For the first few levels, machine guns are fine. After that, roll lightning with chain lightning. As you get around level ~10, 2xchain, 1xlightning ball, and 2xsaw blade with max damage for the tanks/bosses. After I figured out the lightning/blade combo, got 3 stars first try on all later levels.
If it weren't for the lag, and the Elmo, and the slow speed of the game, and the atrocious rate of gear acquisition, and the repetitive nature of the game it would be highly enjoyable!
I got 14 stars, was working on my 15th (the speed level 5 run) when the game flipped out. I clicked start mission, it cycled through all the levels repeatedly and kept going until I refreshed. It then reverted to my having like 8 gold stars.
Awesome.
Just did the hard badge. First try, 100% at end, no 1, 2 or 3 used. No difficulty to it, no escalation in difficulty, just a trial of sitting there for 20 minutes bored watching your combo reset for no reason.
A game full of so much promise, yet so much fail. 1.) No pause 2.) Stupid bosses 3.) Dead ninjas doing things anyways 3.) Monotonous 4.) Ridiculous "words" 5.) Having to do the whole level to repeat a boss 6.) Typing too fast resetting your combo.
Got to the last level, failed on the demon twice due to pressing the correct button a bit too early (wow.) and gave up on the story. Failure.
So I had a problem getting some of the thunders. I'd do everything as efficiently as possible, but still couldn't do it. I had to lag my computer down by opening other games and running virus scans on my system while playing. Awesome.
I liked 2 better. If you're going to put in such long songs for this game, you need to be able to practice part of a song. Repeating a minute of the same crap to practice the one hard part gets old fast. Also, the vocals are atrocious.
Tafari is ridiculously good, for sure. Some balancing of various cards would be good, but SPEED UP THE GAME ANIMATIONS. It's way, way too slow right now.
Really enjoyed the game up until level 23 or so. I have little patience, so I use an aggressive strategy of "shielding" myself. After 23, too many balls start teleporting and ruin it.
Got easy badge and challenge no problem. This is my third time beating it on hard and no badge - so frustrating.
By the way - 2 hatchets + healer = win.
I really enjoyed the career. The challenges suck, though. The method of controlling the bots is definitely not set up for the fine controls needed for the challenges.
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