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Review by Eric_Love all reviews by Eric_Love

No one has made more good games in 72h periods than Elias! It seems like every hack he gets a good game happening then proceeds to make it so long that few have the patience to finish it.
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Scores: Overall None Artistical None Technical None Genre None

Review by tobi all reviews by tobi

In Desperate Land Adventures you are a troll father and you have to get the troll-eggs out of the cave as soon as they begin to jump (jumping eggs yes :). They were put there by the troll mothers according to the story. If you walk near them, they\'ll follow you and doing so you may lead them to the \"exit\", a large white tile in the level. This will bring you into a new level, with more jumping eggs, and more acid slugs - strange jumping egg like creatures which scare the troll eggs, so it\'s quite difficult to get the eggs past an acid slug.

Artistic requirements:

Desperate Land Adventures features nice prerendered animations of a your main character - a troll. The troll fits good in the storyline, therefore the troll-requirement is nicely fulfilled

The unlockable-requirement is slighly weaker implemented, but nothing really to complain about. As soon as you guide all the jumping eggs to the level entrance/exit, the next level is unlocked.

Technical requirements:

Sine waves are readily available here - anything that moves, does so in a sine wave. To quote the readme:

For one, the legs of Troll move in a sine wave. The acid slugs change their form based on a sine wave. The troll eggs jump in a sine wave...

That\'s quite clear, this game has most sine waves of all entries.

A particalur nice thing is that the levels are randomly generated.

Overall:

The graphics are very good and the technical implementation is also ok. It looks very polished (ignoring the fact that it doesn\'t have a menu). The game itself gets boring quite soon actually, since the goal is the same for each level - there are just more eggs and acid slugs. The fact that the levels are randomly generated improves the replayability a bit though.

Anyway, to summarize, I decided to assign the following scores to this game:

overall: 3 - very polished gfx & sfx but lacks a menu, a bit boring
artistical: 4 - really nice gfx & sfx, the troll is prominently present in both the game and the story around the game, which is good. Only bad thing is that unlocking just unlocks the next level. It\'s nothing special.
technical: 4 - quite a lot of sine waves are visible. The engine runs smooth, no problems. A nice \"bonus\" technical feature is the random map generation.
genre: 3 - I\'ll just give average score here because it\'s probably my fault I don\'t recognize the parody :/

Scores: Overall 2 Artistical 3 Technical 5 Genre 3