Hotchmoney

AS Mall World by Sean S. LeBlanc 2017-05-07T05:22:57Z

Wow, I love the art style! Reminds me of WarioWare. Aesthetics aside, the wallet-gun mechanic is funny and cathartic. Using money to both buy things and talk to people is both an elegant design and a clever metaphor. The dialogue is witty and charming.

The obvious negative is the lack of an objective, though given this game's place in the "weird itch experience" genre, that isn't too unusual. It would be nice to be able to buy things for the NPCs when they talk about them.

Going No Air by starspell 2017-05-07T04:57:26Z

Overall, the presentation is good, and the core mechanic is interesting. The help screen is quite nice as help screens go; the image of Jones explains the controls intuitively, and the story both justifies and explains the mechanics. The keyboard layout for the controls, while clever, is awkward to use; I found myself cramming both hands together on the left side of my keyboard. I found some leaks easy to get to, most hard, and some impossible, so my success was determined more by which places the fish randomly chose to attack than my skill at plugging leaks. I like the QWOP-style controls, but combining them with heavy RNG can be frustrating.