I really liked the monster design, and the shaking screen effect that happens when you walk is really satisfying. I do with you could move a bit faster, since if two or more dragons show up at once it's almost impossible to dodge all of their fire attacks.
Honestly a great entry. Loads of fun, great theme interpretation, great optics (Especially the evolve animation).
Only problem is that sometimes it feels like you couldn't have done anything to avoid damage:
- Depending on where a helicopter drops a bomb, it is impossible to dodge it. - Dragons seem to have inconsistent fire speed and sometimes they fire so fast that you can't "fit between shots". - Collision detection feels very unforgiving. Everything gives you full damage even if it seems to miss or just graze your legs.
The running bombs are great because whenever you eat one it was entirely your own fault.
That end-of-game screen *_* Oh man. So emotional~ Great monster design, and an awesome interpretation of the theme!
I really liked this game. It was hard, but I eventually was able to get the hang of the rhythm of it; I particularly liked how you added a couple of confusing inputs, so I didn't just run around eating absolutely everything without thinking about it (I tried licking the bombs, the helicopters, the dragons, the bombs walking around on the ground...)
Pretty much the only thing missing is a soundtrack, though at this point I feel like that might be something of a genre convention... ? I feel like there's a lot of these games involving monsters and killing things (albeit generally not from the perspective of the monster) that are SFX only. So, iffy on it.
I liked it! Great juice. The damage could have been communicated a little better (didn't realize the tongue took damage), but I kept trying after losing, so that's saying something. Good work!
A very clever game, I like the staged gameplay where you emerge gradually. It becomes pretty hard to avoid the hazards later but I like this game a lot.
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It was exciting to see the monster transform. Things like that makes you want to try again.
Only problem is that sometimes it feels like you couldn't have done anything to avoid damage:
- Depending on where a helicopter drops a bomb, it is impossible to dodge it.
- Dragons seem to have inconsistent fire speed and sometimes they fire so fast that you can't "fit between shots".
- Collision detection feels very unforgiving. Everything gives you full damage even if it seems to miss or just graze your legs.
The running bombs are great because whenever you eat one it was entirely your own fault.
I kept wanting to eat the dragons :)
I really liked this game. It was hard, but I eventually was able to get the hang of the rhythm of it; I particularly liked how you added a couple of confusing inputs, so I didn't just run around eating absolutely everything without thinking about it (I tried licking the bombs, the helicopters, the dragons, the bombs walking around on the ground...)
Pretty much the only thing missing is a soundtrack, though at this point I feel like that might be something of a genre convention... ? I feel like there's a lot of these games involving monsters and killing things (albeit generally not from the perspective of the monster) that are SFX only. So, iffy on it.
Anyway, thanks for the game!