The UI is way too bulky, convoluted and quite laggy at times. The battle system is boring and doesn't require any interaction whatsoever; just start a battle, drink some coffee, click again, rince and repeat... there's no risk involved as long as the enemies aren't more than 3 levels higher than you. Would be nice if I could actually use some skills, then it wouldn't feel so unimaginative. And finally, the quest system. I find myself killing the same enemies 3-4 times in a row for one quest at a time... why can't you get these quests at the same time so you finish a couple of them at the same time? Maybe this improves in the later zones, but that's way too late in the game. Also, no sound whatsoever? Seems to me like all the effort went into the artwork and the quest texts, and then the rest of the game was slapped together in a hurry to make it playable.
2/5 for the artwork.
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There's something special about this series. On the one hand, it is very frustrating at times, but it's just frustrating enough to make you want to solve it. And when you finally do... it's all worth the effort.
This has to be one of the very best flash games ever made. I remember playing it ages ago on newgrounds and couldn't really figure it out then, but now I finally destroyed the Earth! If only I had brought some more cheesy snacks...
Great gameplay, one of my current favorites and I hope it gets into the best of 2010 pack.
If you need some tips and tricks: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fxT4eahjvK4 also from mikengreg. Watch and learn. I just got about 50 million points. Trial and error, but satisfying and not too frustrating :)
743 seconds. Definitely one of the easiest 'hard badges'. Big tip: don't get extra turrets because they will mess with trajectories and throw asteroids straight at you while you're busy somewhere on the other side of the screen.
Fun game, but it shouldn't be so easy to earn truckloads of money with the trick mentioned before. Maybe you should add in an extra multiplier at the end of every round that reduces the amount of money earned each time you complete the same level, because right now I can just max everything during the first level in the first sector.