Vertical Drop Heroes HD Reviews

Although I can see some people in this review section that seem to be unaware of it Vertical Drop Heroes is an flash game that was available to play on armorgames.com in the 2010s. It was in fact one of my favourite flash games of the era, and one that i come back to every so often even now.. I found this game today and ended up buying it. I regret that decision now. The original game was amazing, it did what it was supposed to do perfectly, and it explained everything in a matter of seconds, and gave additional information as was needed. This version? Doesn't explain jack... apparently I can unlock abilities for my characters that I can't activate and can't figure out how to activate, and the game doesn't tell me how to activate? In the original it was as simple as pressing space bar, why does this need to be complicated? In the developer notes of the original game this was written: "My aim in Vertical drop heroes is to provide a quick, accessible game that nevertheless has depth and choice, therefore the game is a mix of tetris and more traditional rpgs. as with all the games I've made, part of the game is randomized so that it offers a different experience each time you play. Each hero has a specific "feel": a defensive Paladin, a Balanced Ronger, an agile Thief, a powerful Mage and a battle orientated barbarian. The unlockables are designed to further customize these options for each player" So how does this game fair when compare to the original? 1. The game isn't quick or accessible anymore, the tips and instructions don't work, the control scheme is awkward and it's entirely likely that new players will die instantly when they load in. 2. The game doesn't feel like it has any depth at all, it's just a simple bigger number beats the smaller number game, and the boss fights aren't complicated, they're basically just a numbers game now where in the original there were platform-based mechanics to them. 3. Each run feels the same, just a slog of random mechanics that don't make sense and often contradict abilities you've already unlocked (I unlocked the ability to stand on burning blocks, then immediately after nearly died to standing on a burning block.) 4. The five original classes have been simplified into three, which all feel the same imo and the original classes, where a lot of the fun originally camee from now occupy a background role, often doing nothing other than charging at the first enemy and dying instantly. 5. The Unlockables are non-existent. For example the thing that finally caused me to put down the game entirely is that I levelled up the peace orbs and ruby value increase three times and then picked up a peace orb and it didn't feel like it had been levelled up at all, it genuinely felt like it was where it should have been the entire time. Spending multiple early runs worth of gold brought the item to where the default should have been. The other unlockables like abilities I'm already expressed I can't even figure out how you use them, the game didn't tell me and the obvious answer didn't work, combine that with them having a perplexing control scheme and the ability activation key could be anything on the keyboard, it could be the tilde key for all I know. Ultimately while I am leaving this review on a game that has been on steam for 11 years now I'm just not happy that I saw a game called "Vertical Drop Heroes" by the original developer on steam, clicked onto it and bought it and found out late that it's not vertical drop heroes at all. It is only because of how much I enjoyed the original game that I am not refunding this.