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Review by miran all reviews by miran

I wasn\'t very impressed by this production. The opening screen promises a nice game and the graphics certainly look good but playing the game is just not much fun. It is a platform game, a clone of Mario. The engine is not so bad but the moving, jumping and dying just feel wrong somehow. The game is lacking a bit of the polish, it looks more like a very early test or something. There are no menus, no special effects, no sound, no music and it doesn\'t even come with a readme, which makes it very difficult to start playing because the controls are not explained anywhere.

Artistically look very nice, obviously the author spend a lot time on that aspect of the game. There were two artistic requirements in TINS: troll(s) and unlockables. The game has both, the final boss is a troll, very well drawn I might add, and once you beat it, you unlock a second chracter, Igiul.

Technically the game is not as nice as it is artistically. As already mentioned the engine doesn\'t feel right and sine waves are only used for the weapon - the gun shoots sine waves and that\'s it. I suppose the technical requirements were met though.

In the genre department I don\'t know what to write. The game is obviously a Mario clone but I can\'t see how it is a parody. Maybe if it had a story, either in-game or in a readme, that would make clear what was so funny about it...

To sum it up, I didn\'t enjoy this game very much but that\'s mainly because I didn\'t figure out the controls right away. It looks good and all the competition requirement have been met but the game is very short and too many things are missing for it to stand out.

Scores: Overall 2 Artistical 3 Technical 3 Genre 2