The game has some wonderful graphics and the gameplay was easy enough for me to grasp. I felt the time limits could probably have been a bit shorter as I never really felt under pressure to get a task completed. It would have been a good idea to have the timer only start after an instruction bubble had been read and closed though.
I would have loved to see some more levels.
If I have any critisism it's that there was a bit too much pointless speech between levels. Whilst humourus to read, a lot of it didn't actually add anything to the storyline and was more of a distraction.
Reviews for "Zelda the Welder"
The concept is OK, but the execution is really terrible.
It's far too talky and I know you were trying to be funny, but honestly, I just want to play the game instead of having to sit through an endless stream of text bubbles. The problem with humour is that it's entirely subjective and I know you probably thought the text was funny, but it got a bit grating, largely because it fell flat for me and I started thinking "I want to play the bloody game! Why won't you let me play the game!?"
The instructions were also an active hindrance, covering up part of the screen.
The lines were also problematic as well, with the game deciding that I'd gone off of them when in fact, I hadn't. This pretty much meant that I couldn't do the grand father clock because after I'd managed to cut the stupid thing open and welded the wires together, I couldn't get the thing at the bottom back together again.
I get that you threw this together in three days, but honestly, you needed to spend more time on it.
It looks pretty well made, it was just too hard.
MonoFlauta responds:
Sorry about that, just keep trying :)
Thanks for the review!
This was a really strange game. At first, I thought I would get the hang of it, but I didn't. What made it difficult is that the instructions themselves popped up at bad times and were blocking part of the game. That way, it was hard to follow through in terms of what was going on. At least you managed to have some good graphics. I'm actually surprised this took such a short time to make. It was also a tad too talky.
I think this may be the first submission I've ever seen that had the word "Zelda" in it and had nothing to do with the video games. At least the sounds and everything else are nice and sync up well. We've truly gotten some unique games this NG game jam. At least other people enjoyed this.
MonoFlauta responds:
Well, yes it was, we couldn't make everything so perfect for it, sorry about it, but we did our best in 3 days.
About the "Zelda" yes, this game is something unique LOL
Thanks for the review!
I like the game but those lines are to small make them a little bit bigger if you you do a Zelda The Welder 2
MonoFlauta responds:
Ha thanks for the advice!