Continued:
- Stealing ninjas are a a low-threat level, but they are quite durable and if they manage to steal even 1 coin, they escape (and due to their stealth mode - it's hard to catch them). This is why if they start stealing just give them some cocaine overdose!
- Unicorn rampage can be fun to watch, but once they get to the right place, all the villagers who you called them for will be gone.
- Some of the last few levels are game over when 2-3 villagers escape. That's when pitfalls become useful.
- My mines are full of workers after now! Even if I won't include all the knights I released for a ransom ;) And 30% or so workers are super efficient!
I just beat the game (ON A TOUCHPAD FTW!), with the "good" allegiance (because trampling people with unicorns and euthanasing them is so much better then crushing XD), and here are my comments:
- I cannot stress this enough: USE KEYBOARD SHORT-CUTS! The magic space+mouse looks awesome, but takes enough time on higher levels, for half a hut to escape!
- Forget about superheroes, it's the non-stealing ninjas which are evil. They give you approximately 1 second to catch on some maps and often come in waves. When I see one of those Japs, I just take out my trusty needle, as catching them takes too much time.
- When enough adversaries will be on the screen, no more will come out. It is thus advisable to keep about 5 superheroes at the same time (they all just hug each other anyway) so the next waves will come slowly.
- About knights, just lure them to the back of the screen, swing your cursor (erm... yourself that is) quickly close to them and trap them in one cage!
@Lekito I canno agree about the knight. The fastest way to finish him off is to wait until he swings his sword and then to cage him. Its also roleplaying this way, as defeated noble opponents were often taken into captivity and held there until their families paid a ransom.
It would be awesome is there was an ability to cross-breed snakes. Imagine the offspring from a puff adder and sidewind! (Or a coral snake and a viper 0_o)
Did anybody manage to get the last achievement? I have the in game leaf "Defeat all 15 shadowdemons", but the kongregate achievement "15 demons killed" still says "best so far: 14", although I have completed the game twice.
Finalissimo! All 30 levels beaten with "perfect" (on medium)! Some of this stuff was quite hectic, especially before I learnt how to use bombs. I don't know if you would agree, but I think that at the first 4 upgrades, the shuriken and machine gun are the best, while the homing missiles are worthless, but after you upgrade them to the 5th tier, they rule the waves! I actually did not find an adequate situation to use the lancer (although it does look good :)
Oh, @ Lochrin, updating the magnet almost always makes you get more 'coins', so another would be redundant. However, they could make an ultimate update "ability to destroy bullets". Because if you don't have bombs, the game somethimes looks more red then the centre of Moscow!
This game would be awesome, if there was an upgrade which lets you hit bullets. As it is, most of the penultimate row is nearly impossible to score perfect on medium. And I didn't even get to the last row yet ;) Seriously, sometimes there are more bullets then free spaces on the map, and killing some enemies only makes it worse...
There should be a level achievement for defeating the final boss with just the water gun. Takes a while, but the satisfaction of drowning a 4 handed arch-villian with a toy weapon is well worth it!
Wingedfox, quite true. I wasn't serious with this comment, I meant "only stupid aliens" and not "dumb players". Just think of it this way: would any space sane explorer shield primitive life forms that he met a couple of minutes ago with his own body? Especially when they could just run away, which they did? It's the equivalent of us jumping in front of a car to save a stray dog that we played fetch a stick the other day.
I decided to take the only logical path while playing: I befriended the humans and had fun on Earth while they were friendly. When these strange creatures started shooting, I run to the spaceship. Fortunately it wasn't broken beyond repair, and observing these strange creatures who tried to lured me lamenting was quite fun. Sad that only idiots get the badge :/
After literally 10 hours of jumping around with ninja like abilities... I finally brought the danged grinning colossus down! It feels sooooo epic... Compared to this getting the impossible badge on MoneySeize is an achievement for new born left handed lemurs.
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