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Review by entheh all reviews by entheh

Overall: as always, a complete, fun game that's well worth playing all the way through.

Genre: I like how the story actively places something outside its natural time. The story has a very contrived ending, but I don't see this as a bad thing at all.

Artistic: there were dragons, and it all looked pretty and went together well.

Technical: progress saving is there, parallax is solid, and prime numbers were a complete cop-out. But I have to point out that in terms of technical stuff, your games all look the same! You're great at putting them together and polishing them (apart from the opening cutscene not being skippable), but I would like to see something new.

That shouldn't detract from the fact that it is, as always, a very good game.

Scores: Overall 5 Artistical 4 Technical 3 Genre 4

Review by entheh all reviews by entheh

Overall: there's certainly an attempt at a substantial game. There are many characters, all with their own abilities, documented in the readme. With some more balancing, I think the game could work out. I'd like to be able to find strategies to trick the enemies so I can kill them without getting hurt too much, and I think the seeds are there. Unfortunately it just outnumbers me and kills me too quickly as it stands, so I end up not enjoying it. I have to give it a mediocre mark, since in the real world, games are often made to deadlines and this kind of balancing has to happen within the deadline - but you're definitely not far off.

Genre: there are things from different eras, but I'd like to see a backstory to explain why. (Not that my own entry had one of those though!)

Artistic: there are dragons. Again I'd like to see something creative. General art style doesn't quite feel coherent, but it is clever how it's been put together.

Technical: all the rules are fulfilled. The prime numbers aren't used very cleverly. Some marks are deserved for writing a raytracer though!

Scores: Overall 3 Artistical 3 Technical 4 Genre 3

Review by entheh all reviews by entheh

Overall: a fun little game, with controls that work (apart from PC keyboards tending not to like detecting Left+Up+Space, but at least I can use Enter), and not too hard. There's no real challenge once you realise there probably isn't enough enemy fire to kill you, but that's OK. The only real problem is it gets boring when every level is exactly the same.

Genre: space dragons and space knights aren't really from different times, now, are they?

Artistic: you control a dragon. A space dragon, no less! I wasn't entirely convinced by the graphics that it wasn't a shark though. Generally the graphics are very simple, but they work.

Technical: saving the current level number is the simplest possible solution, but at least it's there. Parallax is there; prime numbers are in but not in any way that makes sense (not that this was easy). It's nice that there's a level transition implemented. There's nothing that leaps out as technical wizardry, but everything in there seems to be solidly put together.

Scores: Overall 4 Artistical 3 Technical 3 Genre 2