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[A Quiet Winter Walk Home]

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[DYNAMITEHEAD TNTSON (The Toxic Demo)]

Great brawler by browser standards. Just a few complaints:

- It teaches you lots of cool moves but gives you very little incentive to use all of them
- The varieties of enemies are so few that each fight feels just like the one before it

[Fisher Girl]

I saw what looked like a cave at the bottom left of the map so I tried going in there and glitched the game really bad and couldn't pull the fish all the way back up anymore. I lost all my progress

[Lee's DeLeeVery Service!]

I wanted to like this, but having to know ahead of time how to avoid softlocking yourself and needing to restart the game over and over just isn't a good game mechanic. Even knowing exactly what to do, the game keeps crashing around 15 minutes in before I can get to the hidden layer. On this last attempt, I had just used keycard 7 so only one door remained, but for some reason I was able to partially walk through that final door and get stuck inside it, and there doesn't seem to be a way to reset my position without restarting the game. If there were more quality of life features to prevent the need to restart over and over then I'd like to play the game to completion, but as slow-paced and clunky as the game is I'm going to give up.

One time the game crashed I was just walking along as usual and the PICO-8 window froze and became unresponsive. I couldn't even pause. I suspect it may have been one of those collision adjustment infinite loop bugs.

tscoct responds:

Oh wow the door bug returns again, i've been struggling to fix it for a long time and i thought it was finally gone but i guess not, sorry you had to deal with it and thank you for reporting it

can you please elaborate on crashing though?

[Mars Underground (full game)]

I feel dumb that I needed the guide to find the crystals. I found every other ending on my own, but somehow didn't find even a single crystal!

This is so much juicier than any other RPG Maker game I've played. It's amazing how interactive the world is and how people react like you're a real kid going to your first day of school in real life. If you walk in front of the TV, your sister complains. If you disappear, your mom leaves your sister at home to wait for you. You can get in trouble at school, you can get arrested, everything has consequences.

And after you everything, there's still more to see! It just keeps going and going. You really went all in.

[Dungeon Watchers]

Zelvy
Final score: 322820
Level: 144

[Off the Grid - Summer 2024 Collab]

I like that you can keep clicking the nav buttons while it's tweening and it still works smoothly

alsoknownas1 responds:

Thank you for noticing. I was particularly happy with that too. :)

[UNWORTHY]

I killed the boss before the fight even started

[ZAH'S REVENGE 3]

Oh I know this one! The 3R in the loading screen must be because the name Zah is spelled with the Cyrillic letter that looks like a 3, so it's a double meaning

[A City Capture]

I can't tell which levels have been beaten in the level select. If you take a photo in the level, the level select shows a photo for that level whether it was correct or not