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[Super Brick Duel]

Nice

Well, lets start by saying the only originality in this piece is the powerups. It's just Pong and Brick Breaker combined, which has been done before.

The gameplay, isn't that great either. It definitely does need to be a bit more responsive.

I really loved the powerups idea, but them just coming down the screen like that? Come on! You could've thought up something better than that.

Honestly, I feel like you were in a rush to release this and didn't really weed out all the kinks before you did.

Ahh, the music, very nice sound. Could have added a mute button though. That would've been cool. I always liked the ideas of adding a few songs the player could choose from.

This is definitely something a person would do for the first view, but I don't see many people constantly coming back for this.

-Emergency
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JPB responds:

I made the originall version (non-super brick duel) quickly, and when I decided to make a new one, I didnt consider going back to the drawing board, I added new stuff, but left what was already there that way, first full game I made, hopefully learning for future games and a lot of other shit where that applies to here. Also, there was a mute button (music on/off; below the scoreboard)

Thanks for the review!

[Flying Barry...]

Potential

I liked it for the most part.

I usually do enjoy games like these, it isn't a very original idea, but its always a good one!
I enjoyed the graphics very much and the preloader/"excuses" gave me a good laugh, so I probably wouldn't remove that.

Thinks I would try to improve on with this? In my opinion, you should try to master the sounds/music better because it does seem a tad low and unmastered. I would also make everything smaller, and the screen bigger, along with trying to make the controls not so "loose". I couldn't really do much at first with the controls being as easy as they are with such a small screen.

Also, in the end of it, the screen just turned black. I don't think many people who will wanna play again will just assume to click and it'll start over. You should probably add a "Play Again" button at the end of it all.

I enjoyed the sounds used (but the wind seemed way too high), and I loved the laugh at the end of it all.

The magic pill, I'm not sure what the point of stopping time is? I would make it so the magic pill slows down time and gives the gamer about 6-10 seconds or so of slow-and-easy broccoli eating!

I actually did enjoy the game! Please don't take my 5 rating harshly as a lot of others do.

-Emergency

ArtyomL responds:

Umm, the screen doesn't turn black at the end for me, there's leaderboard... Sorry, but I have no idea why that happens...
Thanks for the review anyway!
(And at least someone got the preloader joke)