Разработчик: Green Lava Studios
Описание
This is a hardcore minimalist platformer about a little black box with the power of the phoenix. If you die, you revive right away to keep trying. You can jump on platforms, and even fly through the level; but watch out for the dangerous red boxes. Help Fenix Box get to the blue box in every level and discover the Legend of the Cookie. Go ahead and try your best!
Features:
- 90 Levels
- Leaderboards for time and amount of deaths (the less, the better!)
- No lives! Keep trying until you wish you were dead.
- Easy controls for a harsh environment (gamepad recommended)
Frequently Asked Questions:
Q: Okay... So, what do I get?
A: In the best scenario you’ll get good old fashioned sweet glory.
Q: Did someone say leaderboards?
A: We did mention it did we? There are, for those frantic, crazy speedrunners!
Q: Why don’t game developers understand difficulty?!
A: Cuz some of us just want you to suffer.
Поддерживаемые языки: english
Системные требования
Windows
- OS *: Windows 7, 8, 8.1, 9, 10.
- Processor: 1.0 GHz or faster for this bad boy.
- Memory: 512 MB RAM
- Graphics: Integrated Graphics
- Storage: 11 MB available space
- Additional Notes: *This baby runs at 60 FPS!!!
Отзывы пользователей
Fenix Box is yet another of literally thousands of 2D retro pixel platformers infesting Steam and lowering the average quality of all video games everywhere, although the platforming here is very poorly done, there's no limit to how many times you can jump, making this play more like Flappy Bird than a real platformer. This is not a good thing. There's no save function, the developer claims this is to make the game "difficult", but it's much more likely they just couldn't work out how to make save games work. Even though there's an example for this included with GameMaker Studio. It's not rocket science... in fact it's brutally easy, which is why there's so much GameMaker Studio amateur garbage polluting Steam. No excuses here.
From a technical perspective, the game doesn't meet basic minimum requirements that most PC gamers expect as standard.
The graphics here are some of the worst, laziest attempt at video game "art" I've ever seen. It's hard to suggest this game even has graphics. It's just untextured, basic pixel blocks and blobs, the kind that an infant child might be able to create in 5 minutes on MS Paint. It's clear the developer didn't even try to produce any real graphics for the game and just phoned it in. It's unclear why such a lazy approach was taken, whether it may be caused by lack of talent, budget, or motivation to do their job properly. It also doesn't matter... what matters is that this has resulted in a game with zero visual appeal for gamers. It's an immediate failure on that measure alone.
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 only displays in 4:3 pillarboxed aspect ratio. It's possible they developed this using an old CRT they found in a dumpster, or this game has been specifically designed for people gaming on PC's from 1995... either way, this isn't really acceptable in the modern era of PC gaming.
The controls can't be customised, which will be an annoyance for many, but it can also render the game unplayable for differently-abled gamers, or gamers using AZERTY or other international keyboard layouts.
Some of the defects in the game can be attributed to the choice of using the GameMaker Studio construction kit/toolset. This is a very poor quality toolset favoured by amateur developers as it's cheap and requires little in the way of development skill, but unfortunately has very limited capabilities. Just as you can't make a silk purse out of a sows ear, you can't make a great video game if you use a terrible engine. GameMaker Studio is most commonly used to make retro pixel shovelware and cash grabs.
A strong argument can be made that construction kits like GameMaker Studio should never be used to make games for profit, as the "developer", Green Lava Studios has done here. These construction kits are intended to teach people some of the basic principles of game development, and to make small demos to pass around with friends. They're not intended to replace to actual work of real, professional game developers. So it's inappropriate when amateurs try to use these for profit, without any actual, real game development effort taking place. This doesn't result in products that have any real meaningful value for gamers.
These technical defects push this game below acceptable standards for any modern PC game.
The poor quality of this game is reflected by how many people spent time with it. At the time of this review, SteamDB shows the all-time peak player number was only 4 players. This is a remarkably low number, and now, the only player activity occurs once or twice a month, presumably someone loading it up to see what it is then quickly uninstalling it. Considering there's over 120 million gamers on Steam and well over 50,000 games for gamers to choose from (over 9,000 completely free titles), the overwhelming lack of interest in this low quality game is to be expected.
Fenix Box is relatively cheap at $1 USD, but it's not worth it. Given the defects and quality issues with the game, coupled with the unrealistic price, this is impossible to recommend.
Good game, challenging but fair. A bit like getting over it, but the controls are very precise instead of a hindrance.
Fun little platformer. Took around ~2hrs to 100%. Worthwile experience for $0.99
Veni, Vidi, Vici
Ever played Super Meat Boy? This is like that game, except this game is badly designed. All levels end up being the same: "advance in the right moment", and it ends up being frustrating because the rhythm of the red boxes is not regular and the game lags itself sometimes. It's like the game is hard, but only because it's badly done. I only bought it to be able to use the market anyway, but don't jump onto it if you expect "quality" or "hardcore games"
Дополнительная информация
| Разработчик | Green Lava Studios |
| Платформы | Windows |
| Ограничение возраста | Нет |
| Дата релиза | 16.11.2024 |
| Отзывы пользователей | 60% положительных (5) |