Orange Moon

[i][b]Неплохая такая аркадка/платформер, поначалу даже сложная, провести пару вечеров за ней вполне себе можно, главное привыкнуть к управлению[/b][/i]

[u][h1]Overall[/h1][/u] [h1]Pros:[/h1] - Detailed tutorial - Puzzles - Good stage design - Simple and fast upgrades menu - Boss fights [h1]Cons:[/h1] - There are bugs - Jerky animations - Enemies are too easy / low challenge - Sound settings reset all the time - Repetitive [h1]Difficulty:[/h1] - Average https://youtu.be/wZBfHpn1iMc [u][h1]Review[/h1][/u] It has been a few months since I last had the opportunity to play a 2D platformer. Orange moon is a 2D platformer in which you explore a new planet (and guess what? It's orange). On this moon, the player has to go through multiple enemies and puzzles to complete each level. There are a handful of bosses, and also a few secret places to find. In general the game is interesting, it has a basic tutorial that explains the basics of the game right away. Since it is also not very difficult, the stages are relatively stress free, but become frustrating when you encounter some of the game's bugs and behaviors. For example, I didn't notice anything out of the ordinary during my first play through of the second day. The enemies were, in general weak-- the torrents of bullets are extremely slow and most of the enemies were easy to kill. But very annoyingly, I encountered a bug that did not open the door that was required to finish the stage. After repeating the stage 4 times with no success, I decided to reinstall the game, and that finally solved the problem. It was a real test of patience. Speaking about the stages, I really liked what I saw. Orange Moon has an absurd amount of secrets per stage, which makes you, as the player, want to explore. You'll also encounter tricky bosses which keep things interesting. And that feeling is important, because without the puzzles, boss fights, and secrets, the game lacks a certain objective to keep you playing. Without them, the game would be boring. What about the audio and visuals? I really liked the starting screen and the environment present in the stages, but even so, I can't forgive the terrible animations, from the feet of the your character to the movement of the bullets, that make it feel like we’re in the middle of the Matrix. If only the animations could be more fluid, this wouldn't be a problem. I also encountered one annoyance with the sound. When I was replaying the second day as described above, everything was very loud. I'm sure I set the volume lower, but it seems my settings never seemed to save. In short, I think that Orange Moon has a good foundation, but that it could have been better developed in order to avoid the various problems described here. If those bugs could be resolved, if the game had more of a challenge, and if the animations were more smooth, then the game would be much more interesting in general. [b]Final Evaluation:[/b] 58/100 [code][b]This review was commissioned by [url=https://store.steampowered.com/curator/33779114-pcgameit/]the PCGame!t Curator[/url], updated daily![/b][/code]

