Newyear Dualstream Day of Zeux Q4 2002 Judging Sheet:Thundercloud
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Okay, first of all, DISQUALIFICATIONS. #1: 44192. Reason: Now, when they say to leave your entry ANONYMOUS, OBVIOUSLY they meant SPLASH IT ABOUT RIGHT LEFT AND CENTRE, ISN'T THAT RIGHT <s>CLOWD</s>CLOWN. #2: 26513. Reason: STEALING FROM XENOGENESIS IS BAD :( #3: 8796. Reason: IT PAINS ME TO DO SO, BUT WE KNOW WHO DID THIS, SEEING AS HE DID THE SAME GAME LAST TIME ROUND :( #4: 30275. Reason: WTF? This has nothing to do with the topics at all! #5: 48493. Reason: The Thundercloud dictionary describes a MZX game as "having more than just a title screen". Hint hint. Okay, now that we've got all those clowns (WITH THE EXCEPTION OF 8796) out of the way, it's time to get down to the proper judging. These are in numerical order. (And yes, I'm still marking the DQ's) Note: Only the non-disqualified entries are ranked. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1871: Trinity. Gameplay: 5/65. Comment: This game was let down greatly by it's bugs, which were many. It was unfinished as well, and much of the game was unplayable. Also, there were too many battles. It was like a battle every three steps, which became EXTREMELY ANNOYING >< Graphics: 47/50. Comment: DUDE, These graphics rocked! There were some glitches, with glowing things in places they shouldn't be, but overall they were DA BOMB. Plot: 15/50. Comment: Not much plot to go on. There was a nice background to the game, and there was a sort of character involvement, so that gives it some marks. Theme: 3/45. Comment: There was no theme to this at all, apart from the picture of the planets at the start. I believe that alone stopped this entry from being disqualified. Innovation: 20/30. Comment: Seems a bit like it's all been done before. The whole war between two planets, and a third planet being dragged into it seems a bit like it's been done before, but I may be wrong. Still, there were some original points to this game, such as the battle engine, the likes of which I personally haven't seen before. Discretion: 10/15. Comment: I thought this game would have been appropriate for the topic if it had been completed. However, I can see where the effort went in, and I'm deciding to award 10 marks, just because I can see that these people have tried, even though it didn't come out as expected. Music: 20/30. Comment: I liked some of this music. Some of it was fresh, and I hadn't heard it before. However, some of it was old and boring to my ears, So that lets down the music score a bit. Sound effects: 0/5. Comment: There were none. This game could have been improved by the addition of at least one sound effect. Combined score: 120/300. Rank: 3. Comment: When I saw this game I had high hopes, but they were dashed. Better luck next time. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- 8796: FINAL FANTASY XXX. Gameplay: 30/65. Comment: THIS GAME WAS VERY VERY GOOD. HARDLY ANY BUGS AT ALL, BUT IT WAS TOO REPETITIVE FOR MY LIKING :( Graphics: 3/50. Comment: THEY WERE BETTER THAN CAVERNS, LET'S PUT IT THAT WAY. Plot: 10/50. Comment: THE PLOT WAS RIPPED FROM SEVERAL FINAL FANTASY GAME, BUT I FIND THE WAY IN WHICH IT'S AMALGATED INTERESTING, SO I GIVE 10. Theme: 20/45. Comment: WELL THEY DID MENTION EQUILIBRIUM ONCE OR TWICE, AND THE PLOT WITH THE CRYSTALS WAS SORT OF RELATED TO IT. MEH. Innovation: 0/40. Comment: THE PLOT WAS RIPPED :( ALSO, I REMEMBER A SIMILAR GAME LAST YEAR... FINAL FANTASY XXX I BELIEVE IT WAS CALLED. Discretion: 11/15. Comment: DUDE, THIS GAME WAS VERY VERY FUNNY. IT WAS NOTHING BUT FUNNY. Music: 5/30. Comment: THE MUSIC WAS VERY ANNOYING AND REPETITIVE :( Sound: 1/. Comment: WHAT SOUND? I'M GIVING THIS ENTRY ONE POINT, BECAUSE ANY USE OF SOUNDS WOULD HAVE BLOWN MY MIND :( Combined Score: 80/300. (DISQUALIFIED) Comment: LIKE WOW. GET RID OF EVERYTHING BUT THE HUMOUR AND DAMN THAT'S A GOOD GAME. