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Treebeard's Papa Louie (Web)
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| [January 28, 2008 07:16:15 PM]
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I was of the opinion initially that the game was fairly simple. Indeed it is compared to other games like Warcraft or Age of Empires, however, it isn’t just another simple online game. It is addictive in nature and has a simple yet strong story line. Critically speaking, I wouldn’t want to play the next version of the game! but having said that I must say that the current version is as good as a side scroller game can become.
I started with from where I left last. It has multiple levels just like any other game. However, this is with a twist. The story is of a high-rise apartment building where pizzas have been delivered to each room and monsters from the piazzas are holding the inmates hostage. Thus, each floor of the building is a level in the game. Also each floor level many rooms, and so each level has multiple stages. The main character (Papa) goes into each room, one at a time and is immediately teleported to a place like the multigrain fields, or the jungle ruins.
The graphics are very nicely done, especially the onion enemies. They look really grumpy and in the jungle ruins level, they are in the attire of Red-Indians. I did not like the cheese pizza monsters though. There is a sneezing sound accompanied by these monsters spewing out balls of cheese. I feel this may gross out some people even without being explicit. Typically there are 3-4 of these per stage and thus the main character (me) has to kill these and pick them up in pizza boxes and eventually rescue the people.
Well these were random thoughts. Let me elaborate on some of these.
LEVEL DESIGN: Seems like the designers spent considerable time designing the stages. They are essentially side –scrolling. They did have hidden areas which could be entered by breaking rocks or climbing ladders or ropes. These areas could be guarded heavily. I feel it has decent detail without jeopardizing the side-scrolling theme. I liked the power jumps and the gas balloons, which even changed shape slightly with the character perched on it.
CHARACTERS: The main character (Papa) has been created with a lot of care. This is evident when the Papa is attacked. For example when Papa is hit by a cheese ball, he freezes. Pressing space (jump) actually shakes Papa on screen and helps to shake off some cheese. The pizza monster is also done decently and does not appear tacky.
GRAPHICS and ART WORK: In certain places the artwork is lacking. The enemies do not have sufficient animation frames when they are killed. They did explore some variations but mostly they look like as if they are bumped off the screen. Their movements however are pretty nice. The music sounds appropriate. The inmates of the building who are to be recued look almost like match-stick characters. It is like as if they didn’t have time left to make them. Overall, I’d rate the graphics as good.
GAME THEME and OBJECTIVE: This was an eye-opener and a lesson. They created a game out of something as simple as delivering pizza! In the development of our game, we had trouble deciding what the theme of the game should be. The objective of the game here is partly to rescue the people, but more importantly, to stay alive till then. Intertwined in gameplay is a subtle strategy thrown in. Papa can collect coins and buy pepper bombs. Pepper bombs are very useful to kill enemies from a distance, much like a hand grenade, but cost much so one has to do resource management.
Certain tips are provided like “Beware of the onion tribe”, or “rolling stones can ricochet” which is very helpful. It took me a lot of time to reach till the third level and it was surprising to play an online game that got this intense.
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Treebeard's Papa Louie (Web)
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Current Status: Playing
GameLog started on: Monday 28 January, 2008
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