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Paganitzu for VZ200's itch.io pageResults
| Criteria | Rank | Score* | Raw Score |
| Platform Usage | #13 | 3.466 | 4.143 |
| Overall | #15 | 2.719 | 3.250 |
| Theme | #15 | 2.510 | 3.000 |
| Fun | #16 | 2.271 | 2.714 |
| Game Design | #16 | 2.630 | 3.143 |
Ranked from 7 ratings. Score is adjusted from raw score by the median number of ratings per game in the jam.
Reviewer Notes - Required
Use either the VZEm/WinVZ emulator or a real VZ200 computer to play. You can get the emulator at:
https://bluebilby.com/sdm_categories/tools/
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Nice simple idea, interesting platform I've never heard before, I had only issues with not very fast responding controls, like I had to hold the key well to move, couldn't make some fast moves back and forth in the second level with the spiders, so they touched me easily before I could sneak and get the keys.
I love me my Paganitzu! As you can guess, my game is also heavily inspired by it :)
Well done, esp. in breaking down some of the original level designs to work on the smaller screen!
Oh, cool! Thanks! :)
Woaw, I never heard of this machine, thanks for shining some light on it!
The game itself is interesting, albeit very challenging. The concept is interesting though, and I love the overall graphics and sound of the game.
Congrats on keeping lesser know machines alive and making us discover them through game jams like this one!
Thank you!
This is pretty cool! I couldn't get past the second stage - those spiders move way too fast for me to dodge them. But overall, this game looks and feels "retro." If someone can play it on real hardware I'd love to see footage of that!
I have a VZ300 I've played it on. Don't have any footage of that, though as I have no TV-out capture card and nobody to hold a phone to film it hehe. Thanks for your comment! :)
The two stages with the snakes I played were nice.
The stages with the spiders are almost unplayable. The reason is that the spiders are killing you, even if you are on a neighbour tile. Aside from that, even if this was not the case, the spiders move to the tiles where the keys were.
This made the second stage extremely difficult to pass.
There is also another issue, the keys are not too responsive. Seems to me that there is a timer in there which counts some frames before the move happens. In other words, simple fast clicks of the buttons do not work.
This made the second stage a real frustration and actually the reason I had no desire to play again.
You should be able to watch the video on the page and it shows how to do level 2. Thanks for your comment! :)
Looks like there was a misunderstanding. I played two stages with snakes, 1 and 3. The second stage was too hard to pass, especially with the problem with the keys I mentioned earlier. I lost on the 4th stage.
Can also be played in a browser by dragging the paga.vz file into this page:
https://nippur72.github.io/laser310-emu/