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[Winter Falling: Price of Life]

Great game, but kind of easy. I beat it in 20 seconds with a score of 0.

Lol

[Box Factory]

I like how the game sort of "throws you in at the deep end" and you learn what things do by experimenting with them. Really interesting and clever puzzles here and there, but the difficulty is all over the place. Level 6, for instance, requires much more thinking than level 7 or 8. Falling off the edges of the level is unnecessarily-frustrating, especially since sometimes you can click in the area of the "up-and-right" button, and it registers a click of the "down-and-right" button.

"Snap to grid" keyboard movement doesn't really work with isometric perspective. I'd have just left the directional buttons in the bottom-right and called it a day. Those are a really good idea; you should call more attention to them, if you use this scheme in the future (maybe have them change colour when the player pushes the arrow keys, if you decide to leave keyboard controls in.) I only figured out what they do on like level 9, lol. The on-screen buttons also got all jacked-up when I rotated the camera multiple times. Down-and-left became down-and-right, or maybe the opposite. Sometimes 180 degrees different, too.

[Shard Cavern]

AAH! Don't ever blink! You'll get hit by an ice shard :/

Priddygood, mm hmm heeh.

TsucchiDev responds:

Hahaha bet you did!

[Oily]

Pretty cool, but the "spin" mechanic makes no sense. Once you figure out that it both rotates and mirrors on one axis, the last puzzle gets easier.

Thanks for making games that don't have "merge" or "idle" in the title.

[DinoZ City]

Jump key doesn't work for me

RHMGames responds:

Upss, sorry! We wrote the key information wrong. Now we have fixed it. Thank you for your notification.

[Bunnie's Carrot]

Ain't no stoppin' me now, son. I have... A CARROT-SWORD! Lol, the progression of the bunny is just hilarious. All the puzzles seemed intuitive, but perhaps that's because I've played all your other games.

On another note, just as I was becoming exasperated with trying to find a "signal" in the "noise" of all the garbage phone games with wait timers and started getting all nostalgic and "I miss the good old days when the internet was inundated with free, usually-short browser games..."

jronn to the rescue!

Thank you so much, lol.

[Lobster Clicker 2.0]

Ah, yes. Good ole Lobster Clicker.

Right off the bat, the "windowed"/in-browser mode had cropping issues and the music--great choice, "Still Alive" is one of my favourites--was really loud. As in turn-my-earphones-down-to-4%-volume loud. I eventually muted it; a separate music mute button would be nice, since I see you've kept the obnoxious air horns from the last iteration. Going to full screen fixed the cropping issues. If I click and hold, the red number below the lobster goes up, but the score does not. Intentional? The red numbers also get cut off once they reach a certain amount both on the lobster screen and on the battle screen (enemy lobster health.) After a while, I left the battle screen and came back to see that my lobster had died. But I can still attack the enemy lobster and even get it into negative health, lmao.

The click effects are great. It's hilarious that you're reiterating this game and this one is as fun, silly and weird as I remember the last one being, in spite of all the glitches/bugs/errors. In fact, the glitches sort of add to the sense of "this game does not take itself too seriously" that one gets while playing, while at the same time not affecting gameplay.

EpicNarwhal responds:

Thanks for the genuine review!!! I kinda just made this game to be obnoxious and weird so I'm glad to see someone shares my awful tastes and enjoyment of terrible game design!!!
Edit: I went back to play the version I posted on NG, the WebGL build was giving me issues and the glitches are way worse in this version, It's a work in progress I guess...

[Do Not Click The Cookie]

I like how the cookie sounds like it's from Brooklyn or something. It's a Cooklynite, if you will.

Lol

[Red Skull Reef]

Buttons for "pause" and "next wave" would have been a nice luxury, but even without them it still wasn't terribly frantic.

There isn't any sort of data on the towers or attacking ships; that's okay though, because strategically, you can ignore the outer two forts and use the island space for spamming treasure chests. Then, build a bunch of skulls on the middle track. I got to wave 40 on my second run through with this strategy. Nothing too complicated, but a fun game for a few dozen minutes; certainly beats the hell out of most of the other games available for free.

RobotRage responds:

Thanks for the feedback! I do agree that Next wave and pause could have been a nice addition. Regarding the outer towers, balance was definitely an issue, i didn't want to debuff the towers too much so as to make you loose instantly upon loosing one so i decided to lean for a smaller debuff. (maybe not enough penalty)

[A Grim Chase]

Lol, the "save bunny" level (third ending) was a proper pain in the ass. But in a good, "wow, what a clever puzzle game" sort of way.

I can't figure out ending #1; I thought it may have been getting the thief with a purple skull on level 20 while they are splitting up, but after like 20 attempts--if this is the solution, you have to time it reeeeally tightly--I think it finally touched him and did nothing, so I gave up. The solution is probably something really simple and obvious, but a short "endings walkthrough" may have been a good addition for the completionists among us.

Rambling aside, great game and great puzzles!

jronn responds:

I'm glad you enjoyed it. As for the ending #1, it's definitively less obvious and harder to find than the other two, and does require a bit of tempo (nothing close to pixel precision / ms timing though). You were on the right track, but purple skulls will only hurt purple zombies.

***Spoiler*** solution: https://imgur.com/a/eTO6fiY