Not bad, the fun I had exploring some of the newer levels made the wait absolutely worth it. The sticky keys issue does make the experience a a little less fun so god bless the rewind button. Moving platforms do throw me off a though, quite literally so that's one serious issue that should be fixed. Other that that, nice puzzle platformer, good challenge and lots of fun to be had.
Ceasary, actually made more friendly and generally better. A tiny step in the right direction. I trust the developers to come up with a pretty enjoyable game after around 40-50 installments of cloning this concept with little tweaks.
All I can say is have you no effing shame?
http://www.kongregate.com/games/cubegames/castle-clout-return-of-the-king
Tell me this guy gets a share of your profits for pretty much designing this game for you.
First Protector needed some work but was otherwise competent, Reclaiming the throne was pretty fun with all the different strategies you had to come up with. Never played 3 so no idea. Mercenaries was a turd cause all problems could be solved by brute force (one mage one physical one archer with maxed attack stats) and grind. This I cannot find words for. The gameplay is meh, the graphics are repulsive and the fun is nowhere to be found. Cmon, you can do better.
After that it's time for the healer head: change gear to Soul Eater and Dark tooth/Obsidian, Use Unleash with Soul Eater to bring Czars' HP down. Boost accuracy with Lances Lock-on and/or items and goggles. Use Antimatter/Pulse to help, but watch your health and status effects.
Pyrohydra, part II - Change gear to Light and blast Abyss and the minions he summons. This part is very tricky so watch yourself twice as much as you did already, use Seiken and Judgement, Lance should either medikit, airstrike minions or debilitate to lower defence
Pyrohydra - Pope set on Natz, Generally as much Dark resistance as you can. Ice/water weaponry so Arctic Wind, Blizard, Deep Blue. Start with Blaze as he's the most troublesome of the three heads while also the one quite easy to kill. A good Kyun with a side dish of Cleaver using Blizard should make a huge dent, follow through with Iceshard and Iceberg/Legend, but be careful when killing it. Be sure to have Natz immediately dispel the huge boost the other heads get do it in the same round it dies or you'll be in serious trouble. Regen early on is a good idea, also barrier as soon as Kyun starts running out. Watch out for doom status effect, use medikit/purify to counter.
Key things to beat bosses (taken from an experience on epic, so yes this works):
Squid - get the arctic wind, upgrade as much as you can and pound the squid with ice shard, possibly maxed. Don't bother killing the tentacles, but do try to hurt them with some AoE thingie so squid doesn't attack busy regenerating. Lances Plasmawave seems perfect.
Mammoth - use viking gear on Matt and Natz. Arm Matt with the Sol Spear, Use Kyun, Ion and Cleaver limits to get a dent into the mammoth and blast the rest. When he summons the ice bits at all costs leave them alone - you don't want him to summon the fire bits, that means the end most of the time. Use regen to counter freezing, concentrate on the mammoth with fire spells and try to end round as healthy as possible.
Awww, it was all about epic battles. Why add the less fun RPG stuff to it? Fetch quests? Seriously? Plus you did a fine job of choosing badges for this one a living hell.
Auto attack OPTION, so you don't have to click through the whole painful process of slaughtering foes you don't need to use skills on in the first place. How this thing got badges is beyond me...
Can't shake the weird feeling the game wasn't exactly finished :P It's no longer than a mini we got plenty of lately, which is almost suspiciously short, there's items that serve no function (bone and sad mask) and well it all kinda seems rushed.
Together with the demon doll project and some other stuff this makes me wonder whether the developer needs cash badly or caught a real bad case of lazy. Still can't deny the demons EVIL charm though.
No wonder :P killing people by millions doesn't inspire much of a feeling of safety ;)
As for the Surgeon General - don't close anything, don't ban travel, just use a boatload of masks and as soon as the vaccine is ready start distributing it like mad in the biggest healthy states. Works fine and with a good safety margin.