10-10-2011, 09:58 PM
Disliking the game just because it's a fangame is a silly reaction.
However, I disliked this game for three main reasons:
1. The main gameplay consists entirely of move right and shoot. There isn't any real strategy to playing, since most enemies taken down before they even become a threat of any sort. On top of this, while jumping is pretty useful for dodging attacks (as long as you're in the air, you probably won't get hurt at all), the actual aerial attacks are much too short-ranged (and just what the range is isn't particularly obvious for the shotgun attacks) and weak to be useful. I also never had to use any melee attacks, especially since your main attack will likely be enough to take most enemies down before they come close.
2. Except for the spy, who is utterly useless. His primary attack is incredibly weak, and while the cloak really does make him invisible, it also makes the enemy attacks much harder to actually dodge as they then begin to randomly fire unpredictably. And, while the insta-kill backstab for the spy is pretty nice, other classes can already do this anyways without the hassle of having to sneak up on the enemies (espcially the Soldier and Demoman). Note that I'm not complaining that the game is too hard for the Spy, but rather that the Spy even exists alongside entirely better classes. It almost feels like the designer put the Spy in simply because he exists in TF2.
3. The level designs are incredibly simplistic as well, consisting almost entirely of really open areas where there's real reason the player should be in particular locations.
Other smaller things about the game also bugged me, from the lack of online multiplayer (which is entirely possible and I'd say almost necessary for this game) to the rather boring music (when it wasn't boring, it was rather grating, thanks to being midi).
And so those are the reasons that I disliked the game. I do agree that playing with multiple people would probably have improved my experience somewhat (except maybe the fact that we'd all be cramped together on one keyboard). Nonetheless, I have rated it according to what I felt as I played it alone.
However, I disliked this game for three main reasons:
1. The main gameplay consists entirely of move right and shoot. There isn't any real strategy to playing, since most enemies taken down before they even become a threat of any sort. On top of this, while jumping is pretty useful for dodging attacks (as long as you're in the air, you probably won't get hurt at all), the actual aerial attacks are much too short-ranged (and just what the range is isn't particularly obvious for the shotgun attacks) and weak to be useful. I also never had to use any melee attacks, especially since your main attack will likely be enough to take most enemies down before they come close.
2. Except for the spy, who is utterly useless. His primary attack is incredibly weak, and while the cloak really does make him invisible, it also makes the enemy attacks much harder to actually dodge as they then begin to randomly fire unpredictably. And, while the insta-kill backstab for the spy is pretty nice, other classes can already do this anyways without the hassle of having to sneak up on the enemies (espcially the Soldier and Demoman). Note that I'm not complaining that the game is too hard for the Spy, but rather that the Spy even exists alongside entirely better classes. It almost feels like the designer put the Spy in simply because he exists in TF2.
3. The level designs are incredibly simplistic as well, consisting almost entirely of really open areas where there's real reason the player should be in particular locations.
Other smaller things about the game also bugged me, from the lack of online multiplayer (which is entirely possible and I'd say almost necessary for this game) to the rather boring music (when it wasn't boring, it was rather grating, thanks to being midi).
And so those are the reasons that I disliked the game. I do agree that playing with multiple people would probably have improved my experience somewhat (except maybe the fact that we'd all be cramped together on one keyboard). Nonetheless, I have rated it according to what I felt as I played it alone.