Got this error message while trying to play the first star of Mushroom Mountain:
Quote:
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ERROR in
action number 1
of Create Event
for object obj_silverstar:
Data structure with index does not exist.
Was able to overcome it by going into the nearby minigame, leaving, and then trying the stage again.
Also, what's the point of having a Mushroom in your slot if there's no tiny Mario, and it doesn't actually heal you either?
EDIT:
Another problem, same issue with entering the cave stage and piranha plant stage.
Quote:
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ERROR in
action number 1
of Create Event
for object obj_redring:
Data structure with index does not exist.
EDIT 2:
Finally finished the demo... first I'll get the last of the grammar/spelling stuff out of the way (it may seem trivial, but actually writing stuff correctly is a sign of game polish):
Cave level"Most of the caves here act very strange... At one point a cave is open and another time it is closed, only leaving a couple of cracks."
Very awkward quote here. Suggestion:
"Most of the caves here act very
strangely... A cave might be open at one point, and another time it might be closed, only leaving a few cracks."
"Good job! I see you fonud the YELLOW SWITCH! Also the YELLOW SWITCH BLOCKS contain MUSHROOMS." - Needs a comma after also.
Stormy level"Be carful [sic] of the LIGHTNING! Watch it's pattern and choose the right time to jump." - Careful, and its, not "it's."
End"CONGRADULATIONS [sic]! You just unlocked hardcore mode!" - Congratulations, not congradulations.
Anyways...
Additional impressions are that the game is REALLY freaking hard. I dunno how many lives I lost (a good chunk were due to the screen change thing and the veggie gimps all over), but it was a lot. One big thing that made it much more difficult are that extra lives are extremely hard to come by. The only way to get them is either by luck, or by minigame. And the minigame is extremely hard. I think I got all the purple coins like once in 20 tries. Because of that, I actually just restarted the game every time I lost a life. That got pretty annoying, and that was compounded by all the glitches I got every time (see above). My only suggestions here are make 1-ups easier to obtain somehow... and either tone down the difficulty for this world, or just make this a brutally sadistic game and make each world even harder. Some examples... The difficulty curve has to be consistent, at least.
Cave level - That third star, the star switch dash was frustrating. I was surprised the timer was so short for a run that required so many precision jumps.
Piranha plant level - The first and third star were just brutal... especially the music boxes. Having to jump across that first set without holding the jump button was frustrating -- but luckily I found a way around that (just run straight at the last one and let go of the jump button). The third star -- having to jump across all those paragaloombas -- was a page taken out of a late game level. Luckily I bypassed that all with Racoon Mario after failing multiple times.
Stormy level - I dunno, climbing vines is kind of glitchy. If you ever hold up while jumping, you don't really get off the vine because you just regrab it. Because of that, it's really hard to get any vertical jump. That was lethal in getting the last silver star, because I literally found it impossible to reach that ledge from the vine. If you jumped, you'd just do a weak jump and fall to your death below. I had to work around that by just wall jumping to the star -- I'm not sure if that was intentional though.
Last suggestion: It'd be nice to have a resolution setting. The native resolution is ridiculously tiny, and I have to stretch the window every time I restarted the game (which was very often). And since it's free stretch, I probably messed up the proportions every time.
The silver star and red ring issues are problems with loading a save file. I know it's odd. But I reworked the saving system so it should be fine now.
The mushroom issue happened because I forgot to remove mushrooms in your reserve box.
Overall very solid game though. Can be a top tier fangame if those issues are fixed.