Great Ball of Fire

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Great Ball of Fire is yet another of literally thousands of 2D retro pixel platformers infesting Steam and lowering the average quality of all video games everywhere. This shovelware platformer is a slightly unusual one in that you're endlessly jumping, and you need to sometimes jump on a trampoline to turn intop a "ball of fire" so you can kill critters. This twist doesn't add much, if anything, to the traditional, old, dead platformer experience. From a technical perspective, the game doesn't meet basic minimum requirements that most PC gamers expect as standard. A choice was made to use obsolete, decades old retro pixel "art" as a substitute for contemporary PC graphics. It's unclear if this is due to lack of budget or talent, regardless, the overall visual quality of the game is extremely low as a result. There's no options to change the resolution for the game or customise the graphics settings. There's no way for gamers to ensure this is running at the native resolution of their displays... there's no guarantee this game will look right on any PC as a result of this hamfisted design decision. There's no way for gamers to try improve the low quality graphics. The co…

[i][u]Under the Hood[/u] i5-8600K Coffee Lake 6-Core 3.6 GHz || Ballistix Sport LT DDR4 (2 x16GB) || NVIDIA GeForce GTX 760[/i] [h2]~ Story ~[/h2] 📝 Great Ball of Fire is a simple story about a heroic blue ball (could be a balloon) winding down at the end of his day and trying to get some much needed sleep. Suddenly, our heroes home is assailed in the night by vicious birds (who I'm assuming are just chaotic evil and aimlessly spiteful, as birds are want to be) and our hero is thrust into action to defeat them, springing forth burning conviction. [h2]~ Graphics, Sound & UI ~[/h2] 🎶 The entire game aesthetic feels like a call back to classic platformers of the late 80s/early 90s with vibrant and detailed backgrounds alongside psuedo-chiptune style music, reminiscent of the music in the original Sonic titles on Sega Genesis. While graphic and sound quality are clean and polished, the game suffers from a lack of variety in either aspect. Each of the four worlds have their own theme which uses similar tilesets for each of the fifteen levels within. If the overall experience was faster in pace this may be less of an issue, but being a trial and error based puzzle game causes the…

Stars received: 3.4/10 _ Note: v.5 [0.0 to 1] = personal impressions [0.5] Controls & Training & Help [0.1] Menu & Settings [0.3] Sound & Music [0.5] Graphics [0.4] Game Design [0.2] Game Story [0.5] Game Content [0.6] Completion time (level/game)? [0.3] is it Enjoyable & Fun? [0] Could it hold a spot in Favorites? (& if the Game can be repeatedly played again) [0] BONUS point: Multi-Player related [0] BONUS point: Review for VR [N] - if Registration is required with providing PII Game description key-points: 2D Platformer, playing as a Ball hero Overview: game really feels good for kids, few details with nice pixeled designed. a bit of logic and agility, more focus on time consumption and hit and miss movements process is: jump // collect keys // bump targets with speedy-rage

TOO LONG, THIS IS NOT IT. ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ ♥♥♥♥ ASS GAME

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