Reviews

5 Unintended art?
While the game was made for a B-Game competition and probably made with being silly in mind, I find that this game is an amazing piece of art, intended or not.

The mix of soothing music combined with the marvelous panorama of space with Earth in the background quickly lets you forget that you are actually supposed to reach a flag somewhere.

I really wish there was a version of the game without the platforming, where you just have the music and a scrolling background.

5 Most likely the best split-screen game ever
Take the famous Worms, make them realtime, but still include the multiplayer on one keyboard. What you’ll get is Liero.

You can hardly ever get better game to play with your nerd friend (being a nerd to enjoy this game is very important, since it is too unfriendly at the beginning for normal people). Give it a try, stay with it for at least hour and you’ll find that this game has no end of fun (and if you really do find the end after tons of fun, set the reload time to zero and you’ll definitely get few more hours out of it).

3 Fishie Fishie
I quite liked this game, actually. The control system obviously wasn’t that hard to handle, and an advantage to it is that heavily disable people may still be able to play this game. Even though the concept and gameplay is fairly simple, it still gives you a good play and may keep you amused for a while. The presentation of the game is excellent, too. Strangely, the best part for me about this game was the hilarious squealing fish. That kept me playing for a little longer, I must say. I found them oddly hysterical. In conclusion, this game is worth a go and may be a good game to have a quick play through when you have nothing better to do.

~Toadsanime

4 Super Mario War
This game is an amazingly awesome multiplayer game which has caused me and my brother to spend hours of our time on my computer. The gameplay is great, and even though it’s not original as such, it is addictive. You are also urged to frequently replay Super Mario War, what with the astounding amount of levels that are playable, as well as the arrange of characters. All the different game modes make this game rise in replay value. This is honestly one of the best multiplayer games out there – freeware or not – so give it a go if you know any other human beings. (Seeing as you must know at least one other human, you have no excuse to skip this game.)

~Toadsanime

3 Biggest disappointment in the indie games history
Hype is wrong. A game without owls in it can never get hyped so high and stay there even after the release.

I am sorry. I am honestly so sorry for not liking Aquaria, but I can’t find any way to praise it as other people do. Yes, it does have probably the best graphics in the history of indie gaming. Sure the game is very professional and stylish, but this isn’t the main point of any game, at least I always believed it isn’t.

The world is so open; you can do anything you want to and yet there is almost no reason to. The fight system is inovative and graphically perfect, but it just doesn’t feel like I am actually fighting, I feel more like shooting in a wall with health bar above it.

My view of what has Aquaria become is simple: There was an idea, an amazing idea to create a big game, sort of what GTA was for commercial games. There were big ambitions and pretty much everything was going well, but in all the candies in Aquaria, they forgot the main one – gameplay.

Again, I am sorry, I guess this won’t be the most popular review of this game in here, but this is how I feel about it.