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• gamedeal user

  Nov 15, 2017

  [h1]Interesting and weird. In a wrong way...[/h1] This game did surprise me in more ways than just one. I instantly fell in love with the game when I started it. The design and graphics were interesting and fun to look at, the world was colorful yet twisted and overall the game felt like it was going to include some symbolism. I immediatly was hooked to the game and couldn't wait to finish the game. Unfortunately my love towards the game did not last long since all of the great things were taken away from and brutally smashed into thousands of tiny pieces. I was left with nothing that I absolutely adored from the beginning and instead I was introduced to the bizzare and unimaginitive game that is [b]Dogolrax[/b]. Dogolrax is a 2D puzzle-platformer in the style of [b]Another World[/b] or like, one that is more personal to me, [b]Heart of Darkness[/b]. The game also advertises itself having elements from said genre and that it [i]"...aims to surprise you in ways few games have before by introducing constant changes in gameplay"[/i]. Sounds like a neat concept in theory but trust me, it gets pretty bad. The basic gameplay works well enough for me to actually say I enjoyed playing it. You move left and right, you jump, you shoot, you visit different kind of rooms in order to find the right path or solution. It is simple and easy to pick up. The gameplay is cinematic and relys heavily on the adventure aspect and not on the fast paced platforming gameplay. You know what I'm talking about if you've played any game from the same genre. But then comes the bad part, or at least one of them. From time to time there are different kind of mini-games for you to play. I referenced them earlier. They are the change of pace the developers were advertising on their page. The mini-games are out of place, feel nothing like the platfoming sections of the game and just cuts the absolutely awesome atmosphere when you are thrown in the first one. First you are in this disturbed land of twisted creatures and then you are thrown into a button mashing action mini-game which feels really really clunky. And that certainly is not the only part of the game featuring similar change of pace. After the first and second chapter, the game having five chapters, the quality of the product takes a huge leap and lands right on a turd pile. The screenshots featured on the Steam Store page are all from the first, the only genuinely enjoyable, chapter of the game. The graphics become bland, like some kind of cheap [b]LIMBO[/b] knock off, the gameplay feels like one of those hard trial and error 2D platformers without actually offering any kind of real threat or challenge and the rest of the game will feel more like another product that was cheaply created by a kid during their spare time. It just feels like there were two different products merged togehter creating a huge mess. Another problem I have with the game which absolutely made me dislike the game more and was sealing the deal wether I would give this game pass or not. I cannot recommend the game because of the humor it features. [i]"Expect the unexpected plus a good dose of humor, gore, tease and varied gameplay.[/i] is the bottom line of their description of the game. It certainly has all of those but the humor is something that should've been left out of the game. A game where [url=http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1201345173]people are turned into different kind of freakish mutants[/url] and you are riding [url=http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1201346580]vagina shaped elevators[/url] and you are [url=http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1201346840]being reborn[/url] the humor just doesn't suit it. It also doesn't help that the humor is quite bland, bad and at times rather immature. The humor this game features would be more suitable in a game that wouldn't have such harsh graphics and themes. Repeating myself a bit here but it really does feel like the game was merged from two different games. Overall Dogolrax is a game that suffers from identity crisis. I just can't say it is the worst product on Steam right now but it is not worth it either. Dogolrax should still be passed. It is a mess of different kind of things and elements of gameplay. It doesn't know if it wants to be takes seriously and treated like art of if it just likes to be an asshat. Dogolrax disappointed me and truly left me with my jaw open because of how bizzare the game was. Not because of the graphics and the world. But because of the design choices that were made during the production of this game.
• gamedeal user

