Reviews - Kazekai

I have played the dev builds and see improvement in each release. This game holds the kind of potential to be the kind of game I've always wanted to play, and already has many features of such a game with its large focus on user-created content. I highly recommend trying the pre-alpha or, if you're more interested in waiting for the game to be more "fleshed out" I recommend following its development, rating it up on Greenlight, and following the developer's Youtube channel.

Oh boy, another sick person selling a game on controversial violence. Whatever it is that people have against the concept of "cute" does not need to be a selling point for a video game, but I guess there are too many immature people that think this is funny or whatever.

I loved flOw and this is like a sequel to that game for me. The added element of multi-path evolution makes it something special. It's a simple concept that varies in complexity depending on how you want to play it and I think that is excellent design.

My only complaint is a lack of free-play mode, but that doesn't stop this from being very interesting.

This is by far one of the ugliest indie games I've ever played. Not only do the sprites look cheap and cobbled together but the music lacks consistency and in what I assume are night-time segments, the screen becomes so dark that I can't see anything that isn't sillhouetted against those luminescent clouds. Trying to light up my base with the lights provided proves a futile effort because of the painful light effect that looks more like a glowing fog machine. I highly suggest the programmer take some of his/her funds and invest them into a decent artist and musician and work some consistency into this thing.

Poor presentation aside, the gameplay aspect also has a lot of problems. The combat system is a good idea, in my opinion, but it's difficult to target enemies below me when there's a bulky HUD taking up the entire bottom of the screen, and the jumping feels like someone used MMF2's platformer object, because my character has been able to stick to ceilings and abuse a glitch that makes ladders and vines worthless to get around, and while this is fun, it also feels very unpolished.

This isn't a horrible game, but it has some pretty poor execution. It feels like someone took a bunch of free resources from Google and slapped them together, making the consistency suffer, and that's very important in a game. The lack of a pause button when reading tutorials is also a problem, as I have to climb up to my base every time I want to see what they say. The default control setup works for the most part but holding W to sprint while using A and D seems like an awkward design choice.

It's great that somebody put effort into dynamic seasons and procedural world generation but you need more than that to make a game.

As bias as this might seem, I find hunting games to be disturbing. This one is moreso disturbing because it is meant to be comical to shoot animals. I do not agree with or support even simulated animal cruelty and I find this offensive. If its goal is to be offensive, it has succeeded with flying colors.

Highly unfinished but has a lot of potential.

It's fun, but simple and a little short.

The overall gaming experience is very good, but what really hurt my opinion of it was the secret stars. The ways you obtain them are so far out there they defy the basics of designing a game. (Making a player stand still for two hours, making one star unobtainable if you complete world 2 and 3's puzzle, etc) The creator made such blatant bad decisions that I wonder if he didn't do them on purpose. In any case, if it weren't for that, I'd give it a 10, but not being able to 100% a game, or even know about the secrets in the game without getting a walkthrough or being a seriously dedicated player, is insane.

After playing the demo, this game is exactly what I've always wanted in a good town sim game, and with just the right amount of RPG. It's addictive and a great strategy game, kind of like Terraria if Terraria were an isometric RTS that was actually fun to play.

OMFG Y U NO OWN THIS GAME YET? I own the non-Desura version but after playing it, I honestly feel like it was the perfect experience.