Not bad
It's a nice platformer you made with Games Factory 2, and although the game was riddled with bugs you still did a good enough job to compensate a little. I'll elaborate later.
The graphics / animation: They were good, everything being good enough except for the static sprites such as the trees. I liked Shrimpy and the design of the platforms, along with the swimming fish: their animations were smooth. The explosions were, I presume, life? I wouldn't see why that had to be used, perhaps because of it being the default sprite set in TGF2?
The sound: At the beginning it's a fast-paced sound and then when you enter the game it's a slow, calming sound. I don't quite see the point of that, although the songs themselves are nice. Either way, for an underwater theme the song is chosen well.
The gameplay: It's a quite decent platformer you've made, along with relaxing music as a casual, relax-y type of game, but sadly it's riddled with bugs, like I said before. Rather than having to go to the trouble of jumping up all those platforms, just fall down a place (bug?) and you'll end up near what I think is the end screen. Just collect the explosions and then jump. Problem is, if you jump and hit the dissolving brick, you instantly lose a life and reset the screen there. Another problem is the sticking to the ceiling. Normally I would press C to push the character down, but now when I got to the near end, I got stuck between two walls and a dissolving brick. I nudged C again and again, but it only pushed it down a little bit. By the time I freed him, he went through the floor and fell! But he didn't reset, he just went off the screen, no lives were lost, almost as if you were just navigating the screen camera!
Apart from all the bugs, it's quite nice. I'll go check out Shrimp's adventure V2 now.
~~ Summary ~~
~~ Good points ~~
1) Nice graphics
2) Smooth animation
3) Good choice of music
~~ Bad points ~~
1) Riddled with bugs
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