The Dink Network

Good Heart Bad Heart

June 6th, 2003
Beta
Score : 5.0 fair
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Binirit
Peasant She/Her
 
Storyline: Dink is summoned by King Daniel. It turns out that Port Town is under attack by pirates and Dink has to do something about that.

Map and graphics: The map, when looked at it in the editor, is the same as the map of the original Dink Smallwood. Only a couple of screens are new and those are used in this D-mod. There are adjusted graphics for a pirate.

Music: I heard one midi and that sounded good.

Good: This D-mod, although awfully small, has good gameplay. You start in your house, can visit the King and Port Town and the game ends after a cutscene on a ship.

Not so good: The screen before the titlescreen is gone so fast that you can not even read it. A lot of things in this file are not used for the game, so that means extra unnecessary download time. Some hardness errors, as the bridge to the boat. There is a develop folder with two files that would suit a tutorial, but not a D-mod.

Overall: A fair demo that good be a good D-mod.

Fit for: If you want to play an ever so small demo in which you can not do that many.
November 9th, 2003
Beta
Score : 2.0 horrible
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matrice
Peasant They/Them
 
The very beginning looks promising:
Dink is living with Charly (remember ?) and as usual all his things are gone. Once you get out of the house and want to go exploring, however, you are summoned to the king and send to port town. Once there you all you can do is enter one house, few a little animated sequence and that's it.

For a demo, this is very very limited.
For a beta version, this is ridiculous.

... we can but hope for a larger and much fuller version one fine day ...