Sorry to say, but I came only for the badge, and will quit this sorry attempt at milking money as soon as I have it, never to return. A game should be fun; give me at least something to put a little strategy/decision-making into. Not this, not an endless, mindless grind. A little patience is fine to ask for, especially in an idle game, but over a WEEK of real time spent to unlock ONE more feature (and a pretty basic one at that)? No thanks.
And before you ask, yes, I am aware of all the "amazing" features you guys have, like daily reward or social network codes. I have done all I could to let this torment end faster. And I know about Events, I am just not planning to stick around to level 5. If not for the badge, I would have left at level 1.
The most fun I have playing this game is reading the comment section.
Pay to win / microtransactions - Check
Seriously inflated rating - Check
A cheap knock-off of similar games - Check
Endless grind - Check
Boring as hell - Check
Badged anyway - Check (seriously, Kongregate, what happened to you?)
The not-sure-if-sarcastic comments from the developer about:
- how you should play their game some more, give it time, blah blah - Check
- how "awesome" the content you haven't yet unlocked is, that there is a real depth to the game - Check (sorry, but I doubt that statement very much, based on what I have seen so far, and based on comments by people with higher city levels than mine)
- all the "amazing" features you should try or don't know about - Check ('did you know there is a Save feature? So new and radical! You can actually SAVE your progress now, instead of starting from scrap every day! Five stars, please?')
- how they pay attention to their community - Check (especially their wallets)
Just a thought – wouldn't it be better if it were possible to change adventurer's equip even while they're recovering? Otherwise if the Idle task is set to Dungeons, it's near damn impossible to change or upgrade their gear without getting a downtime (essentially idling them by switching to training).
When you think about it, it is not the adventurer who crafts his own gear anyhow, so it shouldn't make much difference whether he is in the infirmary or the training yard (or whatever the appropriate places are), as long as he is within the settlement and not off exploring a dungeon or traveling to one.
That's on the todo list, right now it's not that way because there's one property on the adventurers "IsAvailable". If this is false, it prevents any actions (including changing equipment). I'm probably going to add an "IsPresent" for actions like that sometime (when I get this rework of the part panel done...I hate RectTransforms and VerticalLayoutGroups...)
a very good game; had a bit of trouble figuring the right-click at first, plus its a bit short (7 levels a bit too short), but otherwise 5/5
needs to be expanded upon... maybe a sequel?
A generic Pokemon clone with nothing new to offer as far as I can see (I'm sorry, but this had been done SO many times already; not that it could not have been made into a good game, but it's just way too overused these days). Slow load times in between fights and screens. WAY too many pop-ups begging for game rating or offering useless boosts for kreds (yes, I'm aware that developers are people too and they need money, but offering microtransactions and being annoying about it are two different things; not to mention how overpriced everthing is for a game such as this). I'm sorry, but in my book a game with an idea or a good story is much more better than a recycled CCG cashcow with no plot whatsoever. Why does Kong keep putting badges to games such as this? 1/5
Hi Ian_Elf,
We are very sorry about you not liking the game. I'm also sorry you don't like the game mechanisms, we are a very small team and it's actually one of our (not so many) ways of surviving. We are always working to improve the game so, please feel free to join our official forums here http://frozenshard.com/games/monsterstcg/forums/ and help us improve it, we'd love to hear your thoughts!
Regards
One of the few games out there that seems to understand what a great game needs: A story. Add to that its amazing art and it's an automatic 5 rating. Another thing to compliment is the option to display hints as where to click in different zones. All in all I have to say – well done, I really enjoyed this game.
Oh, I didn't realize this was a czech game, that explains a lot, sorry I didn't think to check first. But some of the texts still sound kind of weird, but that might just be me. How is it set language-wise, then? Czech for czechs and english for everyone else? Anyway, the game itself is very nice, very well designed gameplay mechanics and art, an example of a good CCG.
Would it be possible to include an option to change default language to english (if it is there, I can't find it)? While I appreciate the effort to enable even players without any english language skill to play the game, the translated version looks very weird to me. I'm used to playing games in english, not google-translated into czech (well, to be honest, the game seems to have better translations than google, but some of the card/faction names just sound plain stupid in my language or are possibly mistranslated). I would much rather play in english than look at awkward sentences in my own language. Apart from that, the game seems nice.
Actually, Coraabia is a Czech game which has been translated from Czech to English, so the Czech version is the original one :) But I can set it to English for you if you wish.
Awesome game. One little bug tho, any secondary weapon in Soldiers menu seems to be compared against your equipped primary weapon, not against your equipped secondary, as it should be according to common sense.
The effective range of a shotgun is seriously wrong... Getting repeated headshots over an entire map (Bay5)? Even using an Assault Rifle I have problems doing that, shotgun users do it almost all the time. Shotguns are seriously overpowered at this moment.
What I don't understand - during the Intercept part, when you are supposed to prevent the player passing the ball to his teammate(s), he sometimes kicks the ball completely off the screen (as in he kicks it in such a way that makes it for his teammates - not to mention your own character - impossible to catch), yet it counts as your failure.
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That's on the todo list, right now it's not that way because there's one property on the adventurers "IsAvailable". If this is false, it prevents any actions (including changing equipment). I'm probably going to add an "IsPresent" for actions like that sometime (when I get this rework of the part panel done...I hate RectTransforms and VerticalLayoutGroups...)