10S FOREVER

a simply excellent tribute to the 4x4 pixel circle

Creative concept of mixing combat with tennis and satisfying tennis gameplay with skill.

Really neat game. A couple things bother me about it. There is an elegance in the control scheme: one button swings your racket, charges your shot, and swats away certain bullets. However, there is a massive tradeoff which gets very frustrating towards the end. While there is deterministic racket physics (hitting in the same place returns the same angle), due to the sheer amount of stuff on screen you are often making the trade of aiming for dodging. In shmups this isn't much of a problem since enemies usually come from above you, so you can hold the shoot button and not really care. In here, matches can go on for a frustrating amount of time since you have to do this balancing act. Do you dodge which puts you at an angle you don't want to hit the ball, or do you just tank it and swing? I feel like if the racket was less granular in what angles it produced this would be a lot easier to manage. The music is great, but there was like a faint knocking during one of the stages I would have liked to do without. Otherwise, getting the most out of a very minimalist game. Awesome.

What a gem of a game. *EDIT* After doing some research into the game's mechanics (A little extra's manual or something could help greatly along with the tutorial explaining the 10 shot mechanic a bit clearer). I can safely say this game is near flawless for what it is. GG

Muy buen juego, la verdad. Es bastante entretenido y engancha desde el principio. La idea es muy original y está muy bien implementada. Siempre transmite una buena sensación al jugar. Los gráficos son bastante minimalistas, lo cual le da un estilo propio. La música no es lo que más me gusta, pero aun así cumple y acompaña bien la experiencia. En general, lo recomiendo.

This game was really cool, I liked the ball combo system a lot but I feel like it's not really visually clear when or when not you land a hit though you get used to it after a while. I liked the bosses a lot even when they took up 2/3 of the level's time and made me mad because they were so satisfying to defeat, although the difficulty of the bosses didn't feel like it increased exactly every level. I also liked the personality and art I would describe it as glozky.