End Of The Mine

A fun-for-a-while 2D platformer/shooter, which at least has enough ambition to throw sixteen - count 'em, sixteen! - boss fights your way over its five-to-ten hour duration. Unfortunately, these boss fights get kinda same-y after a while - especially when you have to repeat some of them, thanks to the game's somewhat questionable save system* - so only those gamers who find themselves endlessly addicted to hard-as-♥♥♥♥ older-school arcade games are liable to find much to "write home" about here. For the rest of us, it's perhaps enjoyable enough to play a level or two at a time, before finding something decidedly more engaging to do with our evening and/or lives. A sincere effort on the behalf of the devs, just the same. I shouldn't complain, really. If I'd grown up in a different era, it might've been ME who found himself traversing a deadly mine, rather than a cute robot avatar. We really are a privileged, smarmy pack of lazy brats, aren't we? "Oh, woe is me, this video game isn't QUITE as good as some of the fifty other games I've forced myself to play in the past six months..." TRY SWEEPING OUT A CHIMNEY SOME TIME, YOU SPOILED LITTLE TURD!! Verdict: 6.5/10. (* Th…

End of the Mine has good art style and theme. I love mining, caves and crystals. Unfortunately the game tries to do too much and fails to do anything extraordinary. All stages and guns are very similar, the lightning is weird and the boss fights are disappointing. Overall it [b]lacks polishing[/b]. And why the hell is there so much ammo in a mining operation? And as a kickstarter backer I was extremely upset that the release price was under the minimum backing to get the game. Not a good way to value your early adopters!

Game has good art and level design. Character collision with sloppy terrain has problems. Effects like explosion of enemies and bullets are not good. Boss fights are broken and unenjoyable.

cute little platformer. nothing new, nothing ground breaking, but, hey, well worth the price.

This isnt even a bad game, but the constant camera bouncing is terrible. On top of that the autosave/checkpoint system doesnt work.

annoing and unenjoyable overall.