Reviews

Review by newcreature all reviews by newcreature

First off, I really enjoyed playing this game. I especially liked the graphics and the overall gameplay. This brought me back to the days of playing Dragon Wars and Fester's Quest.

As you play through the game you get to know your way around the hotel fairly quickly. This is thanks to good level and art design.

Lack of sound didn't really take away from the game for me but it did hurt the artistic score a bit. Everything else was done really well.

Overall the game is a memorable experience and I won't soon forget the time I spent navigating the halls of Hotel Hell.

Scores: Overall 5 Artistical 4 Technical 4 Genre 3

Review by elias all reviews by elias

I enjoyed playing Hotel Hell. I used a text editor to plot out the map because I was hopeless at memorizing it :P Once I had almost the full map with locations of disks and hearts I could win. Since there is no music I listened to "Hotel California" which seemed fitting :)

Now about the TINS rules. For artistic, there is no sound and also no bonus rule which would allow not implementing one other rule, so I deducted a point. The hand-drawn rule on the other hand is done perfectly - I think the look is great. So if the 5 points are 3 for looks and 1 each for the requirements, I give 4.

For technical, the engine appears solid, source code on the various disks is shown. And I don't doubt there is polymorphism, but there's nothing really polymorphic in the game. I give 4.

Genre. Well. It basically uses the same genre interpretation I used and the rule specifically allows it. I award 4 points again.

Overall I think it turned out great for a TINS entry. I'll vote as 4 points by now but maybe increase to 5 once I've played the other games and have some comparison.

Scores: Overall 5 Artistical 4 Technical 4 Genre 4

Review by victorwss all reviews by victorwss

Nice drawings, really.

The game could be better if the maps where randomly generated.

Scores: Overall 3 Artistical 3 Technical 2 Genre 1

Review by furinkan all reviews by furinkan

I was hoping to play this since the first screen-shot was posted. I was not disappointed.

Excellent hand drawn effects using vector routines! It even uses fake 3d, like one would expect.

It falls a little short in the genre requirements, and the gameplay is simplistic. Nonetheless, It comes highly recommended.

Scores: Overall 5 Artistical 5 Technical 4 Genre 3