Excellent game! Good graphics, nice concept and good music!
Reviews for "Fanboy"
I GET THE JOKE. also good game.
really well designed, especially with the sound! Provided a nice challenge and was just the right length. Awesome work!
What a challenge! I almost gave up, but in the end even cleared the last room jajaja would have been nice to get some kind of achievement after that, but its great anyways, great job.
As many platformers that involve jumping, this game in its core seems to be about making the parabolas while avoiding obstacles. The more difficulty of the levels rises, the more complex parabolas and curves you will have to make. The challenge of intuitively devising a perfect curvature of the character's flight is brought to a new level here with the use of the fan mechanic. Acquiring the skill required mastering this mechanic and then using it to traverse levels is fun and challenging in itself, but the game does not stop there. Battery charge limit imposes new tactical challenges that require player to think ahead and plan his movement very carefully. Level design is good at teaching player basic tactics without actually showing or explaining what to do. Everything you have to know is that S stands for jumping and D stands for fan, and everything else will come by itself.
With that said, however, the controls are not very intuitive (at least for the keyboard) because of the old convention SPACE = Jump. Also it's easy to press the wrong button in the heat of the moment and lose difficult jump because of it.
Other problem concerns the very fan-energy mechanic itself. It requires player to plan his movements carefully and creates an interesting interchange between waiting and flying, but the waiting part fails to be interesting gameplay-wise, and the fan refills solve enough to get boring.
Other problem I had with this game is the hub level where all the doors to the other levels are located. It's gameplay purpose is unclear, since levels are revealed in a linear order, and there is no reason to replay previous levels, so traversing it over and over again quickly becomes a tedious activity. Also I was misguided by the first level's goal: it was to collect the battery, and all the other levels required batteries, so naturally, since the energy indicator has a shape of a battery, I thought that collecting more batteries means expanding your energy storage and thus gaining access to more complex levels, that require longer flight sequences. Unfortunately, that was not the case, so the goal to collect batteries also was meaningless gameplay-wise.
Overall game has made me feel both relaxed and frustrated. The relaxing part comes from the calm music, slow movement pace (or maybe it was my browser?), and pleasing color palette. Frustration came from all the reasons mentioned above, and also from the lack of any meaningful story or context for the actions.