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Review by SiegeLord all reviews by SiegeLord

Flappy Bird Racing is a janky multiplayer flappy bird clone with a surreal atmosphere. There are multiple levels of increasing difficulty, both coming from the flappy bird mechanics but also assorted animals, especially cats, that seek out to kill you. The game is actually rather difficult even to start, since the randomly placed cats seem to make some levels unbeatable without restarting and regenerating the level. The shortcomings of the gameplay I think are mitigated by a pretty good split-screen multiplayer support. I tested it by myself, and I can see that it can be very fun (although performance kind of tanked...).

A highlight of the game are the graphics and sounds. The graphics are a mix of stock art and animals composed of simple geometric shapes. The music is midi covers of popular songs having to do with flight, and the sounds are... well, I liked the screams your bird makes when it dies. Honestly, I liked the janky feel this gave the game. An interesting innovation to the game was how it was multi-lingual, and the language was chosen randomly. That was very clever and innovative.

For the rules, the genre was fulfilled fine: there were 3 types of animals. The iridiscence wasn't super prevalent, mostly some rainbow effects here and there. Rainbow colors are not iridiscence. The dialog, as it were, was implemented okay with speech bubbles for the animals. The charts were occasionally a part of the gameplay arena, but they seemed tacked on and didn't obviously display anything specific to the game or really affected the gameplay by their presence. The bonus rule was implemented very well, with great multiplayer support.

Overall, I got a bit of enjoyment out of this one. I liked it.

Scores: Overall 4 Artistical 4 Technical 3 Genre 4

Review by SiegeLord all reviews by SiegeLord

In Rainbow Castle you're a snake that pukes color onto colorless foxes and the colorless stone of a castle. The foxes normally try to decolor the castle but when sufficiently colored by way of your actions, they... cease and dessist and you get points. Otherwise, if they decolor the castle enough you lose. There's no victory condition, every run results in a loss and a possible new high score. I found it rather annoying how I kept running out of... color... it was very unsatisfying to actually to fulfill the goal of the game.

The graphics of the game were not too bad, I especially liked the pie chart for the amount of color left in the castle. The removal and addition of color of the castle was also a neat effect.

The animal genre was sort of minimal, there's a snake and the foxes. There were a lot of rainbow colors... the color display in particular was a very nice touch, but rainbows are not iridiscence. The foxes, inexplicably, will talk to you via speech bubbles, as requested. I liked the pie chart, a very nice 3d effect.

In total, the game looked nice but it wasn't very fun to play.

Scores: Overall 3 Artistical 3 Technical 4 Genre 3