The mechanics run pretty decently. Doesn't look "bad". There's really not much to do, and the game ends pretty quickly (which may or may not be a good thing, depends on how you want it). Elements can be added to improve it.
The worst part about the gladiators game is the ridiculous amount of damage a series of kicks can do AGAINST you. I understand fair enough that when you kick, why you shouldn't do any damage. Fine, that's fair. But when you're barraged by a series of kicks that takes away 25% of your life, now that's a fcking kick in *my* balls. My suggestion is either even the playing field (kicks do 0 damage for everybody) or reduce how much it stings.
slots are useless, it's a waste of time and energy to get slots
to beat the game, just use arrows and mages
build as many as you can in the first stage
then more on the 2nd
perhaps some more on the third
once you get the dragon, it's super easy.
Doom Surf: running in front of the wave without dying. You just need a little practice to see where the limits are: if you're too close to it, you die; if you're too far away from it, you break the duration. To gauge when you're surfing or not, the moment you have an ! on top of you head, the timer has started. As long as you remain close to it and have the !, the Doomsurf counter will continue.
20954, bats are delicious.
Dude! You just completed the Godlike Invertebrate achievement in Arachnophilia and won the Godlike Invertebrate badge and 30 points!
It's ok, for a card game. It's just really slow. The lack of deck customization is ...
The cards you get are meh. The doppelcard is always used against me.
Elusive things to attempt/watch for:
1) the double spear: after hurling a spear at a spearman, sometimes both your spear and his spear falls to the ground. Sweet.
2) the leg chop: I've only seen it once against a swordsman, but i kicked him in the shin and then attacked. It chopped his leg off and then he died in a new position. Kinda lop-sided and on an angle.
Dude! You just completed the Surviving the Odds achievement in Achilles and won the Surviving the Odds badge and 15 points!
100 kills in survival
you have 5 lives for 100 kills, so that's about 20 kills per life yes?
except you should be aware that the more kills you get the harder the game gets: quicker opponents (meaning they have less lag time between their attacks), smarter opponents (chaining kicks and attacks), and multiple opponents.
Therefore, it's best to save your lives for as long as possible before actually needing to use them.
life #1, kill at least 25 guys
life #2, another 25
life #3, 20
so when you're on your 4 life, you only need 30 kills
#4 kill 15, and #5 kill 15
roughly.
The main point is kill more people at the start without getting hurt/dying and at the end, you'll be able to survive.
When i got the badge, i had 111 kills (2nd try, after i beat campaign.)
To those who had trouble beating the game:
Yes the difficulty increases as the stages progress; but it shouldn't be a problem if you have spare lives in the end
If you need more lives, just replay old stages and not die. It's not hard to beat stages 1-3 without dying, then die 1/2 on stage 4, and make sure you have 1 extra life before fighting the boss; that way, when you're at the boss and die, you respawn with invincibility, and whoop his ass, whoop his ass, whoop his ass.
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