personally, i did not like this game. while the first 2 games were good, this one has nothing to do with the genre it should be. this is not "physics based puzzle game", this is "guess what developer wants you to do this level game". and it sux majority of time. replaying levels just to figure out which animal to wake up, or that you need to make a ladder for a clock has nothing to do with this series... all of you that are giving it 5/5 just because you were "fingered by a turtle" are making the rating system loosing its purpose... ill make a "game" that will get you fingered by a turtle whatever you click on, and you will give me 5/5, so i win the monthly competition? don't think so... anyway, IMO this game missed out the point completely...
For everyone that has a problem with elevators. here is a tip:
Don't build a few long shafts. build few smaller ones. build your elevator, then expand your shaft to next 4 floors. on 5th floor, just get a new elevator, and expand it for the next 5 floors, and after that, get another elevator. this way you will get to a 4-star rating without any problems. for a 5-star rating, just upgrade your existing elevators to larger ones (10-people elevators), and you should be able to get a 5-star rating without problems. i've done it without a single staff elevator, and my hotel was 30+ floors 5-star hotel, without people complaining about elevators.
+it so other people can see it.
good game, didnt have any probs getting to a 5-star rating. people started to ask for more elevators when ive got to 25th floor of my hotel, and then ive just upgraded my standard elevators to a capatious ones... problem solved.
ok, ive had to hit that guy in little giant cup 1 more time to win a game, with 4 phoenix feathers in my in-battle items... he killed me, and ive lost? whats the freaking point of feathers then???
it was a great game until the last area (mines). there it just made little to no sense, and was really painful.. (by little to no sense, i'm talking about no sense in this kind of game, and since ive played the Monkey Island, maybe it will sound strange, but lots of puzzles before made sense to me :) )
few things I dislike are the "barbarian" aka, their weakest ships that still live for few seconds after you have dropped your hp, and the shielded bug ships because i need to find their beacons to drop the shield (annoying to kill ^^) but its just minor things. otherwise its a great game with perfect difficulty and length for a nice and (somewhat) relaxing time waster :). good job there, 5/5 from me ;)
after ive come to 3rd island, game simply become too repetitive to continue...
grind same monsters for 10 levels to kill stronger versions of same monsters over and over and over...
the biggest problem in this game is that you share the same board with opponent...
that makes any planning/strategy out of question, thus even more adding to the luck factor...
it would be IMO a lot better if you both had your own boards, so you can match things with some strategy involved.
ive finished badge of day, and got it after like a minute of waiting, but i didnt get the hard badge...
finished game on hard mode, black screen, and no badge...
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