Comments on: Hands Off My Bird: Reset Generation

By: Colinmarc

Colinmarc — Sun, 10 Aug 2008 23:56:28 +0000

Holy shit this game is awesome

By: heliocentric

heliocentric — Fri, 08 Aug 2008 07:03:52 +0000

fat princess had the same angle on “chivalry” never really found it offensive as princesses were bargaining chips. So surely in context its socially accurate.

By: Arathain

Arathain — Thu, 07 Aug 2008 22:47:15 +0000

I liked the game well enough, but I thought the design was pretty bad. Mostly the rampant sexism really bugged me.

By: brog

brog — Thu, 07 Aug 2008 16:08:04 +0000

hmm, works in IE, didn’t in firefox. lame.

the gameplay seems somehow unpolished. i think too much time was spent on sound and art and not enough where it counts. i like that there are lots of cool ideas crammed in there, i want to like the game because of it, but i don’t. the parody isn’t clever. also, the screen is far too small.

By: sbs

sbs — Thu, 07 Aug 2008 15:39:38 +0000

Word to the mother plumber!
I liked the 4 Missions I played, it is a neat little webgame – I’m sure I will come back to it later. The design is charming in a goofy, strange way and the game is very playable.

By: Down Rodeo

Down Rodeo — Thu, 07 Aug 2008 15:13:29 +0000

So I just went through the painful process of installing Java on a Linux machine to get the damn thing to work (to be fair I did need to install a newer version anyway) only to find that they only support IE 6 or later. That is BS, there’s no way I’m going through the horror of putting IEsforLinux on here again. I still get nightmares.

By: FreezerBag

FreezerBag — Thu, 07 Aug 2008 13:03:45 +0000

I liked this at first but I think the veil of parody may be too fragile. Still, it was a fun.

@brog: I’d guess you have a older version of Java installed.

Oh and is it my imagination or does Sonic (sorry, I mean Hedgehog) have a completely rubbish special power?

By: brog

brog — Thu, 07 Aug 2008 12:19:39 +0000

I want to play this game. Offbeat strategy games are totally my thing.
However, it doesn’t work. So much java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError. Thanks. Now my opinion of this game is very low.

By: Lorc

Lorc — Thu, 07 Aug 2008 11:46:33 +0000

The character designs really turn me off this. It looks like it wants to be parodying video game clichés, but just comes across as yet another example of those same clichés.

Maybe it’s that the characters’ ancestry is too blatantly obvious – there’s no wit or creativity apparent. They’re not amusingly familiar archetypes or cartoons, they’re vaguely deformed photocopies. It just seems lazy.

Game plays ok though. Shame about the pictures.

By: gulag

gulag — Thu, 07 Aug 2008 11:00:02 +0000

Damn game tutorial won’t progress beyond dropping the first block. Am I missing something?

By: Ginger Yellow

Ginger Yellow — Thu, 07 Aug 2008 09:51:31 +0000

I’ve been playing it on my phone. It’s very addictive, but it could do a better job of explaining the gameplay. It took me ages to figure out how some of the special moves worked. Also, the tone is a bit dubious – there’s a lot of gratuitously sexist imagery. It’s hard to tell if it’s part of the pastiche of other videogames or not. Either way it doesn’t sit well.

By: Anba

Anba — Thu, 07 Aug 2008 09:14:35 +0000

You can also embed everything:
http://resetgeneration-site.arena.n-gage.com/embedlinks.jsp