Okay, folks. You know the drill. Wednesday = lousy review day, so bear with me.
Actually, this week it seems Wednesday also = lousy game day. Remember when I said that Berserk was the most average game I've played? Well Blitzkrieg is literally Berserk. The two games are nigh identical.
Same controls, same graphical style, and I swear one of the enemies is a direct copypasta of one of the enemies from Berserk. The two games were made by separate students in the same grade in the same academic year, too, so maybe the two teams were collaborating at some point and then there was some sort of split, so each team took their ball of source code and went home. I'm not sure. If this post somehow makes it to someone who knows, be sure to comment away (and so, the first step toward selling out was taken).
The only real criticism I can level at Blitzkrieg is that the difficulty curve is absolutely off the walls. The first 10 or so levels are walks through the park that anyone with two functioning hands should be able to get through on their first shot. Just when I was ready to declare that the game was too worried that the player might die every now and again, I hit a brick wall of a level that took me about 5 tries to get past. Not even three levels after that one, the difficulty was reduced to zero and literally all you had to do to beat the stage was hold "up." A bit more care in handling the difficulty curve would have been greatly appreciated.
Apart from that, the flow isn't executed very well. To begin with, the movement speed is sluggish enough to get slightly annoying. The real flow killer, however, is that every time you clear a level you have to wait for an obnoxious and unskippable score counter to do a flirtatious little dance for you.
Well that's all the time I have for now. Honestly I'm relieved that an insubstantial game like Blitzkrieg should fall on my off day.
Until next time, stay glowy
Links
Berse-uh-I mean-Blitzkrieg: https://www.digipen.edu/?id=1170&proj=25881
