COMPLETE: Frightened Beetles

[kjorteo]

This game was about four minutes long for me. I will try not to spend longer than that on the review.

So. Frightened Beetles. You are a series of cute insects. Something frightens each one, causing them to take off running through a gibfest obstacle course, usually to splat against some wall at the very end anyway. This startles the next bug who was sitting right next to that wall, who takes off through their own bloody journey, and the cycle continues like a relay race sponsored by the Happy Tree Friends.

This is... not what I was expecting and not something I would have played if I'd known what it actually was, but hey. It's four minutes long, free, and I can think of lower quality offerings if this genre is your thing.

The first leg is kind of cruel, though. Not only are harmless background leaves only marginally darker in color than the instant death leaves, but this is by design, as the two are often directly next to each other in long sequences that are deliberate attempts to confuse the player into crashing. Not cool.

Comments

[xaq_the_aereon]

If I want a game about running like crazy and splatting into stuff, I'll stick to Running Ink.

Thanks for the heads up on this, though.

[davidn]

Ah, I would have blamed the leaves on being colourblind - good to know it isn't just me, those are near-identical! The second leg also has your character far too far up the screen to effectively dodge the things coming your way, as well (it seemed to change on every life I spent on that section - perhaps this is a mistake).

It's cute enough for a tiny game, though, like one of those things that came on shareware CDs for Windows 3.1