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C'mon, man! I've got a screen the size of a table, but you can't scale the game past 600 pixels, or whatever? Seriously? Hasn't this problem been solved like 100 times?
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My complaint is that when I collected all the eye pieces, I died instantly because of being sent into spikes. The area is really small and the spikes shouldn't kill instantly. I try to float by the small forcefield protect(e/o)rs but sometimes, there's not much room to turn with the square and I hit a spike and have to start over. I know you can't fix it but I just think it's too hard. Especially without being able to reverse.
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@DialMforMONKEY: The weight IS actually realistic. Do you really think a merchant would only be shipping around one brooch at a time? No, they'd have an entire shipment of supplies. Therefore, consider each item a crate/barrel of said item.
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Not to add to the rather impressive list of critiques for this serviceable-but-flawed game, but the treasure-hunting minigame is kind of messed up. It's not clear exactly HOW the "number of squares" is calculated at each site, but it doesn't make a lot of sense. Many times, I've calculated how many squares away from the dug-up site the chest could be (including diagonal movements), only for the golden chest to be even further away. There's something screwy with that system, and it ought to be fixed - if nothing else, the easy badge would be a bit simpler to find.
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The Batavia was not a pirateer ship, it was a ship of the Dutch East India Company (VOC). It was built in Amsterdam in 1628, and armed with 24 cast-iron cannons and a number of bronze guns. Batavia was shipwrecked on her maiden voyage, and was made famous by the subsequent mutiny and massacre that took place among the survivors. But no pirate ship. Source: wikipedia, and I'm Dutch. Cute game further though.
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â–º â–º â–º Zoolander: *"What is this?? A ship made for ants?!"* ((in reference to how my ship can only hold maybe 4 or 5 rings)) That's one tiny ship!! *"How can we expect our pirates to plunder, if they can't even fit inside the ship?"* Oh, if I expand the cargo area I can hold a whole 8 rings! Oh wow. :) *SMASHES SHIP ONTO THE GROUND* "I have a vision..."
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How come the captain's always have the worst ships? The other ships are firing fire cannonballs while he just has a little ship lol.
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@kkfenix You do realize that jewelry wasn't cookie-cutter assembly made in that time, yes? It was hard to make, and expensive, the odds of anyone finding a CRATE of jewelry are about slim to none. You certainly wouldn't find a crate of Brooches either, maybe a chest of random pieces of jewelry but that's an extreme stretch too. Barring kingdom treasuries, jewelry generally wasn't kept in massive piles, something about being too big a target. If you think about it, M's right and logic dictates you would NOT find a 100+ pound stash of jewelry. Seriously, that'd be over 100 pounds of gold and precious gems, you'd be able to retire.
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Hardest easy badge ever. It's all luck. At this rate, I'm going to get the Upgrades badge before I get the Golden Treasure badge.
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I had fun once I had money to upgrade my stuff, but it took a VERY long time to get to that point. The "strategy" to win never varies and is a bit confusing to master. Also, I know it sounds petty but I removed a star for not having a volume control on the title screen. My husband works late and whenever I see a game that has a loud, blaring title music and no mute it really bugs me.
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This game gets 1/5 because there is not nearly enough explanation of what things are and how they work, which is essential in a game that involves a lot of luck.
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Trick for the chests : the distances for diagonals is also 1. Basically that means that there is an "square perimeter" of possibilities. I usually put second dig on a diagonal of the first dig : you then will have only 2 suspect spots remaining (where the 2 squares meet). 50% chances to get it right (compared to other methods).
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bug found, it says eliminate the marked ship, but there is no ship, only the mark; also, game is too slow, things are expensive, 1/5