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Your Champion has leveled up! +5 health!
Your Cavalier has leveled up! -3 health!
Your Arch Wizard has leveled up! +2 attack, +16 health, +16 leadership!
...I think there's a balance issue here.
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The horse guy in the middle is gaining ZERO when he levels. I just hit level 15 or something, and he actually went DOWN in HP (-3). This has GOT to be a bug of some sort. Hopefully the devs will see this comment and fix, otherwise, a terrific game.
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It's not a problem that the mage is strong -- after all, there's always a strongest hero, and the guards are there to balance it all. The real problem is that the mage is the one with the highest leadership, although she is the one who needs it the less, whereas both the warrior and the horseman need ranged support. That's inconsistent.
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Don't know if this has been mentioned yet, but because the mage is the only char with ranged attack, she kills more and gains more xp, thereby leveling disproportionately. Let the heroes gain xp from their guard kills. This is why my horseman is lvl 31, warrior 37 and mage 46! Not to mention that with my devastating superior scepter she does 58.1 damage/second + 68% chance to crit...why does the only ranged attacker have the best attack?
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BoredMFer is right: I never build units for the Battlemage and she never dies. I reinforce the Horseman and he still dies.
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Either by having too small of a board or the integration of too many possible colors, I often find myself desperately trying to find the few 3-combos that are thinly scattered around. The key to controlling the game was to get 4- and 5- combos, but in most circumstances this was hard; I was disapointed that I couldn't "set them up" to try and reap in the bonuses. solid 4/5 though.
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So, in this country, you have to slide buildings around to empower the city's defenders. In doing so, you destroy those buildings. And, every once in a while, one of the "heroes" will consume dozens of buildings at once. Remind me not to move there.
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Look for armor that replenishes X HP per second. It will do MUCH more for your hero's survivability than any other defensive buff (i.e. block, HP per match, even +HP in many cases). Put the weapon that does the most damage possible on the Horseman, he needs it. Drop the armor with the biggest leadership possible on the Warrior or you'll be losing walls constantly. Get the Mage some +HP per second armor and she'll be on cruise control.
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Talking about balance issues... I hope the devs have read all these comments; almost all of them are about the mage being too strong whilst the horseman stays behind.
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Don't worry, I'm sure they'll get those improvements into a second game (that's more a demand than a hint! Make one! Maybe for the XBLA or PSN, or both. STEAM.) I'd like to suggest that after a few level-ups, heroes would unlock more gear slots. Let's say they all start with weapon and basic armor, and every 4 level-ups they'd get another slot until they could each have weapon, secondary weapon (ranged stuff for the boys, and a melee weapon for the lady,) basic armor, headgear, and cloak. Also, I'd like an upgrade system. Let's say you earn prestige based on the rating you get when you clear a battle, and you can use those to buy permanent upgrades to the guards you hire. Like you'd start with level 2 archers instead of level 1, to make it easier to get the more effective guys.
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I love Match 3 type games, and this game is based on a fun concept, but as other players have noted, the balance is really broken. For future games, it would be better for them to receive the same experience, or to receive experience from the kills of their guards. The imbalance bugged me so much that I tried to find a way to help the warrior get the most experience. It basically boils down to giving the sorceress (and later the horseman) the highest level mages and archers you can. These will kill steal from the sorceress, who uses ranged attacks, thereby reducing her damage. Same with horseman. After a while, give the warrior a mage and an archer to help him with ranged monsters. This way the warrior earned almost twice as much XP as the horseman or the sorceress. I'm not recommending it as a winning strategy, but it was a fun experiment. Otherwise, the game is solid, and the Match 3 part is really fun!
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Warrior and Sorceress need to sneak off in the night and leave that old fart horsemen behind.. He's such a waste of pixels.
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There is a major flaw in the game dynamic. If you have lost a wall so that mages cannot be played, and you get a mage, but then have no match 3's left to play, the game does not flush the board, but instead requires you to use the mage you cannot use. At this point the board is no longer playable. I assume the same problem arises with archers as well.
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I think that the problem is that we the levels take way to long, and i think the shop should sell more things than just items, upgrades like extra hero health or damage would me much better.
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This is a nice little game, for a while at least. Then it just becomes boring, with the same enemies and effects all over, and the later levels have 25-30 waves, that's 20 minutes of gameplay. The guards are also quite wimpy against higher-level enemies, only doing reasonable damage at level III or IV, which means you can't protect the knight and horseman adequately.
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Bug: Sir horseman was charging when he died. When he revived, he ran out of his lane and i never saw him again during that level. What a wimpy king's guard running from the enemies -.-
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"Hey Bob, I've killed all my guys, I'm just going to stand right here for the rest of the battle ok...whats that? your bleeding heavily? no i cant come help...no i cant lend you my units....because theyre mine".
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Like others have said. Mage can range everything. While in the other lanes, the enemy can range YOUR hero do death and unless you have range present it's over. I basically need to fully fill the other two hero with archer and melee support before putting any additions on the mage. Unbalanced.
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Minion kills should give like 75% xp to the champion in that lane, so it's not counterproductive to try to save melee lanes. And I'm really tired of every fantasy stories scapegoating darkness when evil is what they mean. Darkness has been a comforting part of everyone's sleep that I know. It just means the lack of light.
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The knight brings the team down so much with his failure to get stat increases when he levels up. This wouldn't be so bad if the battlemage, in all her epicness, could help the knight out by firing some bolts into his lane, but apparently her arm doesn't turn in that direction...
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Heroic Rush is NOT a five-tile match. It's a 5-in-a-row combo.
You have no control over it; it just happens when the right tiles fall in from the sky after you make a match.
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The cavalier has definitely seen his better days. His hair is already gray and he gets weaker on every leveling. At this rate he will show up in battlefield on a wheelchair.
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I did some note taking and the horseman isn't really losing stats when he levels. Its just a typo. Hope this quells some frustration.
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Pretty good game. The music and sound effects can get a little annoying after a while, but thankfully that's what the mute button is for. It's a rather interesting mix of genres and I think it has been pulled off rather well. One problem I've been running into (and this is probably just because I can't multitask very well) is that it's hard to keep track of your heroes health bars while working the Switch Grid. I also think you should add health bars above allied and enemy units so we know how much damage we're actually doing. Numbers mean little if we don't have a 'progress bar' so to speak.
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such a grind to finish it! wish the horse guy wasn't getting negative stats all the time, is he getting brain damage every time he levels up?
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I don't usually comment on games but this one is outstanding. My only complaint is the balance issues between the classes. 4/5
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Great game. Amazing concept. Only problem I have is how long the fights take eventually. You gotta find some way to even that out a bit more!
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The "Heroic Rush" text needs to be more transparent or go away faster. When I'm dying I don't really care much about rushing heroically...