Mirror Boy

Would it be weird if I said out of the four or five games from the contest that I've played so far, this was my favourite one?

Seriously - while I liked "...Resume" there was a certain degree of randomness (kind of like job application life, lol) in play...on the other hand there's nothing but pure skill, logical thinking and timing here. The puzzles were well thought out, the graphics charming and above all it was super fun to play. It got to the point where instead of getting infuriated by hitting a spike or getting hit by a straight fireball, I just laughed at my own stupidity and carried on.

The one problem I had was to do with the mirror not deflecting fireballs the way I think it should have at certain angles, e.g. 45 degrees, where the fireballs killed/knocked me out instead.

But yeah, apart from that possible bug, really hard to fault Mirror Boy. Everyone needs to stop what they're doing and play this. Serious contender for the non-RPG category, I reckon.

Oh, shit, towards the cursor, really? LOL, I completely missed that for some reason. That would explain a lot, as when I braced for tight turns I kept the cursor really close to the mirror. I guess that would explain what happened - I kept knocking myself out. :<

I've been giving pretty detailed feedback to other contest entries, but I think this game is simplistic enough that I just don't HAVE that much feedback. The puzzles were well-executed and the mechanic worked, but, yeah, it's pretty short. I think that the mechanic that you've demonstrated here is probably not enough to flesh out into a game of substantial length, but I could seriously see the mirror function in a game that has multiple different tools that you can swap between, i.e. a more puzzle-focused Zelda-esque game. The puzzles veered towards easy, so I think you could probably get some more out of this mechanic. The story seemed tacked on, so I would consider just removing it or polishing it into something more. Short puzzle games like this can be all gameplay as far as I'm concerned.

Oh, and there was a graphical glitch that broke the area up into a grid, but my computer might just be weird with Unity games (In Arcem Miseria had some issues, too). I also found it kind of difficult to click on the appropriate menu option at the title screen.

Review coming up soon. Really fun. And the story was a sweet take on heroes as well.

And yep, had the same graphic glitch. It's subtle and only for a short period of time, so it isn't really destracting you.
I really liked the big enemie being there. It would be interesting to have to shove something around that you cannot kill (perhaps only with lava) while avoiding projectiles. It's quite fun doing it like that.

This game is pretty cool. I liked it.

Running windows 7 /w a monitor resolution of 1920x1080 although I was running the game at 1280x800. I had selected Windowed but it full screened. Also I was running the 64bit version if that matters.

Don't know why, but the game has locked up on me twice now, around the same point as well. I have no real explanation for it, everything is running fine and then it just stops working.

EDIT: I don't know the stage number, but the first time was on the stage with three eyes at the top and two paths of spikes- when you had to run across and bounce shots into the barrier. The second time was on the stage right after that.

When it stops responding the music keeps playing. I'm running it on a brand new computer (self built, top of the line etc.) with Windows 7 Pro, 64-Bit, and in 1920x1080 resolution. That's about all the information I can give.

This was short, but fun. Would be good with more variety, but I really like the idea of having a mirror instead of a weapon. If you make it longer, having to reflect attacks from some enemies to beat other enemies instead of just themselves would be awesome.