I want to preface this article with the following: I have not 100% completed this game, and I never usually go for 100% completion.
I am excited to 100% this game in the future.
It is a very fun experience and a blast to play, even if I had a hard time with the technical limitations of my laptop. I recommend this game to anyone wanting to blow some steam or just have some fun.
I also wanted to point out a few things that I noticed that could be better, but don't outright take away from the experience:
1. At the end of a level, it freezes the game and gives you a menu for Next Level, Continue Playing, and Quit to Menu. I'd love to see maybe an animation or something more than just pausing the game, maybe a little bit of an animation where the text comes in and it fades into the menu?
2. When you die, you get to see the first few frames of a death animation, but it never completes. Maybe allowing the animation to persist and continue into the Game Over Screen might make it feel less choppy?
I also wanted to make a suggestion, not to take away from the game, but to add a new experience to it. A Multiplayer mode, whether cooperative or competitive, would be a really nice addition to the game. I had a few ideas for this.
1. One way would be two people going through the levels, and racking up points together. The Pros of this would be the game being shared with a friend at the same time and with the same experiences, but a Con would be that it might make the game a little easier, maybe too easy, unless you were to play on harder difficulties.
2. A Competitive game, where two or more players have the same map, but play separately, could also work. Whoever gets the Highest Score within Time / Whoever can reach a score first wins.
3. A Multiplayer Competitive Tower Defense game. Sounds weird, but hang on: imagine being a team game, where it could be a Bear (or multiple!) vs someone setting down a town and something to defend, and it be based on rounds. It would add incentive to a level up system, where if you win as the Bear, you get more points to upgrade your character (and maybe you'd start with lower health and energy and have to upgrade those too!), and if you win as the town, you'd get more money to secure your town.
Multiplayer is just my personal views for replay value, and I know that server based multiplayer games can be a little hard sometimes, so maybe if he decided to put it in, it could be Direct Connection through IPv4?
No matter what, this game is incredible, and I'm really glad I looked at Reddit when I did to see Mikey's post for the free code, and I am overwhelmingly excited to see where he takes this game.
If you'd like to see my reaction to the game (even if it was kinda laggy) you can check it out at http://streamlabs.com/st4rlyt3/v2
Thank you for staying until the end of my long rant. This game is fantastic, and you should get it. Especially if you love Godzilla type stories of Kaiju attacks, or if you'd just like to blow some steam from a stressful day.
