I don't always spend two hours earning a hard badge, but when I do, it's because the game is freaking amazing. Awesome job, developer. Level 59 was JUST hard enough so that I kept wanting to try again and again because I thought "THIS time will be the one!". Finally on death 676 it WAS the one. The awesome music helped it not get tiresome as well.
Every time I finish a level, it's like seeing the results of a freaking Rorschach ink blot test. Awesome game, but kind of scary to see where one's mind goes when thinking of (nearly) random words.
"And so it was that the common folk, armed with naught but pointed sticks and marching in single file, took on the greatest of armies and conquered the world."
Very fun game. I enjoyed reloading a dozen times and watching the loading screen freeze at different percentages without ever fully loading (even though my Chrome and Flash are fully updated). I also enjoyed briefly scrolling through the comments, and looking at down-voted comments to see the rational people who don't enjoy paying real money to play a shitty game. If it was possible, I'd put this at about a -5/5.
Easy mode is funny and enjoyable. Insane mode makes me want to murder the dev who programmed the hitbox. It is "insanely" inaccurate, and makes the game a total luckfest, because skill cannot save you from piss-poor hitbox programming.
This is probably my favorite puzzle game that I've ever played on this site. The graphics are nice, the nature sounds don't grate on you (like the looped music in some other puzzle games), and the puzzles are pretty damn difficult. I also like that the game doesn't punish you with gold/silver/bronze crap for using too many moves or taking too long. That really helps give the game a different, more relaxed feel than most others. I just finished the Beginner levels, and I'm really looking forward to slowly (VERY slowly) chipping away at the Adventurer set!!! 5/5
A bit too luck based for my taste. Terribly addictive though, and at least 50% based on reflex skill, so it's not as bad as some luck games out there. My BIGGEST problem though is the laser cheats, and keeps up with you in the beginning, no matter how fast you go the first 200m. Still, viciously addictive. Kept me hooked for a good hour before I had to rage/need-to-sleep quit. 3/5
Marginally better than the first one. It still could stand to be a lot less grindy though...and some good music and background changes might make the grind a little more tolerable. 3/5
A few criticisms levied here are valid, but not all. I've never found a problem with the hitbox, and I've had some close calls in 'Back to Basics', that did not result in death. Maybe some PCs lag, so it seems like the hitbox is off? As to the POSSIBILITY of surviving some of Crowd Control and Greed's manufactured scenarios (ESPECIALLY Greed), I'm not convinced, and any game that leaves a portion of success to dumb luck deserves to be docked a few points. Still, the games Horse, Friendly Fire, Back to Basics, Hammer Time, and Love Love Revolution are fair, and always beatable, despite complaints. The most ridiculous complaint I've seen repeated several times in these comments is that 'Love Love Revolution' is not "in sync" with the music. It's two damned buttons, people. Why do you NEED the beat to be in sync? Watch the screen, maybe? I suck at Guitar Hero, and even I have mastered this dumbed down version. 3/5 simply because two of the mini-games seem partially based on dumb luck.
There are so many bugs and flaws in this game with such great potential, it's a crime to game development they have gone ignored since 2009. It seems to me many of the flaws would be relatively simple fixes too...
1/5 because the developer clearly doesn't give a shit about their game, so neither do I.
Cool, quick, fun game, but it would have been WAY funnier at the end if Kongregate didn't put a damned spoiler in the medium badge name. I was expecting something along those lines the whole time, which took me completely out of whatever (already thin) emotional premise the game might've had. 5/5 because I don't want to punish the developer for Kongregate's badge naming stupidity. 0/5 for Kongregate badge names lately...
Awesome concept. Sure the AI can make a strategical mistake at times, but that's what makes it more fun for me. If you made a "Deep Blue" level impenetrable AI, it just wouldn't be any fun at all to anyone other than a handful of chess-master type strategical geniuses. I like it the way it is, personally.
I definitely would love to see a multiplayer, since a concept like this really shines when we can play against friends, and the only bias that can ever be claimed is one person outwitted the other, rather than claims of 'the AI cheated' or 'the AI is too dumb'.
Great game, really addictive, intuitive controls, but "RELAXING"??? Maybe if you take sedatives 15 minutes before you play, and fall asleep on your keyboard listening to the music before actually starting the game...I'd deduct points for false advertising, but I just enjoy my blinding hatred of those bombs too much! 5/5.
Arg. I went the almost whole way through Insane without dying, then died right before the dragon, clicked respawn, and the dude's just sanding there with all the weapon grpaphics cycling through his hands, and no response to input. Tried pausing, clicking dragging...nothing. I enjoyed my play through Normal, but judging from some of the comments, Insane can be pretty buggy for some reason. 3/5 due to glitchy frustration.
Roger Ebert disapproves of you proving him wrong with this work of art. For giving that bitter old man a kick in the metaphorical teeth, 5/5. Awesome game!
I was so willing to give this game a chance even though on low graphics it runs like a handicapped turtle on my (older, but not completely garbage) computer. I went the way of the mage, and it was fun enough. I didn't even feel too inconvenieced like some people do by the weight system. Then I killed the third boss, and the gate never opened. Nymph's Forge inaccessable. I tried to find some other way to move along, but then, while trying to switch pets, somehow I got five copies of the same pet. Four stay stuck at my entry point to an area. This causes my game to literally move at about 1 frame/sec. Reloading the game doesn't fix it, and after wasting five hours, I'm not about to try again. I hate giving bad reviews, but this is buggy, RAM devouring garbage. 1/5
If Kongregate ever makes a badge for this game, I will rage with the force of 10,000 suns that I'll have to do this all over again...I believe that the stress that Level 28 put me through measurably shortened my life expectancy. AWESOME GAME THOUGH!!! 5/5
Such convoluted reasoning! The hint timer is the only thing I REALLY disliked about the game, since the game is just nearly impossible without the hints, and waiting is absolutely pointless. Still, the quotes were funny, and I chuckled at quite a few of the combinations. It kept me entertained a while even after I got the badge, and the Penny Arcade comic link in the badge's description (the period) earned the final bonus point for a 5/5 rating from me!
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