review time. This time I am recording my playtesting, here are videos of this playtest:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uaKjqp5_GSU
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0QJaa1RA3NM
(Notice I am still figuring out some details, like now my recording output was to my C-drive, had to change it to external HDD when ran out of space)
Actually many things I said about last years game, will apply to this one too. And I very much like that you now added the jumping around feature, as in last year I pointed out that jumping around was pretty much fun and was thinking game could have been about that, and now it is.
Unfortunately you have clearly ran out of time again. It is difficult to even say which one is better, this or previous years. This was clearly heading towards a better game than previous years, but it feels like you ran out of time even more bad this year than last year, since it just seems so imcomplete. Like as example all the bibles/enemies are exactly same. Last year there was difference.
Finding 50 bibles is simply too much, in its current state game cant handle that many and it was quite boring after a while. However, basically I did enjoy looking for them. But maybe total of 10-20 bible around had been good amount. I had found 41 bibles and was actually sort of looking forward looking for the rest, since it felt bit like a challenge finding the last ones as easy (and therefore boring ones due to too many) had been found already, but unfortunately as you can see from the video, i encountered a bug and got stuck. Unfortunately I didnt know of any suicide button to fix that problem, so had to simply quit and didnt have interest enough to collect all the bibles again, so this time I didnt pass your game.
Graphics look good. I very much like the friendly feeling of them and city did feel sort of living, although people were just standing still. Also the size of the city was quite good, that it didnt feel too small, and wasnt too big either to feel like I would never find the bibles. I always thought that I would eventually find them all, since city was of suitable size.
Jumping was fun and climbing too. However, I would have liked climbing to being faster, and camera to move away from my character to see better. Climbing slowness however got fixed when i realised i could keep jumping up while climbing, after that going up the buildings was basically fun and I liked it. However, controling felt very difficult for aiming purposes. By the way, I liked the option to use pad, although I didnt use one. But you can see many times I am having difficulty in aiming at the bible, and another problem was that I wasnt quite sure if I got the bible or not. Didnt actually realise to watch the coin, if the number had went up, then i obviosuly had got it. Oh, and one thing I had liked had been to have right mouse button for jumping. That way I could have kept one hand on keyboard, and another on mouse for beating purposes.
In its current state this game is pretty funny in amusing way. It is bit unclear who are the bad guys. For it seems your task is to go and beat the guys up to get their bibles. Based upon getting more coins when you get bibles, I guess you sell them. So seems to me like player is the bad guy, stealing bibles from people who defend their bibles and sell them for money.
This could allegorically work well as some people shoving their own view of bible to others by taking their bibles (views) away by beating them up.
Anyway, this looked like a game which could have been very good had you been able to complete it, even now it showed already that it looked good and could well have been real good, just falling bit short now due to you obviously running out of time. But even as it is, while it might not be most exciting game, it is definitely worth showing off, it is something to be proud of.
Oh, and the musics, main menu music was very nice, and ingame musics fit well the current state, it made me even wonder if this was some sort of tribute to NES wisdom tree games or something, since right now the plot is something they could have had (go beat the guys to steal their bibles), and with that NES kind of music, it seemed really fitting. I liked that, and while it might be accidental, it was very fitting in its current state.
I wonder how much difference it had made had there been some sounds. At least bible collecting sound had been real helpful.
All in all, I did like playing it for a while. but 50 bibles was simply too many. It became too repititive very fast.