Cool graphics, good music! Bring back good memories from my old msx games!!!
Reviews for "Valhalla Bound"
Avizial responds:
Always great to see another retro game lover :) Glad you enjoyed the game!
Thanks for playing our game. Hope to hear from you in future titles!
I like how you went hardcore on the difficulty. I like it.
Avizial responds:
Glad you like it! We tried to go for that retro arcade level of difficulty. Good to see we didn't disappoint :)
In our latest update, we added trophies. To reward the most skilled of players. Only one person has beaten our game. Think you can beat our game?
Thanks for playing our game! Hope to hear from you in future titles.
Definitely had the feel of old-school NES/Atari games. It's certainly addicting and there's medals galore that keeps you coming back.
Very promising!
Sadly, it hangs after finishing the first phase. It just stays there after adding the bonus points. Water moves and mouse reacts but nothing else. The forward arrow on the upper left isn't clickable.
Playing on latest Safari, latest Flash, OSX El Capitan
Avizial responds:
We appreciate the feedback.
We looked into our code and noticed some conflicting logic. We will update the game soon and hopefully you will be able to play the game to the fullest potential! I'll send you a message myself :)
Thanks for being patient and thank you for playing our game. We hope to hear from you in future titles.
Really loved it. For the graphics, for the gameplay, for the story...
But I put 4 stars because there is a big problem in my opinion : The goal, the positive actions and negative actions are not easy to determine:
- I had to play the demo to understand that the ships were to destroy and not to protect. As you are a viking and the ships are drakars sailing off from your coast, the intuition is not to shoot them.
- Then the ghosts, moving and disappearing after a time, seemed to me like bonus target.
Those two points would be solved by a 5sec animation showing your character shooting a boat, the soul reaching Valhalla and a short text like"Stay in peace, brother". Or a more obviously positive and negative sound when you do the right or wrong thing.
- Then the condition of loosing lives (letting go a boat). This is not obvious enough either. First because this occurs without any visual effect, then because the player is focused on the center or left part of the screen and boats disappear at the very right of the screen, at last because there is no sound relative to the loss of a ship. You only have 3 lives, loosing a ship is the worst thing ever, it should make a big bad noise ! Another thing that confused me with the lives is the little head you put next to the number of lives left. I understand that it is a very common thing in videogames to do so, but your character doesn't actually die when you loose a ship. Drawing a little ship instead of the head could be more explicit ?
- The rune : you have to shoot especially the rune and not the angel right ? But it makes exactly the same sound.
- The rain mechanic is still a unclear to me. You have to shoot several times each boat ? there is no clear visual or sound effect that tels you when you're finished with a boat.
But yet it is a great game, I'll install it on my smartphone at once
Avizial responds:
Wow, you make a lot of good points! You are a very meticulous reviewer!
- For the tutorial, we added a little box with a "?" on the upper right-hand corner to give a quick synopsis of the automated demo/tutorial. It doesn't explain everything, but we think it explains enough. We'd like to let people figure out and learn about the game "retro-style" ;P But we can add more to the tutorial, perhaps a tip page going a little more in-depth?
- For the loss of a life, this is a very good point. Perhaps we can make it more obvious that a Viking soul has not been saved and make the results more apparent. We will play around and look into this one.
- We can make separate sound-effect for the rune and angels. This one is simple :)
- The rain mechanic has a chance to douse the fire you lit on the boats. It won't always put out the fire but there is a high chance. However, if you hit the boats with a charged shot, it will always release the spirits. Even if the boat's fire goes out.
Thanks for the mobile support! Every little bit helps :)
And thanks for playing our game. Your feedback will come in handy for our next update! Hope to hear from you in future games.