HotHead Reviews

Great Game. Challenging and fun!

It's alright. It's functional. It's not quite worth the price. The problem is that it's not especially fun. It has all the elements of what normally makes a platforming game fun; it has enemies you can destroy, it has a decently varied set of platforms, and it's got powerups. It's got a few problems. First, the game starts off in an insultingly small resolution that would seem small even compared to old Windows 95 era monitors that were a maximum of about 800 x 600 pixels most of the time. The game starts in a resolution that I think is something like 300 x 400 or something of that nature. That's incredibly, painfully small. Is this supposed to be a mobile game? Second, the main character looks [i]absolutely terrible.[/i] Hothead himself looks so much less polished than the rest of the game, where the poor guy looks like a blurry makeshift version of what he really should be. The rest of the background and the enemies look surprisingly crisp, even if a lot of them look exactly the same but with different color swaps. Third, whatever "life" system is being used is flawed. You get infinite lives, at the cost of your total score. Every time that you die, your total score resets completely. This creates an unintentionally demotivating atmosphere of the overall game where it feels like the player is harshly punished for any mistake. The game teeters a bit between "too easy" and "a little difficult" sometimes. The difficulty, unfortunately, does not come from the game itself but rather it's limited space design. Careless mistakes get you killed fast, and that resets your score quickly. Fourth, this game really could just use some additional polish. It's not quite worth it's 5 dollar marker at the moment. I'd go so far as to say I'm not completely disappointed with it, but I definitely have seen better. I feel like there's a lot more potential for this game to be good, and when that day comes I think I'll be able to recommend it.