[h1] In A Nutshell [/h1] Orange Moon (OM) is a classic-style platform with RPG-style progression elements, set in an alien sci-fi environment. The story talks about MRC Corporation, an interplanetary mega-corporation determined to make huge profits, and you, one of its employees, sent to the mysterious Orange Moon, a dangerous but resource-rich planetoid, where so many before you lost their lives in obscure ways. The proposed gameplay comes straight out of the most classic platformers, featuring levels full of environmental hazards, such as spikes, fire, lasers and more to avoid, stationary and moving enemies using pre-determined patterns, some simple puzzles, and of course many secrets to discover. In addition to this, OM also features a quite rich progression system, in the form of upgrades for your weapons and mechanized suit, categorized per sector, and influencing things such as maximum ammo capacity, maximum health, weapon damage, bullet effectiveness, armor penetration, and more statistics. Combat is exclusively ranged, using the various weapons of your suit against the alien, and human, threats of the Orange Moon. Featuring machineguns, shotguns and even grenade launchers among its arsenal, your suit is more than capable of facing any threat, provided you can unlock weapons first. Combat is also influenced in a RPG style, featuring displayed HP damage, headshot bonuses, and vulnerability to different types of damage from enemy to enemies. Killing enemies and finding resource depots in the Moon will grant you points and reputation with the Corporation, two resources you can spend to get new weapons, or obtain upgrade modules to augment your suit and already unlocked ones. This game rewards careful explorers, as finding secrets and hidden items will grant a lot more upgrade points and resources, allowing you to have a much easier time in your adventure. Overall, Orange Moon is a good platformer, and I'm saying this as someone who really doesn't like this genre much, but in OM's case the RPG mechanics inserted in it make it a lot more interesting, while preserving aswell the core platform experience. The only downside would be the difficulty, pretty much moderate at best, and not as challenging as other similar games. I suggest this game to people that want to try an alternative and quite different experience than the usual platformer. [quote]Liked this review, and want to see more of the same quality? Check out [url=https://store.steampowered.com/curator/39323490]Tamaster's Review Archive[/url] to see all my Reviews in a single, convenient location.[/quote] [h1] Gameplay Analysis [/h1] [b] General Gameplay [/b] Gameplay will be divided mainly into Exploration, Combat and Puzzle Solving. While exploring, paying attention to hidden caves, upgrading your suit to fly you further with more fuel, and finding prospector drones to get in narrow passages, will be things that pay off in the long run, allowing access to much more combat and tactical options, and improving your chances of survival on the Moon. Puzzles are fairly simple and are mainly about fetching items to insert in machinery or slots, to progress with the adventure. Some more complex puzzles and enigmas could have been nice, but are not present. [b] Story [/b] Not very elaborate, and mainly consisting of one-way dialogues on the radio from various characters. Much of what happened on Orange Moon is left to the player for understanding, in a voluntarily lacking and obscure narrative style. No additional lore pieces are present. [b] Combat System [/b] Combat is half platform and half RPG style with elemental weaknesses, armor statistics, and different effectiveness of weapon on different enemies. It is overall satisfying and "meaty" enough to not be just a contour feature. [b] Content & Pricing [/b] Priced at 10€ normally, featuring no other modes than Campaign, and lasting about 4-5 Hours depending how thorough you are in finding secrets, i'd say the price is almost decent for the provided quality, maybe with a 20% discount would be better. Get it cheap if you can. [b] Balancing & Challenge [/b] The balance sadly is not very good. Enemies in general, and even boss fights, will all be blasted away by the power of your armored suit, provided you have been careful in finding most of secrets during each level. Some basic care in avoiding bullets, and environmental hazards, will prove all you need to survive the whole game without dying even once. The absence of any difficulty option does not help the situation. Challenge is pretty much on low standards for the most part. [h1] Technical Analysis [/h1] [b] Graphics [/b] Very good art style, with well-made 2D models, animations, effects and art. On the style side, Orange Moon delivers well for an Indie game, nothing to complain about. [b] Sound [/b] Good soundtrack, decent effects, no voice acting. Sometimes sound can bug in more intense battle situations and become a bit annoying, but that lasts briefly. [b] Performance & Stability [/b] Nothing to report. [b] AI [/b] Enemy AI uses a basic follow and attack pattern. [b] Quality of Life [/b] A mini-map would have been good. Nothing else other than this. [b] Bugs / Issues [/b] Resolution selector is absent, leading to strange "black borders" at the edges of the screens on very high (4K in my case) resolutions; these borders are probably part of the UI that gets stretched too much for this resolution and so bugs out a bit. Nothing to make the game unplayable though. Should be fine on 2K and 1080p. [h1] Conclusion & Rating [/h1] Orange moon is a nice little indie platformer with charming style and good mechanics, that delivers what is needed. Get it if you like sci-fi games and platformers. [h1] RATING: 6.5 / 10 [/h1]

I enjoyed this platformer. Reminds me a little of Dan Dare 3 i played on my amiga back in the day. The graphics are very well done and the music is good aswell. The dark, monotone outer space backgrounds creates a very gloomy atmosphere which i like. The puzzles are simple and it´s mostly just about finding stuff and blowing up some walls, nothing brainy. Some storytelling pops up ingame occasionally, but it didn´t really catch my attention since the action in the game is quite good with 6-7 different weapons you unlock through the game and can upgrade each one. Enemy variety aren´t too great and most of them are quite easy to deal with although some later enemies do have abit more diversity and are harder to deal with. There are some decent bossfights, but nothing spectacular or challenging. Needs more boss :D. A major issue i often encountered was soundclipping. When the action gets tense and there are too many sounds being played at once the overall sound just completely collapses and starts clipping like hell. Had to restart the game everytime to stop it. Also the sound of the jets went into a loop occasionally. Might be an issue with my computer, but i think it´s the game just messing up. Aiming you gun is annoying and seems broken. I played with mouse+keyboard since i wasn´t able to jump with my controllers. The aiming problem was the same with my controllers. In general i had no problem with the controls. I only encountered one bug that kept me from progressing, so i had to restart from a checkpoint. No big deal. In the end i do feel like the game could have had more content: more bosses, greater enemy variety/diversity and perhaps a more intriguing story, but for a 10€ game i guess it´s acceptable. Maybe this is just a warm up to an even greater game? Hope so.

