Oh, and only one more thing, I promise. In response to the response to Renx44's response, what the heck is the dev talking about? I'm playing, and the level is still ending after I drop the last bomb, still resulting in me wasting bonuses should something not be blowing up at the time. If you're really fast with an extra bomb/nuke you can manage to keep it going, but that doesn't work very well, so it doesn't appear "DONE", nor does it appear done. Perhaps the dev missed the point in what he was saying? Or maybe I'm missing the point? I sort of don't think I am, but I'm never sure.
Oh, and Qmagi, I'm not sure why I feel the need to say this as it clearly doesn't matter much, but santa is swimming, not doing a uh..."trippy wall crawl". We're underwater. That's where all the bubbles come from. I feel much better after saying that for some reason, don't ask why.
Wait a minute here...when we were in the old west I had assumed that we were trying to save people being hung after being falsely accused of crimes or something (or maybe even legitimately accused of crimes, and our disembodied bow just so happens to be against the death penalty)...but who exactly is hanging santa and his reindeer/elves? And if you get some coal in your stocking for being naughty, how much coal does the kind of person who strings santa up with the intention of watching him desperately clawing at the ropes holding him aloft as the life fades from his jolly fat body then leaving his corpse for the animals to pick apart? Maybe somewhere there's an evil coal supplier with wheelbarrows lined up outside his house, anxiously waiting for christmas to see if his work will pay off?
ball lightning just crit me for 8k damage. I think that might indicate a problem, especially seeing as, as far as I can tell, the ability is unavailable to the player.
Alright, nevermind. Literally right after I typed that last comment regarding crit rating I started critting far more consistently, which makes me happy what with the +400% crit damage I've stacked up...
Oh, and did you stealth-nerf crit or something? Because my dude here is running at a 50% crit chance, and yet he's not critically hitting anywhere even close to that. I'd say he's critting more like 15-20% of the time. Maybe it's been a fluke, but it's been a little bit now. Normally when it comes to percentages flukes don't last this long...
What's going on with friggin' ball lightning? Stupid thing outdamages pretty much everything else, and it's getting sort of frustrating going into battles where I should clearly be winning just for something to use two or 3 ball lightnings in a row on me and turn my massive health advantage into nothing, and of course the worst part is that allegedly it has a chance to do next to nothing (which I've seen it do only 1 time thus far), so whether or not it pays off is just chance...that isn't cool. Sure, pretty much everything here is chance, but there's few other instances in which a battle's outcome hinges on a single attack, and in this game it's not even like the number of times it can be used is limited...
Yeah, it doesn't matter how fast the speedup buttons are, because by the time I have 2 floors and any even moderate number of visitors my framerate is already so low the game is borderline unplayable, even on the lowest quality settings with no camera or anything. My little ram meter I have for my computer reads incredibly low, which never happens with other games, even ones with far, far better, more intensive graphics. I don't see a lot of other complaints regarding the framerate issue fact though, so I'm not sure what the issue is exactly, I just thought I'd mention it...
I was sitting here thinking "Heh, yeah right, females alone at a baseball game. 99% of the time girls only attend sporting events because they're with a dude.", and then I noticed something; ppl are *always* alone in the -aria world. There are no couples or groups anywhere. Could that be why the same people show up at the -arias every other/day? Because they're so lonely that ordering food seems like exciting social interaction? Does the lack of couples explain why there are no children? Do ppl in this universe simply have no sexual drive? Ya see all these girls around all done up with their prominent boobies & nicely styled hair and all the guys just stare off into space like it's nothing. I mean, I understand that everyone in the -aria universe is grossly malformed, but still, back before civilization humans were pretty god damn nasty lookin' too, and people still managed to keep the species going just fine. There's something fishy goin' on here. I want some answers.
