Interesting idea.
I love the cat.
But progression feels like Archero, a phone game that suddenly grinds progress to a halt, requiring you to slowly farm equipment to fuse to eventually get stronger after a long, long time.
Because of that, I can't bring myself to keep playing.
Why am I using a grenade launcher to shoot woodland creatures?
*sees a hoard of like 40 bears coming out of the woods, moaning like the demons from the original Doom*
Oh, ok, nevermind.
Most of the upgrades are useless or come too late. All you need is low health zombies that explode when killed and high reanimation rate. Drop 6 in a building and the humans will kill them, which kills everyone in the building, which makes them all into zombies.
Well I'm just shy and scared of this place, I'm just a fish out of water from outer space. You can see that the trip has left me tired and drained, so why don't you be a pal...and bring me some brains!
Coal is used frequently, but once you're making the bombs and tools that use gold, iron becomes basically useless. And since you burned through coal quickly, it was bad to go past the first 2 layers.
Emeralds were basically always useless so once you got past layer 2 the only thing worth going for was gold so you could make bombs, but the best way to mine it was by using bombs...
Needed more expendables, or at least stuff that used some of the other stuff in higher concentrations.
This game demonstrates why the Prisoner's dilemma, and capitalism, never made any sense to me. Co-operation results in lower net loss. People are willing to make small sacrifices for the greater good, especially when all out hostility results in the greatest loss for all sides.
I could build a maze.
Or I could make a hallway out of turrets, put lasers at the end of it, cover the floor in pressure plates, aim the turret down the hall, and fall asleep.
It had an interesting idea, but unless later levels give a reason to actually build a maze, well I got bored fast.
Well this applies only for the first 3 levels after that the you need a bit of mazing. From level 6 onwards the game gets a bit harder and simple relying on a hall of turrets won't work anymore. :p
I saw it several times, but never went to play it.
Weeks later I see it has third place for game of the month.
Huh? And then I saw it was actually interesting.
The AI has become incomprehensibly efficient at recognizing hotdogs.
It doesn't just know a hotdog when it sees it. It can look at any object in the multiverse and know when any given molecules within it were ever a hotdog, and calculate when they will ever be part of a hotdog. Any point in space it observes it is able to tell when a hotdog has ever been there, or when one will be there. It has in fact recognized the hotdog in god's master plan.
thx for your feedback.