Not a terrible game, but the controls are woefully unresponsive, after falling to the start of the 'staircase' section about 20 times because the game refused to recognise my command to jump, I gave up.
Reviews for "You Only Need One"
Umm, I fell down to the bottom of the screen at some point, and there was nothing I could do from there. Shouldn't I have lost a life or something and go on with the game?
LTPATS responds:
Sorry about that, definitely wasn't supposed to happen! Do you remember specifically where it occurred?
Also, I noticed that with some of my games players with slower computers tend to experience similar game-breaking bugs, not sure if that was the case in this situation, but if so I'll try and make sure to test for slower computers in the future!
Thank you for the feedback!
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game blows
2,5
Game is okay, but it's certainly nothing very interesting or new. Sure, there's this whole theme about being yourself, but the gameplay is generic at best.
The graphics are ugly, sorry, they look like they were made in MS Paint in the most lazy way possible. I don't mind pixelated graphics, but these are just outright lazy. I see you tried for psychedelic, but the effect is just not achieved if everything looks like a box and there's no background.
Music is not as good as the "recommended on" text seems to suggest either, sometimes it just sounds outright annoying. Also, the choice of COMIC SAAAAAANS annoys me, greatly.
The greatest part of the game consists of going around a non-challenging, uninteresting scenery getting cussed at by people, and then getting to a place where people are cool, all without interacting with any object, without challenging platforming sections, and without any gameplay incentive whatsoever. Sure, there's supposed to be a message behind all that, but is it too much to ask to convey that message in an actually interesting game?
Sure, I really liked the wordplay with the word "odd" (odd people had odd numbers), and I actually enjoyed that mushroom trampoline thing at the end because of its hilarious effect, and also because it was cool to see something other than plain walking and easy jumping going on in the game. Also, although this game is very flawed, its message speaks directly to me, since I used to be bullied in highschool and then finally met people who understood me in college.
In spite of all its flaws, the game actually managed to entertain me a tad bit.
LTPATS responds:
You were able to appreciate and be mildly entertained by a subjectively flawed and ugly game about the appreciation of subjective flaws. This was the intended player experience.
The gameplay is non-existent, but that's okay for an art game. But it kinda fails as an art game too. It doesn't really seem to have anything important to say. The best thing about this game is the graphics, and they're pretty bad too.