Great game. I've never seen a real-time strategy game with such fluid, dynamic combat. A defeat was never frustrating, the fun was in the challenge of seeing what strategy worked.
That being said, the difficulty was rather on the low side. I beat most levels on the first try and wasn't ever really delayed by any level. Positioning is critical, but in many levels sheer mass can replace finesse.
The controls took a bit of getting used to, but actually work great once you do. The graphics, though monotonous, are perfectly sufficient for this kind of game. Combat turns the game into a colorful, sparkly fireworks display, and that's awesome.
My biggest gripes are the low difficulty and few strategic factors. There should be a lot more like the blinking bonus thingies and the death fields. But a great strategy game overall.
I'd like to say this is the worst game I ever played, but seeing as it isn't actually a game, I'll just say it's the worst flash animation I've ever seen.
I really like the concept, but that's unfortunately all there is to like.
The balance is truly awful, the first 19 levels are no challenge whatsoever, and level 20 and 25 are incredibly frustrating. Only 21-24 offer a fun level of challenge.
But the worst part: I had been playing with the mouse, and decided to try keyboard controls for level 25. Not only was it no longer possible to use the mouse after I switched, but when I went back to the main menu to see if I could somehow change that, I found that the continue function took me right back to level 1!
Horrible execution of an interesting idea.
Surprisingly gripping for such a simple game, guiding your geese between masses of very fast aircraft is really quite exciting at first.
But the novelty wears off. It takes very little time to get all the upgrades, and getting every achievement didn't take more than 25 minutes.
And there's just too little to see and do to keep me playing, a handful of different aircraft, the non-varying landscape....it just doesn't have any feature that makes it interesting to play for very long. Plus, the luck factor is fairly high....often enough there is simply no way to dodge a fast aircraft like the fighter jet that appears suddenly. 3/5
Not really a well polished game. Mages are entirely useless, even with no combat skills weapons are more useful. Plus, the combat is much too simple to be interesting in any way, just like everything else it feels more like navigating a menu than playing a game. Rest, learn, rest, work, rest, explore....it gets old. Basically it's just a very simple, very repetitive RPG.
One of the main problems is that it never really feels rewarding, everything you do only leads you closer to Game Over. Stats rarely seem to make any difference. And considering there are only 208 turns, everything seems to take forever. Yawn.
Stylish game with great music. I liked the different types of enemies, and even though you only turn shoot it kept me interested enough to play it to the end.
It would have been more interesting if there were actual ballistics implemented, having only straight-firing machine guns and straight-flying rockets that always hit the acquired target gets repetitive.
Only one mission is really a challenge (the four policemen), but aside from the difficulty a very fun sniper game. The story is definitely several notches above most flash games, although the whole "kill the target cause they're a rapist or murderer" does get a little repetitive.
All in all a good play, kept me interested till I was done with it.
There are many games, films or books that have inferior sequels, but this is one of the most disappointing.
The efficiency gauge is utterly pointless and extremely poorly thought out, it's just a new restriction in a game that's supposed to be about building awesome, ingenious machines. The solar panels render the wooden sticks completely useless, and it's ironic that a game sponsored by Toyota presents the Prius as an immobile, annoying as hell obstacle.
Everything, without exception, was better in the first part.
I like the idea of having to upgrade everything, but when you look behind the original facade this game is laughably easy. There simply isn't any point at which there is any kind of challenge, you just have to kill enemies until you can afford everything, there's no way of losing in any way. How i deserve three medium badges for blowing a couple minutes on a very simple game is beyond me. 1/5
The first GemCraft was already one of my absolute favorite flash games, but they managed to implement so many changes that it became totally new and interesting again! The traps are a great idea, the beacons are plain evil, the different game modes are challenging and fun....another hands-down 5/5.
Some bugs I encountered: the achievements are really messed up, many of them don't register, and even more register falsely. I have at least 5-10 that I definitely didn't earn. Also, costs are displayed even for skills/enchantments that are supposedly maxed. And why does the sound always turn on again after a new game of survival? The last battle took about 20 minutes due to very heavy lag after a short while.
A fun game despite its faults.
This was a pretty fun game to play, and the campaign was short enough that a save function isn't absolutely necessary. The combat is quite challenging, but the enemies seem quite unbalanced, there are huge jumps in their health. Speaking of health, refills are WAY too expensive for a ridiculous 9 health, gold drops are practically worthless, only bow drops are useful for money. The bestiary is nice but it would be nice if it had the creep's stats. Also, what's the difference between fire and ice except the price? Lastly, the compound bow is a pretty much unreachable dream, especially since you only have enough enchantment points to fully upgrade 1 bow, and a fully upgraded crossbow is a lot better than a compound bow.
Great visuals, exiting storyline, this game was a lot of fun to play. But once you get the hang of it, the story mode is way too easy, definitely not what I'd consider worth a hard badge.
As others have said, this game is WAY too difficult. The motivation to play levels over and over again to have a tiny bit better chance just isn't motivating. The huge amount of different specializations and awards and all that is probably cool, but the game is just too hard for most people to even get that far.
A lot of fun, but over much too quickly. When I played the first level, I thought, what, no tutorial? Only 5 shots?
Once I got the hang of it most castles were finished within a couple seconds. Seriously, this game is WAAAAY too easy.
The only really good thing about this game is the graphics. The fighting is unfortunately nothing more than hammering the space bar, the boss fights are particularly boring because they have so much health but require no particular tactics. I played till i had all the upgrades, but after that i had no motivation to continue.
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