http://www.kongregate.com/games/pixelate/understanding-games-episode-1
Playing this and the other episodes may make you understand *how* to make a good game.
Review. The controls are weird, but it's manageable, one gets used to them pretty quick. The first fight seems to take *way* too long compared to the ones after. Music is good, game is nice, the bosses get horribly difficult once they get the fishes and the duplicate ability... An excellent game in my opinion. 5/5.
To all those wondering how to complete the first quest : simply find the shiny sword and report to dwarf. The sword is in the plains where the dwarf is.
I take this game as an irony to bad devellopers which did not invest time in their games. I'm too optimist to believe someone can make this game and seriously write a description like that.
On all those who don't like adventurers boucing : an excellent strategy to kill the dragon is to leave a large open space around him. your random bouncing adventurers will (oddly?) have a preference for the left bottom corner where they regenerate a bit before random bouncing ( and some well placed gold coins) bring them to fight again.
This game is wonderful. I laughed a lot when the voice said there was an evil god named Malor on the world below. Replaying to see the other endings because the game was so great.
Note of VERY HIGH INTEREST : If you're stuck at a high level dungeon while getting bludgeonned to death because you just lost your non-artifact titanium balde while escaping, a good solution is to save the game then start a new game, you'll keep your items AND stats, but will start at level 1.