This is my review of Pollen Panic
Overall
Stylish graphics in a very faithful arcade shell. Gameplay is too basic unfortunately and sounds are too loud! Deep lack of game feel/juice, particles, shakes.
Graphics
Excellent and coherent graphics, there’s a huge effort here and it pays a lot. Proper UI with a bit of mixed font styles, I would have use one or max two font styles. I see the same problem I had in my submission: maze is too small in the viewport which made me add camera movement (like it or not). There’s not a definite solution to this, maybe I would have made the viewport more square.
Sound
Music is appropriate even if a bit repetitive. Sound is too loud, I have reduced the volume to 50% and it sounds almost right.
Gameplay
Unfortunately, this is the weakest aspect of this submission. There’s not many challenges, game loop is repetitive, even it looks faithful to the OG.
Buggy character movement, the player doesn’t stay in the grid. The corridor width looks and feels bigger than the player hotbox. Sometimes you cannot turn at crossroads because of this. First level = tutorial, finally some proper arcade onboarding!