  May 2, 2017

  Dogolrax has a few good moments at the beginning of the game, but it steadily goes downhill after the first 5 minutes. It promised to be similar to "Another World" but it misses the mark. Every screen has some glaring fault in it that wouldn't even be so hard to fix. The most annoying part of playing the game was trying to control the hero in any section that had momentum. When the player presses a direction, they start speeding up, and when they press a different direction, they instantly change to be going in that new direction, so by quickly alternating between left+right or up+down, the hero will jitter in place, this makes it very difficult to slow down properly. I was initially impressed at the death animations, some of them were quite clever and funny, but there was only a few, once I got past those, I would just instantly respawn at the beginning of the screen. This instant respawn was very nice when at any particularly difficult room, but sometimes, when you die, the last checkpoint was 3 screens ago and they were all difficult. This created a few spikes in difficulty seperated by long stretches of monotany. The graphics are barely coordinated. Most of the time it goes for a look similar to Another World, but other times it's more like a generic adobe flash player game. The game often completely breaks the style by inserting anime style illustrations of girls, and it's only girls. The main character gets a few close-ups and he is not in the same style at all. The control layout is atrocious, the default setup being arrow keys for movement, Ctrl for jumping. But when you pick up a weapon, Ctrl stops jumping and is then Fire. Shift/Spacebar is used for a brief moment, but then never used again. Seemingly random letters on the keyboard are used to confirm whether you want to quit the game. The controls should have been WASD+Spacebar for movement and jump, then Ctrl/Mouse Click for the gun and the 1 screen when you use Shift. The ending of the game is just terrible, it kinda hints at some fanservice, but then the game just ends. It gives the player a chance to play a low res version of one of the screens from earlier, but it's not any better. I say if you are feeling nostalgic and you want something like Another World, go play something on this list https://www.giantbomb.com/out-of-this-world/3030-17483/similar-games/
• gamedeal user

  Jun 23, 2017

  EDIT: My original claim that the graphics were stolen from other games was corrected by the game's designer in the comments of this review. The sprites were apparently NOT stolen from other games, and were simply an artistic direction the designer decided to go with, albeit one that I cannot understand. ======================================================================== Finished the game in 60 minutes. It's pretty bad I must say. What people are calling "a weird art-style" just means that the art direction was all over the place and wasn't sure of where to go next. I don't know if the designer didn't at some point just give up and steal random sprites from the internet, as most of the art in the game is made with fluid vectorized graphics but then ocasionally you see random out-of-place sprites that seem clearly from other games. There are graphic glitches everywhere, the character movement is full of bugs, and although I finished the game, I'm very dissapointed as I was expecting a decent adventure game, and instead was served a horrible early 2000's flash game. What pisses me off the most is how the screenshots in the steam library litteraly show off all the decent art that exists in this game, because everything else in the game besides what you see in those screenshots are completely out of place. For those praising this game: I have no idea what game you played, it was definitely not the same game as me. [spoiler]PS: I have no idea what was up with the anime girls in this game. They seem like they were taken from random internet imageboards and just placed on this game, as they have no connection to anything else and nothing shows the same artstyle as them.[/spoiler]
• gamedeal user

  Jun 24, 2017

  It's a weird adventure game that wastes your time with a bunch of mechanically terrible segments and cheap deaths and still only takes you a couple hours to almost fully complete (you will miss bonus stages 6 through 8. Not even God knows where they are, but it's not like they're fun). Hastily made; many obvious and easy fixes to glitches are missed. The few worthwhile moments are early and missable, though pretty funny. No steam overlay support. No configuration options of any kind. Runs only in fullscreen in what I assume is 1024x720. Some achievements fail to unlock sometimes because of programmer error.
• gamedeal user

  Mar 5, 2017

  A true love/hate relationship... but worth it if you're patient and appreciate surreal art. Love: The art is incredible and it is evident that the devs are VERY creative minds. Give Salvador Dali a ton of acid, let him watch some Dr. Seuss, and give him a canvas - there is your art direction. The writing is cute and funny without being too much of a meme (has some typos/grammar issues though.) The soundtrack quality is right up there with the visual art; great chiptunes, awesome ambience, and a lot of nostalgic arcade jams. It feels like each song was crafted specifically for the environment in which it plays. Also, anime girls. Everyone can appreciate that. Hate: The controls and keybinds are gross and my controller wouldn't work in any capacity. They are fine for exploring all the cool shit, but horrible for actual gameplay. The gameplay has platforming, really tight timing levels, and bullet-hell aspects but with messy controls it is SUPER frustrating. A lot of false difficulty, in the sense that it doesn't take skill or thought but is just difficult by circumstance. They give you multiple paths labled easier or harder, but they all suck in the end and don't seem to give you more of a benefit for opting to take the harder route. Overall: I think that it was a really worthwhile experience based solely upon the artistic direction. If you don't appreciate that sort of thing and prefer mechanical polish instead or are just really impatient with BS gameplay elements then I would recommend passing on Dogolrax.
• gamedeal user

