Reviews

Review by Onewing all reviews by Onewing

Good: Offers at least five minutes of gameplay
Bad: I wish I had my five minutes back
What kind of grass were they smoking? Apparently ASCII?
Comments:
Master Lenman and Deathlord?s Train Shooter is a solid concept, but lacks in actual implementation. I enjoyed the ASCetic scenery and once enemies come in, it does get somewhat challenging, providing some fun. It?s a good entry, but just lacks actual entertainment.

The controls aren?t bad, but can get very confusing when having to switch between them. Having the accelerate and break keys as far apart as A and B on the keyboard is probably the major design flaw in the control scheme.

Artistically, the game meets the TINS requirements by providing both a train and railroad that obviously the game was designed around. If anything, the graphics are the main stimulus of the game. It?s kind of funny, since obviously it is programmer?s art and the fact that it is actually pleasurable.

Technically, the game obviously uses ASCII art and I have to give +1 (which makes the final score go from a 3 to a 4) for making the game entirely out of it. Yet, the help screen, the other technical requirement, wasn?t nearly as appealing as the rest of the game visually and appears more like looking at a technical manual. It?s just not user friendly, so minus a point there.

Genre-wise, the time requirement affects the game in terms of score, but it could be taken out with little consequence to the gameplay. Considering that, I just can?t give too high a score for the genre.

Add some bloops and bleeps for some background music and I probably could?ve bumped the overall score!

Scores: Overall 2 Artistical 3 Technical 4 Genre 2

Review by miran all reviews by miran

Some nice use of ASCII art but overall not very exciting and the gfx make my eyes hurt.

Scores: Overall 3 Artistical 2 Technical 3 Genre 3

Review by NunoMartinez all reviews by NunoMartinez

This is a good game. Nice ASCII graphics except the background. Good concept. It will be a better game with more misions and some music... (sorry the lack of words)

Scores: Overall 3 Artistical 4 Technical 4 Genre 3

Review by guilt all reviews by guilt

A nice, well ASCII textured game ... Has a nice feel to it :) It's fun to shoot around ... and just enjoy the scenery! :)

Scores: Overall 3 Artistical 5 Technical 5 Genre 4

Review by Darksoll all reviews by Darksoll

This game is good. the ASCII is cool.
the objective of the game is reach the end of the level. in order to do this you have to defend the train and sometimes charge some fuel.
The game's not finished yet, there are more tutorials than missions. the ambushes seem to don't work yet ;-).
regardless i liked it.
the sound effects are ok, but what happened to music?. i'd love to see complete version of this game with cool music!.

I think this game would be better if: it had more missions, music.

Scores: Overall 2 Artistical 3 Technical 3 Genre 2

Review by graue all reviews by graue

Very nice. Excellent use of ASCII art; I loved the letter backgrounds. Concept was quite fun and original. I hope to see this finished sometime.

Scores: Overall 4 Artistical 5 Technical 5 Genre 3