Firegirl: Hack 'n Splash Rescue DX

Firegirl has a fairly good premise for the game, but it has its issues. +Good game mechanics, granting time for extinguishing fire monsters. +Award system for completing challenges, earning medals to power up your character +The 2D sprites are very nice, even with the contrasting 3D environments +Some levels have procedural generation to add some variety to levels -Parts of the prodecurally generated levels can be highly repetitve. -3D environment can make it hard to spot dangers in the level -Early game is difficult, it takes time for the player to learn the gameplay loop which may cause them early losses -Progress is very limited unless you can consistantly win at missions -Buggy: Random Crashes -Firegirl can get stuck in certain locations. -it is unclear when a cutscene is occuring after entering a level which may confuse players into thinking they have controller issues. -Rare bug in the train level may cause the train to leave you behind (This only happened once, but's a bad bug) -On the first encounter, it was difficult to tell where it was possible to end the train level. Overall decent game if you're looking for a short and sweet experience.

Firegirl is a casual roquelite platformer. The game is divided into missions, where you will use your hatched and waterhose to move aroung burning buildings to save trapped people and animals. Between missions you can upgrade your equipment with the reward money. Game controls fine with an xbox gamepad, and the randomly generated levels are good enough. Finally, I enjoy playing a family friendly game with interesting fighting mehcanic without violence. (you fight flames, not people)

First off it runs in Linux with Lutris (Wine), though I had to lower some of the settings. Second, I used a PS controller and the default mapping worked fine for me. Tbh I didn't really like this game until I was 4 or 5 upgrades in. Basically, there's a hover mechanic with the water hose but your water supply is finite, so you run out very quickly at the start and have to wait for the gauge to refill. But after some upgrades you start to rely on it more, which is actually pretty fun to use. Presentation is very well done for a 2.5D game and I loved the synth-based music. It's a shame there's no soundtrack available for download as it's one of the highlights. The story is a bit nonsensical but it's whatever. It's not a central focus. The levels are randomly generated but are more or less the same each time you play through a location, with paths only branching in different ways. The main point of fun is in the upgrade system making it easier to run through levels. Toward the end it has a really comfy flow to it. Some other reviews have said that the game is too hard, but it actually gets a bit too easy after a certain point. The real score is probably closer to a 3.8 but I'm being generous because I liked the presentation and the feel of the hover mechanic so much. There's not a whole lot of depth outside of that but it was enough to keep me hooked until I finished everything. I would definitely play a sequel if they ever made one.

which is baffling, because everything here works great; cute presentation, fast puzzle-like search and rescue (pro-tip: you're supposed to find the survivor and escape, NOT put out all the fires), fun soundtrack, but it's so obnoxiously unforgiving it literally feels like the devs sabotaged it on purpose. I don't get it. avoid.