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[Shensetta]

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Edited by Shensetta, 17 October 2011 - 07:03 AM.

[Alpha Man]

What? Are you so ashamed of this game that you won't even include it in your SIGNATURE? Luckily I was notified of this Topic (Shensetta: GHOSTY by the couragous forum member Shensetta) by E-Mail, so I have promptly downloaded and completed the game. Congratulations.

Don't click the spoiler. It has criticisms of your post. Scroll down to the happy fun sentences to see the non-criticisms.

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I think my stats were 555 Attack, 444 Defense, and 123 Lives. My ammunition was so high that your drawing system accidentally placed the ---'s first - on top of the x! Oops! Really would have preffered the Shinobi style HUD of "Lives=#" that turns into "Lives>#" though, since it was a bit confusing at first that I had "xxxx" bread. I really thought it was infinite bread. So I spent a lot of it on Attack and Defense. I was thinking for a while that the "ghosts" in the endless battle thing were getting stronger, but that wasn't the case. In fact, you just had it so that the curve for defending against their attacks was very odd, and when I could start taking less damage from those ghosts, it quickly became 1 damage. And as that happened, I noticed nothing did more than 1 damage to me. It was smooth sailing through the whole game. The rest of the 5 levels, anyway...

On that note, if you're going to put the healthbar in a percentage/bar format, why not show damage in a percentage format as well? It felt odd to see "1 damage" when the percentage didn't decrease by 1 each time. Otherwise, just actually tell me what my maximum health is as opposed to putting it in a percentage. Seeing it on the menu isn't sufficient since I never pay attention to that anyway.

Was it really over? I was thanked for playing. You thanked me for playing the game. You don't need to thank me for beating the game. Why would you do that? What's the point in thanking me? Have I done something correct and helpful in completing your game? I don't think so. In fact I've done something very bad. I have unleashed a dark art of thanking. Thanks for reading, too.

Hey. Platforming. Why did you make the floating things in such odd places! I shoot at them, and then fall to doom trying to get on top of them, especially in the last level when they are placed on UNEVEN ground making it literally impossible to get on top of them and jump up. The hardest part of the game wasn't getting through the oddly-placed growing black things, or the eye-beam eyes, or anything like that. It was activating and jumping on top of those floating platforms! Please make them flash. Make them wait. Make them do SOMETHING so I can actually JUMP on them before they raise faster than my own ascent!

Hey. HEY! Shensetta! Are you listening to me? OK. I'm still here. I'm still typing. And you're still reading. Speaking of reading, I'm good at that. I can read fast. Faster than a lot of people. So why is it that I have to read slowly every time I start one of your levels? That's some slow reading. LEVEL 1 IS LOADING now read that at a rate of 1 word every 3 seconds. That's slow. You're bored now from all that reading. Do something else. Read a boolean. I meant a book. That way you can read at a much faster rate. But I'm not saying you can't read other things. In fact you can read your own game! Just make it scroll faster.

Are you sure this belongs in Adventure & RPG? You have an odd tendency to place games here. Don't worry. Other people like to put platformers here too. Rolls eye. But that's all right, alright? You place your completed games where you want to, I'll place my completed game where I want to. Which is nowhere. I don't complete games. You do. That's what makes you a cool kid.

I really enjoyed the references to The Lawnmower Man! Actually, those probably weren't references. In fact it's probably not even a coincidence. Those gates. Those weapon types. You know what I'm talking about.

That big bomb effect was pretty! I saw it a lot. Because that's all I ever used. Bombs. You want them? They're yours. Your bombs. My bombs. Bomb's bombs. Bomb bomb bomb.

And wow, those eyes! They were so pretty too. I wondered what the eyes were doing there. You didn't tell me why the eyes were there. In fact all you really did was give me some weapons. I used the weapons on the eyes. I'm not even sarcastic, I really fired those weapons at the eyes. Spending my initial supply of bread on the three range upgrades and then one Power upgrade allowed me to get through the first level. With 3 deaths. Do you always make the beginnings of your games too difficult and then make the endgame too easy? That's strange. Maybe you should go back. And add a hard mode. For people like me. People with over

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500 Attack

. You know.

I guess the music was pretty. I was too busy hearing the strangely-familiar-jumping-sound and the same shooting sound over and over. So I'm not sure about music.

Thank you for reading... Shensetta... the creator of the Shensetta games... Gosh! I can't believe it! You really did read through this post all the way, didn't you? Good job. I hope you make another game. So you can read my post in that topic too. Let's do this again sometime, ok?

[Shensetta]

Again, I love your review. I'm a slow reader so it took me a while, but it was worth it. I still have a lot of trouble adjusting my game flow. Sometimes its too easy, sometimes its like.. O____O

I know you might not like this, and I'm sorry... But... Thank you for playing. =]

Hopefully you will take the time to drop another epic review on my next game. I took a quick break from my version of "RPG" games. I will make more soon taking your advice into account.

[Steve III]

Hey there, I played through your game, all the way. I'll put it bluntly: reading Alpha Man's review was much funner.

As AM said, the start of the game is far too hard. It feels so slow and sluggish moving the character anywhere.
The character did look kinda cool though, as did the eyes. The levels look cool to begin with but after all 8 stages with no change other than the palette I got a little bored.
NO BOSSSES?!?!?!? No story is okay for some games but NO BOSSES?
*cry*
Okay, now I've composed myself, all I did after completing stages 1 and 2 was farm in the Battle Room and got my defense stat to 100. I pretty much didn't worry about evading attacks or shooting to get through the black stuff from then on.

Overall, not real fun at all. Still, learn from your mistakes and make better games!
I'mn off to collapse...

[zanzindorf]

The graphics are amazing, excellent menus and such, but good grief, I can barley get past the second room. I'm always out of ammo it seems like, and I'm not sure if I'm even playing it right because there's no tutorial. Anyways, great work, but it's too hard for me.