Reviews for Fragile

[PrototypeC]

I'm disappointed by this game. I could listen to the music all day, and it was a nice touch how it changed as I progressed through the level. The colour scheme and the pixelated graphics are somber and charming at the same time. It was also quite clever to use the other eggs as a sort of tutorial, showing which ground is soft and which is hard, as well as making me feel something from the get-go.

Unfortunately, what ruined the experience for me was actually playing the game. The platforming works fine, and I guess the point is to, sooner or later, break your egg at some point before the final pit lest you fall in and get stuck. My attempts to explore only led to two other inescapable pits. Except for the music eventually ending, there is no in-game indication of a 'fail state' or something like a game over. A better game would perhaps treat getting stuck as its own ending, but here you're just forced to restart as nothing else happens. That could be some deep metaphor, but I can't help but think that that's the case because programming another outcome as a consequence of getting stuck would just be extra work. Also, for some reason I can never get the chick to fly over the final pit. It just will not work under any circumstances. It seems like some people can get their chick to make that jump and flutter across, but it only seems to work every third or fourth jump and I haven't been able to figure out if it's anything other than random. The only reason I know that there's an ending at all is by reading the comments here.

I usually like these sort of somber, thought-provoking platformers, but because of that stupid chick and the broken controls I couldn't get into it. Maybe I just didn't 'get the idea'.

[ThatGuy523]

What I gather is that the 3 other eggs at the beginning are to show you the mechanics, (the thin orange breaks you, the fluffy orange is safe) other than that, i'm not entirely sure what the goal is, other than to cross the escape-less pit
Apart from that, the art style is cute, and it controls easily.

[Brayduhsaurus]

Short and simple plat-former. I like the art style, however the story/message was a tad bit obscure to me. Could just be my ignorance though.

[deletedTAMyStudios]

The only thing fragile about his game is my ego, having made it to the end still in my shell, only to fall into the hole and presumably be trapped forever.

[nelsykp]

when the game started,i went to my left to see of there was something, and i tried to t i had to broke the eggshell, at that point i thinked that was what the game wanted to me to do.But,in that moment i didnt realize that i was a chick, because the chick and the eggs was same color, i was thinking that my chick only had been broken a part of his eggshell, but enough so that the egg will walk in his two legs and fluttering. i assumed his eggshell will fallen if i only jump higher.

then i went with my siblings, and i thinked they was following me, and because of that they fell,indeed, i was trying broken them on purpose, so i just continued the game, and i noticed that i really wasn't in my eggshell, and theres was two kind of ground, but i really didnt now why.until , i arrived to the precipice for first time, thinking that I could easily jump the gap being a chick,i first tried to see what was down, and I found that it was only a hole which I could not climb.

I tried keys in case I restarted the stage but none did anything I read comments and theyseemed to sayed that there was another ending, so I re-started, and I realized that my brothers die no matter what I did, my egg was breaking naturally in all those rounds,and in each one, I ended just not being able to jump the gap. i started to think that was the message of the game no matter how hard you try you will only stay stagnant.

in the fourth attempt I assumed that if I could not get the end being a chick then I should be able to get it out being an egg, but even without try to broke the egg ,it broke, until , I could made the first jump, and then,i could be able to follow my siblings and I noticed that the strange terrain was so that the eggs would not break.

so when I reach the end I just tried to avoid that terrain, as resulte, i noticed that only from that specific point my chick could make the leap to reach the true end but ...

I had already seen my brothers die 5 times and I was sure to see them disappear. so the true end just was very confusing and painful. my brothers were dead and I knew it, so the end was to see my mother go with four unknwon chickens, even after the dead of my siblings