Um, I feel somehow obligated to inform the developer that I am, in fact, not functionally retarded, and most people who play this probably won't be either. Having reset a level 2 times does not mean we're sitting there pulling our hair screaming "Oh god, I'm so hopelessly lost! I desperately need guidance, but clicking that walkthrough button down there is just so damn difficult!" and need the game to step in and help us. This had the potential to be pretty awesome, but the difficulty is just way too laughable for it to equal up to anything more than an extremely short and easily forgettable diversion.
Oh no, don't let me know that I forgot your drink that I have sitting right here so I can hand it to you and let everyone leave happy. Just wordlessly take your food then get all angry about it and give me a bad tip...real mature people, real mature. I'm not even sure why they're there in the first place. One decoration I'd really like is a humongous poster that says, in bold lettering, "This is not a 5 star restaurant. This is a small establishment that serves phallic hunks of meat that are created by taking scraps of animals too disgusting to serve to people otherwise, grinding them up then sticking them all together with chemicals so we can take them and sell them to you at insulting prices. Thanks for stopping by, the exit is to your right." Yeah, I'd pay quite a bit for that.
Oh snap! Hopefully later that night when they're putting their mouths all over each other's naked bodies he'll notice. First someone should go and help the tram guy though, because by the end he still hadn't even touched the alcohol I bought him. He'll be so happy when he realizes how much better it is to drink it than look at it. Anyways, all in all I found the whole thing awfully easy and barely even had to stop to think (including to strongly suspect the priest right away. Nobody trusts priests, even when there aren't any children around), which is probably good because if things weren't so obvious I'd likely be lost when attempting to so much as navigate a room - the artwork is nice, but it can also be rather disorienting at times as the black and white style really tends to blend together, making things difficult to make out. It was fun, I'd say that maybe it should just be a tad more challenging and the art a bit clearer.
It needs to be longer, as others have said. One thing that really bothers me is the game always ending at 500m rather than doing so once then going on indefinitely after, and worse, when you 'finish' you get no money, even for awards despite them counting as completed. That means when trying for money/awards, you have to attempt to avoid things like springs/rockets as they make you miss stuff and can push you past 500. You could just not upgrade those, but that's inconvenient and you'd have to know beforehand. Another issue is only allowing us to lower the 2nd jump cost; that makes it better to run off a ledge then jump in air in order to avoid the initial, costlier jump. Oh, and I've bought everything in the shop and still don't have the award for spending 250000, so getting all medals appears impossible. This was pretty fun and it felt right, it just needs a fair bit o' polishin'.
Alright, a number of things. There are some smaller technical issues like the inability to visit the shop except at a level's end, and the fact that auto-fire stops working when you collect the powerup that turns you into w/e that ship that sprays red orbs is called. On that note, while auto fire is enabled you'll still fire an extra shot every time you click. But technical issues aside, the game was just way too easy. I think I lost, eh, maybe 5 lives over the entire thing, especially since so, so many PUs drop that you're essentially always invincible anyways. Bosses ended up being disappointingly easy while using octocat too; a single rainbow vomit easily does any one of them in. Of course there's also the grammar, but anyone who plays online games should be used to that by this point. The game was still fun, it's just that it ultimately came off unrefined and didn't present enough of a challenge to be rewarding.
Man, can't you just give us as much time as we need before a wave starts, then let us hit the start button ourselves? How do you think Tesla would feel about this whole 'rushing things' crap? If you really wanted to honor Mr. T (the good Mr. T, not the washed up actor one), then you would acknowledge his lifelong struggle with OCD by giving us enough time to make our setups look nice and pretty and neat damn it.
Just figured I should mention that I think the dev may have forgotten to fix the "triumph" ship. It costs around 5k even though the other ships around it are more like 30-40k, and there appears to be no reason for such.
Yeah, does collecting money sound a little like a high pitched robot-ish voice saying "greedy" to anyone else? Because I noticed it at one point and now it's all I can hear...
Hey, I actually beat the game without any help. I still only found a single secret item without guidance though, so I suppose I can't be too proud of myself...
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