Judge feedback

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• When the first encountered “S” kills me, I know I'm playing a roguelike:) While I don't have anything against a game that doesn't forgive the player his errors, this one seemed simply too difficult to me. Even though in my second run I found the possibly strongest weapon (great sword) at first level and my life was a chain of successes, I couldn't do almost anything against a few strongest types of opponents (including the Lemon King). Still it was pleasant to play such a classical game (rare for a 7DRL) containing many proven ideas.
• Overall: The Infiltration of Citrus Fortress is an overall average entry for this year's 7-Day roguelike challenge. It scores high in roguelikeness because it plays very, very close to the classic roguelike formula. Despite some overly random elements messing with balance, it's a fun game with a bit of charm and at least a play or two is recommended. Good work overall; week well-spent. Completeness: The game runs pretty seamlessly overall, but there is a bug that affects the ability to pick up items if they happen to drop on a corpse. Also, the probabilities/maths/balancing of the game were not planned. I want to call out in particular, back to positives, a feature of being able to swap weapons/items easily and leave one on the floor and come back to get it later; not having to merely destroy unusable items is nice. Aesthetics: Standard roguelike aesthetics. The walls are more icon/tile-like and the entities are text-mode, and this reviewer would have rather seen more commitment one way or the other. One controls piece jumps out which is the inability to hold a direction to go in that direction. The monster descriptions are fun and on theme, though, and there's a bit of flavor text here and there that goes a long way. Fun: The game is fun for a few plays, but this reviewer found it a little too random to be engaging on a sustained level; at a certain point, between the randomness of item drops, player hits, and monster hits, the results of a given mission start to feel much more random than skill-based, and the most efficient method of healing is resting, normally. There's a lot of potential here; a bit more work on balance generally in the player's favor and specifically further away from randomness and luck-based elements would go a long way. Innovation: There's a little randomly chosen/generated menu of items to choose from for special level-up bonuses. That's about the most innovative thing. Scope: This is about what's expected for a 7DRL. Roguelikeness: This fits the bill! 3/3.