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- 26513: Medecine run. Gameplay: 2/65. Comment: This game was boring, repetitive and monotonous. I really couldn't stand it. Graphics: 2/50. Comment: There was SOME animation, but overall they were crappy. This entry would have got a higher mark for the wave effect at the end BUT THEY STOLE IT SO NO POINTS. BAD TEAM! BAD! Plot: 5/50. Comment: There was a MINIMAL PLOT, but it sucked :P Theme: 15/45. Comment: They stuck to the theme, but it was shallow and boring, and overdone. TAKE SOMEONE SOME MEDICINE... BAD. Innovation: 0/40. Comment: Been there, done that, got the t-shirt and burned it. Discretion: 2/15. Comment: I'm giving them two marks because I feel sorry for this team. Music: 0/30. Comment: OUR SURVEY SAYS: NUH UH. Sound: 1/5. Comment: Adlib sounds. Ech. Combined Score: 27/300. Comment: 5UX0RZ. Try harder. (DISQUALIFIED) --------------------------------------------------------------------------- 27523: TITLE. Gameplay: 2/65. Comment: Like the previous entry, this game was boring, repetitive and monotonous. It was awful. Graphics: 10/50. Comments: Well they did try to do some good graphics, i'll put it like that. But, no special effects, which would have improved their mark. Plot: 5/50. Comment: Sucky plot, which was basically the same as the last entry, but using only one board. Theme: 15/45. Comment: DUDE, THIS IS EXACTLY THE SAME AS THE LAST GAME! >< Innovation: 0/40. Comment: OH GOOD! ANOTHER KILL EVERYONE GAME! YAY! Discretion: 0/15. Comment: This was way too awful for my tastes, and I'm sure that parents would try to lynch the maker of this game if they saw their little child playing it. It's like 2D Doom, but with way too much gore. Music: 0/30. Comment: The similarities between this game at 26513 are astounding, DID YOU KNOW THAT!? THIS ONE HAS NO MUSIC AS WELL! Sound: 0/5. Comment: AND THIS ONE EVEN HAS NO SOUND IN IT! Combined Score: 32/300. Rank: 7 Comment: Bad. Very very very very bad. Try harder, and see a psychiatrist, you sick fool(s) --------------------------------------------------------------------------- 30275: FAILED. Gameplay: 0/65. Comment: There was NONE. Graphics: 15/50. Comment: Ooh, nice and animated player, but nothing else was good. Plot: 0/50. Comment: There was NONE. Theme: 0/45. Comment: There was NONE. Innovation: 5/40. Comment: If developed into a proper game, I can see that player becoming useful. Discretion: 2/15. Comment: I feel sorry for this team, so they get 2 points as well. Music: 0/30. Comment: There was NONE. Sound: 0/5. Comment: THERE WAS NONE ><. Combined Score: 22/300. Comment: FAIL. (DISQUALIFIED) --------------------------------------------------------------------------- 32335: Panacea. Gameplay: 20/65. Comment: Well, there was some gameplay in it, although most of it was quite repetitive. The having to rob a bank thing was quite nice, although it would have been better if you could have actually robbed it, and not have a computer driven script :P Graphics: 20/50. Comment: This game was mixed really. At times, it used it's own art, some of which was quite nice, but in other times it was just rubbish really, with the sort of art rivalling caverns (Especially that boss fight) Plot: 25/50. Comment: Well the plot was THERE, but it all seemed a bit too similar. Girl is dying, go to find miracle cure in a godforsaken place humanity hasn't been for centuries... meh, I've seen it all before. Theme: 35/45. Comment: Wheefun. This thing stuck to the topic, and in a way I haven't seen done that many times, unlike SOME GAMES I DON'T CARE TO MENTION. Innovation: 15/40. Comment: Well, as I said, it's all been done before. The whole find a miracle cure thing, the whole girl dying thing. It's not really adding anything new. Discretion: 7/15. Comment: After some of the poorer games in the DoZ, this one isn't half bad, so it gets just about half marks in the discretion category. Music: 10/30. Comment: Well it was there, but it was all ripped, and it was ALL stuff I'd heard before. Sound: 2/5. Comment: WTF? Why the hell have we got gunshot sounds when two people are punching each other? IT MAKES NO SENSE! Combined Score: 134/300. Rank: 4 Comment: There were some bad points, but then again, it wasn't exactly the worst game there... well at least it didn't have many bugs. