Fleazer - Review Copy
6/8/19
Check out the Live Stream of the game at the link below.
Fleazer Twitch Stream on YouTubeMy thoughts on the game:
Fleazer is a charming game where you play as a flea, from a top down perspective. Similar to games like Frogger you navigate the environment looking to increase time by finding clocks, sucking blood when finding a target (which increases your score), finding an egg which allows little baby fleas to traverse the level automatically and increase your score, and avoiding enemies like ants and spiders and such. Sometimes when you land on a target you travel to a bonus stage, where hip jazz and funk tunes play as you navigate a maze, avoid more enemies and try to find the target to gather more points and exit the bonus stage. You have 3 lives before your high score is saved and you must start again.
I was able to survive a long time in this seemingly endless game, venturing into multiple bonus areas with different backgrounds and being defeated by tons of bugs. I kept playing trying to increase my score and get used to the mechanics.
The game has nice font in the shape of various bugs. A few typos appear in the section explaining how to play the game and the choice of 3 camera angles mapped to the 1, 2, and 3 keys. 1 being zoomed in really far, 2 being a little zoomed out, and 3 for me was zoomed out far enough to see enemies around me and navigate the maze worked best.
There are a few issues with the game, one being movement. When you move left or right, the game jump cuts the perspective, placing Fleazer always facing forward, this jarring camera jump makes navigation difficult and your sense of direction a struggle to maintain. Often times there are bugs with the camera angles, times where your flea is reset back to the start, or where you can walk over walls in the maze.
However, despite some flaws I really enjoyed this game and it brought back fond memories.
Many thanks to the developer Namo for sending me a key to stream this game. I really enjoyed playing it and I think the game has a bright future.
