Comments on: Buntan (Ikiki)

By: RYB

RYB — Mon, 11 Jun 2012 17:40:33 +0000

I renamed the contents of the .zip and that actually worked(!)

By: nobody

nobody — Mon, 11 Jun 2012 17:19:19 +0000

Right-click > Save Link As… > pick an arbitrary file name with only roman characters?

By: RYB

RYB — Mon, 11 Jun 2012 16:48:59 +0000

The mirror doesn’t seem to work for me (Cannot open executable file !) perhaps for the same reason the filenames are gibberish. Anyone have any clue?

By: Terry

Terry — Sat, 09 Jun 2012 22:53:00 +0000

Very good to know about Ctrl-Y, thank you I’ll add that to the post!

I’m pretty sure this game is exactly as fast as it’s supposed to be – the pacing feels VERY deliberate here.

By: Mack

Mack — Sat, 09 Jun 2012 22:28:52 +0000

Does anyone know if there is a run key? I’ve played most of Ikiki’s games and for the most part they are faster paced than this. And by the way, ctrl-y to change you key setup. Click the bottom and left most block to set your keyboard, the others for a gamepad.

By: Ian S.

Ian S. — Sat, 09 Jun 2012 15:08:43 +0000

Wait, no, looks like it was just pressing shift that did it, but there’s a weird wait. Some text will vibrate though so you know it worked.

By: Ian S.

Ian S. — Sat, 09 Jun 2012 15:06:50 +0000

Pressing SHIFT and then SPACE did it for me.

By: orange08

orange08 — Sat, 09 Jun 2012 14:13:19 +0000

Couldn’t get past the menu

By: nobody

nobody — Sat, 09 Jun 2012 12:56:20 +0000

Oh, my, this is tricky but fascinating. I love that the rationale for limiting the length of your time-freezing ability appears to be running out of breath (I’m gathering this from the sound effect it plays when you restart time with little room to spare).

I’m finding the controls hard to get used to, which is surprising. I do think the game might be improved by allowing the up arrow to also jump or by remapping the whole thing to something like Z, X, and shift. Obviously that’s mostly about years of convention turning into muscle memory.

Also there’s something basic I’m not understanding: is there a particular strategy for hitting the enemies that shoot back at you? It seems like even when it’s not shooting back only some of your shots actually make contact. Is the conceit that he’s deflecting them? I’ve been just hitting the shoot button repeatedly until eventually making contact enough times, but that’s more tedious than I imagine is intended.

[Note: to get this to launch I had to rename the executable to avoid the Japanese characters. Before doing so it wasn't even showing up as an entry in Task Manager/Process Explorer after double-clicking.]

By: Terry

Terry — Sat, 09 Jun 2012 11:37:49 +0000

- This is tricky – in level 7 you can stop time while you’re putting a block down, which causes the block to hover in midair, allowing you to progress.