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Reviews for "Humanoid Space Race 2"
Overall I enjoyed this game. I do not like the selected text font, It is jagged and not very easy to read, also it feels out of place with the rest of the game, maybe try something more blocky for a robot feel to the text.
Bombs feel useless, I think you shoud add the function to blow up the bomb once it has been fired.
Also, I am not a big fan of the control scheme, I had to go all over the keyboard to do some fairly related movements. Please consider rescheming the keys or include a custom keybind feature.
Good game overall, but it suffers from the same problem a lot of SHMUPS do, which is the lag buildup becomes awful. In this case, it's particularly bad toward the end of the game.
Problem is you have all this fancy stuff you're trying to do and you need to scale it back. All those moving backgrounds seem nice but really it's just eating up more processing power which could be better devoted to other things, for example.
The last level is extra hard not just because of its intended difficulty, but also because the lag will tend to kill you. Better not ever collect one of those grenade powerups because it'll be instant lag of death if you do.
For those who didn't experience lag in this game, it's not really fair to use your multi-core, dedicated graphics card, huge RAM upgrade several thousands of dollars gaming computer as a standard for if games lag or not. Or rather, if it even lags on those machines then yes it's bad lag, but if it doesn't lag on those machines doesn't mean the game isn't laggy.
For future games it'd really be nice to have an option to turn off effects or at least tone them way down. You can have the gameplay be identical, but just turning off certain effects, and that can make a huge difference.
Otherwise you'll have to go with fewer objects on screen at once to reduce or eliminate lag, which is why it particularly plagues SHMUPs unless they're designed incredibly efficiently.
Really fun, Hopping rather than directly controlling all character movement added a nice challenge for dodging bullets. Nice variety of power-ups, Sound effects were satisfying.
A few nitpicks:
- Some small enemies aren't very noticeable, especially with all the flashy visuals and explosions, I'd get hit not knowing what actually hit me. Sometimes this would happen with bullets too, but I noticed you tried to make them easy to spot, so, maybe it's the background?
- The flamethrower and shotgun power ups were generally too risky to use effectively especially when trying to go for a flawless.
-Playing on hardcore eliminated a lot of interesting mechanics, freeze + stomp was too risky, I'd end up only going for certain power- ups and spamming bombs.
-Some bosses are easily cheesed, Mashing stomp and using ultimates when they fire, Bosses were a little too bullet spongy to make the alternative any more fun.
Overall though, good job.
Game lags so much, nothing helps.