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eddietreeThe Corporate Adventures of Mr. Mask is a five-minute game created at the Austin site of the Global Game Jam. Unlike most GGJ games, it's complete and pretty polished, if short.
It's a classic stealth game in a retro mold -- arrow keys to move and GameBoy Advance-level graphics. Each level has an entrance at the bottom, an exit at the top, and a bunch of patrolling baddies in between you have to avoid.
This is not hideously difficult, as their patrol patterns are predictable, but the levels do vary nicely. Another fillip; some of the patrollers are red and some are blue, and during the game you find a red mask and a blue mask. When wearing one of these, only the baddies of the other color will bother you. And you can swap masks (with Z-X), but only when not in anyone's sight range.
There's even a boss battle at the end, of sorts, which IBelansky says "requires more brainz than most commercial games nowadays (the shame is on those commercial titles, though)." I'm not sure I'd go that far -- pretty obvious, really -- but kind of cute nonetheless.
Great art? No. A fun five minutes? Sure.
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That was fun. I expected not to like it because I despise stealth gameplay, but fortunately it was short and easy enough that I didn't get tired of it, and the Ikaruga-style color flipping mechanic made it pretty neat.
I liked the idea of the boss, but in execution he was pretty much "too easy." It was over in seconds. I wonder if making him a little bit faster or making multiple holes that open and close on a timer would make it harder without making it suck?
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