Oh, but as a side note there isn't a single positive comment (well, there's one sort of neutral one), so where exactly are these 5 star ratings they'd have to have to start with coming from? Now that I think about it I'm pretty much positive there's something amiss. I'm going to flag this, although that's quite a long shot. All I can hope is that someone will find something and get this developer out of here so their awful games can stop showing up...
Wowza, this is terrible. Ya know, I'm beginning to smell something fishy here. Awful games from this developer keep showing up on the hot new games list despite very obviously being of sub par quality. Just judging by what I've seen of this dev I wouldn't be in the least bit surprised if they, for example, kept around a shitload of low level accounts to give 5s to their games in order to artificially boost their ratings...at least until they show up on the hng list and get destroyed by actual players. I'm not sure, all I know is that every game from this dev, no matter how crappy, seems to initially wind up with an inappropriately high rating. Certain ones I could see maybe, just maybe, if they got lucky, but something like this? Hell no. Unfortunately there's no real way to prove foul play in situations like this...
Hm, a while ago, back in 2008, when I played this I was all like "Man, this is so hard! I'm not even going to worry about the hard badge..."
Well now I come back to it 4 years later and I found the game way more fun, and way easier. I mean, I struggled with a few levels (45 the most), but nothing too severe. Unfortunately walkthroughs really can't save you here. You can have all the numbers be literally the exact same 2 times in a row and get totally different results, so walkthroughs really aren't very helpful. Regardless, I'm not sure how I had that much of an issue previously. Idk, maybe my 17 year old self was just a newb. God damn 17 year old self, why you gotta be so dumb? You sure as heck aren't spending your time having a life or wooing the ladies, so you don't really have any excuse...
Ok, your ranged guys running up to attack enemies is really extremely, extremely frustrating. Why don't they, if anything, run BACKWARDS? I wasted all sorts of money getting a mage, and every single battle so far plays out the exact same way; he runs up slightly and starts casting at which point both team's melee units run up to about halfway and the mage lunges out and gets immediately killed before the initial charge is even over. The thing is that they aren't even that close, they'd easily be deflected by my meleers, it's not like they'd even get to him if he wouldn't intentionally go out to get killed. Oh well, time to restart the game I guess...
Ranged units have casting ranges that can be upgraded through Unit Upgrades. If they ran backwards, melee teams would have trouble fighting them - that applies both ways, so we hope you understand :)
Ok, is it just me, or do the god damn shops never, ever want to buy ANYTHING. Like, I kill a bunch of fairly tough robbers, they drop all these valuable guns, and now I've been carrying them around for god only knows how long because I literally don't remember the last time a shop was willing to buy a weapon off of me. I hate throwing the things away, but I feel like I don't have much of an option when nobody anywhere is ever willing to buy anything. Oh, and the same goes for farms and cart shops.
Yeah, now I've completed this game 3 times...now if I could only take that stubborn nature and apply it to life, maybe I wouldn't be such a failure. Then again, at the end of life nobody congratulates you. As a matter of fact, what happens is that life pisses on you by making you old and decrepit then you die. That's pretty much the exact opposite of a reward if you ask me.
"Finally Jim and Mary reach Jim's home". I see the developer had the discretion to leave out "and after all that, they were both so very, very ready for some well deserved boning". "But what's this? A chase!"...at which point I would've personally probably just beaten their asses for trespassing/being cock blockers. Right, but I actually would've liked to have seen this be a little longer, as it felt like we were just getting warmed up by the time it was over, and none of the puzzles really required any huge amount of thinking. Also because Mary was kinda cute. Yeah, I'm calling an animated girl cute, got a problem with that? Btw, I sometimes refer to my cat as "meow beast", does someone else do that too? Is that where that name comes from?
Oh, and final, I got the heart on level 17 with no problem at all, so if you're unable to do it I'm guessing it must be something with your specific computer...
