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hey everyone this is steve from gamers nexus Donette and we were playing the demo of gleed today if you saw bleed was covered in our first green light spotlight episode our first-ever one and it was the number one game for that week so I have contacted the developer he sent me a link to where I could get his demo and that's what we're playing right now let's play this on hard mode cuz I want to fail miserably I have not actually played this through yet although stormed the thing and kill copy okay so we have to kill someone named guppy I'm sure he's a friendly guy so this game is a pretty sweet platformer I wonder if I can go up here it's actually it reminded me a lot of contra which is why I wanted to play it originally because I saw a lot of that retro style in it we just I can't go out mouse button the shoot yeah yeah yeah okay so this is what I wow this is really these controls feel fluid this is what I liked a lot about the video I saw the of the game when I first covered it is how fluid the mechanics look and as you can see I mean I picked this up pretty quickly you basically just push spacebar and you fly all over the place and that's the core mechanic looks like you can one two three it looks like you can triple jump actually and I think you can jump off of walls I'll try that in a little bit I think you can jump off of walls they're just switch to queue for the rocket launcher sweet figure of it I'm not sure that number means that I guess that number the top right is just points yes it is just points so we're just trying to get a high score that seems like our goal hold down the room oh gosh hold down the right button too slow sweet so we can slow time and do anything down here nope nope that's a whole death don't want to go down the hole of death although I did while jump out then sweet so while jumping does does indeed work and I'm out of jumps so I'm gonna wall jump my way back up here up just kidding i'm not gonna while John my way back up there no fear the first level supposed to be easy she says alright so use my shift like it told me to and killed the bad guy our health is in the top left if you haven't noticed yet we all stubble jump easy okay and we also have a time identifier which as you saw in the trailer if you watch the trailer or green light episode one you know that the timer is just as a second ago because you can slow time down so use that wisely I suppose this is what I need to be doing here wow these things are just coming in from all over the place not really sure what they are they look kind of purple let's try out this rocket launcher bitch shall we sweet it's a bit slow though yeah this is actually I know I've said this a couple times now but the controls do feel very fluid and I'm low health but I'll take I'll take some comfort knowing that it's hard mode at least and I believe that's how the game is supposed to be played except for the part where I get hit by a fuzzy death ball looks kind of like a Tribble or something from Star Trek I'm not quite sure what that was there nope this is the checkpoint I probably don't need to kill that guy to move forward yeah wow that was fun that time mechanic is really fun so the demo is free from what I understand after reading in the blurb from the developer it is only one level right now and challenge mode which I also haven't tried yet so we'll give challenge about a shot after this I suppose I have a sneaking suspicion that there will be a boss and if I can ever pass this part all right here we go yeah there we go that's what I needed that's not what I needed more of these they never quit come I do they oh gosh all that is so cool all of the mechanics feel really good about this game especially for something that is in just a demo really impressed with the mechanics which to me are the most important part of the game I know a lot of people are fans of good art or a good story those are pretty important obviously you know we wouldn't have an industry without them but to me it's mechanics that keep you returning and that's why i love these platformers that remind me of contra and other early platformers silver server was a stupidly art game with not the best mechanics in the world but it was a very hard game for those of you that played the NES of the Silver Surfer Oh so this game bleed was in the microsoft dream build play I think that's what it's called a competition microsoft runs for small and startup game developers and geez i'm not having luck here it was i don't know if it was i can't remember if it one or if it was a finalist but i remember being there and seeming to have good reception I can definitely see why oh jeez okay if I use this time mechanic a little bit more cool gotta get used to switch into that rocket launcher too looks like we're going up higher oh jeez is please let me back please respond it's not letting me back in so up we go shoo oh jeez oh jeez uh no bonked by the missile Bullet Bill clearly the objective here shift also slowed it down i was using right click ah there we go that time mechanic let them fire the bullets missiles bullets and up we go okay now we have to fight the chopper ah please just behind help back up and the story I mean if you call it a story it's not really necessary in a platformer as we all know but the story here is that you there are no more heroes and your goal is to become the ultimate video game hero or something along those lines any different made it but it's still at like full health I need to figure out that one still yeah there we go still loving this the feel of the game is solid I just got to figure out the boss I'm sure doing a YouTube video doesn't help me figure the boss out also doing the hardware videos all day it's uh not quite on time but I did manage to save my time feature oh cool you can blow the missiles up this is a good thing oh so close caught by the rotor I'm out of time things ok ok guys I got this last one let's do this sleepily got it BAM what now you got some more missiles is what now is there a way to like sprint I need a sprint trying to double tap directional keys but it's not working yes there's only jumping in this one here we go and failed but it's almost dead look at that health how are they climactic just stood there let the times right now unwisely ok it's dead ? that confirmed I guess we still have to find this Rosie called globby guppy there's guppy I'm at zero health I really hope it check pointed but will fight on just to study what is what his moves are I supposed to call them okay his moves are don't jump into him so here we go this time for sure except I'm ready I have held maybe next time okay killed some of those stop worrying about this for a minute I'm going to switch back to these guns so I can seems a little bit better for this mob kills things faster of course okay preserving that time stat oh that multiplied Wow multiplying again geez out of jumps got to fall down and out of time oh crap Jesus like a pro nah 2 left 2 just one more shot all right but I'm sure this is several cuts later at this point but you have another go at this I feel like this is a maybe solid 10 minutes of trying and dying now but that is what i get for play on hard mode okay one more down you gotta too many down there's that using the time element wisely very hard mechanic to master oh my gosh because if you use it all at once it will have to recharge again there we go level cleared 10 or 15 minutes later all in that time element you just gotta let time you kind of stagger it staggers debit shutter step it and it will it will not stall you out while it's recharging that gives you full ability to utilize it while it's still charging sure so that was guppy is there another level she rates right to left apparently the worms normal this time and that's the end of the demo okay then okay guys I gave challenge right a try it is a nothing really to worth posting on the video because it's just fighting the two bosses the helicopter and guppy in a smaller environment and it's much harder so with that what do I think of this game I think from a design perspective it is a platformer of course it is a fast-paced platformer and it knows that that's what it wants to be it has very good mechanics just I mean I'm really impressed by how right the mechanics feel when you're playing the game it's it's very satisfying to use all of the different options like while jumping and triple jumping and in the freeze element as I mentioned many times and then of course the weapons I did feel like I probably should have chosen normal difficulty not hard but so be it that was my choice what it does prove is that the developer does a good job of scaling difficulty I went back and played normal it was much easier but not so easy that I wanted to quit so the developer does a good job at scaling difficulty I'd like to see a few more mob types but obviously those will come with more levels as far as what I think needs to be improved I really think the biggest thing here is the cursor I'm not sure if I told fraps to record my cursor or not but if you can't see it's a tiny white square about the size of the characters I hear and it's it's easy to lose track of in the game so I think maybe better player feedback for the reticle when they're firing maybe a better color or something that stands out so it's because i kept i noticed i kept aiming at the wrong thing and it wasn't because I didn't know where the thing I wanted to shoot was it was because my mouse was not where I thought it was because the feedback was easy to lose track of so with all of that in mind I think you should go try this demo immediately if you like this kind of game and I I'm looking forward to a full release I know the developer told me that he is looking at a couple of months from now he has not given a specific date and a couple months from now I don't I think that's just going to be a demo version I don't or a more extended version i should say i don't know that it's going to be the full game but i will let you all know of course so as more updates come out on bleed stay tuned on gamers nexus tonight and on our youtube channel and please like this video if you liked it comment subscribe share all of those great things and i'll see you guys next time peace