its not a bad game but i feel like if i dont do everything just right ill be stuck forever. which i have done once or twice and i couldnt figure out how to get out.
Reviews for "Glean"
okaybmd responds:
Well, you have to THINK before you drill down. Try and make your path more like stairs, and not straight down. If you're really stuck, you can always go to another planet (but lose all items that you have drilled and not dropped at the ship).
Alright.
Motherload was terrible in my opinion. There's a lot of mining flash games around and Motherload wasn't the first or last. Inspired alot of concept but it was garbage on execution. That concept lead to later mining games.
Megaminer was fun but duller than Minecraft. Which is saying something.
Utopian Mining was MegaMiner with a bigger emphasis on story. Too short.
In a nutshell Glean is what Motherload should have been. A combination of Motherload and MegaMiner. None of the problems, excellent graphics and sound.
I like it overall, but a few things I didn't like.
- The overheating system. That's just me, there's nothing wrong with it.
- The GUI, it's a tad bit confusing. I would have expected the red bar that drains to be the fuel bar, not the health bar. Other than that, it's sharp and clear.
-Like Motherload, digging yourself into a hole is a possibility. Unlike Motherload, that possibility is very low.
All and all fun. Excellent work.
This was pretty good, but it's not as good as Motherload though. There are still a few issues that you must need to be fixed. First is the inventory. The game should prevent you from drilling minerals when inventory is full. Keep the items in your drill has in its cargo or automatically store in ships inventory when traveling to other planets instead of losing it all. The upgrade system could use some more simplicity to it. If you can do all that then you will have my 5 stare rating.
After the first several item finds they all seem to turn to resources rather than items, leaving me with no other upgrades to look forward to as I don't have the required components. The help file doesn't mention anything I might be missing to find more, so I'm just assuming it's a matter of rarity - gets very monotonous after the first hour or so.
love the game, but only a 3.5 because it's easy to die at first, and every single item you've collected just vanishes... thanks... i worked hard for that crap. which is another downside, it takes forever to collect items and easy to lose them all...