Good game, but in the level after you push the block to land on the button, I gave up because I could not get past that. I wanted to keep playing, but it is exhausting! Still, nice retro and good controls. Overall what I played I liked.
Reviews for "Tiny Dangerous Dungeons"
Deceptive, underhanded, challenging... buggy. Having a positively insane level of control fritzing; had entire times where I'll go make a jump, keep all my WASD keys unpressed, land, and dude keeps running left into his death. Having my movement do this all the time, and I would think it's one of those moments where you mash too many keys as your keyboard flips the fuck out, except this happens when only using 2 or 3 keys, VERY consistently. The game's punishing difficulty isn't bad either, but some things just scream slanted setup. Like bats or arrows that look like they REALLY shouldn't hit you, like they'll go over your head, until that 1 pixel or less collision occurs and you begin getting knocked around. Bats also have a larger damage area than collision area for knives, definitely proving quite the pest. Additionally, the knockback is a very retro touch, except for the fact it's constantly being combined into situations where the tiniest slip-up, miscalculation in collision, or god forbid, control sticking gets you combo'd into the floor to either death or water that resets you to assure your death. I enjoy the game, and the difficulty is a necessity, but the high difficulty, screwy nature of how reliable your chances are (even after sometimes controlling things right on your end) and the general lack of clarity in the dungeon all combine to prove a real issue. Additional info:
-Running windows 7 and playing from firefox, maybe that'll help with debugging this control locking issue that kills the game for me.
-Not sure what I'm doing in-game. Just scored the throwing knives, which are fun and helpful, but have 2 paths to take, one with a spiky door and a chest I can't reach and doesn't provide a boss (like i assumed) and to the left a gigantic pit of water and a block I seemingly need to throwing knife into the water as a barricade: except its so far off-screen throwing knives from the upper pedestal makes them destroy from range before hitting it, even on the very edge of it. If you want me to risk a potentially sticky leftward jump, I'm not taking that chance seeing how there's no checkpoints for 2 or 3 rooms and I just know my controls are gonna screw me on that one. Also another door with a key that doesn't seem to otherwise be around. Ugh.
Overall: 8/10, 4/5; Favorited.
I really wish this was more cooperative and maybe a tad more polished on clarity or how much sense some things make, but otherwise it is very good. ~WCCC
AdventureIslands responds:
No idea what's causing controls to stick up with you, I've tested on multiple browsers and computers and the controls have worked just fine.
The block that's hanging over the water near the mysterious door needs to be in fact knocked down by jumping and throwing knives at it, you just need to make sure to land on a pillar under you and keep up with the dagger so it isn't killed off screen. You can use the block to get over the water and find a key to that locked door you found.
Awesome! Its like play Gameboy! The sprites is cool, look like you worked hard on the game! Its hard to see a good game on NW, but this one, is the best who i see on this month! Well, all on the game is awesome.
I cant pass the part after you pick up the sword, know? The one who you need jump a lake to pick up a chest, and jump to push a rock xD I dont know why the people dont like retro games: ''ehhhh pixel game this grafics is p00r'' ''ugly game why i c4nt pass!'' ''the creator is a idiot! its not have color, make a version with colors pl0x''
Everyone who talk it is idiots, kids, keep the good work! More one fan bro!
AdventureIslands responds:
You can move pushable blocks that are too far away by throwing knives at them.
very good game. tough but fun.
nice game good job totaly enjoy'd it :)