Foto Flash 2

I liked Foto Flash as it brought nostalgia from the flash games from a few years back. It had some issues, but I could overlook these. Foto Flash 2, however, feels like a game that was rushed to completion without much polish or finetuning simply for an easy buck. Especially the controls are horrible. Having to line up your character on pretty much an exact pixel in order to pass a staircase is frankly ridiculous for a game made in 2018. It's also possible to get stuck in the box-moving room, which is very irritating as well. The movement issues are also very noticable in the Arcade minigames, which makes it pretty difficult due to the choppy movement (note: it's not that difficult for the actual requirements, but in order to get the steam achievements you'll have to go through a lot of irritation, the games aren't so much challenging as they are simply products of bad programming and lacking finetuning. I really wanted to like this game too, and the core gameplay is basically the same as Foto Flash 1, but it just feels unfinished, which is also very visible in the graphics, which are just boring. Not worth buying it.

Foto Flash 2 plays pretty much exact like Foto Flash 1. The only difference is the setting and that there now are some minigames. Let's talk about the setting first. Instead of walking around a beach, taking photos of girls for a pinup magazine, you now walk around a Mall, taking photos of girls for a calendar. I hated the setting change, because the environment completely lost its color. Everything in the mall looks samey and boring. Exploration also doesn't feel as good anymore, because you can't go anywhere, besides the different shops. The quest design is still the same, but there is one special quest to shake things up. You go into an arcade and have to beat highscores in 3 different games. The problem with that is, that all the games are boring to play, and you've seen them all a million times before. Verdict: Still an OK game, but I preferred the first game over this. Please add more open and colorful environments in the third one and if you keep minigames, then make them fun. Rating: Gameplay: 2/5 - Tried to improve from the first game with new mini games, but their quality and some bugs make the gameplay less fun than it could be. Level Design: 2/5 - A boring Mall to explore. There is a labyrinth and a block pushing puzzle, that doesn't make the blandness more tolerable though. Soundtrack: 3/5 - Still great Story: 3/5 - On the same level as the first one. The ending didn't seem well fleshed out though and the "plot-twist" was a bit to Cliché. Graphics: 4/5 - Again. The mall is just too bland. Everything else is great though and fits the game perfectly for what it wants to be. Length: 1/5 - 2 hours long at most. No additional modes or anything to add to the story Replay Value: 1/5 - You could try to beat your highscore in the minigames, but why would you? Enjoyment: 2/5 - It wasn't a wast of time, I definitely had some fun. But the bugs I encountered, the mall and the awful minigames, restrained my enjoyment quite a bit Overall rating: 18/40 => 4.5/10 => 5/10