Comments on: Slam Bolt Scrappers: The Strange Rise of Fire Hose Games

By: Vlitzertron

Vlitzertron — Sat, 19 Mar 2011 19:16:17 +0000

nice

By: plaztiksyke

plaztiksyke — Fri, 18 Mar 2011 21:14:13 +0000

the game is ridiculously fun, and very well executed. extremely ambitious, but never gets unnecessarily complicated. the live musicians really adds a unique flavor, just like Monkey Island 2 Special Edition did.

two dings: $15 and not even a couple of gold trophies??? background environment looks like placeholder textures and has a lot of aliasing shimmer. no free SPU to do some MSAA upscale to 1080p?

can’t wait to see title updates and what’s coming next from firehose!

By: k1llabeastie

k1llabeastie — Fri, 18 Mar 2011 19:18:51 +0000

Quite amazing how things can happend… I played the demo yestarday and it was really fun to play, I think I might even pick it up! You guys did a real amazing job, keep it up. (and indeed think about $9,99)

By: wilflare

wilflare — Fri, 18 Mar 2011 16:20:41 +0000

bought the game :D
while IGN hasn’t been fair, i think there were valid points.
it does get kinda messy and hard to see the blocks you have
and please online multiplayer!

-off to enjoy the game

By: nerdmanwhippy

nerdmanwhippy — Fri, 18 Mar 2011 15:21:56 +0000

Really enjoy the video and all the concept work for it, also love to see you guys on here responding to comments. Anyways hope your already drawing up fun concepts for another psn title :D For the future though, I honestly think you’d pick up a lot more impulse buys with a $9.99 price tag. Not to say any one game is better then another game or such, however psn does offer a lot of high quality downloadable titles for $9.99 or even under, it occasionally makes the $14.99 buys hard to do on a whim if there’s other titles that we still haven’t picked up yet but are cheaper.

By: Eitan Glinert

Eitan Glinert — Fri, 18 Mar 2011 14:31:04 +0000

We’re getting a lot of requests for SBS on the NGP! We don’t know if it is in the cards yet but we’ll see what we can do.

By: Eitan Glinert

Eitan Glinert — Fri, 18 Mar 2011 14:09:23 +0000

The trick to remember is that you want to build really big squares of the same color. Multicolor squares don’t help. Rotate blocks with L2 + R2 so that they fit together to make those big squares. You’ll also see a phantom block shadow in your tower indicating where your block will fall if you hit Circle. I hope this helps!

By: Eitan Glinert

Eitan Glinert — Fri, 18 Mar 2011 14:07:47 +0000

Awesome! You can buy the shirt I’m wearing (the red one with the towers) on our website, http://www.firehosegames.com, under store. Thanks for the support!

If a lot of people like our stuff then we will definitely be putting more merch up. In particular I’m hoping for plushies, I think those would look great.

By: EmperorSupreme

EmperorSupreme — Fri, 18 Mar 2011 14:04:10 +0000

@19 I’ve got the game and it does have trophies

@24 Yeah he said it “was too complex.” I’m not sure what is so complex about stacking colored blocks. And in the multiplayer mode you can decide what blocks you want to play with. I personally think the review is off.

By: PhantomOfPanton

PhantomOfPanton — Fri, 18 Mar 2011 08:09:57 +0000

@24, can’t spell ignorance without IGN.