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[Painter Blazer]

It's a solid & enjoyable arcade game, even going for all the coins in the levels, the experience does not get frustrating. The gameplay is neat, one thing I don't like is when I try to climb the ladder in speed and gets off immediately because how slippery it can be. Also, There is a bug that sometimes when there's multiple enemy pipes and one enemy gets out of the pipe, it shows smoke where it is, but it also pops out smoke from the other enemy pipe that didn't spawn a enemy.
Also Also, curious question which is fine to not respond if want to keep secret...It's about the Gun, was supposed to be a gameplay mechanic that wasn't able to implement, a tease for the next game or just for the lols?

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aapiarts responds:

Thanks for the review glad you liked most of the game and good that it didn't get frustrating. I'll look in to the pipe effect bug if I'll update the game. Also the gun secret is mostly for the lols but it is also a left over (with fixed code) from the April fools build that I posted last year. Decided to throw it to the full game for the hell of it.

[Sunny Run N Gunny v0.11.14.15]

This review is based on the NG version, I was willing to play the downloadable version on Itch.io, but the download was not available by the time I writing this, so...

I can sense the fun & appeal in this one, unfortunately the game is buggy & a bunch of upgrades are not good. I've struggle more than enjoyed because of poor performance, it slows down poorly after a couple of minutes. In some of the runs I experienced some odd bugs like: Most of time the gun will be shooting at random directions rather where I aiming at (making annoying when trying to kill close enemies & tedious). The blast of the explosive enemies sometimes their do not cause damage to the other ones. When I reached to one the celestial sisters, the dialog box could not get out of the screen, I pressed various keys but none would make go away and when I level up, I couldn't choose because the dialog box was on the way to press accept, then after a while, one of the upgrades suddenly starts spinning on his own. I tried to keep going but the bugs, poor performance and glitchy hud was on the way till was unplayable.
Leaving the tech issues aside, The upgrades are a hit or miss, Like, why have two upgrades that does the same thing (Bullet Thickness ++ & Bullet Thickness 20%). Also, what is the point to skip a level if I'm unable to store for the next level.

This one is just a idea but, perhaps it would be cool if add different weapons during gameplay, for example, sometimes enemies will drop a weapon that you could pick up, making the gameplay more engaging. Using the same weapon felt tedious for me and even relying on upgrades that completely change the stats of the gun didn't help much.

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LakenDaCoda responds:

Thank you for taking the time to play it, this gives me a pretty good idea on what rough patches I really need to focus on. I'm not sure why the Itch.io version wasn't available, I swear I uploaded it, lol. I went back and uploaded a new file, so an executable is definitely available now.

Thank you for your feedback, you're really helping me make this game better :)

[Inn & Out]

Fun game! it legitimately felt like I was playing an real arcade game. However, the two things I noticed are:

1- I'm not a fan of having to move in the direction I was going (not allowing to turn the other direction) and jumping disabled when using stairs, sometimes annoying when trying to escape from the enemy.
2- I found a bug where sometimes when I'm about to get the spray and die, not only does it still count even though I didn't get the spray, but the level's soundtrack repeats again during the death animation and when another round starts, the same soundtrack plays and you start to hearing both during the game.

Overall, I enjoyed.

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Notakin responds:

Noted