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Review by gcsaba2 all reviews by gcsaba2

Potted the Hairy is a side-scrolled game similar to Super Mario. You are a wizard and you need to kill some trolls. The trolls are little green men that move from one point to another, and you can shoot at them. To add some complexity to the game, your bullets won?t go to the end of the screen, but only about two inches, which means you need to have the trolls get close to you.

The idea is there, but I think the game is not finished. The author could have at least added a few more levels. This way the game is just too easy: I finished the map in about a minute, and then I unlocked the multiplayer mode, and finished that one again in less than a minute, playing the same map. The author admits it himself that the game is easy, and I would have given him higher score if only he had added 2-3 more levels, it would have made a lot of difference for me. And some basic sounds would be nice too, like when the wizard shoots.

Other than that, the game fulfills all the rules. The wizard?s bullets move in a sine wave-like path, the trolls are there, and the game is a parody of Harry Potter (though I had to read the readme file to find this out, cause I never read or watched Harry Potter ;) ). Considering how Thanatos is still in high school though (and I knew a lot less when I was his age), I?m giving him a high score for the Technical level.

Scores: Overall 3 Artistical 2 Technical 4 Genre 4