A higher standard
This really was a great game, as far as the amount of work that went into it goes. It was well designed, the artwork was great, the level of detail of programming was exceptional. My problems with it are more subtile. For one, the anmimation needed major tweaking. Look at any high ranking game (IE: Alien Hominid, Bob the Barbarian, The adventures of Buttlock ect...) and you will see that there is some very smooth animation in the little attacks and movements, and in a dynamic game like this, i believe some smooth action animation could really give this game that little extra that it needs. Other than that, it was a little monotonous, with the relatively same enemies dropping down on a naked level with a jpeg background, and for an online game, you may want it to move a bit faster. I know you implimented a lot of weapons and such, but for a game that most people are going to play for all of ten minutes, you really need to give them something extra early on to keep them playing.