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Spy Trouble

By sos

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CategoryRankScoreCount
Overall164.03
Fun84.01
Humor143.95
Audio373.62
Mood413.68
Graphics763.91
Innovation3662.86
Theme3763.19
Coolness74246

Comments

spierek 2012-12-17 03:25

Really fun Metroid-esque game. You've nailed the controls nicely.

chainedlupine 2012-12-17 03:38

Haha, very fun! Reminds me of a much more fluid Flashback.

khaotom 2012-12-17 04:05

Nice short platformer. I suck too much at wall jumping to win it though. Ow my fingers...

matthias_zarzecki 2012-12-17 04:11

Nice Platformer! Love the sliding and the dust-effects. And entire game just around sliding (a runner, for example) would be awesome :D

A few on the screen-transtitions were a tad difficult (if not outright unfair and punishing) though.

lucars83 2012-12-17 04:12

Wow, nice.

adonaac 2012-12-17 05:10

This was really fun. For some reason I found the character's animation really hilarious. The controls and features are pretty nicely implemented too! Really good job.

rylandalmanza 2012-12-17 06:01

Awesome! Very fun and polished!

fireslash 2012-12-17 06:12

Other than the wall jumping which hates me, the controls were really tight and the whole thing is really nice and polished. Graphics are ace, story is cute.

simianlogic 2012-12-17 06:13

The animations are hilarious and the game looks/sounds great. I'm missing the theme, though... maybe in the ending? I kept dying, though.

The one thing that annoyed me with the controls was the lack of headroom--jumping and hitting something sort of bounces you back down, which makes some of the jumps really hard to hit.

jmk 2012-12-17 06:13

Nice job! Clever progressive level design, and great all-around package. I love the over-the-top character animation.

I agree that the screen transitions added some difficulty to otherwise simple moves -- if this was intentional, then it worked. :) If not, scrolling or a larger viewable area would help.

leafo 2012-12-17 08:14

Man the movement is tough to get. The gameplay was fun though, and I enjoyed the different upgrades. Great job as usual!

darkedge 2012-12-17 10:01

Haha, I like it! The game feels complete and it all fits together.

georgebroussard 2012-12-17 10:17

Good stuff, as always. Got the common ending, I guess, where you go back in and disarm it. Movement was a little fast for my reflexes but mechanically it was solid.

mrpiglet 2012-12-17 11:07

This is really great.

derosa 2012-12-17 11:33

I had SO mucho fun with this one! Unluckily for me, I could not make it to the "final mission" so I don't know what the other ending is. Will find out later :)

spolvid 2012-12-17 11:42

Probably my favorite LD25 game so far.

syawqy 2012-12-17 13:28

the movement is really slippery,but this game is really fun

nate427 2012-12-17 14:04

Sos, once again you've hit the nail on the head. It's funny, the controls are natural, the mood is charming, and it's incredibly fun. 5/5 would buy.

fr_automatik 2012-12-17 17:37

Nice game, sos!
But I found a bug : You could launch grenades before unlocking them : you need to press X and C at the same time .

samoojamies 2012-12-17 17:46

So many skills but how I shoot downwards? Did I miss something? Overall good job.

polar 2012-12-17 19:20

Loved it :) Reminds me of all the old Metroid games :P

pighead10 2012-12-17 20:24

Transitions are irritating. But otherwise, fun, lively and awesome!

mramazingsocks 2012-12-17 20:35

Fun game

vrav 2012-12-17 22:06

Awesome. I'm guessing <spoilercharacterspoiler> pulls all the strings.

m-gryko85 2012-12-17 22:41

Great game. Impresive graphics espessaly main character.
Litte hard I kept dying and dying.
Great work :D

josriley 2012-12-17 23:23

Difficult, but fun! I really like the main character animations, especially the slides. I also really love the way you made it feel pretty non-linear, even though as far in as I played there weren't really branching paths.

niksudan 2012-12-17 23:43

Very well executed, but I found that the character's shoes were unnecessarily slippery. Nice work though!

refreshcreations 2012-12-17 23:43

A Fantastic game! Sweet sprite work, really polished level design which exploits the unlockable abilities throughout, atmospheric music and a great twist at the end, really REALLY enjoyed playing through this.

bneutral 2012-12-17 23:47

The best ending twist.

eatenalive3 2012-12-17 23:54

This was hilarious! Great entry, but no spoilers here.

