Let's start with some good things about the game. I think the music is pretty good and fits the game fine and I kinda like the pixel art style the game has going on. Except maybe for fact that the eggs literally look like Yoshi eggs.
Next let's discuss the bad things. The game has very little enemy variation. It only has two enemies, both of which I don't feel like fit the game with the dinosaur you control. One of the enemies is a humanoid grey wolf and the other is some sort of a flower. The position of these enemies in the levels are mostly random. They don't appear to have any restricted spawn locations, so sometimes you literally have these mfs spawn [b] under [/b] you upon starting a level. Apparently there's a boss at some point too, looking at the achievements at least. I haven't gotten that far yet. You attack these enemies with fireballs you get from chili peppers found around the levels.
There are two things wrong with the fireball attack. The main one being that instead of giving you a couple of fireball shots to use at your own leisure, the game gives you the ability to use fireballs for a couple of seconds, before you have to find a new pepper if you want to kill enemies (which you have to if you need to get past them, because it's impossible to jump over them with your normal jump because of their large hitboxes. They also knock you back by quite a lot, making damage boosting through them hard to pull off). This timer stacks with other peppers you pick up. This feels like a bad way to add difficulty to the game. Not to mention that you have to stand perfectly still to shoot the fireball, unless you're midair. After depleting most of the peppers in a level, the best way to get more of them is to press esc and restart the level. When going back to the world map the game remembers the amount of eggs you had and how much time you had accumulated with the peppers (Even with this it still doesn't remember on what level you were on, so you start at the first one and have to slowly move back to where you were). To me, this feels like a glitch, but as it turns out, you [b] have [/b] to use this in order to make it past later levels, because the levels themselves literally do not have enough eggs to exit the level. The game also doesn't tell you how many eggs you need to finish. If you try to leave without enough eggs the game will just tell you you need more eggs, which looks like Heed more egg! with the pixel text. The game also doesn't tell you accurately how many eggs you have past 10. It gets to 10 and then just displays 1 in the upper left corner. This changes to 2 if you get twenty and so on. This same thing extends to the fireball timer.
The platforming is a bit meh. Pressing or holding the jump button will result in the same exact jump. As stated above, you can't jump over enemies, unless you get extra air from a moving platform. These moving platforms are your main way of traveling vertically. They of course don't come without problems. One time I had one go beyond the upper edge of the map with me on it, which took me past the border, but didn't bring me back, so I was just stuck up there until I reset the level. The game has some variety with these platforms. At some point they started to (jarringly) disappear a few seconds after stepping on them.
There are a few other issues with the game as well, like how you don't have any sort of death animation, or the below average English in the achievement descriptions. Or how you can't use arrow keys to move, but you can use 486 on the numpad for some reason. Or the trees in the foreground sometimes completely blocking the view of a potential enemy.
Over all, I had some fun with the game. I will keep playing a bit to get the rest of the achievements, but it definitely is not worth the normal price. Even with a 90% sale that I got because of a coupon, I kinda feel like I wasted some money.
-edit- So the game does not save your progress in between sessions either, so be wary of that as well. It looks like it does, if you go back to the main menu, but if you close the game, seemingly all progress is lost. [b] SEEMINGLY [/b], because even though you start from the very beginning, the egg requirement for completing a level does NOT reset. Keep in mind that as you complete more and more levels, you need more and more eggs to finish. I am impressed that the devs managed to screw up this badly with the game. I would feel ripped of even if I got this for free.
