If I finish a level without being perfect, I'm presented with four buttons, but I can't click on any of them. I just fire my weapon in the background. Nothing I've tried has allowed me to continue.... I'm on a Mac, BTW, which may make a difference.
This one started off better than the previous few games. Puzzles seemed logical, but then it quickly turned into just randomly clicking on things to get them to do things they've never done before. (Spoilers) Why, for example, did the croc not eat the frog when it jumped into the pond all the previous times? Maybe escaping from the croc could have given us a hint that (a) the croc was there, (b) that crocs would like to eat frogs, and (c) that the frog needed to be restrained in some way. Of course, that raises the question of why the croc needed to eat the frog at all. Did we just need to draw him there? And, if so, how did he smell that one frog in what's sure to be a bayou with thousands of them.
@cadorab: In the "wine rack", there's also a calendar. The calendar has three dates marked with hearts, and it has a note that says "♡ + ♡ + ♡ = 45". You can figure out the three dates that would match the marked dates and add up to 45, and that works out to 8, 16, and 21. (FWIW: x + (x+8) + (x+13) = 45 ||| 3x + 21 = 45 ||| 3x = 24 ||| x = 8)
This may be the worst "game" I've ever played. One mistake makes you start over completely, compounded by the fact that you're basically guessing what any action will do; horrible controls in the "action" sequence; horrible controls in the puzzle sequence, for that matter; tedious interstitials; etc. The list goes on and on. The gameplay reminds me of Dragon's Lair, and that's not a compliment. The graphics are cool, at least. 1/5
1/5 for in-game ad-blocker whine. Maybe instead petition Kongregate to stop accepting annoying and CPU-intensive ads that distract from the games and make them run poorly.
Can we get some idea of how it scores words? It looks like longer words are almost always better than words with higher-scoring letters, but it's unclear exactly why. Does the base score of the letters get multiplied by the word length?
When typing in via the keyboard, it frequently loses letters. I find that I have to type very deliberately (read "slowly"), and, even then, it frequently misses what I type. Also, chiming in with other folks in reporting that bonus awards are frequently not given.
the base score of the word gets multiplied by a square of the word length.