Only problem: The controls. Very difficult :P

joekinley 2012-12-18 00:21

Awesome game as always.
Graphics are dope, music is dope (although there is always a connection to the basic mixdown from MxPixel). The polish is awesome.
The mood is awesome, the humor as always perfect, cool game and nice twist at the end. Overall a top game.

ilo 2012-12-18 00:58

Frustrating transitions aside, this was brilliant. :)

01010111 2012-12-18 01:50

Solid platformer, and it's so funny! Great job Sos :D

dezzles 2012-12-18 02:16

Lots of fun! One of my favourite games so far. Controls took a little bit to get used to

crynix 2012-12-18 02:24

Really really great. Love the music, level design, graphics, humor, etc. It's all very good.

cassio 2012-12-18 02:26

Greate game, but some controls are really hard(i'm looking at you walljump)

loren 2012-12-18 02:49

Awesome game, great character motion, music and art style. So fun! :)

raroadkill 2012-12-18 02:54

Very cool game. Felt very complete. Upgrades made me keep wanting to play.

soy_yuma 2012-12-18 02:59

Simple and Fun. Really close to perfect! :-D

hallsofvallhalla 2012-12-18 03:25

Good job.

permanente1600 2012-12-18 03:40

i really enjoyed the running animations

zatyka 2012-12-18 03:47

Very fun gameplay. Awesome graphics. The only gripe I have is the controls for hanging off a ledge. They felt very unnatural. Awesome as always!

zeh 2012-12-18 04:52

Very well done! Great music too.

benw 2012-12-18 05:14

Sweet game. It's a little frustrating that its actually hardest right at the beginning before you get any abilities and while you're getting used to the controls.

atrodo 2012-12-18 05:55

I thought the controls were a little loose, especially the wall jumping, but a lot of fun anyways. A good challenge.

ddionisio 2012-12-18 06:04

I love the ending, that pretty much gave this game's humor... and the Michael Jackson-esque move animations.

joncom 2012-12-18 07:24

One of the funnest games I've played from LD25!

suese 2012-12-18 08:27

The character animation was great. The music was enjoyable.

ditto 2012-12-18 09:52

I wasn't able to defuse the bomb, but the story was hillarious ^^ Your game is fucking solid! Great job! 5 in all fields!

ratking 2012-12-18 10:09

Wow! Great game!

iandioch 2012-12-18 11:28

Haha. Wow.

marudziik 2012-12-18 11:46

Great music and character animations. The movement is a little bit slippery. Other than that, the story is funny and the game fun to play, but also pretty hard. Liked it.

killmonday 2012-12-18 12:07

I loved the music! Lovely retro feel too

pacifistgames 2012-12-18 12:51

Fun game, but the agent moved so fast! He was hard to control in almost all situations!

indiewithaside 2012-12-18 12:58

Was fun, I enjoyed this Sir/Madam!

lashiz121 2012-12-18 13:05

It's a great game but the truth is that I suck at platformers so its not a game for me.

pierrec 2012-12-18 13:16

The level design is just perfect. I don't rate it yet just to be sure to play it again later (I'm at work right now)

hapistorique 2012-12-18 13:22

Nice game :)

jujule 2012-12-18 13:25

I love the atmosphere and the whole art direction. The intro is super good. But the controls were somewhat frustrating : I felt there was a delay between pressing a key and the actual action. I'd love to play a version with better controls.

kacperski1 2012-12-18 15:20

Great game! Not as good as McPixel, but still awesome!
Go, Sos, Go!

emveyh 2012-12-18 15:26

Has some kind of metroid feeling to it. The controls are really fun! The music is fitting and the graphics / animations are awesome :)

maristak 2012-12-18 16:34

Neatly done. Love the music, the graphics and the controls.

yopsolo 2012-12-18 17:41

wow, great game and great challenge !

prettymuchbryce 2012-12-18 19:45

Pretty fun. I could not tell where I was. A minimap might have helped that. Overall very cool, stylish, great controls. Great job!

davidemo89 2012-12-18 19:48

OMG beautifull! very very cool animation, graphic and gameplay =D

ahmed-majd 2012-12-18 20:00

It's amazing not innovative , but very amazing, and i like so much your Level Design...Big up ;)

zompi 2012-12-18 20:25

Zajebis... khem khem... I can't believe you've done it in 48h, very long and complex game! It was sometimes frustrating when I couldn't grab the edge even when he jumped to it but the fun was great.

pierrec 2012-12-18 20:50

Hmmm...That was way funnier on my office computer. Mine is way too laggy. Anyway, this is awesome, and you aren't responsible of my bad hardware!

