downstage's Comments

Loved it. It's all about the story rather than gameplay, but the story was brilliant. I really wanted to keep playing to find out more, and anything that makes me really want to keep playing is a good game. It's great to see something interesting and original. Thanks!

@MarzZee - when you replay the stages, change the settings on the mission popup when you select the mission. When you make it more difficult, the star grade improves (bronze is standard, silver if you increase a few enemy stats, gold for most stats and diamond for every hardest setting).

I actually thought the message was slightly overstated. But then I remembered the audience for this game is pretty broad so perhaps you're right to keep it clear and simple. But maybe one day we'll get games that just happen to have Sir-Sir or Madam-Madam partnerships in them, without having to explain why it's been done that way ;) Nice game though, fun to play and gave me a warm feeling for the day ahead. Thanks!

Whoever said "it's better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all" clearly hadn't tried to get this hard badge.

I agree with most of the problems posted here, but regardless I found the game enjoyable. Tips: (1) don't play as an archer. You have to use your second inventory slot for arrows, and you have to continually buy them. Using a sword is great because the secondary skill after sword mastery is natural armor which is handy. (2) as always with these games, kill rather than avoid enemies at all times to keep levelling as you play. (3) put skill points into experience and money gain early on, it reduces the grind latery. (4) don't buy new weapons as soon as you can afford them; save for a better one. I had an ultimate weapon about half way through the game (helped by the points in money gain skill) which made it much quicker to slash through enemies. It didn't feel too grindy then. Incidentally, warp back to Boon town to buy the most powerful melee weapons. I used the Golden Flame sword. Damage is cut off the description but based on price I assumed it was the best!

The game just needs better balancing. It feels especially grindy in the beginning - it seems AGES before you can do anything other than hopelessly watch your geek repeatedly limp to the ground. The game is also too passive, which makes the grind feel worse; again, this is espeically the case in early game. It would be better if we felt we were more in control of the outcomes. Challenges are okay except that for burrito geek I couldn't find any strategy at all; just grinding (SLOWLY) to get upgrades and hoping for a lucky run. Also agree with others that the "clever" use of skill names is just irritating as I kept forgetting what they did (at least provide a shortened description on hover?). Despite sortcomings, it's kinda addictive. 4/5.

I haven't played any games in this series before, but I'm loving this! So gutted about the item glitch though, I now have to restart for the third time because I have an object stuck :( a save feature would really really help.

So I got the badge, but now looking at other people's scores is making me want to keep playing to reach/beat the best for each level! One question: how on earth are people getting 100% for level 2?? To get over 80 you'd need to knock off both of the top boxes, and I've tried everything I can think of to do that and nothing's working. Any clues?

I've had "santa claus is coming to town" stuck in my head all day thanks to this game :/

For those lucky enough to get the "-ing" suffix appear when trying to get from rank 7 to 8, try these: awakening, awestriking, backflowing, backwinding, bushwhacking, counterworking, coworking, foreknowing, hardworking, interworking, ironworking, jaywalking, knowing, lawbreaking, lawmaking, metalworking, networking, reworking, skewering, working.