Woah, I’m the one critiquing a game made by David and Mike? (And also Sean! Hi Sean!) Man, how the tables have turned….
In all seriousness though, you got a really cool game here. I know you guys have a special controller planned, so take everything I’m about to share with a big ‘ol grain of salt. I played with a dualsense controller instead and it worked pretty well. I’m also assuming you have some sort of special vertical monitor/display, since the game didn’t seem to play well with my monitor, with full screen having the classic Unity 2D blue background and windowed being cut off at the bottom. Not the end of the world, but I figured it was worth mentioning.
The game itself knocked it of the park in the art and sound departments, with the art being fleshy and gross in the best way possible, and the sound being squishy and also appropriately “gross” to match!
Obviously part of the fun/difficulty is gonna come from using the special controller, so I can only speak to the experience so much, but what’s here is simple but effective due to the plentiful feedback in terms of sound and visuals. One thing that confused me a little was that it wasn’t immediately obvious that the blue fruit dudes were the one you had to press. In my mind, it makes a little more sense that you’d wanna squeeze to juice the big ones, so I found my wires getting crossed. The spiky fruit was pretty clear to not hit, though. I was also confused whether I wanted to squeeze the batteries or not, because at least when I ran the game I couldn’t see my score/timer at all. The bottom left of the screen was completely blank. I restarted the game a few times to try to get to the bottom of the issue but the score and timer were both missing. Didn’t impact my experience THAT much, but I figured I’d also mention!
At the end of the day, you have a fun game when it’s being played in optimally, so I can’t wait to see it played properly with the right controller! I really hope this gets into the pop-up arcade so I can pick your brains about the controller, I’m sure you know I’m a big fan of games with alt controls! Great work guys!