
HELIX is a single player platform action game. Use your special skill of changing gravity and go on a platform adventure of a lifetime. Go fast as you can by upgrading your character and try not to die by dangerous spikes.
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Arcane action!
Firstly, I think you should take out the part at the beginning saying people shouldn't expect it to be good because you're 15. No one likes self deprecation and it seemed to take value away from the game before I even hit start. Be proud that you made a game that's on steam at your age and let the players determine whether its good or bad, otherwise you'll have a self-fulfilling prophecy on your hands and the game won't really take off. Other than that, it really is a solid game. Rage platformers aren't really my wheel house so I failed a bunch, but you took the gravity mechanic and ran with it. You made short, yet complicated levels based around the gravity ability and overall did a great job making the game. The art is pleasing to the eyes and the music doesn't get annoying which is good considering the fact that you die often and have to replay levels. Keep on making games if its what you enjoy, and make sure that you truly believe in what you're making because it ALWAYS shows in the final product. :)
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The sound/visuals are good, but the gameplay does nothing for me. It's just so basic only being to move left/right and press a button to change gravity. Plenty of games have used this mechanic and give you the option to jump and other stuff.
Agreed with the previous reviewer about the age disclaimer at the start - made me think to expect the worst and I think it does the actual quality of the game a disservice! As for the actual gameplay, Helix draws heavily from other gravity-flipping 2D platformers like VVVVVV, but it's got a decent grasp the mechanics and physics that make those kinds of platformers enjoyable. I must admit that I am absolutely awful at the game, but that being said, I do think the difficulty ramps up a bit inconsistently and it is quite a brutal learning curve. The game is a bit slow to restart which makes it all the more frustrating. So I appreciated the assist modes, but I felt like something like checkpoints would've been made it a more enjoyable grind through the levels. The coin upgrades kind of work...? But it's not the most elegant mechanic (and I'm not sure the Speed Increase upgrade is useful, it made the game much harder, but maybe that was the point?) Where I feel like the game really shines is in the aesthetic - character and level designs feel fun and well thought out. However, things like the UI could use some more work - I encountered a few overlapping menu issues etc. Overall, enjoyed my time with it (even though I was so rubbish). Could definitely use more polish and depth, but the core gameplay is solid!
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HELIX, tek oyunculu bir platform aksiyon oyunudur. Yer çekimini değiştirme konusundaki özel yeteneğinizi kullanın ve ömür boyu sürecek bir platform macerasına çıkın. Karakterinizi yükselterek olabildiğince hızlı ilerleyin ve tehlikeli ani yükselişlerden ölmemeye çalışın.
Juego algo básico con el que puedes pasar el rato.
초보자들이 하기 조금 어려울 수 있지만 다른 게임에서는 느낄 수 없는 색다른 느낌을 받을 수 있고 게임 자체의 느낌도 신선하고 재미있는 것 같다.또한 16세가 만들었다는 것을 무색하게 신기했다.노래의 사운드가 조금 크고 초보자가 진입하기에 살짝 진입장벽이 높은 것 같기도 하지만 조금의 플레이를 하면 다른 게임들과 비슷하게 될 것 같다. 픽셀로 만들어진 게임답게 몽환적인 분위기를 연출함과 동시에 빠른 게임 진행 속도와 간단한 조작방법을 가지고 즐길 수 있는 게임이다. It may be a little difficult for beginners to do, but it can give you a different feeling that other games can't feel, and the game itself seems to be fresh and fun. Also, it was surprising that it was made by 16 years old. The sound of the song is a little loud and beginners enter the game. It seems that the barrier to entry is a bit high, but if you play a little, it will become similar to other games. It is a game that can be enjoyed with a fast game progression speed and simple operation method while creating a dreamy atmosphere like a game made of pixels. Für Anfänger mag es etwas schwierig sein, aber es kann Ihnen ein anderes Gefühl geben, das andere Spiele nicht fühlen können, und das Spiel selbst scheint frisch und unterhaltsam zu sein. Außerdem war es überraschend, dass es in 16 Jahren hergestellt wurde alt. Es scheint, dass die Eintrittsbarriere etwas hoch ist, aber wenn Sie ein wenig spielen, wird es anderen Spielen ähnlich. Es ist ein Spiel, das mit einer schnellen Spielfortschrittsgeschwindigkeit und einer einfachen Bedienungsmethode genossen werden kann und gleichzeitig eine verträumte Atmosphäre wie ein Spiel aus Pixeln schafft. 初心者がする少し難しいことができますが、他のゲームでは感じることができない風変わりな感じを受けることができ、ゲーム自体の感じも新鮮で面白いようだ。また、16歳したことを無色に不思議だった。歌の音が少し大きく、初心者が進入するに軽く参入障壁が高いような気も少しのプレイをすると、他のゲームと同様になりそうだ。 ピクセルで作られたゲームらしく夢幻的な雰囲気を演出するとともに、高速なゲーム進行速度と簡単な操作方法を持って楽しむことができるゲームである。
"Helix" is one of literally thousands of retro 2D platformers infesting Steam and lowering the average quality of all video games everywhere... and I'm not kidding. Searching for "platformers" on the Steam store page yields over 17,000 results! Is this one of the best of those? Absolutely not. This is a rather generic and pointless platformer where you're in a (possibly asset flipped) set of cave tiles and you get some upgrades (which you lose when you die, but nobody played this long enough for that to happen). There's a gravity inversion mechanism that's been done a hundred times or more, all better than this. Platforming is an old, mostly dead genre, and this lacklustre experience, while it doesn't have an upfront cost, isn't saving the genre... it's no surprise this failed to capture any attention from gamers in the era of immersive 3D gaming. This features really godawful pixelcrap "art" instead of real graphics. It's hard to say if this was because the developer didn't have the skill to do the job of creating 3D visuals, or couldn't afford to hire someone who does, but it also doesn't matter. What matters is that this looks much worse than most other games because of that decision, and that's a major deterrent to gamers. Games like Terraria and Stardew Valley succeeded [i]despite[/i] the bad graphics, not because of them. Adding insult to injury, there's also a godawful screen filter that actually manages to make the pixelcrap look even worse. The game assets look like asset flipped palette swaps of Pixel Frogs "Pixel Adventure"... and the developer was trying to get paid for this. Asset flips like this are never okay. Controls, polish and gameplay "feel and handling" are on par with the graphics... awful. It's free... now, but it wasn't before. The developer was charging $3 USD for this. Price barriers, especially on low quality products, can be a direct cause of failure. It's a nice gesture for the game to be given away for free, but it also tells us that the game wasn't good enough to succeed as a paid product. It's also a bit of a slap in the face to anyone who paid money for this... nobody got refunded. Despite having no up-front cost, this failed to appeal to the 120 million+ gamers on Steam. SteamDB showed the game peaked at only 2 concurrent players... this is a dismal public reception. This was so bad they couldn't even give it away. Bearing in mind that free games don't add +1 to your game collector count, should you bother adding this to your library and downloading it? Not this time. This isn't worth downloading. While this won't cost you any money, you get what you pay for, and sometimes, even when the game is free, it's still not enough.
[h1]Before I played Helix, I had a small pp, no friends, no gf, depression, and no life. These things havent changed, but the game is pretty good[/h1]
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