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[Bieber Metamorph]

This is a pretty poor game

I don't even care about the theme, you crippled your game in various ways gameplay wise alone.

THis game plays way too slow once you become desensitized to the theme

I mean I need to fuck like, 8-12 little girls to lose a year, just stretching it out.

The video unlocks are totally unrewarding too, I'd rather see more comic cutscenes.

The gore also seems out of place, smashing shrunken police with a hammer seems kind of weird.

Getting a weapon is actually a downgrade! You were better off leaving police tiny since they can't pursue you, and killing them spawns two more in their place. That alone was just a terrible mechanic.

The worst thing is how the game WILL break if you don't get an ad, the ad has such high priority that the game dies without it.

I can't tell if you're trying to glorify Bieber or mock him, but this game is slow, repetitive and dull once you play for 5 minutes.

[Rebecca Whack: Friday]

Great response time!

You drew Rebecca kind of cute for someone that you hurl out of a car into traffic! Solid game!

[Dungeon Developer]

Please give me equal buy and sell rates

It is pointless to let me spend 2 gold on a new dungeon tile, only to buy it back for one. I keep accidently double clicking, and wasting far more money than I should.

[CatGame]

Dearest Lazymuffin.

The Boss is outright insane. Come on, it does unstoppable damage, UNSTOPPABLE DAMAGE IN A DEFENSE GAME.

Other than that the game is really charming (best part of all your stuff!) and it does start to wear on after the 15th wave, but the boss... oh my god why did you think that was a good idea?

"Oh cool the boss! Let's go!" *dies in 7 in-game seconds* "oh kayyyyYYYAAAAAARRRGGHHHHHH!!!!!"

Cute game, horrible boss.

LazyMuffin responds:

This guy sent me a PM saying he figured it out, EVERTHINGS OKAY!

[Solipskier]

The Multiplier has too much control.

To begin, I am rating ten because this a quality game, my only gripe is how the multiplier directly controls how much speed you can gain. I've dropped from 100 KM/h to 40 in a midair jump because I missed a gate on the way back down. Which is a complete funkiller.

If you ever patch the game, please make it easier to hold your multiplier or allow your speed to be Independent of it.

[Greater Fighter]

Glaring flaws. Why? Why?!

Greater Fighter is a game that looks like time and effort has been put into it, this is clear when you play and see all the art and music it flaunts, but there are many major problems in gameplay that completely ruin it for me.

For one, Leveling up is way too slow and the bonus experience you get for hitting objects rapidly without taking damage is unfairly weighted toward light, rapid characters, don't forget the bonus expires if you go 2.8 seconds without hitting anyhing as well. Sammy and Vanilla are both very maneuverable and can attack more than once per second so they have a much easier time leveling up than Lovett or any of the slower fighters you hire. This leads to one character (Sammy in my case) becoming way stronger than anyone else on my team and leading me to replay the first level over and over.

Speaking about power, why do I need to level up to stand a chance? I have 10000 dollars, why can't I just spend money on one of mu main fighters to make up for their terrible weaknesses? Why do I need to hire a different fighter that is either terribly slow or they cannot deal a decent amount of damage in a battle? The difference one level makes is ridiculous when my level 6 Sammy can completely win a battle by himself. While my level one Lovett can get in three battles not even get halfway to a level up, nor survive a hard fight because she is SO SLOW.

On character designs, I like them. You try to infuse personality and style into everyone, it's clear that they all have a combat type. Sammy, is balanced and thus does the best in a shoot'em up like this.

Vanilla is hindered in that he is fast, does little damage and has low health. WHY? I can understand that he is a speedy fighter, and cannot just march up to enemies and win singlehandedly, but he does so little damage that it is pointless and he only becomes a supportive fighter. If he had a smaller hitbox it would be a nice redeemer, or if he had a wider angle to attack rapidly with. but he can only move straight, shoot straight, has no chance against enemies that move to the side or behind and dies in a few hits, WOW.

Lovett is just horrible, she takes time to attack, so she will never level up as fast. She fires in a shotgun like burst, which is a nice design choice, it makes her feel different, but her "increased" damage is easily outdone by a leveled up Sammy. She moves terribly slow and has a pitiful amount of health. Why? What purpose does that serve? If she was a tank she would have much more health, and if she was a glass cannon she would be much faster. Lovett has no actual way to survive in combat since enemies have much more health and you will need to fight them for a few rounds to defeat them, unless you have a much higher level. So she attacks an enemy get in a few volleys of fire and dies in 2 hits. Amazing.

The mercenaries are even worse! Sure they can attack and move, but they take forever to level up, they have no special attacks or the ability to fuse in support. They often deal damage in an unconventional way or they do not deal enough of it, they feel like they are an unfinished part of the game, just added in to give more options, but they really fail to do anything except give you a larger presence on the battlefield.

The battles themselves are just awful. You move your fighters one or two squares, why so short? they need a much larger movement radius in order to capitalize on the idiotic rule system that turns normal battles into gimmick fests. The Silence status effect needs to be removed, absolutely. I do NOT want to sit there and try to evade bullet hell for a solid minute with no way to fight back. There is no reason for small mini enemies to float through one on one battles and spurt off bullets, so the slower characters have no chance to survive, even if you memorize bullet patterns.

I want to like this game, the idea is fabulous but you need to add a more versatile upgrade system and make it easier to evade bullets. There is no reason to have a tank character in a game about dodginf bullets!

Thanks for making this game.

[Toxie-Radd]

20 Waves? WHAT.

This was an okay game, the very beginnings difficulty threw me off but I beat it and then got the flamethrower, the only gun you need from that point on. It does damage through multiple foes like the armor piercer, it does extra burning damage if you get close enough, and you can embarrass bosses by just circling them and using the flamethrower point blank.

I didn't mind that, but what did get me was the waves. WHY did you feel like you needed to add 20 waves of zombies? I have every upgrade I need at this point, and now it just feels like grinding on that flash zombie MMO "Dead Frontier", considering they both sound the same, with the same dying and yelling sound effects and play almost alike.

But the waves... oh the waves, I'm 8 waves in, and I just don't know why you needed 20. This is getting repetitive, you could of stopped at 10 waves, but 20?

[NINJA Brawl]

Warble Castle Crashers Warble

I've never played Castle Crashers before, sadly I lack an Xbox360 and my friends lack Castle Crashers, but I find this game to be an actual PLEASURE to play. There are no outstanding flaws that ruin the gameplay for me, I played all the way up to the forest hideout rest stop, and still enjoyed myself.

I couldn't care if this was a tribute or not, it's just a fun game and I loved every second. The only thing that could be better is the animations in general, the characters seem a bit stiff to me, Running, jumping, attacking... they all seem like they were done with the character in that perfect upright position, and there wasn't much redrawing done, but that's just my thought.

Overall, loved the game, you're a credit to indie games.

SeethingSwarm responds:

Thanks a lot!
Yeah I'm not really a master at animation, hehe :)
I did my best to optimize the graphics for gameplay, but still tried to keep it as good-looking as I can.

[Super PSTW Action RPG]

Incredible.

This is very easily, one of the GREATEST RPGS I have ever had the honor of pressing space on.