yea it looks pretty, except the FOV is so low it made me nauseous. right now i feel like im gonna puke i think i need to go for a walk and rest my eyes i only played for like 5 minutes but yea. is the fov set to like 70 or something? i think it should be at least 90
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this game is pretty frustrating but i got them nude on every level. C was a nightmare but i found a workable strat, even managed it with 1 point extra. but yea C and D couldve been better designed, the game is heavily favoured towards defence already and those maps make it alot worse, because with the goal in the corner, the potential angles of attack are literally halved. when the map funnels into a single point like that its so trivial to defend. i think that D was better because there was only 1 reload point and it wasnt directly in the middle of the 2 best paths to reach the goal (like in c).
getting them to target the right girls is such a hassle, it feels like my own characters are working against what im trying to do most of the time. this is especially frustrating when i panic an enemy on my side of the map. i think that panicking an enemy should probably be something im rewarded for, but when theyre right up close to my girls, panicked, it can feel like its impossible to position correctly to hit someone bolting towards my goal. ive tried to abuse this myself by having one of my girls tank all the hits so i can sneak another past for free, but the other team end up ignoring my tank. (theyre doing this despite my other girls being further away than the tank, whats up w that??? do they operate under different rules to the player?) also, i dont think its a good thing generally that a girl can get stunlocked if they keep getting hit. ive had a few games where i had a girl stuck on the enemies side of the map that i couldnt move away, or had an enemy perpetually panicking right in front of me wether im trying to do that or not. with these points in mind, seems to me like panicked girls shouldnt be targetable.
another good idea, i think, would be to make girls with no balloons low priority targets, so that even if the balloonless babe is closer than a ballooned-up bimbo, the girl who actually poses a threat is the one targeted. AND friendly fire shouldnt exist (i dont know if its meant to because it seems extremely inconsistent, but) every time its happened my face went bright beet red and smoke plumed out of my ears
also i wish the opponents were actually aggressive ever?? theres moments where i have zero ammo and all 3 girls out of position meanwhile the opponents are ammo'd up and they RUN BACK TO THEIR GOAL ALL 3. holy moly. being able to bait the enemies into pushing up so that i can punish them would probably be fun, it sorta happens on D and A a little but on C i havent seen them leave the top quadrant of the map a single time
i found all the endings to be pretty lackluster. having 3 of the exact same (kind of poor) animation playing out on screen really distracts from whatever lewd value i mightve gotten from them. honestly more fun watching them run around in the wet shirts. also the nerdy glasses girl has a FUCKED UP HUGE HEAD its so gross actually i hate looking at her.
did not intend this comment to be so long. sorry if i took your funny wet shirt game too seriously. do you plan on working on it any more?
Disallowing weapon switching instead of reloading is a shame because it makes the game feel a lot more slow and clunky, and disincentivizes players from using a variety of weapons (especially since most ammo types are abundant enough that a thorough player can use one weapon only and never run out). The game would be more fluid and dynamic if switching between weapons in combat was actually beneficial. A player might think to use the flamethrower alt-fire to lay flames on the ground under a boss for extra damage while using another weapon as the main source of damage, but that combo is made pointless when the flamethrower has to be reloaded before another weapon can be used. It feels like the game's mechanics are working against each other, and against a player who tries to be creative with how they play.
If the worry is that players will end up cycling through their weapons in a fight and then having to wait around and reload them all (which is as detrimental to the gameplay flow as forcing the player to reload every time they exhaust the ammo clip), a possible solution is backpack reloading, where weapons automatically reload after not being used for x length of time, or after getting x amount of kills with another weapon, or with pickups spread around the levels, or when collecting ammo for the weapon while it isn't being used, etc. Regardless of the implementation, or even without backpack reloading, it must surely be more fun than using nothing but the machine gun/grenade launcher and having to reload when the player wants to be shooting (shooting is fun).
Also it's already possible to just leave 1 ammo in the clip and then switch weapons to avoid reloading, and it's possible to have run out of ammo in multiple weapons and then have to reload multiple weapons before being able to use them, so it's not as if such sitations have been entirly avoided anyway. And there's no implementation of allowing players to switch instead of reloading that stops players from choosing to reload their weapon before switching if that's what they want to do. Allowing more choice in gameplay just seems better overall, especially in a game of this genre.
The visuals are very pleasing, altho at times with lots of enemies and explosions at close range i cant see my character and cant see how many and what kind of enemies are in the crowd
The movement feels very satisfying, and fluid, but it feels like im missing a double jump or some form of extra vertical movement. Some of the flying and ceiling enemies can be really annoying to get to. Also, the player really sticks to walls. Even if im not holding towards the wall, and my character switches to the normal fall animation + speed, i tap the direction away from the wall and the character doesnt move. I have to hold it down and then its impossible to make slight movements away from a wall, leading both to me moving way further than i intended and hitting enemies, and also just failing to get away from the wall at all and falling into projectiles or something. This is really annoying and feels awful even when it doesnt result in me getting hit.
The weapons are currently extremely imbalanced. The bazooka is the best for everything, given its high burst damage + huge projectile + area of effect, and it also seems to do more dps to the boss than the machine gun. Refining it to be good at just a couple things and weaker at others would be good i think. The flamethrower and shotgun and laser gun all feel really weak or unfun to use, to the point where id rather just use the starting weapon. I cant tell if the bouncer does less damage but i havent been picking it up just in case it does lol (the bouncing projectiles seems a pretty negligible upside). I like the machine gun :)
The icons for the weapons are pretty unclear and its hard to tell at a glance which weapon is which, and while thats not a huge problem i think a change as simple as giving each a different background colour would improve it a lot. The other items are similar, but i didnt find myself using them anyway.
While a lot of this post is focussing on negative aspects of my experience, overall i had a TON of fun playing this over and over. I just thought itd be more useful to post about the things i think should be changed. Anything i didnt mention was either fine or great. I'm really looking forward to seeing where this project goes from here, and will be stoked to have runs that take more than 60 seconds :p
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hello i enjoyed this a lot, the movement feels very fun, the flipping in the air is insane and made me naeseous lol. i would love to see an actual game that uses this.
having bigger targets than the lanterns to hit would be nice too, so that i wouldnt have to spend so long lining up the shot, which detracts from the otherwise fluid mechanics.
also! i think you should change the sky from being a single colour to maybe having some like planets and stars in it so that its easier to track my orientation while im flipping around :)