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Underwater wizard

By kinein

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CategoryRankScoreCount
Overall2
Fun2
Innovation2
Theme2
Graphics2
Audio1
Mood2

Comments

detectivelosos 2018-08-15 15:26

This game has some interesting ideas, but there are a couple of issues that are holding back the whole experience.

First of all it's almost always a bad idea to make the walking controls mouse pointer related and not camera related. It's very non-intuitive. Another thing is the lack of a restart button. And so every time you lose you have to reload the whole game. Yet another issue is a weird block placement controls. Block placement mode does not work half of the time when you press a corresponding button and the process itself is very inconsistent. It seems like half of the time you can't place your block where you want to (near the doors and near the holes in the walls).

Overall this game has some good ideas like risk-reward ice projectiles and the whole flooding system. And it was interesting to play for a couple of tries despite the lack of audio, any endgame objective and other mentioned issues.

kassjak 2018-08-18 15:49

Not baaad! I like the concept of it and it was pretty fun to play. The camera positioning kind of held the experience back a bit. Other than that, it was pretty fun! (I said that two times now)