jeffrobot's game Reviews on Newgrounds

[Icycle]

great game

Awesome job, man. This is a sweet, sweet little game. I had a good time with it and enjoyed showing it to my friends. So beautiful.

There were a few things that kept me from giving it a ten:
-It was difficult to discern how close I could be to one of those ice volcanoes.
-I didn't like that some of the puzzles were not meant to be solved your first time through. For instance, when the buildings are crashing down around you, it's impossible to know where you need to be to survive the top of the building falling onto you. I just had to learn through trial and error. It might keep the excitement up if each puzzle could be solved with quick reflexes and keen perception, rather than forcing us to have guinea pig lives.

The cinematic touches were excellent. Being released from the enclosing ice was a great scene.

Keep up the sweet work

DampGnat responds:

Thanks jeffrobot.
I guess the trial and error thing might be down to the fact that it doesn't FEEL like a memory game, when that was originally my intention. Its true, you have to die a lot to work out the best route, but this challenges memory over intuition and yeah, that's not everyone's cup to tea.
Incidentally, I placed bubbles at key points to mark where best to stop etc. but this was a loose system.