Reviews for The Cloud

[kabogh]

I had the impression of playing the conclusion of a story I'll never know. As I play the character, I ask myself: Who am I? Why am I depressed? What led me to this cycle? Clearly, the game isn't made to be won, fate meets end, I never seek help; it seems I am too helpless for that. But that's about it, no significant character development to avoid saying none. As I said, the state of the story looks like you just wrote the end and omitted the rest. This leaves me with the cruel feeling of not caring for the character, may he die, I've only played the end of his part, I have no way to truly appreciate who he is.

As for the world itself, I see a theme here. Where every pixel is grey and large, the chunks of the world are abnormal and separated akin to a fantasy skyland, with sci-fi teleporters here and there. Happiness leads to death, avoiding it is meeting victory conditions. Opening your heart to more displeasing thoughts and somehow being fine with that. I conclude the character may experience extremely blank, repetitive, sad and confusing world, however he seems as blind to help as he is colourblind and I would be depressive too if I had to hear this song everyday; I can understand why the only vegetation is what appears to be grass.

The game itself is exactly what the character of the game feels; sadly repetitive and we have to cope with it to see the end, which is, you may have heard of it enough by now, unsatisfying. Overall, the game isn't too terrible, but it could improve graphic wise, story wise and animation wise. Your mini games are over used and unflavoured enough that I don't see how it could be fixed.

[Fudanshi]

nice concept and music,but very boring gameplay

[lex555218]

Literally nothing makes me hate a game except repetitive gameplay that not only is annoying but becomes dragged out and aggressive enough to make the player spend over ten minutes trying to complete one level. I like the idea behind the game, and if the game were designed better, I'd enjoy playing it. However, as it is right now, this isn't interesting or good enough to be worth as much of my time as I put into it.

JackAstral responds:

It took you 10 minutes to beat the cloud parts? They should only be about 2 or 3 minutes each, at the most.

The game itself is only about 12 minutes long

[Karmakosm]

I know you worked hard on this game, but it would have been more enjoyable just to make the game easy through out to see the ending. I wont see the ending to this because I feel like the game was way too boring in the beginning and then unnecessarily hard on the last level. This game would fit the art game category that tells a story, and I would have liked to see the ending, but from what the game had been about, I imagine it wouldn't have been very positive. I like the art in the game, and the programming you did with the meshing and that, but it feels a little too copy and pasted. Not my favorite, but worth the play for the music and the mood.

[Wegra]

You know know these fake 8 bit games are really getting old. They're not original and come off as pretentious. Just sayin'

JackAstral responds:

i dont mean to come off as pretentious

thanks for trying it out anyway :)