STORMCROW'S PROFILE

This is dope. Working on a review now.

Nice art! Very impressive, shows proficiency in a good variety of styles. Your prices are very reasonable, too. I might be back to shop and not just window shop.

Can I ask how you chose the handle Nirwanda? There's only one Nirwanda I can think of, and it comes from a fairly obscure old SNES game.

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"Because duh!" is the closest thing to an in-game explanation we get.

Most of these things are explained in Tutorial Mode which I recommend to play first to get an idea how to play this game.

You misunderstood. I meant that there was no IN-UNIVERSE, STORY REASON for why color coded bullets are needed to murder these RTP troopers.

You're right that I should have played the tutorial (kind of confusingly titled "Simulation") more. Initially, I only went left to talk to the Red Trooper and right to talk to the Green Trooper. It simply didn't occur me to walk up and down and talk to those characters waiting off the screen.

So I completely missed this useful chart:



If they take partial damage from complimentary colors, that's very clever, but I stand by my complaint about them being bullet sponges.

I see now that the tutorial did mention the Diamond power up increasing critical chance, which I frankly didn't know was even a thing in this game (flat-out double damage might have been better). That said, I could have SWORN that I was taking damage when I stepped on those Diamonds. Might be the wonky collision detection anyway or just the fact that seeing a big fiery explosion makes one think they're taking damage.

I also missed the actual practice levels. I played them just now. They don't do the best job of preparing the player for actual combat, but they are a nice feature. The same is true of the level editor. I don't enjoy the basic gameplay enough to muck around with the level editor, but it's quite technically impressive that it's there!!

Edit:
So, absolutely no one should take this as a precedent, because it will probably never happen again as long as I'm around RMN/the scene, but I actually increased my review score by half a star based on the points that Tw0Face made. The tutorials, secret stage, survival mode, and level editor add gameplay value for people, who, unlike me, dig the basic gameplay, and that's worth half a star, objectively speaking. I tweaked the text of the review accordingly, also.

Edit 2:
So what is the deal with those giant aliens?

I thought of XCOM: Enemy Unknown when I posted this thread actually, but the truth was I was pretty stoked even from the tutorial. The bombast worked on me.

Edit: This thread is specifically about game submissions, disregard.