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[The Company of Copperhill]

It just didn't grab me. The art was great. The sound seemed fine. The music was good.

Combat was nice and simple, a nice change from the tedious combat of other games in this genre.

But I'm just not attracted to clicking through lots of exposition.

The best stories are told implicitly. I think using lots of dialog is lazy and breaks immersion.

People don't understand that theme is far more important than story.

I think obectively I can give this a 4, despite what to me were shortcomings, the quality of the game was higher than my experience.

Hyptosis responds:

Thanks!

[Atomic]

I like this genre. I liked the game this is a clone of a lot and this is a fun twist with the upgrades.

It is missing something big though. A replay button at the end of levels you get at least one star on.

That was VERY annoying.

blit-blat responds:

There is a replay button! At the top, the third one along, the circle arrow, you can click that at any time to restart that level! Enjoy!

[Electric Cock Rocket]

It would have been funny if the premise was that the reason alien's anal probed us was so they could collect our poop to use as ammunition.

DBuck-Eye responds:

I like your thinking. Maybe I'll steal that for the sequel...

[Grayscale]

I don't like having to click twice to get to the next level and that the continue button is down in a corner while promotion links are dead center.

Another big flaw is that the name of the game is grayscale and that is a reference to nothing but the color scheme of the game. It in no way influences the game's mechanics. The name should have been to do with the actual mechanics at play.

Finally, I don't like games where there is a level selection screen and a clear boundary between levels with a score screen or something. It just makes games feel incredibly cheap. Much better to just transition smoothly from level to level without any reference to a level "number."

Lot of potential but some serious flaws.

Komix responds:

but you can replay levels!

[Intel Was Wrong]

holy crap the music is way too loud compared to the sound effects.

Wolod responds:

You can always mute the game. It's impossible to please everyone, you know. But if I'll be working on an update, I'll make the music a little bit quite.

[Unfographics]

No clue what I'm supposed to do on the second level. I swapped the two percentages and tried dropping the iceberg on everything or even holding it over stuff.. like over the factory to make it melt. I guess I'm missing something, but I'm pretty good at puzzle games.. so I'd say it needs to be more obvious.

FernandoBarba responds:

This is weird, half of the people complaing that it is too easy, the other half too hard XD

You have to drop the iceberg in the ecuator, on left side :D

[THERE IS NO GAME]

extremely buggy. first playthrough after he destroyed the ball, i clicked the other one and placed it on the field and it just started bouncing left and right. never reaching my paddle

second time through when i beat the breakout thing i clicked the trophy and it went somewhere. blew up or w/e i don't remember. but then when i needed to bring water to the tree.. i assume i needed to use that trophy but i didn't have it anymore.

not going to play a 3rd time just to run into another bug.

edit: played through it again and it ran perfectly. score updated

Kamizoto responds:

Thank you for your feedback.
I've fixed the issues you have discovered for the future non players.
Sorry about that!