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The Devil
by Todd Cope
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Review by elias all reviews by elias

This is a pretty solid clone of Robotron, with a story/setting fulfilling the genre rule. I'm impressed how it's quite polished, with an intro story and ending cinematics.

The artistic TINS requirements are met, graphics are/look hand-drawn (even the displayed source code) and there's voice samples.

I missed a reference to polymorphism in the game or readme. But there's many things fulfilling the rule anyway (like easy/hard mode, polymorphic enemies and weapon, and likely lots of things in the source code).

Gameplay is quite fun - I remember when I used to play Llamatron for hours. There are 10 levels with rising difficulty. The appearance of a new kind of enemy as well as two weapon updates keep it from getting boring. I only made it to level 7 in easy mode myself - but luckily the builtin cheat mode allowed me to see the ending anyway. I'd have hacked the levels.dat text file otherwise :)

Scores: Overall 4 Artistical 4 Technical 4 Genre 4

Review by darkbits all reviews by darkbits

This game could have been really fun if it were more balanced and more polished. The idea of a shooter were you control the movement with the arrow keys and the shooting with the awsd keys is simple and highly addictive, but the game is way to hard and you soon lose interest. Most of the rules seems to be implemented but I didn't find how the browsing of the source code was implemented nor how polymorphism is used, but that might just be me having difficulties getting anywhere is this crazy hard game (and yes, I did play in easy mode). To sum it up, it could have been really fun but didn't quite get there, still I think The Devil is the game I've played the most out of all TINS 10 games.

Scores: Overall 3 Artistical 2 Technical 2 Genre 3