Monday, November 2, 2015

20 for 0.19 - Part 1


I bought 20 games on steam sale for 0.19 cent each, provided they were rated good or better on Steam. This is a post in progress.

1.) Well. The first one, BEEP,  I could play for 2 minutes. Some unpleasing but solid vector graphics, some robot default story, you play the robots in a frowning but surly having its fans jump and run.

Well the whole thing is not working for me, the design is unstructured. But the music is quite good !
The first time my robot dropped into an abyss, I quit the game.


2.) Defy Gravity Extended. Actually, this one has a good idea I never saw before. You can make gravity and anti-gravity balls with your gun. You combine these two to master the laser traps and big gaps in this platformer. That's, after dying a lot, actually makes fun a few minutes.

But, yes but, the graphic is minimalistic and not very nice, the music is too heavy and too much artificial orchestra synthetic, yet composed well. Just not for that game or setting, imho.
But really interesting idea.


3.) Out there somewhere

That one, also a platformer, is well done. It is pure pixelart . You start in side scroller, but eventually your ship gets shot down, and you have to find the parts on the planet you crashed to fix your ship to fight the guy who shot you down in a platformer on the ground.

The pixel art of the levels is well done and works, the teleport gun is a nice way of opening new kinds of puzzles beyond simple timing of jumps.

The music is perfectly adequate. This one I surly will play again.

4.) Then I started a game called "The Albino Hunter", and its obviously some 2D tile birds perspektive rpg-maker game. After 30 seconds I had to quit cause it was too dazzling.

This is it for today.