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| Timestamp | Since previous | Game | Tom Gardiner's comment |
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| Dec 17 23:47:00 | Ascending Roots | While I can't vote because I didn't submit myself, I want to comment on my thoughts as this is a very interesting game. <br/> <br/>The level design is amazing, I can't fault it apart from the sharp difficult spike after the first couple of levels (I forget what the suddenly difficult level was called). I also really liked the music and the sound effects, it made me feel strangely nostalgic and actually made me feel like I was on an adventure, something not even many AAA games can pull off for me these days (actually, they very much bore me, so great job :D). <br/> <br/>The graphics were good, although I feel like there are points where tree roots could have been more obvious (there was a level I was stuck on because I didn't know roots were there). <br/> <br/>In terms of programming and polish, quite a lot could improve this game to the point where it's really fun to play and makes it more immersive. There should be an option for fullscreen mode, it's slightly harder to play without this as the laptop I'm playing on has a relatively high DPI than what I'm used to, meaning I also didn't really appreciate each pixel as much. The player's movement should be more fluid, and move slightly faster. At the moment it just feels slow to play, and the difference between movement should not be so obvious (eg. walking, then movement suddenly stops and starts climbing down a tree). I think adding a camera to the player would also help with the immersion, smooth following the player as they move around (I'm aware that because of this you wouldn't be able to see the entire level to solve the puzzles, so unless you added another key to show you the whole level this point could basically be ignored). <br/> <br/>The game crashed at some point during the gameplay, just as I was ascending one of the trees near the end of a level (I think I may have gotten to the top of it and landed on the ground before it suddenly crashed). The log it produced was not helpful at all: <br/> <br/>--------- <br/>Crash Log <br/>--------- <br/> <br/>On: 12/17/15 23:22:56 <br/>By: C:\Users\Tom\Downloads\ascending_roots\AscendingRoots.exe <br/>Type: UNKNOWN <br/> <br/>Stack Trace: <br/>----------------------- <br/>----------------------- <br/> <br/> <br/>Overall, if the game had more polish (I love me some polish, I stupidly add polish before the main game mechanics most of the time...) I personally would definitely rate this game between 4 and 5! <br/> <br/>(I hope most of these points actually made sense as it's just a kind of rambling of thoughts) |