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- Price: Free
- Operating system: Windows Me, Windows XP, Windows 2000, Windows 98
- Date added: October 12, 2005
- Total Downloads: 45,597
- Downloads last week: 20
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- CNET editors' rating: stars
- Average user rating: stars out of 22 votes
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CNET editors' review
Reviewed by: CNET Staff
Once you get past the preposterousness of a rolling eyeball that totes a magical paintbrush, the gameplay in Ocular Ink quickly becomes entertaining and challenging. This stylish, if unpolished, freeware game earns a top rating for its original design, smooth mechanics, and amusing story.
From a top-down view, your anonymous hero strives to save his village from a megalomaniacal pirate. Your paintbrush can move objects, spawn explosions, and transport you home. As you progress through the levels, you'll learn more of the story and gain powers for your fancy brush. A mouse-gesture system controls your attacks. Drawing a tight, small circle creates a strong local explosion, while scribbling a large circle leads to a wide, weak blast. While difficult to explain in words, the controls are intuitive and easy to learn. RSI victims beware: There's a lot of mouse movement and clicking.
The villains' names all feature amusing eyeball puns (Samur-eye, Eye-clops, and so on), and the whole story is infused with a wackiness akin to the classic Earthworm Jim series. There's no chicken gun, but the walking arms are freaky enough for us. In a day when originality is rare, this unique action game deserves a good look.
Publisher's description
From Pistachio Productions :In a strange and twisted land where evil, dismembered body parts roam the countryside, you play the role of a young paintbrush-wielding eyeball that is determined to free his home town from the fearsome clutches of the evil eye-pirate known far and wide as Patches Deadlights. Travel through bizarre environments, learning new and powerful attacks with your paintbrush.
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User reviews
- Average user rating: 3.2 stars out of 22 votes
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5 out of 6 people found this review helpful
Version: Ocular Ink 0.92
Cons: i got this obscure error:
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Ocular Ink.exe - Ordinal Not Found
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The ordinal 11 could not be located in the dynamic link library DSOUND.dll.
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OK
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13 out of 13 people found this review helpful
Version: Ocular Ink 0.92
"Unique Game-play, Worth Your Time"
Pros: Everything good about this game is revolved around its unique game-play. You're an eyeball rolling around and trying to kill others by drawing on the map with a paintbrush. As you get deeper into the game, new "skills" will become available, activated by certain patterns that you draw.
The game-play length is moderate, around 2-3 hours, if you don't know what you're doing and die a lot, which you will quite a few times.
If you like blood and gore, this is probably your game. Using the paintbrush, you can flick rocks at enemies or just flick the enemies themselves, generating more blood than you can ever imagine.
Also, the dialogues are quite comical so it's a lot less boring than most of these mini-games out there.
Cons: If you turn all the properties in Options to max, this game can very laggy. For me, maps loaded in around 5 seconds, and I have a AMD Athlon 64 processor with 3400+ and 512 MB RAM. Also, with the settings at max, the paintbrush cursor moved around at a sad fps, maybe, 4-5, and it gets very difficult to draw your intended lines. As this game was probably designed to be a coffee-break kind of mini-game, I find these qualities less favourable. I'm the kind of person who prefers "playablitiy" over good-looking graphics, so I turned everything to the minimum quality, and trust me that did not look good. But hey, it worked.
The game does not have any background music whatsoever except at the ending credits, and you know what it feels like to play a game without any BGM.
Don't get me wrong though, this isn't a bad game at all. It's just that I tend to omit most of the "pros" and concentrate on the "cons". Give this a shot.
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5 out of 5 people found this review helpful
Version: Ocular Ink 0.92
Pros: I didn't play this game to the end, but the parts I saw were fun, good-looking, well-written, and a new challenge.
Cons: There's a reason the gameplay here is unique. I grew frustrated eventually.
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4 out of 4 people found this review helpful
Version: Ocular Ink 0.92
Pros: Interesting plot and playable for a few hours.
Cons: Hard to move the character around.
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4 out of 4 people found this review helpful
Version: Ocular Ink 0.92
Pros: You play an protagonist eyeball: rolling around, collect ink, painting stuff, and generally doing things the local ocular hero would do.
The game is 100% character, as you fight alongside your comerade eyeballs.
Awesome innovative gameplay. You collect ink, and with the mouse, which is a paintbrush, you can paint the environment. Drawing a line from something to somewhere else flicks the object at a rate governed by how far you drew the line of ink. This is your basic attack, as enemies can be flung into object, eachother, and walls -- or the other way around.
If you scribble the ground, you can cause an explosion based by how much ink you invested in the scribbling.
The cel shaded graphics tie the game together with sufficient visuals that fit the game perfectly, and are professionally crafted.
It's especially interesting to see a site of battle after the fact, with paint everywhere on the ground with streaks of splattered blood.
Clean on my low system resources, too. No slowdown.
Ocular Ink brings a nice break from the mundane in what is an ocular adventure with a gameplay system that is just completely pure fun.
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