Any platformer who's pinnacle goal (1000m) brings me soooo close to rage-quitting, BUT is enjoyable and addictive enough to make me work through the frustration until I get there is a 5/5 game in my book!
A few tips if anyone is raging at the HARD badge like I was..... (1) Keep a finger on the down key. ALWAYS. (2) Chop off your feet, ASAP. (3) If convenient, lose one or both hands. It's tougher to lose them without dying, but worth the mobility benefit, IMO (4) Keep your vision focused on the top of the screen to see where the next open space is, and use the edge of your vision to dodge the spikes you've already seen on the bottom (5) You rage, you lose. When I FINALLY got the badge, I was trying to take deep, even breaths, and go all-Zen-master-tunnel-vision on the game........ I hope this helps somebody!!!
Holy mother of GOD I'm sweating bullets. THIS IS ONE OF THE BEST GAMES ON KONGREGATE. I see there are some cheater high scores, but let me assure you my 2.2 BILLION high score is completely legit (second to only one other legit score). I took mid run screenshots to prove it (after I got to 100 million, I figured I'd better). By the end I got about 500 MILLION just for hitting a bog fly as Superman (Superman kills are second only to not getting injured by creatures for high scores). I don't think any game since the original Megaman series on the NES almost two decades ago has gotten my blood pumping this much. 6/5
I have the strangest desire to go push a corpse glued to a snowboard down a snow covered mountain now. This game leads me to believe it would be MUCH more entertaining than actually snowboarding myself.
I love this game. I just spent all day maxing the skill tree. Therein lies my only complaint. The skill tree does not allow you to max every skill!!! I am Lv.42, I just started the New Game+, and I have 14 credits I can never spend, because the tree doesn't reset with the New Game+...even so, I might play through again anyway if there was ANY discernible difference, but map/enemies/quests are all exactly the same. My neuroticism is slightly bothered by the inability to max everything, but regardless, AWESOME GAME. 5/5 NO QUESTION. I just hope there's a slightly bigger skill tree in the sequel!
I found the "not moving" strategy to be lacking. It's okay up to level 5, but once the "Fumes" start coming, just grab up all the pixels you can and max out the Fire Rate and Spread quickly. After THAT, max out the Critical and Piercing (sometimes spending a spare point to level others up to level 2, but no further, for now). While doing this grab ALL upgrades possible. Go for Shields first if you are currently without one (blue), Fire Rate second (green), and Spread third (orange). If you're doing it right, you shouldn't even need the health (red). I had over 2000x Combos going by lv15 almost every time. This strategy got me over 17 Million points and all achievements after only about an hour, so give it a shot if you're having a hard time, and rate this up if it helps!
I also approve of this newfangled "Badge of the Day". Especially if this....this....EXPERIENCE of a game is the quality of awesomeness we can expect to be headlining the feature.
To be honest, I really appreciate it after Kongregate devalued the "Challenges" with that "de Blob" garbage.
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In the middle of the boss battle right now, but just had to take a moment to give a tip of my hat for the FMA:B reference in one of his move's animations.
Pride or no Pride, I am about to get that 30 Point Badge....SCREW YOU SELIM!
Wow, tough 30pt badge! Finally beat the boss in just under 180 mins with 28 deaths....I was just wondering, has ANYONE ever gotten the 5 Star in game achievement for 15 levels with no damage??? Thank GOD Kongregate lowered it to 14 for the badge...
Please rate this comment up, so people stop saying this was "stolen" from the iPhone's "Mr. Space"! Just like half the games on this website that contain DNA from classic platformers are "stolen"?
I have played both. This is an entirely different control scheme, and I like the bare bones graphics better. Not even the stick figure sprite's poses are the same! Some people can't just enjoy something without finding fault...
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