MARS FORCE ONE

Immersive, but would have liked the ability to skip/speed up the dialogue. Fake 3D effects were cool!

Very solid game obviously, so I'll focus on the negatives.

• I'll start by insisting on the slow dialog. I think that's an issue that was already present in some Crungus games. I wasn't that invested in the writing, and being forced to sit through the words appearing then waiting because you can't skip madi it worse. Your base speed here is fine, just let us press something to make everything appear at once then skip once we're done.
• Levels are pretty slow too, always consider your cheaty-dev options as real options for the game, usually you use it for a reason, and they might juste make the game better.
• Sound levels are all over the place.
• The flashing / flickering of the menus and the bottom part of the UI in levels (the thing we can see in the gifs) was really bad, didn't really hurt my eyes per se, but that was really unpleasant.
• Once I realized how the dying mechanic worked, I kinda lost interest.. And the game punished me HARD for that. First I tried dying in level 2 to see what would happen (since, it's tied to the theme), but my stats were really bad and I had a hard time killing anything and died again, and I couldn't buy anything at the end. Then in level 3 killing anything took ages and I realized dying killed enemies, so I used it as an option sometimes... until I killed the last enemies that way.. The portal appeared and I didn't respawn. The game was locked at that point and I didn't have the patience to launch it again since it feels so slow :(

Even without that last bug, I'm not sure this is the right way to do it, since there's really no way for compensating for a death.

Very well done! Biggest thing I noticed is the amount of content. And how every level was quite unique in it's own way. Very nice. The art style was nice, although I didn't really get the 3d police car as ship. Felt as if that style was different from the rest.

I did my playthrough with only 1 death! :) One thing that I would've really liked is to speed up the text. Also the "tutorial" felt longer than it had to. The way how you start the game, and how the player automatically shoots because you press the mouse button was enough of a tutorial already.

• Wished there was a way to control the dialogue. As a fast reader, it often felt slow to me. Especially the intro. Also, some people who are less interested in plot can get bored. I'll compare it to starfox (which I suspect is an inspiration), where dialogues appear during gameplay, but are rather quick, to the point, sometimes short. They bring in a dynamic. I mean, it's unfair to compare since starfox has different visuals and can keep you entertained without shooting. But it also kept the gameplay running meanwhile so the dialogues rarely felt intrusive.
• It's very nice to have several different soundtracks, but the music level soundtracks tended/seemed to be short loops. Would have appreciated longer loops
• Controls are fun, but felt like some kind of wrong challenge. Yes, it's unique (and would fit the abnormal movement theme), but it makes some moments confusing, or makes for a bulky-tank-like gameplay which feels weird in a relatively fast paced shmup. At least, the forward-backward controls fit well a police car.
• (I know we discussed this and it's unrelated to the rest, but, I wouldn't mind the all-female cast if it wasn't already the case in Ugby; would have liked a bit of diversity/different approach since this is a new setting, it felt forced for me)
• I know you're 5 people, but it still feels amazing how much content you managed to squeeze in
• I like how weapon upgrades are continuation from past upgrades. Gives a feel of satisfying progression, and actual power gain
• Each level had its quirk, which is nice
• Cool to see the implementation of bosses as well!

Well done! That was a game stuffed with fun!

EDIT: 0 replacement btw. Just used everything in power. That usually works in most games cause DPS is everything! (that's coming from a tank-player) Note that I know how replacements work out anyway cause I initially had some in my first playthrough. I was playing with fullscreen and noticed it was laggy, switch to windowed but it effed up the controls bad.

Milk

Impressive. Wow.

The only possible nitpicks that I could give this game would be that the shooting sounds are too loud and the dialog should proceed once you press a button, not automatically. I missed some text in the beginning.

Edit: I just found out that you're the guys behind Ugby Mumba. That one was great too. You make a fantastic team and should release a full game some day.

Jack and Lads, good job. You guys are great. This is very impressive. It vaguely reminds me of those starship fights in starfox. I love the way the stats work. It was a really cool game. I think probably top 10%. You guys should and will go far. Critique though- the dialouge. It wasn't bad but it took forever to load. I couldn't tell if you implemented a way to advance it but I pressed a whole bucnh o' random buttons on my keyboard. But anyway, if you ever expand upon this and make like a full arcade game like this, I would love to know. This feels polished enough to be a real game. Good job. (sidenote: I can't help but think when you buy the weapons, saying Scooter, Catch a RIDE. so thanks for that :)

Big team gets big results, overall it was well done and polished. Okay, this is going to be more rant, don't take that wrong - because it's easier to find things to nag about.

Music was bit quiet and didn't induce emotions or hurriness. The characters are nice, well drawn, but nothing new from the artist, her/his style. The writing and interaction between characters were corny. The visuals of gameplay itself, they weren't that impressive, they do look nice, but I feel that it didn't take that much of effort. You couldn't skip or make the dialogue go faster, so most of time I felt frustrated waiting them go. This waiting felt bit that it's done to artificially extend the game.

I tried to use max power, endurance and luck, thought that moving won't be that horrible: boy I was wrong :D Finished with two replacements, first went out as couldn't avoid anything with lowest speed and lowest steering, but managed pass one or two levels anyway, endured those trough. When you use fullscreen and click Twitter accounts, the game itself goes windowed and surface gets halved, and you can't escape from game but with good old Alt+F4.

The game was good, and it will rank in top 20%.

A really great entry, loved the character portraits :D Some graphical issue: some elements, especially the text in the stat screen were flashing rapidly (unless hovered over). That could lead to people feeling sick. A minor thing: it would have been great to be able to skip the intro bits/speed up text.^^

this game is so good oh my fr*cking god im gonna cry...

The game is perfect, I can't say it quite fit the the theme, but other than that, great job!

I AM A BAD ENOUGH DUDE TO BEAT THE SPACE PIRATES AND RESCUE THE PRESIDENT'S DAUGHTER.

Very juicy gameplay and nice graphics :) I do havea few complaints though.

• car a bit hard to control
• the music is really repetitive after a while, like it never settles down.
• Dialog displays quite slowly, and it feels like this pads the game length unnecessarely. Maybe consider adding an option to double the speed at which you progress through the level, which would make the game harder but faster.

Damn, you and your team never disappoint jack. Normally I don't find myself getting immersed into most of the games made in these jams. But this one actually immersed me. Everything compliments each other and works perfectly, and the game just feels fun. I don't really have any complaints to give. Bloody good job!

I love this game, its just so charming!! Fantastic work