Reviews for Save To Kill

[SuperSapito]

Anyone giving this more than 3 stars simply didn't play the game through.

The first level, and maybe the second? ok, the second too, those both levels are good to play. 3rd level onward showed up the game's flaws, which are quite serious:

1- CROSSBOW CAN'T KILL SH*T! Upgraded it above level 17 - still can't kill most ships before they leave the damn screen, and yes, after they fill said screen with bullets. The ones it can actually kill PRESENT NO HARM WHATSOEVER and I could only be hit by these scrubs if I steered the lil' vamp on them myself. Enemy HP seem to scale much faster than player capacity.

A most notable example of how shitty is the crossbow: Go back to level 1 and try to kill those lateral laser ships.

2- LESSER SPECIALS CAN'T KILL SH*T EITHER! Actually, SOMETIMES they do, but only when used multiple times, which depletes Special Bar quite fast. Most of the time they are only useful to try to clean the screen a bit. They only cause noticeable damage against bosses.

3- THE BIG SPECIAL IS EXCELLENT AT 3 AND THE MAIN MECHANIC ON 4-5 - That's it. After some time, you just forget whatever the game is about (as a top down shooter) and just go for the "S" and "Smax" bonuses to accumulate enough power to blast the spacebar and kill the lots and lots of ships that you cannot possibly kill in any other way than this OR the punching "damage" powerup, which allows to 1-shot everything but is very luck dependant

4- POWER UP IMBALANCE - The speed powerup is utterly useless. Damage is a sure fire to kill everything before it dissipates and you get flooded again. "S" and "Smax" also dominate because they allow the "press spacebar to win... momentarily" move, which is the only way to progress on later levels.

Suggestion? So obvious: Just fix all that. You have a good idea, story and art.

decafpanda responds:

Unsure on why your specials can't kill anything. They deal massive damage. Are you upgrading them? Did you play the tutorial? The way you describe how to play the later levels is just incorrect. I feel this is a product of not playing through the tutorial. Check the youtube video in the author's comments..

Thx for the play!

[GeneralCusterd]

I thought it was a great game, and I played it through to the end in one sitting. However, it's not perfect. For one. the font could be changed to be a bit more pixelated, the music has an obvious cut off before it loops, the guns he holds could be changed so that what he shoots actually makes some sense, sometimes there's so much shit on the screen that it's almost blinding, and I didn't really like the ending. I thought the end could be a bit more than just "Conglaturations!!!! You have beated a great game!!" and a crappy screen. I just didn't understand it. But overall, it was an enjoyable experience, and the game has plenty of replay value. It just has some things that could be ironed out a bit, that's all. I'd definitely recommend it to fans of arcade style space shooters.

[Lamia-Domina]

A note on your controls: Ctrl+w closes the tab in chrome, and per the threads I'm finding looking for a way to disable it on other browsers as well. Do not map functions to ctrl if you're mapping controls to wasd.

decafpanda responds:

This has been fixed!! Sorry for any inconvenience to Chrome players! In all of my testing in Chrome I must have never had the W button down while I used the Ultimate Attack.

Thanks for playing and the review.

[alota]

Great game and all but it doesn't save my progress

[RogueDragonKnight]

I like a Bullet Hell game as much as the next guy but this game has a few flaws that just take all the fun out of it.

First: The weird helicopter things that shoot the laser beams across the screen--be it side to side or top to bottom, they are nearly indestructible (gave one them six level 10 sword strikes and it STILL wasn't destroyed) unless you use your special OR have the attack power up, having SIX of them on screen at once--like in Machine City--two on either side and two at the top of the screen while those red and green glowing energy bombs are going off makes it impossible to dodge or even defend yourself with your sword or dash since it drains so fast.

Second: Having your sword and dash drain your special energy bar and you can ONLY refill it by getting the S power ups is bullshit considering how many projectiles can be on the screen at once, epically in the later levels.

Third: Getting hit is a given in a bullet hell game but normally the hit area is very small, giving you a better chance to not take damage and you can dodge, there is always a small "safe spot" or two that you can use but making it so you CAN'T dodge and your entire body is a the hit area...

Like I said, that takes ALL the fun out of game like this.

decafpanda responds:

You know that your sword can destroy bullets, right ? Also saying you can only regain special by collecting power ups is FALSE. there is an entire upgrade for it that you can invest in called "special regain" Guess what it does? :)

The horizontal helicopters make a "ching" sound when you hit them to let you know they are armored and should be dodged instead of being detroyed. The vertical helicopters have high HP but can be destroyed will a little effort and also grant high tier coins

Sorry some of these things did not resonate with you.

Take a look at the youtube link in the author's comments, it will give you an idea of how you can wreck the battlefield if you understand the game mechanics.

Thx for the play!