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Game Reviewed	Mario Tails (Flappy Bird Clone), by IAmGreenMike
Review Author	SRGPaladin
Created	Sep 15 2015, 4:12 AM

General Commentary and Game Overview

Oh boy...

This...is a clone of Flappy Bird. It looks like Flappy Bird, it quacks like a Flappy Bird...But it has Mario sprites, so it's not Flappy Bird!

As a matter of fact, Flappy Bird is more polished than this game, and at least you have the whole, "share scores with friends" things, so it can at least serve as a social medium.

But this? This is one step short of stupid.

The only redeeming thing about this game is that it's actually an interesting way of viewing the Tanooki suit.

Pros	+It's actually playable. +Tanooki!
Cons	-pure clone -clone of a really stupid game -no mechanism for external score sharing -clashy Mario sprite -no music -weak sfx

Impressions

Gameplay 2 / 10	This game shares with Flappy Bird the critical flaw of overly simplistic and redundant gameplay, while failing to provide any sort of interaction between players between sessions though score sharing, which even Flappy Bird managed to do. That is all. My cognitive faculties are incapable of criticizing gameplay any further. IAmGreenMike is right, though. It isn't fair to give this 1/10 when 1. the game actually works and 2. the game does what is advertised e.g. waste a few minutes of your life until you realize how it sucks more than Flappy Bird.
Graphics 3 / 10	Most of the graphics were passable, if not original. But the Mario sprite, the central character, had a different texturing style, and clashed with everything else really hard. Although it doesn't substantially impair gameplay, it looks bad. That and the HUD font's kinda meh. I know creating your own font is a real pain, but there are better pre-made fonts out there to use.
Sound 2 / 10	No music. Stock sfx. It simply lacks; it sounds empty. More is happening on screen than I can hear. That is all.
Replay 1 / 10	There is no encouragement to play more than once. Again, there is no score sharing, and the "thrill" of beating your own score simply isn't worth the lame gameplay.

Final Words

Perhaps this just had to be done. That doesn't mean it should be put on MFGG.

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