devonrv

Well, after almost four years of rejections and not-even-hearing-back, I finally got my first job this week. Yay income, boo less free time. I was able to beat one game after hours, though:

  • Death Fungeon

    59 minutes playtime

    no achievements

This is a platformer. Along with your standard left/right movement and jump, you can wall jump and hide in cauldrons. A notable chunk of the game is stealth; you can’t kill enemies, so you’ll have to wait for their patrol to reach certain points before you can make your move. You’ll often have to go to a dead end and push a block off a ledge just to cause a noise that triggers a stationary enemy to start a patrol, allowing an opening for you to progress (but only if you wait until the right time).

Your character’s forward movement also has momentum, so even if you just slightly tap forward, you’ll still slide forward further than you’d think, even if done in midair.

The game has bad graphics, too. See, there’s no visual indication for when your character is close enough to a wall to wall-jump: rather than swap the player’s sprite to show a new adjacent-to-the-wall pose like in New Super Mario Bros., this game just continues to display the ordinary jumping sprite, and when the game also requires you to make split-second wall-jumps after falling down a spike shaft, it can be hard to tell when it’s too early and when it’s too late. Similarly, the game will also put ordinary walls among the spike wall, but even though the spikes appear to be sunken into the wall, their hitbox is parallel to the wall, so if the lower half of your sprite touches the wall, the upper half will touch the spikes and you’ll die.

As a side note, the game has optional chests scattered throughout the game. I don’t know if collecting all of them does anything, though; they don’t stand out that much, so I almost missed a few (and did miss others), though there were a couple I skipped on purpose. One of them is underwater; for reference, water kills you, and nothing in the main game even hints that the water level can be adjusted, so I don’t know how the game expects you to figure that one out.

Also, the trampolines introduced in level 2 won’t bounce you if you land on their edges.

Overall, I don’t think I’d recommend this one. Not only am I not fond of stealth, but the platforming also has its share of problems. Plus, there’s a free version on ArmorGames, but that version’s speed is tied to your refresh rate and it has worse music and sound effects (gameplay’s the same, though).

Lengray

Congratulations on your first job!

Mskotor

Congrats :D

Something random, or related to your field of study or previous experience?

devonrv

It’s somewhat related, though I guess it depends on how you look at it. My bachelor’s degree is in Accounting, and my job is entering people’s tax info into a tax program, a.k.a. data entry. After tax season’s over (possibly even before then), I’ll probably have to start answering the phone.

Mskotor

Hope that writing reviews on BLAEO improved your typing speed :D

Trent

Congrats on the job!!

SharkY

Congratulations for your job, you will be insanely good at it ^^!
This little game looks fun, I’m not really into platformers but this caught my eye :D

Amitte

Congratulations for getting the job! :D