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If someone told me they wanted to make a cartoony, firefighting-themed roguelite with a jazz soundtrack, I’d probably think they’re a bit crazy. The small development studio, Laughing Jackal, managed to take these concepts and put them together in a wonderful game called Flame Over.
The premise of the game is rather simple. You play as the appropriately-named firefighter, Blaze Carruthers, and run around various buildings trying to put out fires. Needless to say, the main goal is to extinguish all of the fires in the building.
There are a few different ways that you can try to tackle a fire. The most common way is by using your hose. The hose slowly puts out fires and can soak the environment to prevent the fires from spreading. …show more content…
If you are not careful, you can easily find yourself exposed to too much of the fire. Long time exposure can result in the loss of a heart. It is also important to keep an eye on your water and extinguisher levels. If you are not careful enough, you can run out of water in the midst of an inferno. If this happens, you need to run around to find the nearest source of water or extinguisher to …show more content…
One of the easiest ways to gain items is to buy them via coins and tokens. Coins are gained by putting out fire. Tokens are a lot harder to obtain since you need to complete missions, such as finding a lost purse or classified documents, for Miss Ion.
Before the start of each run, you are presented with an upgrade shop. Money can be used to improved various upgrade while tokens can be used to unlock them. Unfortunately, there is no way to tell what a upgrade does before unlocking it. While this sort of thing can add a challenge and sense of exploration, I found it to more annoying than anything. The main reason being there are only a small amount of upgrades and gettings tokens is a bit of a grindy task. Regardless, most of the upgrades, such as increasing the chances of finding items, greatly increase how well you do each
If someone told me they wanted to make a cartoony, firefighting-themed roguelite with a jazz soundtrack, I’d probably think they’re a bit crazy. The small development studio, Laughing Jackal, managed to take these concepts and put them together in a wonderful game called Flame Over.
The premise of the game is rather simple. You play as the appropriately-named firefighter, Blaze Carruthers, and run around various buildings trying to put out fires. Needless to say, the main goal is to extinguish all of the fires in the building.
There are a few different ways that you can try to tackle a fire. The most common way is by using your hose. The hose slowly puts out fires and can soak the environment to prevent the fires from spreading. …show more content…
If you are not careful, you can easily find yourself exposed to too much of the fire. Long time exposure can result in the loss of a heart. It is also important to keep an eye on your water and extinguisher levels. If you are not careful enough, you can run out of water in the midst of an inferno. If this happens, you need to run around to find the nearest source of water or extinguisher to …show more content…
One of the easiest ways to gain items is to buy them via coins and tokens. Coins are gained by putting out fire. Tokens are a lot harder to obtain since you need to complete missions, such as finding a lost purse or classified documents, for Miss Ion.
Before the start of each run, you are presented with an upgrade shop. Money can be used to improved various upgrade while tokens can be used to unlock them. Unfortunately, there is no way to tell what a upgrade does before unlocking it. While this sort of thing can add a challenge and sense of exploration, I found it to more annoying than anything. The main reason being there are only a small amount of upgrades and gettings tokens is a bit of a grindy task. Regardless, most of the upgrades, such as increasing the chances of finding items, greatly increase how well you do each