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[Wilt: Last Blossom]

Nice direction, art and style. The game flowed smoothly and I appreciated the minimal amount of backtracking, even for secrets. Music meshed well with the style and added the right amount of atmosphere.
I felt the vilification of the "haz-mats" was underdeveloped part of the plot, given that they seem to only be an enemy of the protagonist, they are seemingly benevolent as suggested by other NPC dialogue. This frames the protagonist's actions as unethical, (slaughter of innocent people in a selfish quest to recover his immune daughter and prevent the discovery of a cure).
Like other reviewers, I was uneasy about the happy ending. While meant to be heartwarming it would cause more damage to than good to the world of Wilt.

Thanks for making an interesting platformer!

[Sanguine]

First off, excellent work Hyrus! This game had a solid style and theme. The mini-maps were very neat, (a mini platformer between levels, review what you just did would be perfect for a loading screen in many games!) and the songs/SFX were appropriate and effective. My only minor gripe with graphical design was that the non-pixelated blood/particle effects did take away somewhat from the 8-bit style of the game, (the effect, however, did look pretty good).

I only had two critical opinions about the gameplay, the first being the fact that you needed to press multiple buttons to grab ledges, beams and chains. This felt awkward, and took away from the acrobatic flow of the game. Hitting the jump button when falling towards a chain didn't feel natural and it would have been nice if the grab action was tied to the up arrow.

The only other problem I had involved the final boss and, unlike other reviewers, difficulty was not an issue; what made it frustrating was if you screwed up. Respawning with no health/blood made what was a fairly challenging boss, (with as little as a quarter blood-bar), into an annoying cycle of respawns.

Regardless of these complaints, this was an excellent game and I really enjoyed playing through the challenge!