Love the very Snorbery sense of humor! Do not love the damn arena and not having enough ammo but TBF, that's a troll! I like the bouncy castle a lot and I like the stupid wizard! Really nice PS art boards at the end, too! Fun stuff and while it's kinda longish, it's not TOO long either. Another fun La Vie!
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I haven't spent a lot of time with shooty ZZT games, though I can certainly appreciate arcade vibes! I think I really struggle to remember to treat different colored things different ways so that is trolly! Like playing games like Ikaruga really breaks my brain. I can't really hold that kind of thing in my brain while trying to also dodge bullets and such so this was really hard for me! Good troll there and maybe the only one of this year's crop of Oktrollberfest games that really works on that mechanical level.
I also really like the multiple characters and the way they sort of have different stats and endings as a result! I know you were struggling making this but it feels like you made a lot of interesting and cool TECH and then felt rushed to make levels to use that tech, which is a classic move I pull all the time! Including my game for this year!
This feels like it fell out of a wormhole from years and years ago like I should understand everything in it except I understand nothing! It's like the feeling of waking up from a dream you completely understand and then as soon as you try to explain it to someone else you can't remember it well anymore and you start doubting yourself.
Really fun little arcade style game that reminds me of playing stuff on my hand-me-down Commodore 64 I got when the system was already 10 years old. I tried over and over but never got more than 89 points! Fun spending on upgrades, but actually if you think about, some of the upgrades actually make the game harder. That's a clever troll.
Very fun, in-depth little dungeon crawl. You got me over and over again with the fake puzzles and backtracking! Especially the time where you were like, "Get this key now or time for mega backtracking!" when I was already carrying a key and had no choice but to mega backtrack. I salute your trolling.
The little outdoors segment with the coin collecting and the indoors area of the arcade are both charming in a lo-fi 1990s ZZT way that I really enjoyed. The playable arcade games that are broken semi-purpose are both fun to mess with and super maddening! I REALLY wanted to play Tuna Diver because that name is funny. Aeroforce reminded of wiling away hours playing Yoshi's Road Apple and PDSE and Pong made me remember briefly working on a game called "Centipede 2" and immediately giving up because ZZT centipedes don't work like Centipede centipedes! Fun little project that really took me back to the '90s.