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- 37701: Larry The Junkie. Gameplay: 30/65. Comment: Heh, this game had quite a bit of leet gameplay, and I especially loved the mini-game. Some of it was a bit too monotonous for my liking though. And also, there were a few big ANNOYING BUGS, especially the one where if you pressed space and you weren't talking to someone, space never worked again on that screen. Graphics: 30/50. Comment: Well I loved some of these graphics. Especially Larry, whos animation I thought rocked this world. Still, it could have done with some improvement, like trying to make the background appear less tiled (like on the moon), and also, some of the duplicates of the player on some screens were annoying. Plot: 30/50. Comment: The plot was crystal clear, had a few unexpected changes, and was funny at times, which I loved. Theme: 32/45. Comment: Duuude. This game stuck to the theme fairly well, and even had a few twists, but still adhered to the theme. Well done!. Innovation: 20/40. Comment: The characters were expertly done, which I feel adds a new way of style to the MZX catalogue. However, the whole "STFU NEWBIE" thing has been done a bit too much. Discretion: 10/15. Comment: I loved this game's humour. I wish it could have lasted longer. Especially the mini-game :) Music: 20/30. Comment: The music was fresh and new to me in places, but that Fletch tune has got to be one of the most used mods in the history of my MZX career. The only ways they could have improved it was to get rid of fletch and possibly compose some of their own. Sound: 3/5. Comment: Sound was used, and the effects that I heard were good, but it was a bit too sparse for my liking. Combined Score: 175/300. Rank: 2. Comment: Wow, this game is leet :P --------------------------------------------------------------------------- 41192: Revival! Gameplay: 5/65. Comment: AUGH, This game was BORING to the extreme. There were no challenges when it came to the puzzles, and it was just *snore* Graphics: 1/50. Comment: OH NO. These are some of the worst graphics I've ever seen. They're not even on par with caverns! Plot: 15/50. Comment: Mweh. It was there, and it wasn't the same as some other people's plots, but it's a bit unbelievable. If they live in such a modern age, why the hell do I have to go out looking for a cure!? DON'T THEY HAVE SOME KIND OF SUPER-ANTIBIOTICS!? Theme: 20/45. Comment: Well it stuck to the topic, but it was done in a sort of Monkey Island way, which does earn it SOME gratification... just not much, because I still think the plot sucked. Innovation: 0/45. Comment: IT'S LIKE A CROSS BETWEEN CAVERNS AND MONKEY ISLAND. Discretion: 0/15. Comment: This game gets no discretion marks, simply because I can't believe anyone is dumb enough to splash their name all across a DoZ entry, which is supposed to be anonymous. Music: 0/30. Comment: There was NONE. Sound: 1/5. Comment: Adlib sounds. Ech. Combined Score: 42/300. (DISQUALIFIED) Comment: TRY HARDER, CLOWD. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- 47506: Crisis in Stuffyou City. Gameplay: 50/65. Comment: OMFG, this game rocked! All of the challenges in them were bug free, fun and challenging. However, I couldn't help thinking that there could have been more. Graphics: 45/50. Comment: Yessir, this game had leet graphics! And the use of sprites was fantastic as well. My hat goes off to these people, for having the second best graphics in the DoZ according to myself. Plot: 40/50. Comment: Yes, it was there, Yes, it was original, YES, IT WAS FUNNY! Only problem is that it was a little too far fetched. Theme: 35/45. Comment: This stuck to the medicine theme really really well, and turned a boring run to find a cure into an exciting trample through a proverbial rose bed. EXCITING :) Innovation: 30/45. Comment: All three of the games made excellent use of sprites, a feature which I haven't seen used in megazeux that often, and they all worked fantastically, and so it adds something wonderful and new, and proves that sprites work really really well! Discretion: 13/45. Comment: Dude, this game is one of the funniest I have ever played, and it's humour like that that gives this team BONUS POINTS *CHACHING, CASHBACK!