Max and the Book of Chaos
Orenji Games Entertainment · 2020 · Action, Adventure, Action-Adventure, Arcade, Shooter
PC
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About Max and the Book of Chaos
“Max and the book of chaos” is an arcade 2D action game with elements of run and gun and shoot ´em up classic video games, focused on giving to the player a true arcade feeling experience. The game also offers mechanics of upgrading equipment and some features for Max. And all of this mixed with and interesting and funny story to create a unique narrative lore with a cool cartoon graphic style.
MAIN REFERENCES
Super pang: For the levels structure.
Metal slug and the bug butcher: Thinking about the action mechanics.
Pop culture: the story has a lot of references to icons of the 80´s / 90´s movies, comics, and literature…
STORYTELLING
The story take place in an old castle that has become a summer school. But the castle hide a lot of secrets. A legendary old book that has the power to open portals between dimensions and times lies there. This book is imbued with the power of the dark matter and has been hidden for millennia. But now Someone has unleashed its power. The portals has been opened and our world has been invaded by hordes of strange, fun and chaotic enemies. And YES, Max Racoon is our only true hope.
GAMEPLAY
The game occurs in closed stages. Each stage has 6 levels of difficult, from lower to higher. So we have levels for a casual and light experience and other levels for the hardcore player that search for a challenge.
Playing the levels: The main objective is to survive a certain time to waves of enemies. Moreover the player must rescue the maximum number of friends locked in jails. The more friends the player rescue the more STARS he obtains. The stars unlock new stages and final bosses. Also, by killing enemies, the player will obtain coins that can be used to buy equipment, abilities and cool stuff.
BASIC MECHANICS
Our philosophy is “easy to play but hard to master”, so we have the basics.
The player can jump, shoot and dash in order to avoid get killed. The flow of the game is fast, funny and chaotic so requires of reflexes and ability
MAIN REFERENCES
Super pang: For the levels structure.
Metal slug and the bug butcher: Thinking about the action mechanics.
Pop culture: the story has a lot of references to icons of the 80´s / 90´s movies, comics, and literature…
STORYTELLING
The story take place in an old castle that has become a summer school. But the castle hide a lot of secrets. A legendary old book that has the power to open portals between dimensions and times lies there. This book is imbued with the power of the dark matter and has been hidden for millennia. But now Someone has unleashed its power. The portals has been opened and our world has been invaded by hordes of strange, fun and chaotic enemies. And YES, Max Racoon is our only true hope.
GAMEPLAY
The game occurs in closed stages. Each stage has 6 levels of difficult, from lower to higher. So we have levels for a casual and light experience and other levels for the hardcore player that search for a challenge.
Playing the levels: The main objective is to survive a certain time to waves of enemies. Moreover the player must rescue the maximum number of friends locked in jails. The more friends the player rescue the more STARS he obtains. The stars unlock new stages and final bosses. Also, by killing enemies, the player will obtain coins that can be used to buy equipment, abilities and cool stuff.
BASIC MECHANICS
Our philosophy is “easy to play but hard to master”, so we have the basics.
The player can jump, shoot and dash in order to avoid get killed. The flow of the game is fast, funny and chaotic so requires of reflexes and ability
What Steam players say
Recent verbatim reviews from Steam — separate from playze.io community reviews below.
Put about 2 1/2 hours into the game. Here's my take. Game is designed well for what it wants to do. It's a single-screen action shooter with timed attack mechanics. The stages themselves are bite-sized and come with their own challenges. You will need decent reflexes to handle the push of enemies that will appear. The in-stage buffs provide fair boosts. The unlocks help you improve the quality of the boosts you find through spending of in-game coins you get from killing enemies and freeing your classmates. The game is simple and can be played by most audiences. There are a few quirks I've bumped into through testing. The controller centering in the game is off, it tends to bias movement to one direction over the other. Also while it supports D-stick movement, diagonal shooting is really poorly detected and you have to rely and horizontal shooting and jumping to hit everything. There's also a couple of oddities in later levels where enemies can be immune due to blocking bits on the left and right walls where they spawn (especially with flying enemies). The unlocks do give you perks, and while they are useful, they only add a small benefit to the game. It feels more like an excus…6 found this helpful
Just because i got the game for free... it wont influence my opinion of the game Fun game reminds me of old school one screen shooters looks good and plays good also with some lost in translation humour but i think £4-5 would of been a better price if it comes on sale grab it overall 3.5/52 found this helpful
I cannot recommend this game due to the stange hitboxes of the enemies and the "Special Abilities" actually causing more detriment than help. The keys also were sticking a lot while I was playing (ie, the game thought I was still pushing move when I wasn't or the dodge action would activate a couple second after I pressed it) but that could maybe not be the game. I tried using my controller but it just wouldn't register in game for some reason. The art is great and the writing is silly but holy crap even on easy this game gets BRUTUALLY difficult. You can watch my livestream gameplay over on my [url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-qj96bp41jU&list=PL0q93Rkkmx_uifPhSS0fx6Xi9GV5V52Mx]YouTube Channel[/url]!1 found this helpful
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