Man, I know sometimes fathers and brothers really don't like the guys who date their daughters/sisters, but I think maybe they went just a little overboard here. Most times pretty much the worst thing they do is grab a shotgun and chase the guy off their property after finding him in the girl's room playing with her boobies. Oh boobies, nothing beats em'...well, except maybe, like, combining boobs, pizza, and alcohol, but they'd still be the best part. Anyways, on a more serious note, while this sort of game has been done a number of times before, this is clearly fairly well done and I like the artwork, so, uh...good job I guess.
I think maybe the little yellow cyclops thingies are trying to seduce me. Well, either that look is either seductive or bashful, I can't tell which. But seriously, I actually like this a fair bit. It's perhaps just a tad on the easy side, but not by much. I think what I most like about it is the fact that for many levels there isn't one single set-in-stone way to beat them, which imo keeps things interesting as it allows you some personal freedom in solving things instead of being forced to do them in the exact same way as everyone else.
Aha, I know why this game makes me uncomfortable! It gives me the feeling as Ode to Pixel Days did; the fact that attraction isn't always mutual is already depressing, but when a person just cannot let another go it's so much worse. The person's desire turns to obsession and the other person becomes an object. Unfortunately there's no possible happy ending at that point. If the person succeeds and "wins" the other, their delusions come crashing down as they realize the real person could never live up to the one they've built up in their mind, so they abandon the other. If they don't succeed, they'll never let it go. All the while the other person, who did nothing to deserve any of it, is caught up in it all. I realize this is all fictional, but it's still a very real situation (minus the time traveling, obviously). It's just pretty heartbreaking to think about.
Honestly, the awkwardness is just way, way too intense for me, which I guess is the product of good storytelling. I may not be an awkward teenager with no friends and who's been single his entire life, but I AM a young adult who's always had ALMOST no friends and has been single his entire life (fortunately I'm nowhere near that ugly). The music, the dialog, everything; it brings me back to a far, far more awkward time, and there was nothing more awkward than dealing with girls...although I was never terribly interested in any I knew, possibly because they didn't have the bodies of supermodels/porn stars, like the one in question here. Regardless, as much as I'd like to win a date with greg (I may not be into dudes, but we could still take wacky photos together or something like that), I just can't handle this.
I appreciate the feedback. In a weird way I'm going to take your comment as a compliment. It was definitely a goal for Todd to be as weird, creepy, awkward, gross and loser-ish as possible. Otherwise Future Todd's actions and character make less sense. In hindsight I think one of the major flaws in the story is that there isn't a likable central protagonist. Future Todd is obviously the bad guy, and Todd has to be believable as a precursor to Future Todd. So Todd's not overly likable either, but the story also takes place before he's actually full-blown evil, when he still has the power to redeem himself in a roundabout way. My next 2 stories will not have any of the gross/creepy/awkward angles from this one, so I hope you'll check them out and let me know what you think.
Aw, well that was nice and made me feel slightly fuzzy on the inside. Yes, chances are by a few hours from now I will have sunken back into my usual cynical fog, but hey, every little thing pushes you slightly in one direction or the other, so every positive influence helps. Me and Mr. wizard can be each other's wingman, by the way.
Lady, women dream of me all the damn time, that doesn't mean you can just go kidnapping me at will. I'm not just a walking set of broad shoulders and a scruffy square jawline created for your amusement you know. I'm sick of females objectifying us men, treating us like our lives revolve around you all. Us men are people too, we have rights damn it!
Hm, and originally I thought maybe questiondog was just one of those crazy internet folk, but he appears to be right. A bunch of level one accounts, all made around the exact same time, all of them having last played mad skeletons and nothing else? There's no other possibility other than that it's an attempt by the dev to manipulate the game's ratings, if there's some other possible explanation I'd sure like to hear it. Oh, and whenever I rate a game it says something about how it "improved" my ratings. I like to think that that means rating more games gives my ratings more weight, but who knows...
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Ranged units have casting ranges that can be upgraded through Unit Upgrades. If they ran backwards, melee teams would have trouble fighting them - that applies both ways, so we hope you understand :)