Deadly Traps

You cannot adjust the Player in midair making this game a horrendously awful experience.

Deadly Traps is a ClickTeam Fusion drag and drop shovelware platformer from the asset flippers at BT Studios (just take a look at "Dead No Head" for an example of a pure asset flip from these guys). It's one of thousands of retro platformers infesting Steam and making gaming worse for everyone. From a technical perspective, the game doesn't meet basic minimum requirements that most PC gamers expect as standard. There's no option to change the resolution and no useful graphics tweaks. There's no way to ensure this is running at the native resolution of your display. There's no guarantee this game will look right on any PC as a result of this hamfisted design decision. The game features somewhat lazy, simplistic 2D graphics, of the type you normally expect to see in low effort Flash/browser games and mobile apps. Considering this is being evaluated as a PC game, having the graphics phoned in like this isn't going to result in a high quality, visually impressive game that PC gamers are used to seeing. The controls and game handling are notably very clunky and unsmooth here. It's janky and unsatisfying to play... and any experienced gamer will tell you, the handling, responsi…

This Limbo ♥♥♥♥♥♥ keeps dropping his Lego studs when he dies

cool designs i like it

Wack.

Weird decisions that break genre conventions: 1) Starting with the worst one, the mid-air control is awful. Pretend you're jumping full speed this way ->. In almost every other platformer, tapping Left would make you either slow down or move a little bit to the right. In this game, tapping Left [b]immediately[/b] makes you go full speed this way <-. It makes no sense. You can't make precise adjustments, which isn't exactly great when it's one of those platformers that asks for precision. Even worse, this only happens after you jump. If you just walk off a ledge and fall, mid-air control works like it should! So you're dealing with two different schemes the entire game. 2) The bomb hitbox is active for a weirdly long amount of time. If you can see the explosion, it's still deadly. Pretty sure it can kill you until the very last frame of its long-ass animation. 3) Lots of spike paths are drawn very randomly, no rhyme or reason to them. Not predictable unless you memorize each one. 4) Deadly stuff doesn't reset when you die, which is terrible for a game where there are like 3-6 [b][i]different[/i][/b] cycles that need to align for you. A lot of the time, the experience from your …