The graphics were lovely, but the puzzles were too easy and repetitive.
Reviews for "Above Average Guy"
A preatty awesome game.
help!! the average guy sometimes gets stuck on the side of the screen and he can't move anymore D:
Okay so you have a very pretty looking game and an interesting concept going, a wacky japanese game show complete with wacky death games, cool. Youve got that.
But what you dont have is a particularly great playing game. You can be doing really well in the game and then hit a level like level 39 which gives you absolutely no sign as to how you are supposed to beat it or a manner to figure out how to advance, you have to repeatedly kill yourself discovering the correct path and if you arnet particularly lucky this can lead to an empty audience before that happens. Really you just didnt give any actual visual or gameplay hints on how to proceed, the player WILL die the first time and the only way not to is to memorize the path. And dont get me started on the red block levels which, the blocks that are just a tad to small for the finnicky controls that this game has, there is no way to save oneselves once commited and half the time you will land on a red block that suddenly appears or you slip onto one because the controls arent precise enough.
You need to learn how to let players learn to play without constantly punishing them for mistakes they cant help but make.
The end boss was allright, using the bombs made sense to fire the cannons although it felt entirely due to luck because there wasnt really any way to lead the boss, he just zipped back and forth at random. Whats more I would of thought something liekt he bombs would of been used more in the game if it was going to be the central mechanic for the boss fight rather than just once early on in the game.
Overall nice concept and shows the promise of a good game.
But you fell to far into the idea of a harsh japanese game show while forgetting that those gameshows actually offer prizes and awards beyond completion to make that punishment worth it, when all you get is a congrats and a score that sort of thing just becomes tedium and lacks actual fun. Art style and music made it just about playable for its length though so you are doing at least that right.
I tried this twice and after the first level the controls get broken or something. The guy starts out and he won't stop jumping up and down. Then he won't move left or right until after you have pressed the buttons several times trying to get him to move. Usually he still keeps jumping up and down by himself but a couple times he stopped randomly and a couple times he started going to the right by himself. It's hard to describe because it is not very consistent other than after the first level he starts up jumping up and down and it takes a few seconds of pressing buttons to get him to move. It isn't just like the control is just lagging or something its just being really weird.