7soul 2012-12-18 21:22

Although really fun, it's quite buggy, and the movement seems unresponsive a lot of the time (not grabbing to ledges, etc).

angrygeometry 2012-12-18 21:44

this is really polished, feels pretty nice to play. lasers killed me a few times (got trapped falling into them) and i'm bad at platform games but enjoyed it. nice one.

boiuna 2012-12-18 22:53

Realy good game, very funny and the metroidvania style is awesome.

recursor 2012-12-18 23:20

I think the pixel style 'agent' art and the rest of the background clash with each other IMO. The agent is really well-drawn and I'd like to see the rest of the graphics done in the same style. There were a couple of places where the controls frustrated some. I think maybe he moves a bit too fast? In spite of those two things I enjoyed playing it!

ahm99 2012-12-18 23:30

This is hilarious. "YOU IDIOT THIS IS YOUR LABORATORY!!!" haha. Pretty funny. Good job :)

gregfagan 2012-12-18 23:57

Great job, though I found the control mechanics to be a little bit difficult at times (especially around the wall jumping and jumping off when grabbed to a ledge).

dremelofdeath 2012-12-19 10:48

awesome game!

tau7153 2012-12-19 11:43

Amazing art and very slick gameplay, as good as McPixel!

laughingleader 2012-12-19 15:09

Awesome job! The controls felt very slick, and the animations were great. I kept getting huge FPS drops whenever dust particles would be created a lot, or right in the beginning when I fell down through a few screens. Not sure why that was.

dst 2012-12-19 15:55

One of the best games I've seen thus far!

clodial 2012-12-19 16:22

I really liked the speed of the game. Yes, I found it hard but I it added the speed felt right, y'know?

entity2d 2012-12-19 16:56

Fun Medroidvania game with fluid controls.

borso 2012-12-19 20:58

Fun! Smooth movement, intuitive controls, feels really fluid!! Kudos for the soundtrack! It's just not representig the theme enough i think.

krasse 2012-12-20 10:28

Really fun game!
The graphics is great and the overall impression is very professional.
Personally, I think that the guy slides to far when trying to stop.

pighead10 2012-12-20 14:27

Also, unfortunately too laggy and small to run on my netbook!

sonnybone 2012-12-20 16:52

HAHAHA awesome ending! I was able to play with a gamepad and it was much easier. Definitely suited for a controller and not a keyboard. Art is great, music is great, humor is great. The last part is hard as hell, though because you're freaking out so much. But yeah... REALLY SOLID!

char68 2012-12-21 01:37

Really awesome game! It's unbelievable you got all this done in 48 hours :) The audio is awesome, the graphics are great, and even the animations are fantastic. Nice work, I hope to be playing more of your games in the near future!

claite 2012-12-21 05:55

Really fun! The controls weren't super tight, but I think it's because I suck haha well done!!

orangeez 2012-12-22 07:13

Great game! Movement is very fluid, and essence of metroidvania is nailed quite nicely!

pythong 2012-12-22 16:32

Very slippery, really. Maybe the guy should buy different shoes :)
Graphics are slid, love the deatil on the laser shooters. Also, I like how the bgm reminds me of McPixel

lekochen 2012-12-24 02:25

Fantastic entry! Really enjoy playing it.

mrevilguy 2012-12-24 09:19

Beautiful controls and game! Kind of wish I was invincible because it's funny watching him not die.

commanderstitch 2012-12-24 20:11

Nice work sos. I missed one room and struggled for a while to find it. i think i got both endings... maybe. :)

kibertoad 2012-12-24 20:55

One of the best sos games ever!

van-merwan 2012-12-28 16:20

Even my fingers are laughing, I can't comment, sorry.

gungnir 2013-01-06 05:48

Terrific fun thanks to well implemented controls, balanced challenge and great level design. Great comedic tone too.

norgg 2013-01-07 23:15

Yes.

xeke_death 2013-01-08 00:08

Had some issues with wall jumping, but probably just my lack of coordination in the morning... Good work..!