Last time this thing was BotD, I got halfway through to the badge. So I wanted to complete it now... but the game wiped all my progress, forcing me to start from scratch...? No, not doing that!
The game has changed a lot. Its like a totally new game since then. Not all progress is wiped. All credits, cross-server items stay. Everything is wired around the wipe as of the wipe being just a game mode.
Log in for 28 days in a row, earn an "Epic Chest"... which you are not allowed to actually use because opening a reward you earned fair and square has a *level requirement*!? Who designed this nonsense...?
This misses lots of essential features. Enemies don't even have health bars. There is also no concept of waves; enemies spawn steadily, non-stop. Even worse, it's completely broken. The game happily continues when you have -100 lives...!? I'm unsure when it is supposed to end. In practice it ends when the end credits (??) are shown at a completely random (??) time. This feels like "my first experiment", not an actually playable game.
I will not 1-star this because it makes the BOTD impossible to get on Firefox; it's not fair to blame the developer for something Kong did. I'll even take the dev on their word that supporting Firefox is infeasible. But if you promise me that "adding ?firefox=1 to URL will bypass this check" and it just doesn't... yeah sorry, then you leave me no choice. :(
Thank you, very reasonable! I did enable firefox now, have been working on it for quite some time. (though it runs better on chromium based browsers due to technical reasons). (that url thing is very tricky on kongregate, as it runs in iframe...)
Developer response to another message:
> Kindly uncheck the Share option if you prefer not to post.
I did. The game automatically re-enables it every so often (not to mention it automatically enables it in the first place). If you want to have a sharing feature, sure, implement it. But do not try to trick people into it. You auto-enable sharing, I auto-rate 1 star, it's that easy.
Thank god for autosave; never would've gotten through the entire game in one go, since it kept crashing...!? :( --- On the bright side, I just love how the various parts of the planet all have their own language; the ones I recognised were Finnish and Slovenian. And if the game asks "What is the name of our god?", even if I know it's the wrong answer, I'm still going to click "Žižek", just to see what happens. ;) Such a shame there's no Easter egg on that one!
I know, he could have said something like "That's a great philosopher, but not a god." :) The language of the Sivars is actually an amalgamation of Slavic languages, mostly Serbo-Croatian though. Finnish was well spotted. The other nations have languages based on Irish, Old Norse, Latin and Sino-Japanese, but not all of them appear in this particular episode of the series.
Would it be possible to get an option to mark which tiles are definitely correct? On PC: shift-clicking would be an easy way to do it, on touch screen, maybe a button (toggling on/off) for a "mark correct" mode? If you could display them in an alternate colour and lock them from being rotated again (until unmarked, of course), that would be extra helpful!
Again far too short and easy. Also... why do I lose the burning candle (when it's already obvious I'm going to need to fire a cannon)? Having to find those matches feels rather unnecessary. Also, making a joke of Dread Pirate Roberts is in rather poor taste if you ask me (but yeah, that's a matter of opinion).
There is such a thing as *too* easy. Not actually bad (only real flaw is not being able to check the guy's name if you skipped over it too quickly at first), but incredibly short and just too easy.
How exactly do you determine the "correct" way of rotating images? Sure, most are obvious, but some (TIE-fighter, hour glass) have rotational symmetry and others have no obvious "correct" rotation (dolphin, violin). In short: pro mode is terrible. :-(
Two requests:
- Since finding the letters on the leaves does not seem to be part of the game, could you maybe enable keyboard input for ease of play?
- If you make a "typo" currently you can only reset the entire puzzle; how about adding a "backspace" to only remove the latest letter entered?
Other than that: nice work :)
Level 1 hasn't even started and I already hate the game... what did that poor dog do to you? Even in a setting where it is acceptable to shoot people, that's still a crappy thing to do... :(
No mute :( And without being able to mute, it quickly becomes *very* obvious how few sound samples there are... each of which is annoying as heck. Walkthrough: get one jump upgrade (which doesn't increase your jump height, it lets you double jump!), then aim for the tentacles on the bottom left and right. This will make the boss go to the middle of the level where you can (with double jump) easily hit its brain and trigger a jackpot. Do this a few times and you'll quickly be able to buy all the upgrades. Only useful ones are life (x3), weapon (x3), coin magnet (unsure how many you need) and jetpack (which completely replaces jumping).
For those who like to play muted: after you finish the game you go straight to the end credits which ignore the setting and plays some triumphant thingie at high volume. (Really doubt a bug report would make sense at this point and this comment is probably not going to the top 5 list... but it might be helpful to some badge-of-the-day hunters! :) )
When the badge says "Floor 7 reached", that's really what it means; no need to "Complete the 6th floor", just happening upon a pit trap and falling to the 7th floor also counts. ;)
This game has some serious issues when it comes to healing and upgrade points. For instance, your castle's health has five upgrades levels: 1 star for 20%, 2 stars for 40%, ..., 5 stars for 100%. That's fine for max health (such as many other games do), but here it's about current health. Let's say your 2 star castle take one point of damage in battle (39% health). You open the upgrade screen and it shows only 1 star for health (rounded down, okay, that's fine). Spend an upgrade point, go up to two stars again and how much health do you have? 39% + 20% = 59%, right? Nope, you upgrade to 2 star, so you get 40%... :( That's an upgrade point well spent...! :-s (I strongly suspect the same issue applies to archers' health, but there the exact value is never displayed and the health bar only for a few seconds after taking damage (ehm... okay, not like the health of my units is important!?), so it's hard to be completely sure.)
If it's a port of an existing game, how about at least mentioning the original in the description of this game? Only admitting to it after getting caught does not inspire much confidence (not calling you a liar, I have no idea whether you are; just pointing out a liar would have behaved the same way you did, which makes you look bad, even if nothing is wrong). Also, isn't one of the benefits of HTML5 it being much faster than Flash? Not sure what went wrong, but this thing is waaaay slower than the original.
Not one but two puzzles (three-digit safe and six-switches panel) can be bruteforced. Good thing too, because I eventually ran into the combination for the safe, but still have no clue how to "correctly" solve those switches. Then again, judging by the lack of sensible logic in the rest of the game...
Overall not a bad game, but why on Earth are those huge trees between "zones" in the foreground, hiding the enemy's bullets? I mean, it's not like I could possibly want to know where the things are I need to avoid...!?
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The game has changed a lot. Its like a totally new game since then. Not all progress is wiped. All credits, cross-server items stay. Everything is wired around the wipe as of the wipe being just a game mode.