Upgrades Would Have Made the Game
Fun Game, fun concept. With the Larry World you have built, I find this a very suiting game. I had a great time, but part of the game became rather frustrating.
The graphics were very nice and smooth So I have no qualms with them.
McSweeny's speed was a real hurt in this one. When getting barrels, he was slow, but in a more urgent situation involving Doug, McSweeny was not any faster. I found this to be very frustrating, especially when doug was getting much faster in the later levels. Before I could even get McSweeny to the door, doug had already taken down a half of a barrel or more.
Dougs dodge speed increased as well, but the McSweeny's attack speed did not get any better with better weapons. it got to the point I wasn't filling more than 2 barrels just to keep Doug isolated for easy victory. Doug's stamina increased greatly as well and if not prepared with a much stronger weapon by at least round 7, I found myself spending half a day or more beating the hell out of the drunkard.
This makes me want to call a bit better balance to the upgrade prices.
More upgrades would have been nice.
Perhaps some Hired help to either help retrieve barrels to take out Doug would have been a very nice addition. Perhaps even a chance to give yourself a shameless plug and have us hire Larry himself. I can think of some amusing animations of Larry trying to take out Doug to toting barrels that are twice his size.
Either some help or some sort of defenses would have been nice. Rat traps to snap on to Doug's toes to slow him down, doors on the warehouse to keep him out for a few seconds longer, barrels of crappy ale conveniently left our for him to run in to to give a few moments before he gets to the good ale stock, anything would have been nice. For challenge certain things having to be replenished or repaired each day would have done the trick.
The pour meter, it got fast, really fast. I understand this to a point, but after a certain speed I began to ask, what the hell, is McSweeny pouring himself a mug as we go along? Although we can use this idea to our advantage. Let us, as McSweeny, drink some ale and make it a trade off. The more ale we drink the faster the bar gets, but give us attack power to bring down Doug in return, that sound fair, doesn't it?
I would also like to have seen more barrel upgrades. Bigger barrels would have been a nice touch. Giving us the option of trying to serve more with out refilling so much would have been very nice. Perhaps some new barrel salesmen, the wizard giving us single day enchantments for "endless" barrels of ale for a price.
Although I have given a long list of things here I really did like the game, and I do look forward to seeing more from this world and it's characters. A sequel to this would be nice.
I hope you take in to consideration my suggestions for a sequel if any.