I like the setting, visuals and atmosphere, but the gameplay is weak.

[h1] Yes, it's bad. Side scrolling platformer with a plenty of shooting. Cursor is locked so you can't shoot above certain degree. Movement is mostly ok, can dash, jump a few times in the air. Level design is blocky and boring to be honest. Few weapons at your disposal like flamethrower, grenades and machine gun. Enemies are weird, flying orbs, turrets and red bushes that you can burn to avoid damage. Buggy, I got to point where character die immediately after checkpoint, sorry have to restart the level. Game doesn't feel right, like something is missing and quite boring to explore further. I bet there're better games with such setting. [/h1]

[h1]Orange Moon[/h1] [h1]Story[/h1] Orange moon is a sci-fi, scrolling screen, action game. You basically control a guy out collecting resources for the company on the moon, but there are monsters and obstacles to get by. While there are some elements that are unique the only problem is that sometimes you need to use more fuel and avoid fighting.[h1]Score[/h1]7.1 out of 10 [h1]Mechanics[/h1] I recommend using the controller scheme for this game, because the keyboard style is a bit clunky and when i tried pressing the tab key to do upgrades, i could not get it to work, the possibility there is that i was doing the wrong combo, but i was clearly pressing tab and it didn't respond. But the controls themselves are just a teensy bit unfriendly, especially for those of us using a laptop with the game. [h1]Score[/h1]6.9 out of 10 [h1]Visuals[/h1] The visual appearance of the game is decent, the ground looks interesting, some of the lack of things like in some places a bit of color to indicate, that the pool area is not safe to walk in would help. But there are color schemes in the game, for things like the moon grass, etc. So the game does give you some range of color to help identify certain things. I'd say the color scheme for this game is fluid and smooth looking enough to give it a fairly good rating. [h1]Score[/h1] 7.4 out of 10 [h1]Final thoughts and overall gameplay fun[/h1] I didn't have too much fun, i wasn't sure what the resources look like because it doesn't really make it very obvious in the game. Younger kids might get frustrated with the mechanics if they aren't using a controller. I believe the targeting system could be improved a little because on the laptop, it's a little harder to get the shots fired accurately, especially if you have a touchpad mouse like my laptop does. It's an okay game, but I think there could have been a couple things to improve it, like maybe show us what the resource looked like so we knew what to look for in the level. The tutorial didn't really cover what the resources look like. [h1]Final Score[/h1] 7.6 out of 10 [quote] This review was submitted for [url=http://steamcommunity.com/groups/gaming_until_end]Gaming Until End[/url], through the generous contribution of [url=http://steamcommunity.com/id/HellCowON]HellCow.[/url] [/quote] (i'll have to go fix that. I pressed the wrong button and hadn't realized it, sorry bout that)

Definitely worth your time. While the gameplay itself really only exists to support the atmosphere, that atmosphere is incredible. Orange Moon is delightfully strange, with a strength of artistic vision that points to a passion project.

Когда уже разработчики поймут, что если для управления требуется больше двух кнопок, то первое, что необходимо реализовать - это настройки управления? А управление тут шикарное: одна только G для броска гранаты чего стоит. Сама игра какая-то мерзкая. Действие происходит в тишине, в темноте. На старте дают слабенький пулеметик с углом прицеливания в 30 градусов. Наши враги - кусты, сливающиеся с фоном и отнимающие полжизни, если на них наступить, а также самонаводящиеся шарики, которые наш пулеметик не способен уничтожить с 5 выстрелов. Также встречаются пушки, на которые придется потратить половину боезапаса, либо кинуть гранату, если позволяет растяжка пальцев. Дальше второго уровня не осилил.