Love the fact that even though your finger is in pain from holding down on the mouse button, and you just want to adjust your grip for a second, you can't because there's no pause. Also love the fact that the enemies can just drift up and off the screen, which detracts from the total amount of money you can earn.
It's bullshit that you can make it all the way through the first stage of level 3 and still not have enough money to buy any new upgrades. This game would be so awesome if the people who wrote it had taken a minute to play it.
I like games where "easy" is easy. Would be nice if it were long enough to allow for full upgrades and use of elements. I hardly started using the elements and suddenly it was over.
I'm always $20 short for a huge upgrade that would make the next level beatable. You should be able to A) sell equipment you don't need, or B) buy in the middle of battle, when you have enough. Even better would be health power ups. Even better than that would be more than one life or at least a checkpoint at the end of each level. Best of all would be for the developers to get their heads out of their collective asses and at least acknowledge the irritation that everyone is venting here. But hey, we keep playing and they keep getting their share of the ad revenue, so why should they care?
Level 18...Couldn't place turret or base defenders. The turret "ghost" stayed attached to my mouse cursor and I couldn't get rid of it. Finally, when the enemy was swarming my base the turret suddenly placed itself on one of the slots, just before my base was destroyed. Again... I got more than twice the experience from losing that I get from winning.
Level 16...The enemy had a complete advantage. Seven or eight attack choppers in the sky. Anything I launched against the enemy was destroyed immediate. My fighters were shot down the minute they came on the screen. My infantry were wiped out as they rode their authentic WWII-era jet skis toward the beach. And yet each time that an enemy destroyed one of my infantry, their own troop count went down. That should have been an unwinnable situation, but all I had to do was send my cheapest infantry against the enemy and I would win by numbers.
Nah...screw it. Game isn't worth playing when there's no save and you have to start over from scratch every time you die. Sorry NutmustarddrinkerScratchStation. You lose.
Let's face it. You need every $ you can get. So why are the enemies allowed to wander off the screen where you can't hit them? That needs to be dealt with.
Hate the mouse control. Needs standard controls (WASD, Arrows). Otherwise I'd keep playing if my thumb wasn't killing me from being jammed down on the laptop's mouse button (since there's not auto-fire).
Seriously...I just played a full 10 round and I have no idea what determines the way the second placement works. Where the F*CK is are the instructions for this game?
Needs a reset button, or some other way to restart. There are levels where you just know you are going to lose, but you have to sit there and wait to be destroyed.
@Ashenkhar: You have to upgrade your Mana first. 300 Mana is hardly enough to upgrade anything. Just to the left of the Mana display is a button with double up arrowheads. When your Mana bar is half full, it turns purple and you click on it to increase your max Mana (and increase your Mana generation rate). -- Just one of those things that is glossed over in favor of a massive back story that few people are going to bother reading.
OK, here's the flaw with this game. It's verrrry slow paced. And yet you have to sit there holding down the A (and S) key for the majority of the time. But most of the time there isn't much going on, so you want to do other things, like open a bottle of juice or fill out a form or something while you are waiting for something to happen, but you can't because you have to keep your damn fingers pressed down on the keys. I liked the old version, where you could use the mouse-click-lock trick and actually get something done while you waited for the action to ramp up.
Also, I didn't bother reading ANY of the story. If I want to read a novel I'll pick one up at the library.
Otherwise, it's entertaining enough to keep me playing, so there you go.