- Game: “Banana Rescue”
- Developer: Emile (Itch.io Creator Name: emile_Rabinovich)
- Playtester: Amanda Garny
- Date & Time: Friday, October 9, 2026
- Version: Final Version
- Build: I played the WebGL build in-browser on itch.io.
- Play Sessions: 2 playthroughs, completing each level. ~15 minutes per playthrough.
- Positive: (1) The visuals were great, your models came out well as did your textures. I like how not only were there different levels with increasing difficulty, but each had a lot of variation from the last, including introducing new features in later levels (I especially liked your work on the geysers). (2) My favorite aspect of your game is how once completed, that level earns a star next to it in the level menu to mark it as completed. This also persists if you keep other levels, quit a level, go back to the main menu - it only goes away if you refresh the whole browser page. Having the restart button in the level end screen prevents losing these stars as well (good forethought).
- Suggestions: (1) I think your texture and material work was very good, one of my only suggestions is to maybe scale up the lava texture a little bit. It can be a little hard on the eyes after looking at it for an extended period of time, and having larger consistent blocks of color (rocks in the lava will be larger if the pattern is scaled up) as opposed to a brighter, more intricate texture could help with that. (2) I also think slowing the final set of platforms down on level 1 could be beneficial. With the character’s movement being so light, it made it difficult to land on a platform far enough/fast enough to actually make progress. Slowing these down ever so slightly could compensate for how floaty the player’s movement is, giving them a bit of an easier time on that last section (as it is only level one - I personally struggled with this final section of level one than I did in the entirety of the higher levels, although that could also be due to player error).
- Major Issues: I did not notice any major game-breaking issues.
- Notes: N/A (Listed above)