Great music, great artstyle, okay gameplay.
I don't know how I feel about all these pixel perfect jumps to be quite honest.
Reviews for "Leap Jet Bear"
I will prolly go out and say this is one of the best games I will play this year. Considering thatm ost likely that could be out of hundreds makes it some praise but there is a lot here. The controls are good, the visuals are sharp with style and the audio works. I made a video review which can be found here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F9a3q2nQp9g
But really it is one of the best I think of the year.
Oh and really the only reason I didn't give five was it wasn't pants blowingly good. That has happened twice in decades so do not feel bad about that.
After playing it half an hour or so I must say that the level or precision required to get the green gems is way to high, transforming an excellent game into a frustrating experience.
In the early levels (like level 4) you have no checkpoint so getting the crystal there is actually harder than on other levels.
About the green crystals: the level design usually follows a pattern. You have to play perfectly, get the crystal AND THEN face the level's final challenges. Anywhere you fail...do it all over again.
The fact that you have to memorize the layout and try until perfection are not wrong in themselves. However when you finally manage to get a crystal after 20 tries and then the level throws random stuff at you like the position of of saw blades at any given time or whether you can land on a spikey ground make you not want to try over and over again.
Excellent music, responsive controls, real challenge AND BS challenge. Enjoyable and frustrating at the same time.
MadNukin responds:
I never intended for the crystals to be easy. Their arc of difficulty is not a straight line. As you said level 4 is way difficult than level 5 because there are no checkpoints. Why I did this is because I didn't want the player to be just playing level after level, brainlessly. That was kind of a punch to get you out of the loop and to make you want to skip it, leave it for later and when you come back for it, you'd feel way more in control and probably feel better when you get it. It's all experimental on our end and it's fair for you to feel that way. I hope you keep on playing and thank you for the review.
Nice game here
Well this was a nice game you have here some nifty little ideas the graphics was pretty nifty the controls a bit tricky atfirst but still a nice concept here on this one, you have some decent skills when it comes this game, really love the medal addition of this game aswell.
~~SUGGESTED IDEAS~~
maybe throw in some added fancy effects on impact moments.
~X~
I really love this game, and I remember playing through the whole thing before the Flashpocalypse, and I'm glad that newgrounds has tried to preserve it, but I'm having a problem that I'm not sure anyone else is having. I was playing through the game, but the moment it tries t load level 8, the player stops working and just whitescreens, any help would be greatly appreciated, as I want to play this game again.
(I would also accept a Steam release, I would totally pay for that, especially if it got even just a slight graphical glow-up.)
MadNukin responds:
I have no idea why this is happening and at this point I can't fix it since I lost the code.
It really sucks since I also would love to play it.