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[Save the smoking citizen!]

1st advice: you should fix the flying platforms, because lots of times I am just falling through them; this makes the game unnecessarily frustrating.

gabfou responds:

When your dashing? If not in the middle of the platform or on the edge (or anywhere)?

(The expected behavior is to go thought them when your dashing or if you didn't come from above. I don't say the expected behavior is fine by the way, feel free too say if your disagree)

[Genocide Golf]

You say: "let the bad taste humor about WW2 events be", I say not, not in this case. None of the citizens of your country died in such a German Nazi death camp. While I am a high-ranked medal hunter I simply refuse to earn even a single medal from this game for the sake of respect for the 1,1 million Jews and nearly 200 000 Poles murdered there. Ask these nations if they find it funny. It is even possible that a grandson or a great-granddaughter of an Auschwitz survivor will find this game. What would you have to say to them?
You say about the "8bit gruesome imagery". Have you even ever been to Auschwitz-Birkenau? This is the full name by the way. If you would and if you would see the real photos of the dead prisoners of this camp you would redefine your definition of a "gruesome image". I cannot link them here for obvious reasons.
Summarizing: there are and always should be limits to what can be used for "entertainment purposes". The problem is that people not knowing much about these times often forgot about it, showing an absolute lack of empathy, not even saying about sensitivity.

Raeldor responds:

Sorry you took this the bad way, that's why I tried to do a disclaimer (English isn't my first language so I maybe worded something wrong). The last hole you use Adolf as a ball. If my intentions weren't clear. Past events cannot change, and you are right in a lot of ways, but:

Please don't asume that none of the citizens of my country died in a death camp because Spain was one of the worst ones, spanish republicans were fleeing their home country only to get caught by Nazis in France after the civil war that the fascist won (and the rest of the allied countries let them rule there for 40 years, go figure).


So, final words, after the serious bit. Those times are behind us now, and should be remembered, but this is a golf game nothing more. No bad feelings? :D

[Drugged Driver]

Whether you will be able to get some of the medals is just pure luck. No skill involved.

[Dragon Flap]

The controls are just horrible. You stop flapping for just a moment and you fall like a 1000T stone. And this is supposed to be a dragon. The hit detection is even worse: you get hit in the toe - you die. What is that supposed to be? "Ow, my foot!"? And, to be honest, like one of the reviewers below, I also hate everything that is flappy.

[Words are Weapons]

For some reason if you don't talk to the final guy, but go through the open door instead you risk not getting a medal for winning this fight. I had to replay the game because of this.

[Spewer]

1. Awful hit detection.
2. Completely unrealistic physics. I'm not sure if the author actually learned during the physics classes how do we add 2 force vectors.

[Super Pong Bros 65]

For the sake of humanity... that background really makes your eyes tired very fast...
I think that the game should have a seizure warning because of that.

[Mighty Knight]

My short summary:
1. The final stage is impossible to pass because of the massive lag, making it barely possible to control the character;
2. The timed quests are impossible to pass - again - because of the lag, that massively slows down the movement, but the time is still going in the proper way.

[The BALL Game]

You may be interested in a fact that makes all the medals extremely easy to obtain. Obviously I am not going to mention it here.

Zebirosca responds:

Send me a PM about this, please.

[Hoppity Block]

Generally it is quite good, but... there are few "buts":
1. I understand the physics of the game, but it is a bit annoying that even if you could make next jump after landing (you would have enough time before falling) the square fails to get white again, making you fall.
2. It is also annoying that you may land in a way so you instantly start to rotate forwards and again - die immediately.
3. About the falling itself: how about adding 1 "rescue wall jump", so you could try to get back to the "surface"?
4. The animals you are unlocking could have some special abilities, helping you in the game, such as higher or further jumps, maybe a minimal double jump or something like that.

itsallgoodgames responds:

Good criticisms,
this game meant to be like flappy bird, very simple mechanics and reallyhard.