Good game, 5/5 Stars. I played and beat the game on funny-games.biz several years ago, and just played it again for all the achievements after the Darned Whippersnappers Badge was brought up as one of the daily badges, and it was as enjoyable as I remembered it.
Sorry, this one music game is too complicated, at least on pro, so only 2/5 Stars. This is one hard badge I will not be getting. Now that I have the Rock Stardom Challenge Completed for my Fantasy Online character, I'm going to stop playing. I did get the Somewhat Crazy Guitar Multiplier 4 Badge and Cherish the Chievos Badge along with the Challenge by the time I got done with the 5th song on Pro.
I have to agree with others, this game requires to much effort to get the cuts precisely perfect for some of the levels, so only 3/5 Starts. Here's a walkthrough for this game: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PHF6WKd1MyU.
This game is VERY easy, got the Hard badge in the 6th round, or less than 30 minutes. Just like Dedrood said in the Best Comments section, buy Thrust up to 3X each round. Then change your firing angle from 45 degrees to as horizontal as possible for the rest of the game. After you buy 3 Thrusts, buy 3 Skies, then 3 Freakys, then 3 Powders, and then buy 2 Creativity. By the end of the 5th round, I was able to buy all the upgrades for the 6th round, and with the 7th round I had about $2000 left. In other words, THIS GAME IS PURPOSEFULLY EASY IF YOU PLAY IT RIGHT!
Good game overall, only needed a walkthrough for Levels 24 and 29, and the rest were nicely challenging, but not frustrating, so 4/5 Stars from me. For people trying to completely beat the game, and not just get the Challenge Badge for a chance at a PS3 and The Darkness II, a complete guide to the game is at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M9ubvxvT6_g for Levels 1-20 and http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rclMSvjEciw for Levels 21-30.
A previous person mentioned this in Comments: To get either badge, meet the requirement for a badge, refresh the page, and then beat any level, and it will then update. Basically, it only DEFINITELY updates after you beat any stage for the first time after you bring up the webpage or refresh it. Rate up so others can see this. : )
It's an Ok game, 3/5 Stars from me. The main problem is that you pretty much NEED to use the Walkthrough for the later levels, due to the guesswork AND luck needed to do some of the later levels. I sometimes did exactly what the Walkthrough showed and it would still take many attempts to beat the stage.
If you die while trying to get the hard badge, click on Continue on continue to come back to life with all your money, full health, and some ammo if you ran out. FYI, the last boss is mostly luck, that he won't end up running right where you are and start sapping everything with his sword. Just keep re-doing the stage until you win. Took me about 30 minutes to beat the boss, just make sure you have your Gatling Gun and Pistol fully upgraded, as you WILL run out of bullets.
Hint: It took me about 30 minutes to get the Terminal Velocity Badge of the Day. Increase the Sensitivity of your mouse by going to options. By the time I got the badge, sensitivity was at 2.6. Alos, like all reflex games, run a couple of videos in the ground, load a bunch of games before you play this one, etc. anything to slow your computer's speed down. Make sure to set video quality to Fantastic in the Options menu also! This makes these games VERY easy. A very good original game, 5/5 Stars from me.
@DeadLemmings: Thanks for the location of the "A" in Ace 1: Force Fields, that really had me stumped. And just to let people know, Ace 3: Tower of Glory actually isn't that bad. Each individual area has a slow set rhythm. Once you learn the rhythm for each area, it makes this Hard Badge one of the easiest Hard Badges I've gotten, took less than an hour. Definitely worthwhile getting, especially compared to the Hard Badge for Momentum Missile Mayhem that was the Badge of the Day yesterday... THAT was hard.
The game would be a lot better if there were clues as to what you needed to do on each planet. I had to use the guide by Darknesslord99 in the Best Comments section to complete the game, though I did find out you can go either clockwise or counter-clockwise while swing from the crystals on Gravida, you just have to keep going in one direction without touching the inner core. I still liked the game though, so 3/5 Stars.
Bubble Tanks 2 is MUCH better than this one. You have auto-fire, a mini-map, and you can choose how you upgrade your tank. I still like this one though, so 3/5 Stars. Strategy for this game: Go in a spiral from where you start, defeating easy enemies so you can upgrade your bubble tank. Your final upgrades in this game is getting 3 guns, then getting one small/fast and one large/slow gun, and then the final upgrade is a faint and then bright shields. Once you have the shields, just head in one direction as far as possible from where you started, and after about 30-50 bubbles, you will come across the boss.
Took me 53 minutes and 43 seconds to get ALL upgrades, plus an extra $1 million above what was needed for the nuke. Note: Keep graphics on low, and make sure you are NOT shooting when you shop, otherwise the game can lock up. That happened to me twice when I was nearly done before. *_*
@wpm746: You get the manual by clicking on the blue On/Off button on the bottom of the screen in the void room, then by typing in SESAME as the password, and then by typing in MANUAL as a command. @necrocreature: Type in the commands listed in the manual, and then input the numbers on the plant, table, and globe by clicking on the digits on the safe until they match, and then you open the safe leading to the room with the robot. The numbers change for each person, so you can't use the walkthrough's numbers, you HAVE to do it yourself and find the numbers for your game. Example: The walkthrough has 256, but mine was 498.
The game is way to easy compared to the the first Pixel game, so only 3/5 stars. Perhaps make the game harder while allowing more upgrades to make it more intense?
I just defeated Chapter 18 and the King of Hell using Mankind. Do do it, just go about the battle the same as Chapters 16 and 17, except try to make it so that all your units will be wiped out soon after the enemy castle is destroyed. Let the bunch of small enemies come near you, using your Arrows to keep them just far enough away from your castle so it doesn't get damaged. Then, create Archangels, and only fire arrows at the enemy range units. The Archangels move very slowly, and do a long attack while standing still, so they will hardly move forward. By the time your Archangels get to the King of Hell, you should have 4 or 5 of them. After that, just create Paladin units as fast as you can. Your units will do major damage to the boss. Using this method, my castle only lost 12,000 Health. Rate up so others can see this. : )
To get bonus mode, click off the screen or right-click to Pause the game, and then click on Bonus Mode, and you can play it before finishing Normal mode. Pass this along or Up vote if it helps you.
Ok, I find some REALLY weird glitches. If you're holding on object when you press the Start button, you can still move objects around while the ball is moving around. Also, sometimes the ball will bounce on an object, and a bug to force the object to move downward sometimes, and other times it won't. These two glitches plus the problem of how exact you have to place the objects sometimes causes me to not like the game, so 2 out of 5 Stars.
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