funstorm's messages

Just played Treasure Sweeper a bit, and I thought I might as well drop by my thoughts about the game.

First of all, I think it’s a very interesting take on the minesweeper genre and I would’ve loved to see more maps (maybe a 2? :P).

However, a few things ruined it for me.

1. Achieving 5 stars on hardest is near impossible (if not blatantly impossible). Right now, I hold #2 All Time highscore, with 4 stars.

2. A bit linked with 1… Game are too random. The items underground are of random size from what I could see, meaning that there isn’t a clear maximal score for each game.

3. Directly linked with 2… All boosts/items aren’t worth the same. For objects, 2>4>1. 4-squares takes twice 2’s time and give the same score, 2 square takes twice 1’s time, but for 10 times the score (and the 2nd bit is easy to find). As for boosts, well life>x2>time. I never stopped to check how much time the boost gave, but it certainly was less than 100s, thus less than life’s points. As for score, well you simply have to use it to finish digging a 2/4-squares and you will get that 100 extra points.

4. x2 is unreliable. The time is so short that you can end up losing it before you dug out something (even if they were undies).

5. you shouldn’t be able to dig on a revealed square, there’s no point to it, and doing so makes you lose a huge amount of time.

6. Space should toggle digging, not trigger.

7. Options such as remove “click on player to dig” would be neat.

All in all, for me it’s a ~3.5/5, but if most of those would be fixed, it’s an easy 5. So I’ll just rate 5 hoping they get fixed in this edition or a sequel.

Take care.