RuneChart's game Reviews on Newgrounds

[Lil King]

Simple and entertaining. As others have said, the difficulty curve makes the game unplayable way too fast.

It would be nice if stomping on an enemy gave more of a bounce than it does. That way, you wouldn't be completely screwed when you were facing a huge line of enemies. You could just bounce from one to the next, and that would extend the playability of the game. Also, I wouldn't make the ladders hurt you when coming up. I feel like that's a pointless annoyance.

beepyeah responds:

the king used to have more bounce and people also complained about that. personal taste, i guess.

i like the pointy ladder bit!

[Valhalla Bound]

It's pretty fun. Kind of takes the dignity out of that funerary ritual (I'm aware it's not real, but the idea has dignity). I like how Odin cares more about the ships than the souls.

I think this game does need tutorials, but there's a lot of room for improvement. The ones you have are slow, non-interactive, over-explain some things and under-explain others. Most of the things in the tutorial could have been explained in-game, with a "shoot here" crosshair the first time you encounter a specific monster. I had no idea what to do when it was raining until I saw your explanation in response to another review.

I don't think you're getting complaints because people don't want things explained at all, but because your tutorials are tedious and completely break the pace of the game.

Avizial responds:

This is great feedback! I think you hit the nail on the head.

We have plans to completely overhaul the automated tutorials in a future update. However, for this current update (1.3.7) we implemented a help guide in the title screen that briefly and concisely informs the player on how to play the game.

We originally created the tutorials for the mobile market in mind. Especially for the casual gaming market. We now realize that many players on Newgrounds are skilled enough to understand basic game mechanics without so much hand-holding.

Thanks for playing our game! We hope to hear from you in future titles.