Indeed it's short. That's why only 4/5. But otherwise perfect. Consider adding medals, OR making a longer version. I will definitely vote it for february's bests pick, though.
Indeed it's short. That's why only 4/5. But otherwise perfect. Consider adding medals, OR making a longer version. I will definitely vote it for february's bests pick, though.
Thanks a bunch! I added medals now, thanks for the suggestion~
The game is so-so, but you should upload the loop music from the menu.
You should overall publish the soundtrack from the game.
It's one of the best things I had heard in my life, and I heard a lot.
I've seen two endings, and the game did not convince me on your message.
It's kind of funny, because you yourself reward the player for being harsh tyrant much MORE in term of points, than for choosing the multi-cultural way.
I don't think you gave a good example in your game. And I don't think you understand the meaning of the word "multi-culturalism". You presented TWO NEIGHBORS, who look the SAME, and whose only difference is color? It would work better, if you wanted to make statement about "racism" and "racial issues", but even then it would be very simplistic. If we use the word "multi", I think we should talk about more than only two types, and also about a radically different types of people.
Personally, I don't believe in multi-culti, because every nation, every culture and race desires a safe space for themselves. A space, where they can just be themselves and live the way that they believe. Not to mention that multi-culti tends to be associated with media censorship, political correctness, lack of constructive criticism, and instead offers "don't worry, be happy" attitude, which is exactly what's your message was, because in your opinion, every real and serious problem magically disappears, if we just don't worry and be happy.
Now, what is happiness? The newest game, movie, product, or values, family, love, future, safety? Or having power, being superior, dominating others? Every person will have different set of values and will define happiness differently. It's funny that people think that in a concept based on different cultures and mentalities, that somehow these mixed groups of people would have unified goals, dreams, morality, and desires.
Look at USA, and how many problems this country has on daily basis. So many decades passed, and I don't see any positive progress, and I doubt I will ever see. Let's look at history. Rome became multi-cultural and it fall, Yugoslavia tried to be multi-cultural, and it ended in regular genocide. ZSRR was multi-cultural, and we know how bad this union was. Of course, these are purposely negative examples.
So let's look at positive one. Let's look at UE. It also is multi-cultural, there is huge freedom there, no dictatorship, no oppression, and yet, it has nowadays huge problems with rapes, assaults, and overall increased crime rate. And it keeps increasing. And governments are clueless on how to deal with this, as they keep debating and debating, while nothing is being done.
ENOUGH POLITICS, LET'S TALK ABOUT THE GAME. WHAT I WROTE SO FAR HAD NO BEARING ON MY JUDGEMENT OF THE GAME.
The game itself is okay, it's a little difficult, the graphics aren't impressive, but aren't shitty, and the gameplay is challenging, it requires a lot of trial and error, and I did try to experiment with various strategies. So definitely I can see a potential. Also, very good sounds used. So the overall aesthetics are good, and the game has this slight "artsy" feel, which is good as well.
You definitely have a potential to be a good creator, and I will look forward to your future projects.
Thank's for taking the time to write such a thourough review!
Well the game is obviously a simplification of an overwise complex pro
blem. Red and blue is just an image, I explicitely didn't want to use any real identification, because you can find many other situations of "wall building" (be it religion, race, sex or sexual orientaion...), but it was inspired by the actual migrant crisis in Europe. I actually don't know of any real multi-cultural society in Europe. USRR and Yugoslavia were tyrannies with one nation imposing on all the others and nowadays what we call multi-culti in France or Britain isn't really. There's always a bunch of taboos that prevent from talking openly about rasism problems.
I do believe that we could solve many problems by accepting people as they are. What we give (or don't give) will eventually come back to us. There are bad people in this world, but I believe that most just want to live a peacefull life without hurting anyone (on purpose) no matter what their background. It's ironic that even though there are so many bad people amongst the people we call "us", we are more afraid of the peaceful people that are different in some way.
But I agree with you that nothing will ever change. The recent extreme right wing rise all around the world just confirms this. There's a lot of talking and no doing. The politicians think only about the next elections. Human rights are reinforced if there is money behind. And there's no political vision of what we would like our world to look like in 10, 20 or 50 years...
Anyway thank's again for commenting on the game! I really appriciate.
144 score and 4 machines later I blew up the world. It doesn't matter how long you play, to blow up the world, you need to have an error / Jackpot.
Which is RoboJebus, The Beast, Damian.
Overall, I didn't like it, but I do like the medal.
eh, apparently one of the entries was removed by author (bottom row, "the dude that shoots lasers")...
it's weird that I already knew more than half of these toons, and yet, it took me a while to have 100%.
I guess some descriptions are purposely misleading, to make the challenge more interesting.
anyway, I really love it (even if half of the entries probably didn't deserve being featured), because it gets me in teh nostalgic mode, to the point of me needing tissues. it's only 3 years since it was submitted, and yet it feels like it was decades. How come the time flies by so quickly?
There is this unspoken rule on newgrounds that you have to mandatory give deathink 5, or else you'll get the hose again. But I also give extra 5, because I like X-Men, and Genclops has Cyclops as an avatar.
At first, the game was confusing, and I was massacred mercilessly, while also earning medals.
Then, I was sad that I had death penalty, but later I realized that you can escape the bank and thus
gaining points. Then I wondered, how do you get x8 combo, and later realized that you have to wear sunglasses, and that it's most effective when you use both special and sunglasses to have easy combos. And from then, it was easy as hell.
I love tributes to games, and I love retro / pixel tribute to games, which is why I love the (legendary) The Room tribute made by Fulp and co. I didn't know that Piper is ded. First Craven, now Piper.
The last 2 years weren't merciful for the greats, weren't they?
It might be also one of the longest reviews I wrote, and I wonder, if there is something constructive criticism that I can give, but there is none.
The only thing I do want to do, is to give advice to players - be patient, and don't give up early, and all rewards will be yours. Okay, now I can go drink beer.
Thank you very much my man.
Oh my god I loved that game! Now when I have an account, I have to replay all the games I've beaten many times for medals, but this one is going to be enjoyable.
Love it, love it, love it, and I'm happy that you made a sort of sequel
Great game. The way it should be. Newgrounds desperately needs more stuff like that.
It's been three years, maybe it's time for sequel?
A mix of Depict1 with Tower of Heaven.
I wanted initially to write that the character glues to the wall, like if you wanted to implement walljump, but failed. It turns out that I was close, as in final levels there is walljumping indeed.
There is one trick / glitch that can be exploited in the final levels - when you touch the wall without jumping ON it, and THEN try to walljump, you practically jump high enough to land on top. I'm not sure if I explained it coherently, though.
All in all, not a bad game, and sort of enjoyable too.
Haha, yes the glitch is something i noticed far to late, and now im to lazy to change it. Its kinda fun though :D
Yeah, in hindsight there are a lot of things where i could have it made better. I started the game as a normal platformer but thought, why not add some kind of "story" for the player. But Depict1 does that way better.
Still thanks for that review.
Cheers.
People Hate Me Coz They Ain't Me
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