Huge luck factor here. Some keys to a nice score: get the star-trek looking gun thingy early, and rack up kills. Avoid regular bubbles at the start (Easier to manuever when small). Bullet time = good. Speed = bad. Invincible = good (duh). Bouncy = bad for manuevering. When you have a decent score built up from the gun, try to get as fat as possible and hold out as long as possible. Unfortunately, there is a HUGE luck factor involved, which makes the hard badge an exercise in frustration.
Downrated to 1 - certain bugs make this unplayable at times. With a near full inventory, one must be careful of completing certain quests, or the total weight of the rewards makes movement impossible. I ended up having to craft items to attempt to lower weight, but on the second item, the game "stuck" at showing me the crafted item. (Total weight must have still been more than I could carry)
Clunky and slow. Too prone to lag. I'm guessing the lag comes from this being served off-site (not on Kongregate) - probably on someone's cheapo laptop and dial-up connection? ANYHOO - 1/5 from me.
Controls seem a little "uncoordinated" - IE click and there's a slight delay, or jump and theres a delay. This makes it very hard to control, and tight control is important in a platform game like this. Combine this with the red sea of death "timer", and it adds up to massive frustration when the correct time window is so small for certain actions.
Anyone else bugged? I finished this months ago, but none of my badges show, and badge-of-the-day doesnt award. All levels still show complete; all upgrades still show maxed. Tried replaying levels - still no badges. DOWNRATED to 1/5.
back with badges - figures, given the past legacy of other GC games. Unfortunately this one sucks because of it's pay-for-advantage feature. rated 1/5 because I don't come to Kongregate to spend actual money... I come to save it with free games.
Pay4Advantages on Kongregate? No thanks - I come here for the free games; in this economy I can use every extra buck I can save. Free internet games go a lonnnnnng way in my entertainment budget. Especially annoying is the fact that the other GC games are so similar, I don't know why I would bother playing another flavor of "Grinding". Bring on puzzle-maps instead, where we need to figure out gem combos that work only on that map.
I enjoyed this one. My only complaint was the UV bottles and lemon slices - at first you cant pick them up, until you figure out WHY you would pick them up. And then, the graphics are a bit small. Other than those minor nit pickings, I though the graphics and music were very nicely done. The plot is a little predicatble, but I still enjoyed it. I did wonder why someone would make a password entry routine with "guess a letter" to protect a database though :)
Sorry, I just wont play this one as it stands. maybe if it was about setting up traffic lights, with timers, loop detectors, etc it might be ok, but the hand-of-god stopping traffic? I just cannot wrap my brain around it.
Has potential to be something good. I didn't like the fixed scaling - when I tried to Zoom my browser, the game stayed fixed size. When I tried to right-click & zoom in (flash) it didnt work either. (Letters were very small on my screen, due to the desktop setting I use to play other games) Secondly, I did like the rotating letters, but I wish that Easy mode had the option to rotate right/left 45 degrees at a time. (controlled by player, not timer, in Easy mode)
Decent game, I like the slowly growing size - thats different. The music is pleasent enough for a while. But it feels like something is missing - a goal of some type. (Otherwise, why not just play the Windows version of Minesweeper?)
Lag has many different causes - internet latency in multiplayer games; defragmenter running in background; overpowered AV program; downloading in background. In this particular game, I strongly suspect some kind of memory leak, since the lag (for me at least) generally gets worse as time goes on. Restarting the browser does eliminate lag, but that doesn’t excuse poor programming. Memory leaks in Flash games are mostly caused by improper disposal of objects. Telling people "Restart your browser" is like telling them that "shut off the car engine off for a while" is the fix for an overheated engine - Ignore the dry radiator and oil that has never been changed. I don't care for driving a car that has to sit by the roadside and cool off every 30 minutes. I would rather drive a beat up Toyota with a good engine than a shiny new Ferrari with a bad radiator. Calling people "Stupid f**ks" just encourages programmers to continue being lazy, instead of finding their mistakes.
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