Horn™ by Zynga/Phosphor Games (Universal)

[brerlappin]

Phosphor should put the paid version of Dark Meadow on sale to celebrate Horn's release!

[RunnyGnome]

Originally Posted by EightRooks

I will repeat my impressions which I posted earlier in the thread.

The game will run on an iTouch, but it is obviously very, very different to the screenshots people have been posting from the later iPads and the iPhone 4S. It is not Retina resolution, all the textures are low detail and the effects are mostly cut out entirely. It looks something like an RPG on the Playstation 2 from several years ago. That being said, it runs at a reasonable framerate, occasionally glitching slightly or briefly freezing. It is still perfectly playable. Sound is fine, animation is fine, art design is still obviously good. The only outright ugly portions of the game are the 2D story cutscenes, where the textures are at such a low resolution it's not even clear sometimes what's going on - but even then the text and voiceover explains things fine.

There is currently a bug which stops iTouches - some, maybe all, I'm not sure - from going any further than the first mission from the hub world. The level will sometimes load, but it will crash inside a few seconds. (At least, this happened to me every single time I tried.) Phosphor's patch which should be out very soon supposedly fixes this bug and allows iTouches to play the game. It still looks very, very different to the screenshots people have been posting, and as far as I can tell the developers do not want to officially say that the game is supported on iTouches - even after the patch - because people will expect it to look exactly the same as the iPad 3 or iPhone 4S and then get angry with Phosphor when they realise it doesn't.

Would I recommend people play it on iTouches as it stands (assuming you can complete the game after the patch hits)? That's a tough one. Based on what little I did get to play before the bug hit I'd say only if you're prepared to make some big compromises. But if the rest of the game is anything like the opening it is still playable and it is still fairly impressive, even with so much detail unable to be displayed. Just got to wait and see, I suppose.

These are my impressions as well. No retina, but the graphics are still pretty dang good. And I can confirm that you cannot get past the first level, but again that patch should fix it.

[Mhunt190]

phosphor games I think the game needs
Bug fixes (graphics, freezing, ect), more weapons, extra missions, game center, Achivments, cloud save, and light shafts.

[Adamo]

Originally Posted by Mhunt190

phosphor games I think the game needs
Bug fixes (graphics, freezing, ect), more weapons, extra missions, game center, Achivments, cloud save, and light shafts.

Great list! We really appreciate the feedback! Do people have any favorite weapons or costumes so far?

[RunnyGnome]

Yo Adamo! I have a few questions regarding the patch;


1. When was it submitted, or has it been submitted yet?


2. Does it just fix the crashing or does it improve the Framerate as well?


3. Will you make me a sandwhich?


Thanks!

[Adamo]

Originally Posted by RunnyGnome

Yo Adamo! I have a few questions regarding the patch;


1. When was it submitted, or has it been submitted yet?


2. Does it just fix the crashing or does it improve the Framerate as well?


3. Will you make me a sandwhich?


Thanks!

1. Was submitted days ago.

2. Crashing and other nasty bugs. If you are having serious frame rate issues, I would suggest rebooting to free up memory. (I have about 100 games on my idevice and when I play something memory intensive like walking dead I have to reboot to regain my lost frames). Edit: just saw you're on iPod 4 it should help. It still won't be officially supported and I can't promise it will be crash free (the low memory really hurts ) but you should be able to play it more.

3. I can, but I can't promise it's freshness by the time it gets to you.

[JagerBombS]

Will the sandwich have tegra turkey effects? If not you can keep it

I really like difficulty of the third area. I think a new game+ would be great in this game! Carry over all your loot with increased difficulty.

[Adamo]

Originally Posted by JagerBombS

Will the sandwich have tegra turkey effects? If not you can keep it

I really like difficulty of the third area. I think a new game+ would be great in this game! Carry over all your loot with increased difficulty.

Hahaha

Glad you are enjoying the difficulty! Have you tried replaying missions yet? We stuck in a special "golden enemy" for your next play through that is harder and that will often drop goodies like blueprints!

Also new game + is a very good idea!

[JagerBombS]

Originally Posted by Adamo

Hahaha

Glad you are enjoying the difficulty! Have you tried replaying missions yet? We stuck in a special "golden enemy" for your next play through that is harder and that will often drop goodies like blueprints!

Also new game + is a very good idea!

Nice! I haven't yet, cause I've yet to finish the game, but good to know!

[RunnyGnome]

Originally Posted by Adamo

1. Was submitted days ago.

2. Crashing and other nasty bugs. If you are having serious frame rate issues, I would suggest rebooting to free up memory. (I have about 100 games on my idevice and when I play something memory intensive like walking dead I have to reboot to regain my lost frames). Edit: just saw you're on iPod 4 it should help. It still won't be officially supported and I can't promise it will be crash free (the low memory really hurts ) but you should be able to play it more.

3. I can, but I can't promise it's freshness by the time it gets to you.

Days ago, huh? How many days ago?

By the way, The framerate actaully isn't an issue for me. I've been getting a constant 20-25 FPS, which is pretty dang good if I do say so myself.