Foon → Ludum Dare Explorer → LD33 → Barrel Roll Ultra!
By vikingpotato
| Category | Rank | Score | Count | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Coolness | 2 | 85 | ||
| Fun | 73 | 3.78 | ||
| Graphics | 88 | 4.05 | ||
| Overall | 93 | 3.77 | ||
| Humor | 101 | 3.63 | ||
| Theme | 130 | 3.93 | ||
| Innovation | 183 | 3.48 | ||
| Mood | 208 | 3.39 | ||
| Audio | 234 | 3.20 |
Awesome Game!
The only thing negative about it is the blatant mario rip off.
Good audio, flowed well with the game.
The Graphics were well drawn and the animations flowed well.
The Mechanics were flawless and new enough to keep things interesting.
The whole spin on the mario game is a need idea, the whole not being DK thing kinda threw me off, but it makes sense once I got started.
Thanks for playing the game. The game is a homage to the classic Donkey Kong. You also said you were disappointed by it not being like DK, but that contradicts with your first point of it being a blatant mario rip off..
Anyway, thanks a lot for the review, I have a lot planned and keep working on bringing the game it to its full potential. On a side note, be more careful when you are the first reviewer for anything creative. If you are giving reviews based on your own biases, they will still stay at the top and will affect any other who plays the game.
nice game, good take on the theme and good art, but I think that if you maked as sprites with the White outline, it would be even cooler.
@Hyoga I get what you are saying! Puppet kinda slightly animated Kong! That would have been cooler yeah :)
Awesome AI for the Mario's. I really liked how they changed directions even when they were close to the top. It made the game exciting when it could just as easily been boring and repetitive.
Good take on the classic DK, nice graphics.
Great game
Great fun entry! Love the idea of switching Donkey Kong around and it works really well!
Cool game, love the idea of reverse donkey kong. Graphics are very polished and the wee drum beat is definitely much better than having no music at all. Could have used a few more mechanics, but was pretty fun as is. Nice job!
all in all, super fun game. Loved it!
Excellent job for 48 hours. Well polished, good idea.
Nice well made entry with nice sounds, nice gameplay, nice graphics. The controls feel up to the point! The sounds are fitting too. Very well done!!!
Great job on theme tie-in, gameplay, graphics, sounds, (THAT voice). Very well put together.
A good game with some great graphics and sound. Not much in the ways of innovation but fits the theme well and overall a good game.
Excellent, excellent work! The gameplay is nearly perfect, and the art and audio are awesome. It got a little hectic in the later levels, but then again, that's the point. ;) I'm glad you're planning to continue with this idea! 5/5
Very neat! Reversal of a classic - anti-mario games are clearly the way to go. Looks good, plays well, good idea to force the player to dodge barrels too. Nice and complete for 48h effort.
Very nice, graphic, audio and gameplay. Everything is at high level. I dont really sure what am I playing (some kind of slime ghost?).
Really nice graphics, like the sounds too. Definitely one of the most polished looks to it of all the entries Ive seen so far.
awesome game. it is really smooth.the graphics are great.the audio is relaxing. i hope you make more levels in the future.
Fun game, the graphics and the audio were exceptionally well.
Very nicely polished little game. I found the jump a little heavy though.
That was awesome. I loved the graphics, the mood, and it also had enough content to keep me playing for ages.
Awesome, awesome idea. Very fun! Addictive. It was really cool that I was "Donkey Kong"'s little minion. Awesome job! :D
Really fun! The art is awesome too!
funny idea. and well done!
Wow, an amazing entry. Believe it or not, but that was my first idea, which I ended up abandoning. I couldn't see a good way to reverse Donkey Kong. Haven't thought about waves of heroes.
But you went even farther with introducing the barrels which can hurt the player-monster as well. I also loved the physics that added possibilities and complexity.
The best game I played in LD33!
@ReddogStone: the physics was added later, to allow for skill shots. This would allow the players to stay closer to the vending machine and still cover a larger area. I am glad you too gave the idea a thought, I was hoping for more DK demakes :) Thanks
A cheeky homage to a retro classic. Cute graphics with plenty to do in the later levels!
Really nice compo entry! congrats!
A neat twist on Donkey Kong. I like it.
very polished entry. I love the feedback for all actions like picking up barrel, mario destroyed, and juice added animations. It's like a jam entry level of polish but you did it yourself...impressive!
Good music volume, it just needs a little dancy boombox at the top :D The movement physics seem a little slippery at first, but I got used to it.
I like how new elements are introduced each level (jump over enemy, two barrel dispensers), yet the gameplay is mostly the same (get barrel, throw barrel down at bottleneck (ladders) - repeat). I think you could look at tower defense games that introduce a hero (I can only think of warcraft 3 maps off the top of my head) for gameplay inspiration. I can see how this could be tricky to pull off while staying in the mario universe though.
Also - have you tried leaving the barrel active after destroying a mario so you can time it to kill two marios with one throw? Could make the player feel smart.
Liked the take on Donkey Kong and thought it was cleverly done. The art style was polished and the gameplay with the different levels was fun.
A lot of fun, really cute and satisfying sound effects and graphics. It's always fun to see a bunch of little characters running around in different directions at once. It seemed too simple in some cases, though, because of having one ladder they'd all have to climb at some point (in level 3, right at the beginning).
Very fun! Clever idea and well executed. The gameplay was pretty solid. The sound effects that weren't VO were very satisfying (especially the barrel hit!).
Overall excellent entry :)
(Also yay for web game!)
good take on classic donkey kong.
Great use of the theme! There are some good classics-reversed like this and I love them!
Great game. It took me some time to realise I wasn't playing as DK. Cool and challenging gameplay. How many levels did you make?