Solistus' Comments

Overall it's a great game and the actual combat gameplay has been nicely improved, but I feel like the mechanics for unlocking and upgrading units and spells took a step back from EW4. Upgrades max out too fast, per-unit experience for all the upgrades instead of a global pool to spend means less trade-off decisions for the player to make, and you have no control over the order in which you unlock units so every playthrough is the same.

Overall love it, 5/5, but some gripes: 1. HC is really hard unless you idle for the 'played x minute' achievements. Maybe those should carry between saves and grant the armor points at the start of the game if you already have them? Or just replace those achievements. 2. Builds are 100% about number crunching, and since the % bonuses scale better than flat bonuses, the only optimal builds are to dump everything in one stat minus a couple points in the others to survive the early game. Maybe you could unlock different skills based on the perk points (e.g., 5 points in +health gives you Leech, 5 in +damage gives you the 200% attack, etc.)? That would also add a lot of replay value. Each class could have a unique starting ability or two as well.

I love the core gameplay mechanics and would love to see you expand on it in a larger game project. Keep the mechanics fairly simple and streamlined, add things like upgrades, a campaign, etc., and put a lot of focus on keeping the user interface and gameplay experience polished and straightforward. You have a tendency to produce impressively complex game mechanics, then wind up with a somewhat crowded/unintuitive UI. I think scaling back mechanical complexity, focusing on the end-user experience for a bit, then start building on more of that complexity. Your previous titles are already some of my favorite Flash games, but I think with a little polish they could be some of my favorite *games*, period.

General tips and tricks: you can move or repair the car while reloading. Getting +cash and +exp skills up as early as possible helps a ton. Repair the car when you can, but don't worry too much about that until you have one of the last few guns. Jump on the car only as a last resort, the damage takes forever to repair. The skill that gives more healing from first aid kits is crazy good - $100 is nothing to you lategame, and 150hp is a lot. Skip weapon upgrade when you can to save up for later ones faster.

"Start Muted" re yours!

Very cool little time waster. I'd love to see more difficult obstacles later on, and more upgrades to work toward, to make the game longer, but there's nothing wrong with short and sweet. 5/5

It's an absolute travesty that that horrible Elephant game is gonna steal your 'best of the month' award. I can't begin to express how much that game sucks. And yet, it instantly became the #1 rated game on the whole site.... wtf.

Meh. Frustrating platforming mechanics, mind-numbingly easy gameplay with no penalty for failure, uninteresting "skill tree" system that isn't a skill tree in any meaningful sense and is full of boring numerical buffs (which are pretty pointless in a game where failure is impossible and challenging enemies nonexistent). The quirkiness of "lol I'm an elephant" wore off for me several games ago, and there's nothing else to like. I guess I'm in the tiny minority here, but this is a clear 1/5 to me.

I like the mix of oldschool graphics and gameplay and quirky humor/personality. Definitely a start to something great. My biggest complaint is I want more of everything: a longer 'item tree' of purchasables to unlock including permanent gun upgrades, more characters to choose between (or just unlockable alternative action/specials for the existing ones), more enemies, harder bosses, difficulty modes... Basically, this feels like a game that begs to become a major timesink for a while, but there's not enough content to support that much replay. I probably spent a good hour at first grinding, trying out the different guns/actions/specials, restarting the first couple days to build a bankroll... Then I breezed through the game. I honestly think all it would take is adding more content to make this an action RPG-type game that I could play for hours. 4/5 for now, it'll 5/5 and a favorite for sure if we see a major content update.

00Elf: there is a mute button. Hit Action: More (the button that looks like a book), then the bottom right button that looks like a horn will toggle sound on/off.