This game is so unforgiving! Lose one battle - lose the game. And the battles get very hard quickly, you have very short time and scarce rescources to strenghen your party enough. Training barely improves them, leveling up costs crystals wich are scarce. And you need to be very lucky to find a good recruit even in the city, and if you don't find one you blew a lot of money and time for nothing and also will lose the next battles becouse your party will be weak. And if you lost you'd better quit right awy becouse the game saves your screwed situation and your whole progress is essentially lost.
At the begining the game is fun but soon it becomes very, VERY repetitive. You are literally doing the same few tasks over and over again. Shoot asteroids, assign people on the same mission 3 times per planet, assign medical crew for the returning people, reassign everyone on mining and research, do the same 5 researches over and over again, repeat all this a few hundred times.
I encoutered several bugs in this game that needed restarting the level (like falling into the ground, or having hollow ground where a platform should be, or running into an invisible wall that shouldn't be there).
Also, unlike the previous games it's way too easy here to screw up a level. You die too easily, just a few hits and done. Okay, you don't get a big penality for dieing but it's still frustrating.
@towermon: You're right. But at least they put some effort (if not creative) into it. Maybe improving graphics, more guns, more levels, whatever.
But here? It's literally the same game, just a redress, just another skin.
So it was more than 2 years since I was last active here. Then there was alredy an unbelivable amount of papa's jerkofferia games. I come back and what I see? Another of these atrociously unoriginal and boring games just got badges! How many more times can they pump out the same damn game before everyone gets bored of them?!
It seems that as time passes more and more obsticles come and it also seems that not all of tham can be avouided with upgrades or if yes than some of such upgrades are too expensive. Now I can't spare enough money to buy those expensive ones becouse I keep getting caught right at the beginning of every lunch.
Not all these things should stop you some should only slow you and those stoppers shouldn't come before a certain distance - wich gets farer and farer each day!
This automatic weapon selection is quite an innovation and it really comes in handy here as so many and so quick weapon changes are needed. And the automatics works well, I rarely had any problem with it - altrough I don't really like to use the sniper rifle for medium range becouse it narrowes down my vision a lot. But fortunately there is a "semi auto" mode that Gigathorn missed, one can change manually anytime. So, I'm totally pleased with this game, it looks good, the difficoulty is well balanced, it has fine controls (altrough the mouse-control of the camera can be annoying sometimes, but not too much) and it's original. What more could I expect from a game? 5/5
It would be so much better if the faster units could take over the slower ones! The way it is now makes the support units almost completely useless. Especially the ranged units: they are expensive (except the skirmisher) but weak and attack much slower then the melee units. If two ranged unit faces eachother that will effectively freeze that lane for a long time. The other support units rarely worth their price too becouse they are too expensive to support only that 2-3 units you can send before them and also they slow down your cavalery.
Now I remember why I didn't like this game back then: becouse the whole gameplay is just pressing the spacebar and mumbling "Came'on, sendt the damn troop alredy!!!". And somehow the enemy can always train much faster!
The battle in wich the spearmen are introduced seems to be impossible to win with a gold medal. Not becouse of the difficouldty - the game is rather easy - but becouse whatever I do an npc spearmen unit will be killed. Thoes npc-s are not so well equipped as my men.
By the way I found the game too easy: after upgradeing their equipment enough my units became so hardy that I only lost 3-5 men in the last battles - wich I think supposed to be the hardest ones. Actually the first battles were somewhat harder, as I had less powerful troops then.
Assasin-like units are a real bother when the enemy have them, time and time again killing your most expensive units, but they are kind of worthless when I try to use them in the same manner: their poison hits so rarely and they fall so easily compared to their price. Whenever I tried to use them they just drained my always too few money!
Btw berserkers are so unfair - especially the stronger ones - as there is no porper unit to counter them!
At the room "Do You Have Remorse?" it was harder to find the way to enter the solution than finding the solution itself. You shouldn't have made that keyboard so dark that it blends in the black screen background!
At the end does it make any difference what numbers do I enter in the box?
I think the badge for beating the game should be a 'hard' bagde. You know, an endurance badge (the kind that you get for something not too hard but time consuming). Becouse it takes so much grinding to upgrade your ship into a swimming fortress that's powerful enough to take out the boss! I got the last artefact piece around day 15. Now I'm at day 38 and still need some 20K to buy everrything - as it seems without a fully upgraded ship you don't have much chance!
The unlockable characters are useless. The best configuration for me was Witch, Knight and 2 Ninjas. A useful unlockable character would be one that can shoot backwards, becouse lots of enemies come from behind.
Damn! I died in survival with 29567 points! By the way that wawe 18 is totally unfair! Sending in 6(!) alien sub bosses (thos purple guys riding a green big guy) right at the beginning while the regular walls of aliens constantly keep coming (and faster than ever before!) and it's hard enough to take those out alone, not to mention that becouse of them you can't even get in line with the bosses to shoot them nor dodge their shots! Even the survival levels should be at least theoretically possible, but this one is totally imopssible. Why do you have 50 waves when you kill the heroes on the 18th?
The innovative engine alone deserves a 5/5. But this game also have great quality and fine gameplay, and I also like the story and the way of storytelling. I especially like that you can adjust the volume, wich is a quite rare option in flash games. My only problem is that the army placement area is too small, your whole army hardly fits in. Also there is not much strategy involved in the battles: you just order your melee units into fight and the ranged units behind them, and if one takes too big losses you withdraw them. More stressed strengths and weaknesses would be nice. And I'd like to see some description of the various enemy units.
I always hated those games where you play as a poor victim who can't fight for himself - I mean those in wich you can't hurt the enemies, you must try and avoid them (but they will try to get you). It's even worse when you expect something completely different! Like here.
The description of this game is misleading. Of course it doesn't actually lie but when you read it you expect an arcade game where you shoot zombies and use crazy powerups. What you get is a game in wich you open crates in a room tightly filled with zombies - whom you cannot hurt! And every once in a very long while a special crate appears in the most tightly crowded place, it's very hard to open, but if you can open it you get a very VERY short payback time. (I mean opening the damn crate takes more time than the time you get for payback!) Also you can do boring tasks to get more kind of crates.
This game is not crazy, it's stupid.
The perfect times are actually not that insane if you get the hang of the rushing strategy. Here are some advices: 1.) Don't waste your time with rebuilding the captured strongholds unless it's absolutely necessery! 2.) Build lots of farms, get money from chests rather than mines! 3.) Capture enemy magic towers quickly so they won't be able to use their ultimate powers! 4.) Cavalry and trebuchets are useful, so use them if you can! 5) When fighting against Icedales, use vanguards (send the first unit a little further than the rest so they can freeze only that one unit)! 6.) Don't waste money on upgradeing buildings - unless you really have lots of money to waste and you are going to build many units in that building - becouse it usually not worth it: it gives little bonuse and for the price you can buy 2-3 units!
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