  Jul 18, 2020

  The game is quite unique, there's no mistaking there. As soon as you start the game, you're greeted by a anime-style character that makes you wonder if this will be THAT kind of game. Although one of the tags is sexual content and nudity, I couldn't find any trace of it. I guess that both anime-styled girls and tags are just there to interest people in the game. The story is confusing at first (intentionally so, as you play as an amnesiac character), but not so hard to get if you're paying enough attention. I'd say it's average: it's not bad, yet it's not good either. The game puts its weirdness at the forefront of everything and use it as the main appeal. I'll not say a thing about it, as I believe it's better to discover for yourself if you're into that kind of thing. It has an interesting art style overall, especially when it comes to monsters, though the levels and backgrounds feel underwhelming. The game does not have any kind of graphical options, nor control mapping, which makes it rather annoying. Finally, the platforming feels uninspired, unresponsive at times and even frustrating in some sections. The bonus levels depend of luck entirely and the patterns are very easy to tell, once you get the hang of it. Until then, prepare yourself to fail, and fail and fail again and replay chunks of scenarios in order to get to the arcade cabinets that represent the bonus levels. Overall, it was not an unpleasant experience, despite my claims. It's rather easy to get 100% and it's super cheap, especially on sale. So, if you were to buy it, I'd say to wait until a sale.
• gamedeal user

  Mar 30, 2017

  Short game full of preposterous circumstances and dark humour. Forgiving for those who just want to see the game and reach the end but ridiculously challenging in an 80's Arcade style for those who... just want to challenge themselves really. Strives to surprise you at every corner. A+
• gamedeal user

  Jul 3, 2017

  I went into Dogolrax hoping for another interesting and fun concept like the old games Another World (Out of this World) and Flashback. However, what you end up getting is a frustrating to control mess of a game. I don't mind that the game jumps around to different types of gameplay. That keeps things varied and keeps the player from being bored, but all of the games seem to control badly. I really wanted to enjoy this game because of the art style and some of the ideas, but I had to stop after about the 100th time of being killed from out of no where and/or because of the controls were limiting. This is the only time I have asked for a refund for a game and I hope that says something.
• gamedeal user

  Feb 26, 2017

  This game is such a bizarre combination of amazing, WTF and terrible, I have no idea what it's going for, but it's mesmerizing nonetheless. The story is nonsensical - a mishmash of every pulp sci-fi idea out there! Amnesiac earth scientist on an alien planet, girls with giant... mechs, evil biomancer cult, visions of godesses... And none of it takes itself serious even for a second, with a wildly shifting tone and tense situations interrupted by dumb goofs. The art is weird. Most of the time it's a slightly amateurish replication of a mix between Another World and Shadow of the Beast with not-so-subtle sexual elements, but every now and again there are very cleanly drawn big-breasted anime girls that just don't fit in at all. ...And I have no problem with any of the above. What I DO have an issue with, is just how shoddily put together this game is. Assets are combined regardless of scale, animations glitch and jump around, controls are imprecise and just don't feel right (jump repeats if you hold it down, sometimes you walk up and down the stairs by just walking, other times the game asks you to press a button), collision is weird and inconsistent, scenes transition super abruptly, and the whole time it feels like it's held together with spit and duct tape ([strike]par for the course for Construct[/strike] on a sloppy side for a Multimedia Fusion 2 game). As it is, not everyone will find this game an acceptable waste of $4-$5. It really, really needs more polish. But if you can tolerate the amateurish presentation and enjoy creative weirdness punctuated by anime boоbs and dumb humor, definitely give this game a try!
• gamedeal user

  Oct 13, 2017

  WTF I just played? O_o Well, it's indeed a kind of platformer and adventure game and there are absolutely absurd amounts of ways to die. “A Million WTF to Die in the Dogolrax” as told another guy in his review. Including incredibly hilarious. You found yourself on an alien planet with amnesia and without any clue who you are, why are you here and how can you get back to Earth and majority of locals are NOT friendly even remotely and either want to kill you or transform into another monstrosity. To save your nerves I don't recommend playing it with a gamepad (joystick). It seems like character either stays still or runs like a madman and there are nothing in between. As the result you will die and die again not due to lack of skill but due to lack of control. Keyboard allows more precise control with short key presses. Also, game may randomly switch back to keyboard mode. Yes, they have a switch between keyboard and gamepad. Guess what you have to do to use it again? Eeyep, you have to press “J” on keyboard... Have you seen something more stupid? Overall story is very simplistic and art style is not very consistent with all these occasional sexy anime priestesses of Dogolrax everywhere. However, the rest looks consistent enough, so i's bearable. Overall I can't call it a good game. It's average. But it's good enough to spend a few hours in the company of strange monsters and occasional anime girls. So, in case you have nothing else to do you can try Dogolrax. At least this is a game and not yet another asset flip or achievements crapstorm.