{"id":1853,"edition":10,"categories":1,"features":0,"size":13304,"name":"Death becomes her","authors":[{"name":"Reindeer herders without reindeer"}],"description":"

Find a reason for why monsters started attacking. You have a special ability to be reborn as killed monsters. Inherit their abilities and memories.

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There is a final boss. Traditional game length.

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Controls: mouse

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I’m not very good at this kind of turn-based fighting games but the overall idea is pretty nice. I like the different skills you can use, boost your stats or weaken your enemy. I tried to do cheesy tactic and only use “Scratch” but eventually in Area 2 I was killed and got back to the beginning.

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The thing I would love to see in this game is more visual and sound effects because when I didn’t hear any music during fights or some sound effects of hits, I felt like something isn’t right.

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Overall, I enjoyed that the game is not very easy, fights can be demanding, I restarted the game few times because of deaths. Story in the game could be a little bit more expanded, after the intro I didn’t really feel this journey, just random fights with monsters so that was a bit sad but the mechanical side of gameplay was pretty fun and challenging for me.

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An interesting little game, lots of stats to wade through and enjoy.

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I wasn’t sure exactly what I was doing. Perhaps a short trainer level would help to get used to the game mechanic?

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The graphics are a little basic but work ok for this, in some places the writing doesn’t fit in the boxes so gets truncated.

\n","games":["Bee Kind"]},{"at":316079441,"author":"Christian Staudte","login":"t4khosu","gh":28463194,"twitter":"t4khosu","text":"

Enjoyed the game. Sounds would have been nice to hear the attacks. Also a short description of what each skill does before selecting them would have been helpful. What I really loved are the atari-like sprites. This added a nice nostalgic feeling.

\n","games":["Book of Death"]},{"typ":2,"at":316222344,"author":"Maximilian Schaum","login":"ixam1","gh":74653168,"url":"https://ebay.com","twitter":"ebaytechberlin","text":"

I am a fan of turn-based games, so plus for that. I also like that you tried to have a little story to it, although it is a bit silly, it still adds to the game. The game is pretty hard, which I don’t mind (I couldn’t beat the final boss).

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Some of the hardness comes from not being able to tell what each ability does clearly. I think it would benefit the game if it were more clear what each ability does. I would write below each ability what it does, I.e. deals 3 damage. And also the action log on the left is a big grey blob of text. A small change but big improvement would be to highlight the main part of each action. For example highlight “dealt 3 damage”. Its very hard to extract the important info from the action log and thus make out what happens in the fight.

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Overall its an interesting game, with a neat style.

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Interesting game. UI wasn’t very easy to grasp.\nVery cool concept!

\n","games":["Hell Inc."]},{"at":316832756,"author":"João Lopes","login":"lopis","gh":2715751,"url":"www.jlopes.dev","text":"

Really interesting game. I’m a little bit confused with everything that is happening, because it happens all at the same time. A little delay between actions would really help.\nIt would also be useful to know what the moves actually do. It’s not obvious what crying does before I use it.\nIt’s a bit awkward to click on the top text to skip dialogs.\nBut overall it’s a cool game, but very challenging. The graphics are very vintage but in a good way. I wish there was some music or sound effects. I like the short intro, and the little jumping animation, gives the character some personality.

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I think you have a good plot going on, and it was good to see the camera zooming in during the intro for extra effect. I wasn’t sure where to click to continue playing. Maybe it would be better to have a click listener on the main container, and not only on the box that says “click to continue”.

\n","games":["Hang by a thread"]},{"typ":2,"at":317117202,"author":"Björn Ritzl","login":"britzl","gh":1300688,"url":"www.defold.com","twitter":"bjornritzl","text":"

There are some interesting RPG mechanics in the game, which should be right up my alley, but for some reason I couldn’t really get in to the game and try to push through to the end. Perhaps the simple graphics?

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Cool game! Liked all the cutscenes. Turn based gameplay was easy to understand. I beat the game, but I think it glitched a little to help me do that. Nice pixel graphics!

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