Dashing Dinos

Last night we had a chilled out party with a couple of friends, in one room the game was basically playing all night long. People switched turns, everybody especially loved the party mode! Fun game to play with friends!

Some of my friends came over and we started playing. We played through every mode and it was such fun! Especially the soccer mode, we played that for hours. Also the sounds of this game are hilarious, like when you pass poison the little "die slowly" in the background. We really had a fun night and there definitely will be some more with Dashing Dinos! :)

https://youtu.be/WG2GZu6TJqY (Dashing Dinos was featured on my youtube channel) now onto the review graphics, sound & artstyle? Dashing Dinos looks very beautiful, I found myself getting lost at times to the details and colors. Lost Mountain made an excellent job at producing something modern without having to resort to old school 8,16, 32 bit esque indie games. As for the sounds, while I found myself humming the only song in the game hours after playing, and found it cute as when you get certain powerups the dinos make a sound, it was just to repetitive. Some more music, maybe different tracks for the contrasting levels would have been nice but did not take my away from the experience. gameplay? Gameplay is absolutely simplistic as an indie game should be. It is a controller only game, but I have no problem with it as I use my gamepad for most games.There are various different game modes including, Deathmatch. Last Dino Standing. Splash Dash. Capture the Egg and Soccer. All of which (with the exception of one) are a fun and different approach to the game. In Deathmatch one must kill other dinos by dashing into them, and try throwing them into thorns, lava or icicles. Last Dino Standing gives you a limited amount of lives and must kill/survive a time limit. Splash Dash pits you into an arena where the objective is to turn an egg into your color for an amount of time similar to King of the Hill. Only you dash your dino into it. Capture the egg takes the form of capture the flag where 2 teams try to capture 3 of each others eggs. Soccer, where dinos dash into a pitch and score on each other. I can honestly say all of the game modes were a great time except for Capture the Egg. It was the most tedious game mode of all of them as most of the time, it resulted in death while trying to capture an egg as the floor is always slippery. Whats the price? The retail price for Dashing Dinos is 11.99 USD. How many hours estimated? As the game is a local multiplayer game, the amount of hours estimated for this game will require you to bring along friends, and with no bots option. Often times most gamers won't get to enjoy the game to its fullest potential ESTIMATED: 7-14 hours of gameplay overall. 15-20 if more arenas come out. Pros/Cons -Pros 'easy controls. A to dash, and right stick to dash faster. 'extremely fun game modes 'SOCCER- oh what fun!!! 'Customizable characters 'Short & Sweet matches 'Party Mode turns the game into a drinking game 'cute dinos 'great artstyle 'powerups change the scene of the game modes -Cons 'local multiplayer only 'only 3 dinos 'limited amount of maps 'Capture the Egg game mode 'only 1 song 'no bots Buy it, Wait for it to go on sale, Don't. Well Dashing Dinos is certainly one of those games that will be in my repertoire when having friends over to my house. Its a game you can just pick up and play whenever you want, which is exactly what an arcade indie game should be. The lack of maps, dinos, local only and inability to add bots hurt the game quite a bit in my opinion but still an overall great experience. At retail price of 12 USD, you won't break your bank over the game however I recommend you WAIT FOR IT TO GO ON SALE. In my opinion I would have no problem paying $10 for it, but with the lack of options for people without friends and or people to play with constantly, it just isnt worth the 12 USD. Perhaps 7.50 USD would be more fair, even if the devs have an obviously polished game. This can change however with the addition of single player support. But to reiterate it is a great game, and I would have no problem paying full retail price, but I would be more inclined to buy it at a later time when and if the price lowers just a bit.