Reviews for Valhalla Bound

[moshpitbippy]

Simple, yet addicting. You made a great game that builds up in difficulty well. Keep up the great work!

Avizial responds:

Thanks, we will!

We have play-tested this game for hundreds of hours. Glad to see our hard work paying off :)

Thanks for playing our game. We hope to hear from you in future titles!

[RuneChart]

It's pretty fun. Kind of takes the dignity out of that funerary ritual (I'm aware it's not real, but the idea has dignity). I like how Odin cares more about the ships than the souls.

I think this game does need tutorials, but there's a lot of room for improvement. The ones you have are slow, non-interactive, over-explain some things and under-explain others. Most of the things in the tutorial could have been explained in-game, with a "shoot here" crosshair the first time you encounter a specific monster. I had no idea what to do when it was raining until I saw your explanation in response to another review.

I don't think you're getting complaints because people don't want things explained at all, but because your tutorials are tedious and completely break the pace of the game.

Avizial responds:

This is great feedback! I think you hit the nail on the head.

We have plans to completely overhaul the automated tutorials in a future update. However, for this current update (1.3.7) we implemented a help guide in the title screen that briefly and concisely informs the player on how to play the game.

We originally created the tutorials for the mobile market in mind. Especially for the casual gaming market. We now realize that many players on Newgrounds are skilled enough to understand basic game mechanics without so much hand-holding.

Thanks for playing our game! We hope to hear from you in future titles.

[RenegadeV]

you get points for teaching me norse.

Avizial responds:

Haha. Glad you got some educational value from this game :)

Thanks for playing our game. We hope to hear from you in future titles and wish us "gangi per val!"

[BoringMarco]

This will be better with medals.

Avizial responds:

We couldn't agree more! We are still new in the gaming development scene and are learning news things every day.

We hope to add this functionality in future games.

Thanks for playing the game. We hope to hear from you in future titles!

[DhunMahanta]

great game!

Avizial responds:

Thanks! We hope the next few games being made are just as well received! :)

Thanks for playing. Hope to hear from you in future titles!