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This game is nice, but there are so many wrong things that it's a shame.
1) the 4x3 grid is too limiting, and after a few missions your only way to win is to start with exactly what you need.
2) there is no "restart battle" button, which would half compensate the problem above
3) the RAM usage reached 1.5 GB after a while! At least there is the auto-save function, otherwise I would have given 1/5 instantly.
4) buying dice with gold trophies is awful.
5) no tutorial at all...
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Match 3 is match 3, but there's little skill when it's only a 3x4 for a board. I've noticed a few slow down issues. An options menu during battle would indeed be helpful, and appreciated. A flee option would be nice when you're trying to get a golden trophy, and... you have only Match-1's, and at least 4 defense tiles, and healing tiles. Not bad, but if I want to play something like this, there are a lot of other games that do it better. The story doesn't seem to be very good, the first few chapters had story elements and then... "You're kidnapped, now do random battles. Now do more random battles." It feels very much like an excuse.
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Nicely done game. As others have mentioned, a "flee battle" or reset option would be really helpful. I see the dev hasn't signed on in almost a year and the dev's domain is up for sale, so I'm not holding out hope, but an update or sequel would be awesome.
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The game comes to a crawl after you hit the werewolf fight. I had to do a 10 minute refresh to get it working again on 2 occasions so far. I am halfway though the game. It may be a little buggy if you want to get the hard badge.
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Very pretty but waaaay too luck based. The grid is too small to make combinations most of the time, or I end up with no color that I need present.
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The game really needs a flee battle bar. When I'm up against 3 enemies that all have like 5 armor bars and hit 4 damage apiece and I start off with none of the elements they're weak against, I don't want to slog through 10 rounds of useless battle before getting bumped back to the equipment/battle select screens.
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Defense tokens either need a mass buff, or to be removed completely. In the early chapters, enemies don't do enough damage for defense to be a concern, and in the later chapters they're only useful in stalling for time, and then only if you manage to get 3, otherwise you're still going to take damage. And I'm only stalling for time because I'm getting defense tokens instead of the tokens I need.
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Important tip: The color of the opponent's current health bar symbolized the weaknes it has. A blue health bar can be one-shot with a blue attack, no matter the strength. Same for red, orange and purple of course.
Took me a while to figure that out, but it made the game A LOT easier - and in the end fights it was pretty much necessary to know this.
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Great ideas...but poor execution. Damage should REALLY follow through. What'sthe point in getting huge combos when they're wasted by amost dead opponents? Even more frustrating: half of your combo's blow are actually only used to end up one of your many opponents almost empty health bar. This means that you basically need two blow to kill one bar, no matter the opponent. You would want to frustrate the players that you couldn't do better. Except maybe by adding hell level freeze every other 10 fights...
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I rather lost interest after I earned the first badge. The lack of a tutorial was absolutely maddening and the gameplay was just SO repetitive. I'm afraid I will not be recommending this anytime soon.
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I have no idea what is going on in this game. The UI is so clunky and there's no explanation of anything - it's such a mess, visually speaking.
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Set up a chain of 5 attacks vs two enemies. First attack kills first enemy, end of turn??? Ummmm, no, now use the 4 remaining attacks on the second enemy
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Many graphical glitches, after extended play (starting chapter 4 for me) the game gets so bogged down I have to restart the window, and the 'combat' system is entirely luck based at 3x4 tiles. In addition to the goofy vampire storyline, but I get that some people are into it. 2/5 for buggy gameplay.
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There is some memory leak in the game. I started out on normal sittings, I later set it to low settings. At some point after filling up all my memory it crashed Shockwave flash
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Bad design, lots of times enemies are blocked by foreground visual stuff and cant be clicked nor are you able to see what defenses they have. Really bad memory leak as well, requires lots of restarts to get rid of lag.
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It's a neat start, and just needs a few tweaks to make it a great game. There are several graphical bugs, mostly seem to be zoom related. When you're in the tech or achievements window you can't see everything, and there are a lot of times where you zoom in to the battle so close you can no longer see your opponent's health bar. Luck plays a huge part with such a small field, I'm hoping that later in the game it will get larger than 4x3. Also, there needs to be some way to get back to the mission screen & menus from within a battle, and a quick way to restart the battle when you blow the gold trophy.
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Soo... This game is almost good. It jsut have to small grid, no tutorial and too much of the fighting system is based on luck. But good idea, and almost good story, but I didn't liked the ending. 3/5.