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Game Giveaway of the day — Cranks Rescue A Planet

Rescue a dying planet!

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Cranks Rescue A Planet was available as a giveaway on April 6, 2023!

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A little old man is trying to save his innocent planet from being taken over by a villain named Gnumanikus. Help him in this difficult endeavor. You have three characters to play as, each with unique abilities. Use them to overcome obstacles on the way to capturing Gnumanikus and rescuing a dying planet.

System Requirements:

Windows

Publisher:

Ashoot

Homepage:

https://giveaway2.itch.io/cranks-rescue-a-planet

File Size:

107 MB

Price:

$5.00

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Hi Guys, Please excuse my lack of communications over the past several weeks. I really needed a break from posting reviews and moderating.

I've been posting regularly since the project started back in December 2006 with very few breaks apart from our yearly vacations; (though even those have been put on hold since 2018 due to the lack of any rabbit and cat sitters. Our daughters friends used to help but they are now all working or away from home, so it's not been possible to go away.

I will be returning to my usual reviews and moderating, but at the moment I'm enjoying the break, so will be extending it for at least a couple more weeks over the Easter break as we want to do some family outings and generally do stuff together before everyone goes back to work etc.

Reply | Comment by Whiterabbit-uk – Last year – Did you find this comment useful? yes | no (+8)

Whiterabbit-uk, no problem WR. Enjoy your rest. You've more than earned it! We're all glad to hear your doing well, and assume the whole rabbit clan is ok also. See you when you get back. Please take all the time you need. Many other members of the community, especially Sailorbear and Data Dragon, have stepped up admirably, as you said they would. But there's only 1 "wascally wabbit". :)

Reply | Comment by mediaman13 – Last year – Did you find this comment useful? yes | no (+5)

I haven't tried it but here's a video for anyone interested.

https://youtu.be/WaHS8T_5PHo

Reply | Comment by jboy – Last year – Did you find this comment useful? yes | no (+3)

Cranks Rescue A Planet is a puzzle game released originally in 2013 as one of those Gamiron games that were entered into a game making competition, and has never been given away before on GOTD. Some excellent games have been created this way as real money is offered to the winners, but in general from my own experiences, some others are short and/or often unfinished simply because they are given specific rules such as the type of game and the length of time you have to create that game, and then later may not come back to finish or improve it... So what do we have here? Well, this is the first game development contest that developer had entered... yet it won second place! Congrats 10 years later :)

In the gameplay, you have to get all three characters to the same colored flasks (called cones) as the character that contain the antidote to the infection you are trying to cure. All characters move together at once making things challenging with the many different obstacles in the game such as a block hindering other characters movement that only purple can remove with spacebar, or a cactus that will destroy a character when hit unless its the green one. In addition to the unique abilities of each character to help solve these puzzles, you can put one of the characters only to sleep so they dont move by clicking on it. Completing the level can earn one, two or three stars which depends on the number of the three characters who survived to the end of the level. In the final 20th level at the time of my review, you will have to take on the boss himself - Gnumanikus. In the upper right corner, three buttons are displayed: Restart level, volume control and exit menu thoughtfully as well.

The main thing I would add so far is just a save so you can return to the level you were at later (since these arent breezy easy) on as exiting the game appeared to restart from the beginning and remappable keys in game so gamers can use arrow keys for example. Additional levels could be added if the developer is still active as the game is now being sold on itch but already contains some nice logic puzzles that will challenge you.

Rating: B-

A video of gameplay can be found here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WaHS8T_5PHo

In the gameplay, you have to get all three characters to the same colored flasks (called cones) as the character that contain the antidote to the infection you are trying to cure. All characters move together at once making things challenging with the many different obstacles in the game such as a block hindering other characters movement that only purple can remove with spacebar, or a cactus that will destroy a character when hit unless its the green one. In addition to the unique abilities of each character to help solve these puzzles, you can put one of the characters only to sleep so they dont move by clicking on it. Completing the level can earn one, two or three stars which depends on the number of the three characters who survived to the end of the level. In the final 20th level at the time of my review, you will have to take on the boss himself - Gnumanikus.  In the upper right corner, three buttons are displayed: Restart level, volume control and exit menu thoughtfully as well.

The main thing I would add so far is just a save so you can return to the level you were at later (since these arent breezy easy) on as exiting the game appeared to restart from the beginning and remappable keys in game so gamers can use arrow keys for example. Additional levels could be added if the developer is still active as the game is now being sold on itch but already contains some nice logic puzzles that will challenge you.

Rating: B-

A video of gameplay can be found here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WaHS8T_5PHo

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Reply | Comment by DataDragon – Last year – Did you find this comment useful? yes | no (+6)

Tried again, the save game actually works in windows 10 but it required that you install the game in a folder that is not in any of the Windows managed folders (ie not in Program Files etc) such as I reinstalled under C:\Games\ and that worked. I noticed I couldnt even edit the save file and then save it so that was likely the cause and has been a common issue with some other games as well. I guess if you want to cheat to bypass a level you are totally stuck on, edit that save file with notepad or similar, and change the level=1 to whatever level you want such as level=9 and resave:
[Game]
Level=1