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[Marble MADness]

Needs work.

It was a decent game. I enjoyed playing it but when it comes down to the sripting you could have done better. For a game like this i think it is crucial to have proper physics. The ball did not accelerate or deccelerate nor did it bounce even the tiniest bit. The physics are what makes and breaks games like these. So when you release the next one please try to work on that.

Another thing was your dyncamic text boxes that record the score were too small. The score kept getting cut off. Whenever my score was 60 it looked like this:

6(

The 0 was only half way in there.

The music was okay and suprisingly didn't annoy me. Its actually stuck in my head right now. :)

I think that's all i have to say. Good luck on the next one.

The-Mercenary responds:

Ok sorry about that but I cant fux it now the fla is on another pc. but As far as the physics go, I'm almost done with Marble MADness 2, and it has 20 levels. But the major improvenment is in the ball, it has way faster gameplay and the accleleration is is about 20x faster than the first! The ball bounces, and no more bugs, yea no more stupid bugs, ok there is one where you can go through the wall, but in the areas that are blocked, you cant go through there! DId I mention it has 4 difficulty modes, character select, level select(you need to win parts of the game to get passwords and unlock the levels)and a level skip mode whick can be unlocked after you beat the game. O and a major improvement over the graphics! Does this sound good or what. I think I can send you the swf of it. but I'm probably gonna finish it in a week or so.(cause I been working on it for like 2 months).....well this was a long response, btw didnt you use to be star cleaver.

[Vanguard Mercenary]

Good but had drawbacks.....

...what i mean is, its a great game. Its know for a fact how much work went into it. I know you put lots of time and effort into it. The only real drawbacks are the difficulty(i may just be bad=P) and the lag. I even dropped all the processor intensive options and put it on LOW quality and it still lagged a lot. I even have a decent machine(1.4GHz processor). I know you know this, and i know it would take a lot to fix it in this game but for next time, try and optimize a bit more. TutiTV gave great advice in his review and i hope you take it next time.

For a game, graphics aren't everything, the gameplay is. So that should come first. Don't let your gameplay take a hit just for the graphics, its not worth it.

So, to speak of the other aspects, they were all great. The graphics of course were excellent and the sound quality was good. I especially loved all the options you gave for this game, like the custom control(you're supposed to tell me how you did that=P) and the memory options, just to name a few.

So, in conclusion, good game, could have been better. So i will just wish you luck next time. This has probably been a great learning experience so i'm sure your next game will be loads better. Practice makes perfect and that's where you're headed.

-Star_Cleaver

NegativeONE responds:

1.4 isn't great, lol. Mine's 2.1. Ah well.
Yeah, I know gameplay is paramount, but I wanted this to be a graphical masterpiece, like what Squaresoft was setting out for with the original Parasite Eve (gameplay turned out great regardless).
Next time I'll let gameplay have top priority tho. I'm getting a lot of low ratings because of lag.
A very mixed review. I think you'd really like it if you played it on a nice machine.
PS- I WILL now tell you how to do custom config. ;)