Soap Bubble 2

Okay, soooo this game is impossible...

gods and little fishes, this game is an exercise in pointless frustration, and on top of that it has a lives system?
My biggest complaint is unavoidable 'surprises' near the end of already tricky levels swinging out of the blue.

This is a really attractive, difficult, yet playable game. Controls are sharp, play is clear. But one very strong point needs to be made to the dev.

If you are going to have a game where you die, and die a lot, in the process of finishing, while you're figuring it out you don't CARE what the high scores are. Maybe later, but right now you just want to finish. Having codes is fine, but having to go back to the menu to enter a code is just silly, when you could add a continue button. And having to click through to turn off the pointless high score scren just to get to the menu each time? That's downright stupid from a usability perspective, especially when it requires you to pick up a mouse for a keyboard-only game.

In the face of such obvious ability elsewhere, the presence of that kind of persistent annoyance is baffling. Did you let someone else make your menus?

I'm not sure how you all missed this in 2006, but I'm glad to see it up here! It's definitely a great play, and I'm going to have to replay it now.

It IS difficult, which is sort of the point of games, since if it weren't difficult you wouldn't have a sense of accomplishment when you complete it.

But it's not TOO difficult. I don't think I raged-quit the first time I played it; the difficulty curve is pretty smooth, and the "cheap shots" are minimal if you're observant.

And of course, I have to note that all the stuff happening around you in the levels is a lot of fun to watch and understand.

Highly recommended.

extremly difficult and long, but it does have that "I WILL BEAT YOU, EVEN IF IT TAKES ME MY ENTIRE LIFE" feel to it.

and is it just me, or does this secret factory mass produce nukes?

Watch who you talking to, this is one of the early games of one of the creators of "The Dream Machine".

I don't feel any frustration, but my keyboard is irritating; what with all the clack clack clacking sounds and unresponsive keys, I really get in trouble when I play games like this.

Think it could use a continue button though; I'm not concerned at all about my score. I just want to play.

A code.

Didnt' realize that the level codes were up in the top right corner until my third play through! I'm still having a hard time with the rotating missle. I think you need to ride the broken missle down the bottom but haven't trouble with the execution.

MisterThou :
Yup, you need to go with the defective rocket that appears every 4 or so.

Here's the "last" scene if you want to skip ahead:

Note that there's no real reason to watch the ending. It's just for you to know that you "beaten" it.

Besides a few incredibly annoying parts such as the defective rocket level thou mentioned, and the underwater fan level, the avoid parts weren't TOO bad. However, a lot of times it required quite a bit of memorization. Ex:

Stylish, well made, and way way too hard. And the reason it's too hard isn't because of the actual challenge, but because of the fact that every time you die, you have to start from the beginning again. To me that makes the game nearly unplayable, because by the time I get back to the section I couldn't beat, I've probably lost a dozen lives or so in previous sections. It knocks it down from a four to a two for me, sad to say, because it feels like a great game that just imposes arbitrary limits on the player.

Heh... clearly I'm not good enough to get far enough to enter codes after reading some other comments - but I also want to add that it's not every time you die you go back to the beginning, but every time you lose all lives... I was a little hasty there because I was frustrated, but I don't want to turn anyone off who would find this game to be their thing.

I think the level codes system is a bit antiquated. There's a reason it fell out of favour in modern games. While playing, am I supposed to watch what I'm doing while simultaneously writing down a code? Or do I have to pause the game at the start of each level? Either design decision seems like a poor one.

Overall, the game is fun but it does show its age a bit. In internet years, 2006 was ages ago. I enjoy seeing Anders' progress as a developer though.

Level Codes!

Remember, it's much more satisfying if you don't skip ahead.

One last piece of advice:

@Keep.One.Step.Ahead

Nono, when you die the code doesn't disappear. You read it and click into the menu to immediately type it in. Which, eh, really seems beneath the point. Nonetheless, I agree: Either way, the design decision seems like a poor one.