sure, you got the appliance of science
but do you got the applaud of god?
Reviews for "Randy Learns Science"
Halve responds:
YES.
What an odd game. I didn't think it would be for kids with the whole 6:66 thing. Everything leads to Wendigo. I like the cheesy CGI. I don't want to see what the bad ending is. Then again, I haven't gotten the good ending.
I don't know if I can even beat the mini-game where you put the body parts together. Whatever, it's still nice and goofy. I just guessed at the iron thing. It was right in the middle! This is in fact genuinely educational.
crazy vibes from this game. love it.
This reminds me of baldi's basics
OH MY GOD the aesthetic for this is soooooo good! Up until the creepypasta stuff started happening I thought the game was literally a port of an existing 90s game. It's that authentic. the graininess, the crude 3D, even the compressed audio quality and voice acting.
All that gushing about the theme out of the way... The games are solid. The quiz is, well, a quiz. The painting can be a bit hard as you can't just click anywhere on the periodic table to change color (I don't get why some elements do nothing.) The rearranging task seems pretty basic. The organ minigame is super hard, since there's a tiny bit of cursor lag.
The final boss and ending were a bit of a letdown. The boss doesn't keep with the aesthetic of the rest of the game, and its motivations feel a bit too generic. The fight is also just kind of a bunch of frantic mouse waving... Not very interesting. Part of what makes stuff like Sonic.exe so effective is that you don't really get an explanation other than the game just being "cursed" and I think that ambiguity could have helped more here. I also didn't like how some games are more "cursed" than others, as the most effective thing to do would be for the game to get increasingly cursed with each playthrough (this game still gave me goosebumps though.) You could either make several versions of each game or force them to be played in a linear order, but for maximum horror impact I think it's important.
Dungeonation responds:
Thanks for the thoughtful review! The ending was planned to be a bigger minigame, but time constraints of the jam and life happened. I feel ya there!