Dishwasher is #1 on Major Nelson’s list for the second week in a row! Awesome thanks to everyone who gave it a shot. It’s been a long, crazy road, fraught with peril and chainsaws, but I think it worked!
Anyway, Dishwasher has been in the hands of merciless reviewers for almost a fortnight.
I’ve noticed a trend: everyone thinks that The Dishwasher is either an awesome game or a button masher.
This leads me to conclude that if you don’t play The Dishwasher like a button masher, you’ll think it’s an awesome game. If you do play The Dishwasher like a button masher, well, eh… here’s what happens:
- You’ll get bored
- You’ll die
- You’ll get bored of dying
- You’ll write a review about how the game is boring and you die… and, seeing as it involves hand-drawn quirky art, must be compared to Alien Hominid
The Dishwasher is full of tricky, clever strategies that you must use if you want to make it on the higher difficulties. Play the game like a button masher and you won’t really see what all the fuss is about. Seems like the world of games journalism is divided into the “gamer” crowd and the “cooking mama” crowd.
So, here’s official word from the developer: Dishwasher is not a button masher!
Thank you. 🙂
I got a bunch of emails from indie gaming sites telling me they reviewed Dishwasher and loved it. Here they are, after the jump:
Diehard GameFAN praised the “white knuckle difficulty combined with the non-stop action.” They also won my undying love with this gem:
The challenge will put some people off of the game since if you try to button mash through it or do not get the hang of managing enemies and using combos, there is no way to progress.
Duh! 😀
Dutch Gaming Society epically declared “Het is gelijktijdig een liefdesverklaring naar de brawlers van vroeger en een bewijs van vooruitgang binnen het genre. It is simultaneously a love declaration to the brawlers of the past and proof of progress within the genre.” Google translate FTW!
FreezeCracker said “Overall, this game is for the gamers who label themselves hardcore and drink milk out of the carton. If you have the drive to learn and perfect the ways of the samurai in a video game, then hell yeah I will recommend you buy this the hell right now. The amount of replay value is insane, and I can promise you will be able to see yourself playing this game months from now, even years.”
And finally, a bunch of [CONTENT WARNING] Canadians did a video review:
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4FQfvKz6P0c]
Update: My Belgian friend Loïc was quick to point out that I’ve done it: I’ve pulled the “reviewers don’t understand me” trick! I’ve gone emo! Sorry about the whine! I’m not sure if we had a bet going on this one, but I may end up having to ship more Hello Kitty merchandice to Belgium if we did :(.
Wow, guy above me. Troll much? If you don’t know what a game is about, why did you buy it? Maybe a little research before a purchase would be nice, next time.
So here’s other hand feedback: this game sucks and sucks badly all the way.
1st – story. WTF is it? It’s not funny, it’s not sarcastic, it’s total emo crap. 3yo would come up with something much better.
2nd – graphics. Dude, this is ugliest 2D game i’ve ever seen. Again WTF is it? Totaly lame red-black color scheme and above all characters looks like drawn on toilet paper.
3rd – music. Again, totally shit. BGM is all the same, over and over again one track about 90 sec. long. It’s a joke right? But this is nothing compared to how shitty SFX are – it’s even worse then graphics in this “game”. 2-3 samples per character you can’t be serious.
4th – gameplay. I could live with crappy GFX, lame story and music that i got headache from. If only gameplay would be good. But it’s not. First – fucking loading every simple screen. Man, this is not 80’s it’s XXI century and your crappy game-wannabe has about 10 items to load! Next – controlls. Response for commands is random, that fucking emo-hero barelly do what you want him to do. Really, jump and grab? If you’ll be even able to see something in all that crappy sprites and “smoke” that covers entire screen that’s good for you but changes noting as emo-sucker will be 9 times of 10 turned wrong direction. And you can rip your analog stick off, he’ll never turns on time. Next – plain unfair everything in that shit. It’s created to fuck you in the ass, not give you fun. Strategy? Men what fucking strategy? First of all this is not fucking RTS. If you’re up to strategy games then why making slasher you damn idiot? But ok, you’ve made slasher. But it’s nothing with strategy. Strategy when you steer brick, that barelly responds to your commands and all enemies could do whatever they want with you in 3 secs? What’s your strategy to this?
This game is poor and sucks in every posible way. There was some idea maybe behind this, but in the end it’s just very, very stupid, ugly, frustrating, bad coded something (i wan’t call it legit game, because it’s not) that mr. Silva should pay US to play. And even then it would be total waste of time.
Give me back my 800MSP and please, never, ever publish crap like this again.
Wow, you’re seriously dumb. What the heck? If you hate everything about… It’s just not realistic, did you just buy something random or what?
And so, what’s your taste like? Hello Kittys Adventures 2? I beat you’d never come up with something this well polished and satisfying game.
Or you probably didn’t make it over the first enemies on easy mode.
But anyways, your comment is stupid and unrealistic. It’s not anything anyone would care about really. So why waste your time and mine?
And man… You should stay with Hello Kitty games.
You know, I heard about this maybe 6 months ago or so, not sure exactly but have been looking forward to it for sometime. Went onto XBL not too long ago and downloaded it…
I am not let down. Good job. I like the mix of movement and attacking and I have way too much fun knocking enemies into the air, warping to them and continuing the beat down.
Keep it up, kudos.
Congratulations for the succeed. You made a great game and I recently wrote a very favorable review in my blog, Dandel (http://dandel.net). Keep the good work! 🙂
When does the money truck arrive?
I expect a video post mortem with you sitting in a large library wearing a dapper robe and smoking a tobacco pipe.
still waiting for the release, here in germany
i meant part 2*
so are we gonna have a part to where the story isn’t exactly on crack no offense man don’t take it the wrong way.
Yup. Totally agree James and can’t believe I didn’t figure that out earlier. While I may hate the grenader enemies (hate doesn’t quite cover it), I eventually figured out how to handle them.
Well done and congrats!!!