Well, I've played this a fair bit. Monsters den book of dread was joint first place with sonny 2 as my Favourite game on Kong... those two games can go do one, this is by far the best flash game I have ever played. I haven't even played mission IV and V yet but I have high hopes. Although, what happened to the legendary monster battles? I loved them plus the items they dropped.
Plus All the points in the known universe for making a Touhou reference. In fact this is now my second faved series of games (Under Touhou)
That reference made my week.
Good strong solid game, it was a little overwhelming at first (As this is the first game of it's kind that I have played) but after a while I fell into a routine and because gold is a privilege rather than a necessity on this game it makes it fun for everyone regardless on whether they have money to splash out on it. 4.5/5 which I will make a 5 as some people rate this game a little to harshly.
Hard mode is only difficult due to the fact that your meter goes down fast and dosen't seem to rebuild. So it punishes you for making mistakes but does not reward you for doing well.
I shit you not, I can't stand the slow motion asspect of the game. Makes the music shit and breaks pace. So I've litteraly completed the game without using slowmo (FOr the most part) and am now going for the hard badge.
I'm a huge danmaku fan, I would give this a 3.7/5
The music was amazing.
But the game play it self got bland after a while. Perhaps you could have experimented with different bullet colours and patterns. The whole level up thing was a nice idea, and getting lives back on previous levels was interesting. I think this has been mentioned but you might want to take a look at the laser levels, as it could be difficult to dodge even with slow motion if you can't even tell which ones are active and which ones are just clusternuggets together.
All in all this was a nice game that was a refreshing break from all of the lunatic touhou I play.
P.s. you need a gallery for all the music, say you unlock the levels song after beating said level, so you can listen to them at will.
Gotta love how every single enemy gets 2 attacks in for every one of mine. Not very fun when it's those dogs that hit hard and die fast, but not fast enough if theyre hitting me twice.
Just about 4/5, actually 3.8/5
It has some issues that need to be seen to before I will rate it higher. Because you have already stated that this is an experiment, I won't rate it untill I see what happens in a future update.
That was very nice, short and sweet it didn't wear out its welcome and it's length meant that it wasn't around so long that it would become repetative. Died about 15times against that bloody square eye in the lava cave, but It felt so damn good when I got past it :3
It's nice to see that Kong never misses a chance for milking some more money... But I can't stay mad at the best games site on the web. Although It really does piss me of at times...
@bluppo9 :P Thank god the creators didn't replicate "And then will there be none?" because that spell always screwed me over in the flandres encounter. Allthough nothings more annoying than "Scarlet meister" I swear to god that attacks undodgable.
But yh, this sets the standerd for flash bullet hells. I vote they use U.N Owen was her? for the sequals final boss encounter :3
(Sorry for all the touhou 6 references, as you could guess, I love that game)
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