Tiny Shareware Demo Reviews

pinback · Post by **pinback** » Thu Aug 17, 2006 11:27 am

Clash 'n' Slash, World's Away - Crimsonland with a spaceship. The demo time is enough to be satisfied, unless you really really gotta blow up more slow-moving aliens.

Titan Attacks - The best Space Invaders clone of all time, but the same problem as the other PuppyGames, which is that it gets challenging only after about 70 or 80 easy waves. Demo time might not be enough, but just because it takes so long to get through the easy stuff.

Fragmentor - Solid Asteroids clone, with different kinds of rocks and retro grafix. The demo time was enough.

Tradewinds Legends - Extremely well-done, fun high-seas trading game with story, amusing writing, great music and sound, and all that. Demo time definitely NOT enough, but the game is very easy, so I couldn't justify buying a game that I know I'd just sail through. That being said, I might yet buy this.

Eets - Cute, Lemmings-esque puzzle game, but too cute and too slow to get going.

Smugglers 3 - Status: BOUGHT. Best space trading game I've seen so far, if only for the reason that apparently unlike all other space trading games, they actually have the INTERNET in this space-faring future, so you can actually see what things cost all over the galaxy. (Note to space-trading-game-makers: it's not "fun" for us to have to get a pencil and paper to make notes on stuff.) Good enough that the grammar problems don't even bother me. Yes, I know I has got a laser.

Dungeons & Empires - From the maker of Smugglers 3, an interesting hybrid of a resource-gathering city builder, and RPG. On the surface, you build your city, and to make money and get more skills, you dungeon-crawl and kill demon rats and such. Might go back to it, but the dungeon crawls are very repetitive and boring.

Lux - Decent Risk clone. Played it for 20 minutes, at which point I remembered that I don't like Risk.

Mutant Storm - Robotron-esque kinda thing. Supposedly the best game ever, but it didn't really grab me.

Alright, there ya go.

BEN'S PICKS:
Smugglers 3
Tradewinds Legends
Titan Attacks

Ice Cream Jonsey · Post by **Ice Cream Jonsey** » Thu Aug 17, 2006 12:23 pm

pinback wrote:Clash 'n' Slash, World's Away - Crimsonland with a spaceship. The demo time is enough to be satisfied, unless you really really gotta blow up more slow-moving aliens.

Did they really call it "World's Away"? Ugh. That's horrible.

What is a good price to charge for shareware? Is there a certain point where you would say, "Screw it, I'm buying this" even if the game had some faults because the price was so low?

pinback · Post by **pinback** » Thu Aug 17, 2006 12:55 pm

I bought Dream Match Tennis because it was $4.95. If it had been any more, I would have balked. (Balk being a tennis term for running over and punching the linesman in the penis.)

pinback · Post by **pinback** » Thu Aug 17, 2006 12:59 pm

pinback wrote: Tradewinds Legends -

...so I couldn't justify buying a game that I know I'd just sail through...

This pun was not intended, by the way.

hygraed · Post by **hygraed** » Mon Sep 25, 2006 8:25 pm

Lugaru

This game is nuts. It's a third-person close-combat game with anthropomorphic rabbits. Ragdoll physics and a deep combat system make it an incredibly engaging and freaky game.

Worm · Post by **Worm** » Mon Sep 25, 2006 10:44 pm

I'd rather dial a combo then be arsed to time the catch all action button for each situation. I guess I'll give it a few more runs, but I really don't see where the combat system is deep, just where it's different.

Edit: Oh, and it doesn't auto-save progress? What the hell.

hygraed · Post by **hygraed** » Mon Sep 25, 2006 11:39 pm

Worm wrote:I'd rather dial a combo then be arsed to time the catch all action button for each situation. I guess I'll give it a few more runs, but I really don't see where the combat system is deep, just where it's different.

Edit: Oh, and it doesn't auto-save progress? What the hell.

I feel like it's deeper than most because of the sheer number of ways you can hurt your opponenet. Environmental interaction is far more prevalent in this game than many like it; for example, you can run at someone to knock them down, then smash their head against a rock before killing them by breaking their spine with a well-placed kick.

It saves your progress in the full version, but not in the demo for some reason.

Worm · Post by **Worm** » Tue Sep 26, 2006 1:11 pm

It saves your progress in the full version, but not in the demo for some reason.

Maybe it's to dominate all the 20 dollar bills they can?

It's cute, really. However, I don't like the entire idea of this catch all action button. My moves are constantly getting countered (I refuse to sit and wait to counter) and the roll after being countered seems to work half of the time and the other half I seem to roll into something which sends me into ragdoll mode anyway. Combine that with the baffling absence of a auto-target key when the computer enemies obviously fight with such precision, and I'm left preferring that they just map every single amount of depth to a key.

A - Knock Down
B+R - Smash Head against rock
ALT+K+S+W - Kill them by breaking their spine with a well placed kick.

