I've been grinding a level trying to get from two to three stars and felt like I finally aced it. The victory screen came up and I got one star. I officially have no idea how stars are awarded, which makes the medium badge more than a little frustrating.
Playing the game initially, I found that every time I click to get him to rush forward caused the game to pause for half a second or more. Oh well, it doesn't seem to provide any real benefit anyway, right? Until you get to the endgame and it's required. Now I've made it to the endgame and can't complete it because I click once to bounce a missile back, and then the game pauses for half a second while I get hit by three other missiles and die.
It's very annoying in the level with the zombie you shoot through the slit that despite keeping your mouse pointer in exactly the same position, sometimes the shotgun pellet goes through and some times it doesn't. Especially since getting it through every time is a requirement for the A+ badge.
I'm sorry, but climbing that one inward tilting wall is just tedious. There's no puzzle to it; it's just being able to hit the buttons exactly right. And if you screw up once, you get to start completely over. Awful.
I'm instructed to kill all pirates, and the mission doesn't end until I kill the Pirate Officer. I'm also told that pirates won't respawn if I kill the Pirate Officer. Later I'm told that I need to kill some number of pirates. But I already killed all of the pirates and prevented them from respawning. And you haven't told me about using the jump gate yet. Am I missing something?
Okay, I take it back. It clearly says "Press P to Resume" on the pause screen. That said, how about letting us use a key for jump/action when using the mouse so that it's easier to avoid clicking outside the playfield?
Mouse controls on these sorts of games are always bad; I'm always clicking outside the play area and pausing the game. But then when I go to resume, I have to click the resume button, which moves my guy's location. Maybe there's a way to use the keyboard to resume, but it's not stated. Unfortunately, the keyboard controls are even worse. They seem to move my guy around in a way I don't understand. I suspect that I'm really moving an invisible cursor with the keys and not my guy, since he continues to move when I'm not pressing any keys. If that's the case, at least show me the cursor, so I know what to aim for.
Endless mode says "You have 10 minutes. You gain 1 point per second, multiplied by the age of your civilization + the sum of the levels of your nexuses." My current map has two level 4 cities, so it's age 4, and a level 4 nexus and a level 1 nexus. So 4+4+1 should be 9, and the status box says "x9", so fair enough. I also have "00:16" left, according to the status box. That means I've played for 9m44s, or 584s. So that should mean my score is 584*9, or 5256. But the status box says "SCORE: 2753". In addition, 2753 isn't even an even multiple of 9, so unless it's actually something like 1 milli-point per millisecond, that's not even possible. Seriously, get your documentation correct.
Lose 3+ hearts to get 2 stars, lose 2\3 hearts to get 1 star. Otherwise 3 stars are awarded.