Take on the role of a young rescue officer starting her career. Armed with a trusty axe and high-pressure fire hose that also acts like a jetpack, Firegirl responds to emergency calls across the city. Can Firegirl save all the trapped civilians caught in each blaze?
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Firegirl is one of those games I saw a trailer for about a year ago and was sold on it right away. The presentation and graphics were really good and something you don't see too often. The 2D sprites and backgrounds warped with 3D objects and the foreground gives it a really cool vibe. I really dig the visuals here. That and the fact I thought the idea behind the gameplay was rather unique. Playing as a fire fighter using your hose to spray out living fires and using the water to platform and jump around while rescuing hostages in a ever changing level sounded really fun.
Unfortuately Firegirl failed to live up to expectations. The game does have a lot of glaring problems that honestly it should not get away with. For one there is only 4-5 stages themes in the game and they repeat on random. The quality of the stages themselves are so far apart in quality it's kinda head scratching. The burning apartment and hotel levels are pretty good and lead to more exploration and go well with what the game is trying to be good at but the forrest is so plain and straight forward it's actually a drag to get through as it's so plain and requires little to no exploration. The train stage is just so badly designed I don't know what they were thinking. It sounds cool as a concept but there are so many cheap deaths in it and bugged locations. It's far to easy to get hit by something and the push back sends you flying into a death pit. So many places to get stuck or bugged in the geomotry of the stage as well. It's by far the shortest stage and all the people you have to rescue, if any, are all at the end of the stage. With just one or two water jump ugrades you can just fly to the end of the level without even doing anything and win. It's broken.
The way you earn money and ugrades is really kinda wack too. At first it seems like you will never have enough money to buy everything and recurit every person in the firehouse but once you figure out how it's supposed to work you can earn money real fast. That's another thing with this game. It doesn't explain itself rather well at all. From certain mechanics, how to earn money, or even how levels are supposed to work. I would have liked to have known that saving animals does not count as a rescue despite the game saying it everytime I saved one. Only people count. ANIMAL LIVES MATTER DAMN IT!
The biggest issue though is the game gets stale really fast. The repititve nature of the game does not work in it's favor. Pretty soon you realize once you get a few water upgrades and health uprades is that there is no reason to even fight the fires at all and just bum rush to the next person and quickly just pass over everything. There's no penalty at all. No danger. It's flawed. After beating the game there is no reason to keep playing.
It's such a shame as I had mild expectations for this game and I was kinda let down. I didn't hate my time with it and I still really like the visuals but objectivily I can't ignore the glaring flaws this game has. I still feel like with a TOTAL rebalance, improvments and bigger scope this could be a winning formula for a good game. I'll look back on it decently as it was a short experiance. Alas Firegirl: Hack 'n Splash Rescue remains a dud though.
Platinum #162
Unfortuately Firegirl failed to live up to expectations. The game does have a lot of glaring problems that honestly it should not get away with. For one there is only 4-5 stages themes in the game and they repeat on random. The quality of the stages themselves are so far apart in quality it's kinda head scratching. The burning apartment and hotel levels are pretty good and lead to more exploration and go well with what the game is trying to be good at but the forrest is so plain and straight forward it's actually a drag to get through as it's so plain and requires little to no exploration. The train stage is just so badly designed I don't know what they were thinking. It sounds cool as a concept but there are so many cheap deaths in it and bugged locations. It's far to easy to get hit by something and the push back sends you flying into a death pit. So many places to get stuck or bugged in the geomotry of the stage as well. It's by far the shortest stage and all the people you have to rescue, if any, are all at the end of the stage. With just one or two water jump ugrades you can just fly to the end of the level without even doing anything and win. It's broken.
The way you earn money and ugrades is really kinda wack too. At first it seems like you will never have enough money to buy everything and recurit every person in the firehouse but once you figure out how it's supposed to work you can earn money real fast. That's another thing with this game. It doesn't explain itself rather well at all. From certain mechanics, how to earn money, or even how levels are supposed to work. I would have liked to have known that saving animals does not count as a rescue despite the game saying it everytime I saved one. Only people count. ANIMAL LIVES MATTER DAMN IT!
The biggest issue though is the game gets stale really fast. The repititve nature of the game does not work in it's favor. Pretty soon you realize once you get a few water upgrades and health uprades is that there is no reason to even fight the fires at all and just bum rush to the next person and quickly just pass over everything. There's no penalty at all. No danger. It's flawed. After beating the game there is no reason to keep playing.
It's such a shame as I had mild expectations for this game and I was kinda let down. I didn't hate my time with it and I still really like the visuals but objectivily I can't ignore the glaring flaws this game has. I still feel like with a TOTAL rebalance, improvments and bigger scope this could be a winning formula for a good game. I'll look back on it decently as it was a short experiance. Alas Firegirl: Hack 'n Splash Rescue remains a dud though.
Platinum #162
Fikir ve arkasındaki ruhu beğenmekle beraber; oyun hazır değil. Muhtemelen bütçe bitmiş olmalı bilmiyorum ama oyun baya early access modunda. Random bölümlerin bir kısmı ne yazık ki adaletsiz. Bazı yerlerden kurtuluş yok direkt. Oyun tam olarak düzgün çalışmıyor şimdilik. Sonradan düzelirse tavsiye edebilirim ama bu hali ile paranıza yazık sadece. Umarım düzeltirler.
Ha bir de menü tasarımı falan baya kötü. Hani oyunun hazır olmadığı menüden belli aslında. Seçenekler menüsü ve upgrade menüsü falan bile kötü. Sadece görsel açıdan değil. Rahat da değil. Upgrade ve seçenekler menüsünden çıkmak için kısa yol tuşu bile koymamışlar. Çok iyi niyetle yapılmıştır belki ama kesinlikle hazır falan değil bu oyun.
Ha bir de menü tasarımı falan baya kötü. Hani oyunun hazır olmadığı menüden belli aslında. Seçenekler menüsü ve upgrade menüsü falan bile kötü. Sadece görsel açıdan değil. Rahat da değil. Upgrade ve seçenekler menüsünden çıkmak için kısa yol tuşu bile koymamışlar. Çok iyi niyetle yapılmıştır belki ama kesinlikle hazır falan değil bu oyun.