JIHAUS'S PROFILE

author=bicfarmer
reminds me of that jennifer lopez movie...

Tough Puzzle runner game with 4 types of puzzles of 3 difficulty levels each. Timer acts as HP as well. On my first run I decided to try and get the toughest ones (spikes and godzilla) out of the way first, unfortunately those two combined took me down to 12 minutes. Then the hard ice teleport puzzle single handedly took out all of the 12 minutes. Ended up with a 9/12 bare minimum for the good ending.

Maybe will try for best ending again in some other unspecified time... but these puzzles are tough as nails and I need a break.

I don't know anything about any Jennifer Lopez movies let alone how they tie in to this, but I will take your word for it, lol.

Thanks for giving this a try! Looking back, a lot of the puzzles were pretty trial and error which doesn't exactly do anyone any favors in a timed format, and some of the puzzles are pretty unbalanced (such as how the first two town puzzles were easy but suddenly that door puzzle is hard). Nonetheless I appreciate you sticking with it all the way to the end!

author=CashmereCat
I've subbed and I mean to play this game, but I haven't even played the original. I haven't had the time to play any games, but this one looks as good as any. Added to my playlist, and downloaded, although I don't think I'll get to play it anytime soon. Even though this is near the top of the list.

Looks really good.

Don't worry about playing the first game, it's not necessary to enjoy this one. The original Ruin Frontier is actually only a demo, so the full story isn't included yet. This game also chronologically takes place before the original, so if anything it may work better to play this one first.

author=RyuNacho
I enjoyed the game overall, but I had one major issue with it: there is no reason to use any special equipment or abilities outside of the fight against Thunder. Why? Because a Sentinel with Power Claw, Heavy Cannon, and 4 SRX-2 can brute force it's way through everything else. In the final area, the only enemy that could even deal damage was the Cobra.
Other than this balance issue, the game seems to be well made and I didn't notice any real bugs/problems outside of some grammar/punctuation.

That's an interesting strategy, but one of my friends used a different strategy and pretty much just put gauss rifles on interceptors and stacked ENB to blast everything in the first round. The variety is there, but I think that it's not so much a problem of that strategy being broken so much as the game overall being easy.

The main thing to note as well is that when I was designing the dungeons and the enemies, the goal wasn't so much you fighting each individual battle. Rather, it was you fighting the entire dungeon. As a result, I tuned most enemies to do as much damage as possible because every encounter is intended to wear you down or make you spend your repair resources so that if you get to the end, you might be in trouble. Consequently, if your squad ended up becoming being really strong and conquering everything, that's entirely fine, because this isn't a game of scaling difficulty. However, it's well-known to me that the game does end up being on the easy side if you fight as much as you can, and when I balanced the game the first couple times I did it from the standpoint of someone who only fights the bare minimum of battles. Balance is unfortunately one of the areas that suffered due to the time constraint of the contest, and I'd like to get more feedback before I start going crazy with the nerf stick.

It's always fun to see what builds and strategies people come up with in a game like this though. I'm glad you enjoyed it!

I must say thanks to everyone for enduring my horrible rushed writing. Any feedback is appreciated as we're definitely looking to improve as much as we can.

Also I doodled something at work pertaining to the game:

author=argh

author=JIHAUS
Regarding the ending, it's fine. Read that final message closely, as you may see the slight sarcasm in it. But to explain...(WARNING: SPOILERS)

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Based on what you have seen about the 12/12 true ending, do you think the crime REALLY got solved? A crime "solved" with the wrong suspect and the true suspect walking away can't really be considered solved. Heh.

Oh, I see. Clever. But

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I believe it was phrased as "the mystery is still unsolved", which made me think it was a fourth-wall breaking thing informing the player whether or not they got the complete ending. It's just a little confusing at first.

Hmm good point, I didn't really establish a narrator. I may have to think about reprhasing that then.

author=Oblic
This sounds somewhat reminiscent of "To the Moon" (at least the memory diving bit). Just thought I'd mention...

I've been meaning to try that one, so I'm not sure how similar they are. In my game's case it's more of a sci-fi framing device for the plot as well as a nice way to explain the strange RTP worlds you encounter in the game.