception being that the jump function wouldn't even register a couple of times. However simple controls do not mean you can't outline them in the description. I must have spent half an hour trying to figure out the vine sections and how to get through them.
Second, the music was only good in the ascension part of the game. The reason for that was that it was SHORT. The rest of the music was incredibly repetitive and unintuitive (The jungle music was pretty good though) for an art game.
Last but not least, the most disappointing part, the meaning. a.k.a there was none! I pondered about the supposed meaning and found that I could not find it. You just left too much open space at the very end for "interpretation" in my opinion. And if you're going to create multiple endings for a game, have some common courtesy to do something different for all of them instead of having a different character skin. Also the pieces of eternity seem like an incredibly slap-dashed approach to lengthening gameplay. If your going to put collectables in a game, make up a reason for doing it.
Retrospectively speaking, a good platforming game that was let down by bad music design, shoddy controls at times, and lack of an ending. Please do not take this review in the sense of another internet dweller spewing the unkind words of a complete idiot, (like we haven't seen enough of that) all that I have said is for the improvement of your future projects. Hope you will learn from your mistakes and I look forward to seeing what you come up with next.
P.S. I've already collected all nine pieces of eternity and still no medal. I don't know if this is a glitch or if you've just hidden the medal a bit too well. Some feedback helping me would be greatly appreciated.