Cassus' Comments

I just finished my first play-through of the game. Fun engine, great setting, definitely a solid zombie flash game. Plenty of important survival-style balancing decisions to make, I enjoyed it to the very end. That ending was horrible. No, worse, that ending basically said everything I did was 100% pointless. I could've enjoyed having my partner turn, or a happily-ever-after, or men in black helicopters, or even Jack abandoning me on the pier. But instead... Wow.

Still getting the White Screen of Death every time I die. This happens on Chrome, Firefox, and Internet Explorer (All with the most recent updates).

I did not like this game nearly as much as the last one. The last game felt like actual detective work (well, like video game detective work). You had to make connections using your own reasoning. This one felt more like a cross between and escape game and "find the difference"-- the game made all of the connections and forced you down a linear path that involved breaking and entering at the drop of a hat. I mean, come on. When your police procedure is less realistic than CSI, you know you're doing something wrong.

Whew! A fun game, but some parts were annoying. Meta comments-- *Change the hotkeys, there must be twoscore comments about them. Instead of "tab" to switch between two sets of units, put the traps on one row and the weapons on another so that you can pick any of them with just one keystroke (so bow on "1," shotgun on "2," spike trap on "q," barricade on "w," etc). *Add an upgrade/trap/-something- that picks up coins. *Add a Final Boss. The last wave is kind of a letdown-- you build up your defences, you face hordes of enemies, dragons and orcs start pouring into the battle in a steady stream... And that's it. If I can handle one batch of two orcs and a dragon, I can handle fifteen. You need a capstone boss of some kind. *Do more with stars. List the requirements for each rank, put in some kind of a special shop (or secret levels unlocks). Heck, maybe make three "inside the portal" levels unlocked with stars and put the Final Boss on the last portal level.

It's a good game. The learning curve is quite gentle and I never felt like it dragged. One major glitch though. The survival levels ("kill all waves or last X seconds") don't spawn any enemies the second (and successive) times you play them. So the game declares you the winner two seconds after you start the level.

Even on the highest difficulty level, the enemy AI almost always refuses to take a piece if its piece would be taken-- to "trade." Even if it would take two of my pieces for one of its own. Even if my vulnerable piece is about to take one of the AI's pieces. Which is silly. So here's an idea. I'm not sure how easy it is to do this in Flash, but maybe assign each piece a "point value"? Then the AI can compare the point values of pieces (maybe adjust them if it's about to lose a piece anyways) and decide whether an exchange is worthwhile. Additionally, the AI should ALWAYS protect the flag. As it is, I've been in this situation: XMX XEX XFX Where M is my piece (a shield dwarf that moves two spaces), E is an enemy piece, F is the enemy flag, and X is an empty space. And the AI does this: EMX XXX XFX Literally committing suicide. That shouldn't happen, ever.

Look. In any game EVER, there should be a mute button. Not only that, it should actually MUTE all of the noise that the game makes. If you want to have two buttons, one for sound and one for music, that's fine. But don't ever do this to my ears again.

I found a glitch: If you have three floors to your store, a customer will go from the second floor to the third floor, then back down to the second floor, then back up to the third floor, then back down to the second floor... And you can never end the day, so the game stalls.

I... I honestly thought there was a game in there somewhere. You stole three minutes of my life.

Alrighty. This is ridiculous. In the final dungeon, when you're inside the nightmare for the fourth person in the pub, in the room before the one where he is imprisoned (in the cage dangling from the ceiling), there is a locked door. IF YOU UNLOCK THAT DOOR, YOU CANNOT WIN. There are no more small keys, and the next area cannot be be unlocked without a small key to get that guy out of his cage. And if you happen to have Autosave on, you cannot undo the unlock and the only option is to play the whole game over again. I don't have the patience for that.