Argh, we have to beat the stupid, poorly designed horribly rigged boss again to get the badge? You couldn't even implement the tracking in such a way it could just check to see if there was "Play Again" at the final battle? This is absurd.
This game is pretty awful. If the ball gets past you, you're screwed because you can't ever get over it to get it back to the other side. The AI can just push you into your own net, and the controls are awful. I don't expect much from Mousebreaker, but this game is bad for even their slapped together crap.
The controls are very sluggish with the WASD layout for some reason. Also, with all the drops and the shots, it's hard to keep track of everything at once because the drops are so large and the bullets are so small.
I'm not sure why Mochigames hates us so much, but the final boss is just a complete dick punch. Every game mechanic is biased against you when it's turned into a two stage fight, because his stage transition breaks any effects a long chain may have had (if you kill him with one), his Rage attack takes over half your HP, his regular attacks take off a ton of HP, and he has a metric assload of health. It's a luck based mission, and luck is never on your side.
Once you get to Goord and Master Squid, it's pretty much 100% random chance. They've got such high attack and HP that you can't feasibly win on strategy, you just have to hope you get an assload of extra turn opportunities and a ton of Defense chains so you can pop one every turn. Pretty bad design in an attempt to cover up crappy AI.
There's a spot just below the outward corner of the window on the left side (near the spawn) where if you have the Thor Cannon, you can hold the mouse there and never move it and kill everything, just running back and forth to pick up the metal.
Getting a star or a near miss bonus in a jump that would normally get you a Leap of Faith bonus prevents you from getting the Leap of Faith bonus. Makes the achievement a huge pain in the ass.
I got 19/30 without having to resort to hints. The 8 year old me of the past is ashamed. I can't believe I missed some of the gimmies, but could remember stuff like Bubble Bobble and Ice Hockey.
Well that's nice. Apparently I had it bug out the first time I loaded it and it wasn't recording any of my stats towards the achievement. So I got past 1k meters and well over 300 flowers, and none of it mattered because the game doesn't save any stats to report when you refresh. Awesome.
1/5 for having unskippable credits at the start and not bothering to have a preloader. That's pretty god awful considering this is 2011. I haven't even gotten to the gameplay yet, as I'm stuck on this stark white screen. But if you're not going to put effort into doing a proper job, I'm not going to suffer through your lazyness.
Also, there's a bug with running. If you touch a ball but don't get knocked off the screen, your score stops going up but the game doesn't end. It can make it so you go for a long time without realizing you're no longer getting points.
I trained my duck up to maximum level in everything (that was allowed for the first evolution) and still lost the Finals race. So, yeah. That's pretty stupid.
Not a bad little game, but it seems the last two backgrounds are intentionally eye-raping so that you have a harder time seeing the darker enemies (particularly baby spiders) against them. That kind of sucks. Didn't have any lag issues, but my PC is built for gaming.