Reviews

Review by Onewing all reviews by Onewing

Good: A unique experience.
Bad: Perhaps too unique…
What the game should have been called: Gay Bob, Green Pants.

Welcome to the wacky world of Allefant’s game, Garbage, a very fitting title, both in what the game is about and how you’d sum up the game. This is another game I had to review.

First off, the most noticeable thing about this game is the style/environment. It may seem like it was drawn by a three year old, but the fact that everything is squibbly and cartoony gives it a very unique feel to it. From the classic five-point stars (which rotate, of course), to the Chinese Trashcans (yeah, I know, it’s a trash lid not a hat, but this whole game does feel like an Asian acid trip, ya?), to the orange dogs (which fly, totally predictable), to the main character and his green tights. Take a very good look at Bob, he seems extremely happy to be dueling it out with his weirdo opponents, not to mention his slow stick-laser ability, something we should all have. I’m quite certain HE’s on that acid trip…ya?

There’s quite a bit of little details that make this game attractive. Of course, the style itself is outstanding, but notice the particle affects and how neat the flames look, if you manage to get to them. Everything fits together really well.

Unfortunately, the gameplay is so bad, you might want to take some acid before attempting to play this game. The garbage cans take 20 hits to destroy and the jumping (more like floating-on-happy-thoughts) flat out sucks. And if you try really hard to see where this game goes, how it ends, it’s too bad, because at about 64%, there’s a jump you can’t make. I was sooo everly frustrated. You should get a 64% for that! That’s a D, mister!

Overall: I’m sorry to do this, but it was a pain to play through this (or at least, 64% of it). I can’t offer more than a 2, even with all the purdy graphics. Yeah, I said purdy.
Artistical: There’s news in the game (relayed in the corner) that directly relate to the game. Don’t know how true they are, but it works well with the game. Not to mention all the style-listic awesomeness of this game, I’m very tempted to give the favorable 5 out of 5. But I say no to peer pressure, so 4 it is.
Technical: I love the fire and I love the smoke. However, the fire does nothing but look pretty and the smoke does nothing but block the view. On top of that, the functionality of the game is weak. At least it didn’t crash…Three sticky stars for ya?
Genre: It’s all about garbage in a junkyard. Bonus points for the game being garbage itself. 3+1=4

Scores: Overall 2 Artistical 4 Technical 3 Genre 4

Review by Hard Rock all reviews by Hard Rock

This is one of the better looking games of TINS and has very stable implementation and was written in python! Unfortunately while the game has a lot of potential, its just not very fun. The garbage cans take for ever to destroy and since you can never really lose, you just get warped back it becomes extremely repetitive trying to navigate through the same (albeit good looking) environment and killing the same nearly indestructible enemies.

A good attempt but could use a great deal of tweaking and balancing.

Scores: Overall 3 Artistical 4 Technical 3 Genre 4

Review by Raabinator all reviews by Raabinator

\'Garbage\' is a kind of Jump And Run game. You play a character named Bob that has to fight his way through a junk yard. An ufo crashed into this junk yard and the junk got alive. Now the junk, in form of trashcans with eyes is attacking you. They thow some brown things into your direction. Later, flying dogs attack you too.
The small story is told to you by displaying news messages in the upper left. So the news in the game are imaginary and don\'t really fit the rule of current news events, unless I missed some news of landed ufos or a burning junk yard. Maybe you can take the space junk that missed a plane for an ufo.
The game plays in a junk yard and trash cans are attacking you with trash. So I think the garbage theme is fulfilled.
In advance of the level the yard burns and produces smoke that looks more like fog. So fire and smoke are fulfilled. I think the fire is made of gradual shaded triangles, that is easy with OpenGL, but looks good too. But sometimes flames are flying up into the sky and there is such dense smoke that you can\'t see a thing so you have to wait.
Bob can\'t really die. If his health is exhausted you enter the level some percents back again. The fire doesn\'t hurt Bob, so it\'s only function is to look good and give a reason for the smoke.
The game has nice paralax scrolling with foreground and background and is held in comic style. The music is ear candy and fits into the mysterious story.
Unfortunately I can\'t get further than 64.6% of the level, so I can\'t tell what happens next.
I enjoyed playing this game but it lacks of some animation of the enemies and variations of the attacks.
I\'m looking forward to play a extended, bugfixed version...

Scores: Overall 4 Artistical 3 Technical 2 Genre 4