Quick Look: The Sun at Night

They'll tell you black is really white

the moon is just the sun at night

And when you walk in golden halls

you get to keep the gold that falls

it's...

:D

The "art style" of this game looks terrible, like needles in your eyes, whoever made these art assets should STOP it reminds me of a game from the BAD part of 90's computer games. The whole part of being a dog and being so low to the floor having to aim up at everything and everything has to aim down at you seems to get dumb fast.

Theres so much potential in the concept, but boy did they do a botch job of pulling it off which makes it even sadder.

It felt like there were a lot of times you could cheese guys by just keeping them outside the screen. Which seems like a pretty cheap way to get through, but better then trying to dodge and jump around on a small screen.

This concept seems neat but the game itself looking incredibly frustrating and boring.

I thought this would be some kind of joke about a Polish space program.

wow. much sun. very night. so dark. so doge.

Doesn't really look fun, reminds me of strange GBA games but with much longer levels and much more difficult enemies. And the graphics look like Frisky Dingo?

Never stop making Back to the Future jokes, Drew.

To be fair, this looks about a hundred times better than A Valley WIthout Wind art-wise. I suspect neither game is that fun to play though.

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Agreed, it doesn't look like fun to play.

@sammo21: I don't remember Cosmo Being a Russian Cosmonaut.

I feel like in their desire to rush to their objective they were missing some key aspects of the upgrade and item system. I can't say that for certain but they should have at least looked through all of the upgrades before making a choice and there was definitely some sort of crafting system involved since they could break down the items they had. Maybe the whole thing would have been a lot easier if they had first taken the time to prepare. It's like they took a tough quest but then didn't do any sort of prep work for it. But I don't blame them honestly. The poor animations and overall look and feel of the game made me initially think it was some sort of silly platformer as well.

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this looks like the art style of a bad flash game.

And none of the three of them noticed it even though they opened the menu multiple times. And when they picked nano from the terminal they hacked they got 100/100 nano power or whatever. Obviously you use that to fabricate stuff. It's a little obtuse but it's nothing that taking 3 seconds looking at the interface couldn't have showed them.

that music is really annoying.

"This looks like a SNES game"

No. No it doesn't. Are you out of your fucking mind?

This looks like a flash game.

I love the music in this game!

It's crazy that I dislike the phrase "to be honest" so much that it makes me annoyed at opinions I, too, hold.

Also, that is a very yonic curtain.

hell yeah i'm a space dog

Sadly, this looks like hot garbage. Jump puzzles, offscreen shootouts, archaic save system, simple tunes, needlessly wordy dialogue and terrible documentation... all of which should become apparent after watching a playtest for more than 10 minutes. So sad. I was looking forward to this.

Cyber-Dog you say?

I've been playing this today, and it's actually pretty fun. There's a lot of exploration and side quest stuff that doesn't really get shown here that would have given them a lot more supplies, and the ability to break down and fabricate items has a tutorial near the start of the game that I guess Drew glossed over. The combat is just passable, but better once you get more weapons (of which they passed 2 in the quick look), but it plays a bit like a more wordy metroidvania with a mission-based structure, and I've been enjoying it quite a bit. The upgrades are all quite cool and meaningful as well.

I feel like this game could have been pretty fun if they tweaked the gameplay a bit. I'm thinking things like:

- Ditch the overheat on shooting the basic weapon, it's just not fun.

- Make enemies and their projectiles slower (and maybe slow the player to compensate). I think it would be really fun to dodge projectiles while returning fire but everything moves way too fast.

- Pull the camera out a little bit, every single enemy seems to leap out of nowhere. This might be less of an issue if the action was slowed down a bit though.

Basically If it was fun to run and gun things, it would be way easier to overlook things like the annoying foreground elements and drawn out conversations. I honestly don't have much problem with the art and music, though that "doo doo, doo" did get tiresome quickly.

I think this music is radical.

@kenpachiramasama: http://marvel.wikia.com/Cosmo_(Dog)_(Earth-616)

dreaking drew

This game doesn't look so good. All dogs should have plasma cannons though.

@reverendhunt: You're welcome !

Revenge of the Space Puppy!

Being a short little dog with a turret on its back is almost like being a Blaster Master tank, in theory.

If they had made the combat more like that instead of the "shoot at guys off camera in rooms perfectly barren of cover," it might have been a much cooler idea.

I like their spirit, though. "Three Laika games, you guys! Why not? Fuck it!!"

This game looks so good! I can't wait to play it!

Man, saying that the combat could be better when playing with the sticks instead of a keyboard and mouse is like saying that Half Life 2 has shitty combat because it doesn't play as well with a gamepad.

And then the indie game gets flagged by everyone that sees this as having shitty combat. Well done. I guess next time the devs should just support K&M and be done with it.

I'll definitely get this when it comes out on Vita.

@angrighandi said:

Yeah, the combat difficulty seems like the kind of thing where the devs played it in a bubble and it seems reasonable to them, but they've played it for hundreds of hours. I don't even see how you're expected to handle most of those combat encounters given the crazy fast bullet speed of enemy shots and how few shots the shield blocks.

Nonetheless, Drew, Vinny, and Brad did miss some stuff with how to fabricate items. I'm sure having health items mitigates some of the difficult. Even though the game is kinda rough, I still think no game would give you that much machine gun ammo if you weren't already supposed to have a machine gun.

Interesting concept but the level design and difficulty curve seem super frustrating.