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[The Breach]

This game is art

Everything is made in beautiful details, awesome. But the graphics and theme is the same as that of Alien Disorder's one. These two games are alike.
I expected you would make something more advanced for your hit detection, than just touching an enemy and getting damaged. Monsters that spit at player and try to predict where to shoot constantly miss.

I noticed 1 glitch: when the monster, that can jump and wears a yellow hat, dies, its dying corpse sometimes freezes in the air. You must run gravity scripts for corpses, because monsters can die while they are in the air. That's just one glitch I seen repeatedly, and everything else is fine.

You failed very hard at making a frightening atmosphere. I'll tell you why. Because the main character is too "strong". And because he wears a massive marine suit and is not afraid of anything. And all this stuff from your game, story, monsters, are so generic, I think I've seen similar things a hundred of times.

But I'll tell my secret. I freaked out in your game once, when I was so excited shooting a thing that spits on me from the ceiling, and there was flashlight illuminating in front of me, so while I was doing that I didn't notice a red bombing ant coming from behind. I was like "AAAA--", jumped from my chair and killed it.

Still it is all very generic, good artwork though.
+8 for artwork
+4 for programming
-1 for bad keyboard control decisions (tap arrow key two times made it hard to complete last level as I fell of platforms)
-1 for bad design decisions (when I get hit I face the other side I was facing)
-1 for not letting me shoot at different angles (notebook users could aim as well as with mouse, because camera follows the protagonist)
-1 for some AI decisions (the AI is dumb, monsters often fall off the platforms, and flying monsters try to get on same height with me, but they hit a wall and fly the other way)

there's no perfect game

[< lightBot >]

Hard

Good programming skills, and I didn't see any bugs in this game. The concept is not new, because it is similar to other isometric puzzles, like isoball, or something, I don't remember. So the concept is not really too exceptional.
But the functions are a good idea.

You've done a good job, my head didn't hurt like now in a long time. Thank you...

[BeatStreak 3000]

Not a challenge

I've played through 20 levels, made a few mistakes.
But you made the game in some places too easy: enemy paper, rock and scissors have different colors, making it recognizable by not even looking at it.
The graphics are a bit weird. I didn't believe that rock was a rock, paper paper and so on. It more looked like this: at first time paper looked like a rotating piece of DNA. Rock looked like snowball, composed of little pieces of paper, and scissors were so ugly that I couldn't even tell what that was.

Following rhythm was impossible. All songs were absolutely different from each other, and I can't tell how you assigned the 3 lines and types of enemies under voices of the songs. The game is a lot easier to play with sound turned off. Really. That way this is more of a Defense game.

May be make hotkeys? Because I tired of pressing everything with mouse at around level 11. You could use QWE,ASD,ZXC keys for corresponding lines and corresponding items. Probably worth an update for future players.

What about bosses? Some kind of special boss arena with all lines merged into on. And boss is, like, a figure composed of enemies that rotate. And you'd need to hit right enemies with right things.
You could also make different types of enemies have different speed! For example rock would go faster than everything else. Then it'd take more precision to launch the correct thing. That would ruin your idea with rhythm, though.

As far as I can see, some player got 6 times more score than me. I guess the problem lies within the Streak bar, which purpose is totally unknown to me, sorry. But those people somehow managed to figure it out.

Overall, there's too little art (mostly blue highlighted text, which is not art), and the idea is self-exclusive. You named the player's side "Shield". That means he has to defend. Rhythm is hard to follow. Then it's not rhythm, it is a defense game. But that's just me.

Warnockworld responds:

Hotkeys are already in the game, you can use qwe, asd, zxc, or numpad as short cuts.

[Hello Worlds!]

What's so dangerous?

Very good. 10/10 for anti-steal protection.
And usually sounds from Internet sound like crap, but in your game all sounds are wonderful.. unless you edited them to make them better.

[Project Flame [demo2]]

Why use photoshop

You don't need photoshop to make levels and draw animations. It all can be done same quality and in vector graphics.

And about the gameplay. I didn't find dodging/crouching of any use. I jumped over rolling monsters and missiles. Also the monsters in the game's current state have no life (I mean they're strictly scripted - they just stand around and do nothing while waiting until I engage with them. Why do monsters not at least wander around or growl or do something like sleeping when they're not fighting?). I would also suggest to make the monster jump on the player while rolling, thus forcing him to dodge/crouch. That would make some sense of the dodge ability.
The programming seems not good enough for the graphics, which are awesome. The programming needs more work, like hitting the roof while jumping, or firing while jumping and monsters which act with more aggression when the hero is reloading and adding an A-Life system (system which always controls all characters' behavior). That would make a perfect game and a rich world to expand.

[The Visitor]

Absolutely crazy

I gave this instant 5/5 after the worm went straight into the cat's ass from the window.

[The Interactive Report 2]

Absolute truth

If not only the grammar mistakes I'd give this 5/5. But who cares, 4/5 is good enough.