* Music: 25/30. Comment: The music was all fresh and new, probably composed by the team themselves. However, it really did sound too much like a megaman game, and I could definitely hear some of the megaman stuff in there. Sound: 3/5. Comment: Well the sounds were there, and they were good, but they were a bit too sparse :( Combined Score: 241/300. Rank: 1. Comment: Easily the best game in the DoZ. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- 48493: Flame of Revok. Gameplay: 0/65. Comment: NONE. Graphics: 5/50. Comment: Meh, what was there was okay I guess. Plot: 0/50. Comment: NONE. Theme: 2/45. Comment: Well the word "Medicine" was there. Innovation: 0/45. Comment: None. Discretion: 0/45. Comment: A title screen... WOO! </sarcasm> Music: 0/30. Comment: None. Sound: 0/5. Comment: None. Combined Score: 7/300. (DISQUALIFIED) Comment: You reap what you sow. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- 51929: The Herb of Tridia. Gameplay: 35/65. Comment: It was there, but it was a bit too much of a big ol' hack 'n' slash for me. Plus, no boss fight. LAME :( Graphics: 30/50. Comment: Some of these graphics were really nice, especially the laboratory, but overall, they could have done with a bit more touching up (nmiaow). Plot: 5/50. Comment: It was there, but it was silly. "YOUR REIGN OF TERROR IS ABOUT TO END!"... What reign of terror? "LOOKS LIKE ANOTHER SOUL FOR THE TAKING" "NEVAAAAAAARRRRRRRRRRR!!!!" "WTF?" "EYE AM STRNOGR DUE 2 TEH SOLES"... wow, isn't that original? Sounds like Dragonball Z but with less leetness. :P Theme: 20/45. Comment: Well it stuck to the theme okay, but it really felt like it had been done over and over and over. Innovation: 5/45. Comment: Well it didn't really add anything new, so I can't really award that many points for this category. Discretion: 5/15. Comment: I'm giving this entry five points, because they tried so hard to make a good plot... but they failed. I was actually laughing when the "NEVEEEEEEEERRRRRRRRRRRR!!!!!!!!!!" part came about. That's how bad the plot was! :D Music: 20/30. Comment: It was there, and some of it was quite good, but I feel the music for the room with the herb wasn't as good as it could have been. They should have selected a better tune. Sound: 4/5. Comment: They actually used quite a lot of sound! Kudos to them! Combined Score: 124/300. Rank: 6 Comment: Well it really could have been better, I'll say that, but still, it was okay. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- 64966: 64966. Gameplay: 7/65. Comments: This game sucked majorly. I couldn't kill a single monster, and the magic system was appalling. What a waste of a good idea. Graphics: 20/50. Comments: Not really that good to be honest. The animation wasn't that good, and the floor and characters lacked detail. Plot: 20/50. Comments: The plot was there alright, but it wasn't that good. The backstory gains it some extra marks, and I especially liked the descriptive dialogue, but apart from that it was pretty damn sucky, with a plot twist that sucked. Theme: 27/45. Comments: It stuck to the theme pretty well, and the idea was original in some ways, but still, the overall ending was pretty damn rubbish. Innovation: 5/45. Comments: If they had bothered to make the magic system work properly, this could have given them more innovation points, especially in the lightning whip section :P Discretion: 4/15. Comments: I'm giving them SOME points because they used magic, and they're the only team in the DoZ that haven't been disqualified that has used magic. Music: 0/30. Comments: LALALALALA NO MUSIC :( Sound: 0/5. Comment: LALALALALA NO SOUND :( Combined Score: 83/300. Rank: 5. Comment: UR M4J1CK5 FAILED. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- And that concludes the judging. Let's hope I've done this right :P Yours Judgingly, Thundercloud.