pro-tip 1: pause the game as soon as it starts to build at leisure.
pro-tip 2: once you get the miner ships, don't bother building anything else - spam them, they produce *so many* resources that you can keep rebuilding them AND create a titanic infrastructure off the income.
art: 5/5
gameplay: 2/5
speed: 1/5 (BattleChess taught us that gorgeous combat that takes too long to actually watch is unplayable back in the early '90s. FF7 reminded us of this problem. Apparently some people still haven't learned that lesson)
PVP: 1/5
Bugginess: 1/5 (I can't even finish the tutorial in one go!)
Money-grabbiness: 1/5
overall: 1/5
Dull, repetitive, and one of the worst-designed interfaces I've seen in a while... (I can't compare items to the ones I have equipped? I need to click Close in combat to access most of the menus? the ginormous game window is cluttered with huge objects placed in random locations? counter-intuitive placement of things - e.g. instead of having one merchant that sells everything, you have Merchant for equipment but Coraline for bait, which took a while to figure out, etc, etc)
also, level 40 boss kills me for no apparent reason - are the projectile tails really THAT long? (i'm behind him, he finished shooting 10 seconds ago, and suddenly i die)
boss fights are ridiculous. no health indicator for the player (3 hearts too much to ask for?), and the score + boss hp indicator block out the top+bottom of the screen and you're *behind* them, which makes dodging... interesting.
mid-game popups are annoying. lack of permanent upgrades is annoying. the fact that all the bonuses fly up faster than i do is annoying. (I just spent thousands of dollars on fuel boosters, but I see maybe one every two launches, the hell!?)
pro-tip: a) scrolls stack - you can open blue chests even with full inventory (if there's a duplicate in there). b) do not eat spells for health until you really need to, they give more hp the lower down you go.
ah, ok, the bottom stair of the last stairway kills you. other than that, just duck the run through the medusas without killing them, and wait for the spiky ball to swing before running under it (i.e. follow it in)
the enhance weapon potions are no longer usable outside of combat? (enhance armour can still be used from the out-of-combat inventory)
and in general, combat-only potions should be marked as such
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