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Who keeps deleting me from the high scores for ItemsBought, ItemsSold, and UpgradesPurchased? I grinded them fair and square.
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This was a fun and solid game which found that nice balance of challenge just shy of frustration. However the whole 120% warp core thing was just aggravating. The "whoops, no reward yet! Fooled you!" shtick was fun when Mario did it a quarter century ago.....not so much in a bullet-hell shooter. The fact that you only achieve the warp core's reward when it is no longer even useful (read: the absolute completion of the game) doesn't help either. The warp core reward should have been something that the player was capable of achieving through other means, for example with a huge amount of RP. That way for players who are having too much trouble completing the game they have the option of building up to an ultimate upgrade that will help them. In a flash game, once you've beaten the most difficult part and fully completed the game there isn't much incentive to play around with some uber-power upgrade.
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At first I was like, "This isn't so hard, why are people saying that it is?" and then I fought Melpomene for the first time.
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The moment I saw that money automatically collected to your ship, this game earned a 5/5. One of the simplest concepts in the world, but so many games make such a silly design mistake. Going on to actually play the game, I saw that I was not mistaken in my rating. This is a truly great bullet hell that has all of the little points of polish firmly in place. Good job, developer, and please continue to make great games like this.
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I don't get it... Why would I get increased bomb damage for not using them? I think somebody who doesn't use bombs won't benefit of it at all. :|
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I have yet to understand how losing part of your ship actually make you more dangerous...
These boss sure are strange.
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Be as sceptical as you want about homing lasers, but let me remind you that in the first game we had laser shooting lasers.
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I never understood how bosses become stronger as they get damaged. Do they have extra weapons hidden inside so they can only shoot when parts of the ship are already destroyed?
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Give us more focus or make Slo-mo more effective with less focus consuming. I get easily killed by Bosses, even If I use Slo-mo... By the way good game! 5/5
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Weapons need some serious damage increase! even with full upgrade and fully upgraded modifiers they still take too long to kill even basic enemies, let alone bosses! I have over 2 mil RPs that cant be spent anywhere, maybe increasing the total number of upgrades on all weapons will help out?
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Amazing.. I hate bullet hells but this is a 5/5. Reached atropos but whaaaat.. Sory cant keep playing my potato pc is freezed to hell and atropos gave the last blow ..
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I admit it's kinda weird when upgrading the poison mod it actually decreases the longevity do deal damage faster instead of the standard increasing longevity to deal more damage in total
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@archerbob just play the game a little and do level 1 and dont hit so many people while dodging everything its much easier
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I just did an experiment, and discovered that enemies killed by Splash damage or Acid damage don't count towards the kill count for your weapons. This seems wrong to me. Weapon mods shouldn't prevent the weapon from getting credit for the kill. It was still ultimately that weapon that was used to make the kill. I think this should be changed.
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Spoiler - Getting your warp drive up to the max requires 120%, meaning you must beat all bosses, and the boss rush, with your warp drive equipped. The reward - Your warp drive sells for over 20 million RP. Oh, and it also gives you unlimited focus forever, as long as it's in a ship mod. I'd recommend you beat boss rush first with actual ship mods first...you'll see why. That last empty slot in RP shop is a beast.
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The first half of the game is really amazing, new weapon new ship, new modification. But I found that during the second half the ne weapon are not really effective. I don't feel like my ship evolve while my enemy do. I found that it would have been more fun if you get all the power up.
Nice game. Keep the good work .
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Usually for badges of the day I get the badge and then play another game. Not this time. This game was extremely fun in my opinion and held my interest. I thank kongregate because I woudln't have found this game without them. 5/5
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The last part of the Atropos boss fight is overly difficult. Learning the patterns takes FOREVER, since you have to go through the first phase each time, which can take three minutes a shot, only to die as soon as you get past it because you made a mistake.
Suggestion: reduce his health somewhat, so that the phases don't take so long. Also, maybe slow down the sword+whip spin attack he does by a small amount.
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***Boss Number 5 part 2: *Snowflakes/Flowers: wait until the flakes start moving, get in lane #2, use focus to get in there, the space between the 2nd and the 3rd row of flakes. Once you get in there just follow the path opened when the flakes move, you'll never get hit. *Lasers: remain on the left side of the screen, get between the gaps of the lasers, use focus if needed. *Big bubbles: stay at the bottom, get between the gaps, use lots of focus when the bubbles are near. Sometimes there are vacant spaces where there are few bullets, get there, it can save you some focus. Don't move too much. *Deadly immobilize move: deadly, just stay still, when the bullets have passed, move quickly, use focus for precision, slip in the super thin space between the bullets and stay still, rinse and repeat. Don't panic, stay calm. If you don't use antimatter or auto bomb, you're probably screwed if you don't move fast enough or too slow. *Zigzag: pretty easy, nothing special.
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Solid game all around, Hyperion felt challenging but beatable, and all of the levels and bosses felt balanced until I got to atropos, and he's ridiculous. Even with slow-mo I can't dodge a lot of his attacks because he sends them in a wall. I haven't developed any games, but there's a quote I think applies here: "If, as a developer, you feel your game is just challenging enough, it's way too hard." After around 20 attempts on him, with only twice removing all his armor, I'm giving up, but the game still gets a 4/5.
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This game could be great, but the absurd difficulty ruins it. For those who are just going for the badges, sell that useless warp core. The only way to get any use out of it is to beat the entire game, then beat the boss rush, which has even more annoying versions of all the bosses, one right after another. If you can somehow beat that, you get the best ship in the game and the unlimited focus warp core. What is the use of giving out the best items AFTER BEATING THE ENTIRE GAME??? For now I am giving this game a 3/5, but with some improvement, it could be a great game.
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Fun game overall. However, making it so that charging the warp core to 100% does absolutely nothing was just a dick move IMO. There's no reason whatsoever that 100% couldn't have given at least some sort of perk, instead of just "nope 100% does nothing, have fun with this challenge that's much more difficult than the rest of the game put together".
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Enemy Commander: "Make all our ships emit data that fires directly at our enemy upon destruction that can be used later so they can make and create upgrades for themselves!
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As others have said, the last boss is just bloody well frustrating. Fighting it for 5+ minutes for it to flood the screen with death isn't really fun. And just a general gripe - why is it that bosses get stronger as you damage them? Can't one boss, in one game, get weaker as you blow its parts off?
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Theres 2 patterns that kills you on bossrun. 1 of hyperion (homing+spam) and 1 of atropos (2 balls hovers you and locks you in and thus no distance from the enemy core thus not creating the gap in his his spam.) Getting that fully charges warpcores is pointless for the game though. I remember doing it after hours of just waiting to get lucky with the patterns back in july 2012. Dont bother doing it people its not worth it.
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@kacperjab:If you want to defeat melpomene,upgrade is a must.
Then,if you are lacking of accuracy,use the "homing"weapon mod.
Actually I beat melpomene with no bomb mods and i have 4 rockets.
Its attack is pretty easy to dodge if you have a good speed.
Or simply use focus if you don't.
REMEMBER:Never get hit by its triangles!