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A worthy tribute to Megaman. I thoroughly enjoyed my journey to 100%. Hard mode is hard. I think I'll leave that for another day. Finding all the secrets is tremendously fun. I can't recommend playing this through enough.

Sadly, perhaps the best hook in your game, the presence of all sorts of popular robots, constitutes copyright infringement. I certainly appreciate all the work put into this, and I really did enjoy all the shout-outs and references, but don't be so surprised to see it taken down at some point.

Tips and Tricks: You can reconfigure the controls from the pause menu. Do so immediately. Like Megaman games, you can unlock a character or capsule, then leave without finishing to keep your unlock. You can jetpack upwards, switch characters, and then double jump to reach high places. Try jumping up the left wall at the beginning of the ice level for a fun little surprise. To get to the Lightning Bolt powerup in HQ, you need to S-rank all of the levels, I think. It might be more lenient than that. You can only switch characters when hit-invulnerability has worn off. You will need to use slide (hold down and press jump) to pass certain areas. I believe that sliding is also faster than running, which helps for speedruns (gotta get those S-ranks!). The Mystery Item can give extra lives, health, bombs, or damage you. The capsules which give attack or defense upgrades are given to whichever character you pick it up with. Go back to levels you've completed to farm cash a lot faster. I never really needed to do that much, though. Aperture Science was very hard for me, especially to speedrun. Coyote Tango has two damageable components initially, the axe blade and the lower body. Destroy the axe first to make your life easier, destroy the lower body to detach the upper body, which then enters a different attack rotation. When the reactor opens up, then you can damage it. I'm honestly not sure how to consistently avoid damage here, although generally staying low helps - the legs aren't all that dangerous. When speedrunning Optimus Prime's stage, you need to hold right to go faster. In hard mode, you only get one character (ever, I think), enemies deal more damage, and health pickups and save points are fewer in number.

Avante MRG!

ThiagoTejo responds:

Wow, i'm surprised by your review! You really payed attention to every small detail, even found that small secret in the Ice Level! Congratulations :)

I once did something like this.

10/10 for referencing The Neverhood!

PuffballsUnited responds:

That's a good game.

Reminiscent of Dead Space

Gripe #1: Enemies have no attack animations. They just stand there.
Sorry if some of these have been mentioned before.
All the loading screen tips that mattered showed up too late! You need to work on that. Maybe force a display order.
No block moving puzzles? Awww.... (just kidding)
Completed Objectives showed weird numbers, like Progress: -31100%. The bars were glitched too. I think you know about that, though.
Selecting weapons is really slow. Every... time... you have to wait for the cute little animation to finish. It would be better if the game didn't animate the weapons and didn't pause on weapon switching, so you could hold shift and select with the mouse, releasing to switch. Many games use a system like that, and pausing kills the tension.
I didn't have any issues with the door hacking segment.
I did like how you could fake out the turrets when they try to get a lead on you.
Charging money for timing failure is the dumbest part of the game. Other than that, however, the balance of money and XP flow was flawlessly balanced, something few games ever accomplish.
It's really annoying that you can't see the roach holes very well, yet you can't walk over them. The best way to fix that would be to allow walking over them.
All of the bosses were poorly designed and not very entertaining in general.
In Swarm Mode, I can't seem to get weapons that I bought in Story Mode. They are UNABLE to be bought. Period. Biggest problem by far.
Some weapons have trouble hitting enemies directly in front of you, even the Rocket Launcher... which also doesn't explode sometimes when you are being mobbed by large enemies.
Upgrading Mag Size increases ammo pickup amounts. Doesn't make much sense.
For a while, I thought Rapid Fire was a misnomer. The terminal names the stat 'Reload Speed', which I thought was synonymous to 'Mag Change'. Fix that to something like 'Rate of Fire' or 'Refire Speed'.
Objectives need to specify exact quantities, not just percentages.
The Pulse Rifle doesn't have a max ammo that is a multiple of clip capacity, with or without Large Mags. That's a little odd.
Swarm didn't get harder. Make it ramp into 'Impossible' as you progress so that high scores actually mean something. Swarm was boring. Boring.
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On the bright side, it was well-made and polished, with quality sound design and graphics. The story was good enough, no complaints there. The mood was well accomplished, especially for a top-down, although definite improvements are possible. Overall, it was a job well done, and fixing a few things will make it even better. This game could be given premium content to great success, if that's what you care about.

Squize responds:

I love your weapon selecting idea. I think it may well be too much of a ball ache to add it to this game, but I'm def going to use that.
Thanks for the bug report too. I'm on the beer all day tomorrow, so hopefully Monday I'll be able to sit down and fix all these ( So long as the hang over isn't too bad ).

With the secure terminals, I couldn't think of a way to penalise the player for getting it wrong. Losing health threw up so many problems, so taking cash was the easiest solution. Not ideal, and it'll teach me not to plan.

The thing about the pulse rifle ammo, I never even considered that :) I just put a spreadsheet together and played with values for all the weapons until they felt right. Even then I had to tweak the flame thrower at the last minute as it was just too powerful.

Great points, thank you.

Awesome

Works great... on anyone who doesn't know Chinese. Or observant people.
Although I must admit it had me going for a while.
For those having trouble reading, right-click and select "Zoom In". Not that this shouldn't be fixed ASAP.

the1next1magician responds:

Thanks bro! I don't know how to uplaod a bigger version and keep this post.. Can I select a different source file for it?

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