That, I'd be good at even if I had to use my toes. This hoodoo timing, outflanking, and don't get frustrated and quit (I can't imagine anyone is good at this game) just doesn't jive.

hygraed · Post by **hygraed** » Tue Sep 26, 2006 2:11 pm

Worm wrote:Maybe it's to dominate all the 20 dollar bills they can?

It's only $10 if you have stairs in your house.

And hell yeah it's a difficult game, and the controls definitely take some getting used to if you're accustomed to fighting games with elaborate button combos. With some practice, though, you'll be able to pull off fluid and effective combinations of attacks.

Worm · Post by **Worm** » Tue Sep 26, 2006 2:49 pm

I'm sorry. Is there a special link on the forums that cost ten dollars to get ten dollars off the twenty dollar game? Or am I missing some coupon input thing?

It's not even that I'm so accustomed to games where people assume the other guy wins because he knows more moves. It's simply that there is no lock-on and the countering/recovery feels like Shenmue without the instruction to press the button.

Also, now the demo is constantly crashing on me when I beat an enemy. Whatever, thanks for the recommendation.

I will recommend Toribash! You can go find the thread where some guy is describing sex with his girlfriend if you want something more in depth.

hygraed · Post by **hygraed** » Tue Sep 26, 2006 8:28 pm

Worm wrote:I'm sorry. Is there a special link on the forums that cost ten dollars to get ten dollars off the twenty dollar game? Or am I missing some coupon input thing?

It's not even that I'm so accustomed to games where people assume the other guy wins because he knows more moves. It's simply that there is no lock-on and the countering/recovery feels like Shenmue without the instruction to press the button.

Also, now the demo is constantly crashing on me when I beat an enemy. Whatever, thanks for the recommendation.

I will recommend Toribash! You can go find the thread where some guy is describing sex with his girlfriend if you want something more in depth.

Well, whatever, I guess it's not for everyone. Good of you to at least give it a shot, though.

And if you reconsider, you can just e-mail the guy and ask about a goon discount.

Guest · Post by **Guest** » Tue Sep 26, 2006 8:31 pm

For Christ's Sake!

Suddenly assume everyone will pick a game with fighting rabbits, idiotic combo manuavers, general swords, and other oddities of the anamorphic variety?

My friends, I have thought about these "furries" having their first sexual break through playing Starfox; this has ruined starfox for me and should ruin it also for you.

A fox with breasts. We'll fuck that.

And I haven't played the game, and won't. Because of the rabbits? No... Because I won't bother with a game which assumes I will pay for it!

Lysander · Post by **Lysander** » Wed Sep 27, 2006 12:16 am

COWARD! Identify yourself!

Worm · Post by **Worm** » Wed Sep 27, 2006 8:23 am

Hey, guest, I don't know if you're one of these older guys who just loves Pixar films, but I'm guessing for the sake of my post. You see, people will draw any two things fucking. So, any furry who isn't an outright animal fucker, really is either trying to be hip, or just too ugly to get fucked so he found a group with other ugly fucks.

It's not a fetish. Also, are you claiming you didn't want to bone Lola Bunny from Space Jam?

Ice Cream Jonsey · Post by **Ice Cream Jonsey** » Wed Sep 27, 2006 11:43 am

To get back on track, there is a whole collection of remakes available here:

http://www.remakes.org/comp2006/screenshots.php?page=1

I am grabbing the Ghostbusters and Star Wars one to start off. Who is with me?

Draal · Post by **Draal** » Wed Sep 27, 2006 4:56 pm

Jonsey: played Cholo? I'd enjoy your insights into Cholo.

Ice Cream Jonsey · Post by **Ice Cream Jonsey** » Wed Sep 27, 2006 7:04 pm

Is Cholo in the link I posted? I will google-fu it if not. I'll give that game a shot. Thanks for the heads-up, Draal. It's appreciated.

Draallllllll · Post by **Draallllllll** » Wed Sep 27, 2006 7:29 pm

Cholo is apparently a Commodore 64 game. Played the remake for about five minutes and thought "If everything didn't look the same, it'd be great!"

Novella got me into this until I actually played the game...
http://www.the-underdogs.info/games/c/c ... ovella.pdf

Remake...
http://cholo.ovine.net/terminal/index.php

Worm · Post by **Worm** » Thu Sep 28, 2006 2:59 pm

Their robotron remake uses the mouse. The mario brothers remake is really laughable.

Ice Cream Jonsey · Post by **Ice Cream Jonsey** » Sun Nov 26, 2006 2:24 am

I demand everyone go get Grid Wars 2.

Here.

If you like anything on this site, nay, anything at all... you will love that game.

It (and Dwarf Fortress) are single-handedly making me revisit the top 100 list in my mind. DAMN YOU GRID WARS TWO!

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