Tip: Make sure to switch Autodrive Off and make both front and rear wheels large to make the game much easier. Anyway, great game. Got the Hard badge in a little over an hour. Just follow what UploaderX said, and it should work great. 5/5 Stars
@Desu3927: The locusts can be found by repeatedly going inside and outside. There are 5 locusts in each of the outside areas where you first enter the human world, but only up to 3 will be on the screen at any time. So you need to kill 3, enter a building and go back outside, and then kill 2 more. Do that for each of the 3 areas, and you will have all 15.
It takes 2,655 Credits to max out any of the 3 upgrades, or 7,965 to max all 3, in case people were wondering. Also, each upgrade when maxed out increases the original by 50%, i.e. the ammo upgrades gives you +15 Ammo instead of +10, the paddle itself becomes 50% larger, etc. Great game overall, 5/5 Stars. My suggestion for future games would being able to download a song into the game, and for the new balls and upgrades to come out based on the notes and tempo. Rate up if this was helpful. : )
Great game, for a guid to beat it, go to http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P77p2f1YCdA. I also first agreed with others that it needs a checkpoint/save feature, but then I realized that WOULD ruin the Point system since people would just restart the game if they didn't get the minigames right. So, I give it 5/5 Stars.
Confirmed that the last rifle is bugged. I used the first rifle for Missions 1-6, and the fourth rifle for Missions 7-9, and I was able to beat the game. One other bug I noticed was that if you press the "Home" key, it does take you back to the Main Menu, but you lose all your progress, which the game didn't mention, AND the Highscore countdown starts off where you stopped. So instead of starting off again at 5,000, it will start off at 2,745 if that is what the timer said when go back to the Main Menu. Because of the bugs, only 3/5 Stars.
Yep rabbit man, I also noticed Granny's cyborg arm also switched from being her left arm to being her right arm. Besides that, it was an ok game, so 3/5 stars.
@JonathanB9: I found out you can only re-negotiate every OTHER level after your first two re-negotiations. It is something that needs to be fixed, and I've reported it as a bug. Anyway, didn't like the game, it takes way to much money to buy regular items, and the energy drinks prices get way to high, so only 2/5 stats. I'm currently have a Star Level of 8, and I get 12 Star Money per game plus 3 more per goal plus another 4 Star Money from Sponsors per game. I don't see how I'm going to afford the Private Island before I reach Level 15, let alone get the in-game achievement of buying ALL of the Lifestyle items.
I have to agree with the top two comments. Needs a Level Select/Save feature, and levels not in order of difficulty. But, I still really liked the game, so 4/5 Stars. Completed the game in 468.12 seconds when I finally won(had to restart 3 times because I kept accidentally clicked Main Menu.)
After you reach a platform above some spikes with exclamation marks over them, there will be a backward "S" curve, with some arrows that form some loops. You need to jump into the wall, and then hold Down and roll through this section, just like Sonic the Hedgehog. This will give you enough speed to get across the large gap. After you jump on top of the see-saw, make it so the right side goes up as high as it can and then jump right. There will be some horizontally dashed lines pointing down. Just like for reaching the Challenge, hold down, and when you hit the ground you will go fancifully fast right. Jump almost immediately after hitting the ground, and you will make the jump over to some walls, where you wall jump up to the 3rd Star. All in all, a great game, but I kept running into a bug where the camera wouldn't follow my character around, so instead of 5/5 Stars I'm only giving it 4/5 Stars due to the bug.
For Misplaced Cave, to get to the Challenge you need to get enough speed. To get said speed, go left and go up the wall NEAR where you begin the level. Once you have wall jumped to the top, hop onto the floating platform. Then jump up, and then fall just to the right of the platform WHILE HOLDING DOWN. When you hit the ground you will go into a very fast slide. Let go of down, hold right, and the ramp before the Challenge will launch you to the door. If you aren't going fancifully fast, you won't make it. : ) To get the 3rd Star in Misplaced Cave, go back to the floating platform, jump right onto the spring, and go up. At the end of the path is a door. Inside, is the hardest stage in the game. Continuing in next comment due to character limit.
A very helpful thing I haven't seen other people mention is that it would be REALLY helpful if the primary and secondary gun info mentioning how OFTEN a shot gets fired, not just how powerful it is. Change that and follow the other suggestions mentioned, and this game/next game would get 5/5 Stars. Right now, I give it 4/5 Stars. Oh, and my strategy for the final levels was this 2X5 Spread+Area Burst Cannon. For the final level, Exploding Pierce Cannon+Area Burst Cannon+Seekers is a great combo.
I noticed the enemies were wearing the same max weapon and armor you do in the lat level. Guess it's true that weapon dealers make a nice amount of money in wars. : ) To defeat the final boss, do as Briare said in the Best Comments page, which is to attack from above or below with a combo, and you can defeat him. Imo, game is too grindy, and the ability to not be able to tell if your attacks will hit if the enemies are real close or above or below you is bad, but the game has a good concept (and game and badges have nice references to The Lord of the Rings), so 3/5 Stars.
It was a pretty good game, 4/5 Stars. It got pretty annoying near the end, though I only had to use a walkthrough for Lv. 2, to realize that there was a hat that had a jagged bottom that covered most of the balls. Before I realized that, I though I needed to turn the ball 180 degrees and put the small jagged hat on it. For a walkthrough: http://ahkong.net/factory-balls-christmas-edition-walkthrough/.
@nerad137: What freeze glitch? I didn't notice any glitches in the game at all. Oh, and 5/5 Stars from me. To win, I first focused on the skills in the following order: Quick Learner, Fast Reload, Regeneration, Businessman, Accuracy, Medicine, Car Durability, and then finally Repair. For guns, I bought the Revolver, Uzi, MK-16, Spitfire, and then Minigun, followed by buying all the other guns for the in-game achievement. Rate up if this is helpful!
Several suggestions for improvements: 1st, make it so that there is not a block right above where you change area. I've tried to change areas while aiming for Pacifist, couldn't change rooms, then enemies saw me, and only then do I notice that I was not on the ground level, but instead on a block just above it. 2nd, make it so that you can do short hops by tapping Up instead of always doing maximum height, so that you can move up a tiny bit without jumping so high up that enemies above where you are aiming see you. 3rd, change the buttons for activating the portals and AI Core to something besides Down, because if what you really want to do is drop down a level, instead you activate the devices. Perhaps change to "Z" or "C". 4th and last, change the swap weapons key from "W" to something you can easily reach, again perhaps "Z" or "C". Despite these things, great game, 5/5 stars from me!
@Toggler: To get the bad ending, press "R" on the last level to eat the suicide pill. That is the bad ending. @eProdigy: If each letter only appears once, then any of the 4 letters can be first, then that leaves 3 letters which can be second, leaving only 2 letters that can be in the third position, which leaves the remaining letter in last. So you have 4*3*2*1=24 different ways the letters can be arranged. If they can be repeated, then you have 4^4=4*4*4*4*4=256 different combinations.
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