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[Sole Gunner: Mini (DEMO)]

It was a little difficult to get used to the controls, regardless of the settings I chose, but I liked the idea. The platforming was solid, and the upgrades kept things interesting (at least until I found that the rocket launcher made everything far easier than any of the other weapons).
Still, I appreciated the variety and the design, but there's surely room for some polish. I'll be curious to see what the finished product looks and plays like.

SinclairStrange responds:

Aye, in the final version there will be a way to change them so that might help :) I've tried to make the game easy so that might be why the weapons seem a little OP. Otherwise glad you had fun!

[Potato The Destroyer]

Fairly hard on the normal difficulty, and way too easy on the simpler one. I don't have any glaring specific gripes aside from the difficulty and the repetitiveness of the music. Controls could have been slightly looser, but it is what it is.

Kcori responds:

Difficulty balancing has to be the biggest game design problem I've ever encountered. I watched this one guy play my game and he was absolutely horrible at it and couldn't get past the first area, so Chill Mode was based on that. I've also seen and heard from people who got through Normal mode without too much frustration. So I'm in this state where I want to please people of all skill levels but I haven't quite figured out how yet. I could add another difficulty level but that may just complicate things more; like, how would you know which one to select?

Thanks for your feedback.

[Barbarium]

The whole "you can slash the barrels" thing is not incredibly intuitive, and would have saved me a LOT of trouble overall.
I'm saddened and frustrated, as I was doing quite well, only to lose all of my progress after the game froze. Now I'm on a completely different save, with about 1/7 of the score I had, and all of my items are gone. WTF?
I may come back to this another time, but right now, I'm feeling pretty burned.

Hypnohustler responds:

I feel you. Flash player doesn't seem to like my game all the time.