Greedy Aardvark by newton64
A game inspired by the game the villain plays from 0:43 to 0:47 of the following video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BiVOLvhvsyo
A nutritious part of 73% of all Canadians' childhoods, The Raccoons were idiots. Their overlord was Cyril Sneer, but his tyranny was generally undone by his jerk son et al.
"Greedy Aardvark" puts us in the aardshoes of this Machiavellian despot, that we may one day play the same games, digital and psychological, as he.
Regarding the controls (arrows to move, thassit): they're a bit funky, but again, I'm basing them off the movement in the video. Which is seeming increasingly arbitrary.
There are exactly TEN levels.
I apologise for the tenth.
A nutritious part of 73% of all Canadians' childhoods, The Raccoons were idiots. Their overlord was Cyril Sneer, but his tyranny was generally undone by his jerk son et al.
"Greedy Aardvark" puts us in the aardshoes of this Machiavellian despot, that we may one day play the same games, digital and psychological, as he.
Regarding the controls (arrows to move, thassit): they're a bit funky, but again, I'm basing them off the movement in the video. Which is seeming increasingly arbitrary.
There are exactly TEN levels.
I apologise for the tenth.
Ratings
| Coolness | 41% | 831 |
| Overall | 2.56 | 600 |
| Audio | 2.87 | 225 |
| Fun | 2.13 | 657 |
| Graphics | 3.04 | 323 |
| Humor | 1.87 | 601 |
| Innovation | 2.96 | 317 |
| Mood | 2.44 | 545 |
| Theme | 2.41 | 654 |
And the blue shift-by-one blocks are only there for laughs and giggles.
This could have been a decent game, but the not being able to restart made me REALLY frustrated, and I had absolutely no fun playing this. It may seem like a tiny flaw, but the impact it makes is enormous.
Like I said, it was a cool idea, the graphics and sounds were nicely fitting and the execution was mostly good; but that single flaw of the level selection completely ruined it, at least for me.
Remember: if there's a best score to be beaten, make sure the player can quickly and easily retry a level.
I do love the way it looks and feels, though :) Made me want to play it with an Atari joystick.