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What really gets me is how good a game like this and Arcuz COULD be. I want to like them so much. But then poor controls, tutorials covering things you need to see, low drop rates.. so many bad decisions that make them infuriating more than fun. Almost as big of a disappointment as Diablo 3 was. Almost.
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My favorite part about any RPG is spending 5 hours on the same 10x10 patch killing the same monster for the very first quest holding a stick, not being able to progress. Really gets the blood pumping to close the game.
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For those curious about how to play this with SuperNova SWF Enabler plug-in, use this address provided below by copying the entirety of it and pasting it onto the address bar at the top of your browser to ensure that it bypasses the ‘GameShell’ issue that have plagued many earlier games of Kongregate: supernova://play/?swfurl=https://chat.kongregate.com/gamez/0008/1398/live/castawayKon.swf?kongregate_game_version=1292015336 Make sure that your latest installation of SuperNova works correctly, as it will not function if it cannot load games that can work fine without this bypassing of the SWF files here (Used Google Chrome dev tools to get the link).
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Another problem I've noticed is that if I reload the page and load a game, my inventory is cleared. I love this game but damn.
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IDK why but whenever I close the browser I'm using and come back to the game, my save file doesn't appear. Third time restarting.
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COUNTRY ROOOOOOOOADS
TAAAKE ME HOOOOME
TOOO THE PLAAAAACE
I BE LOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOONG!
WEST VERGINIA!!!! MOUNTAIN MOMA!!!!
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More tips to make your pet alive: (2) Which pet to choose? The initial Eye guy is a weak pet; I changed to a scorpion for the Jungle zone (a hard zone since all enemies are aggressive and trees block your vision, I needed to reload lots of times due to the eye guy being killed), and then to a frost scorpion after the Glacier was opened (has way more HP and it is able to freeze the enemies).
(3) Another trick: put a few blue beetle eggs in the hatchery so you can choose the beetle and allow it to be killed while your favorite pet stay alive in the hatchery. Do it if you need to fulfill a mission in a dangerous zone (as the Jungle) and your pet is weak.
(4) In the initial levels (until Jungle), if you are short on berries go to the Beach and kill the blue beetles, they drop many berries and will not attack unless you attack them.
(5) After you get Sneak, set your pet to stay at a hard map and walk alone until the entry for the next map so the enemies will not see you.
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Some tips to make your pet alive: (1) grinding is the key! Try to grid in maps where the enemies are all passive (so you can set to pet to "stay" at a place while you kill the monsters and get XP for both without the monsters attacking your pet). A reasonable map is the third one in the Grassland, since the only aggressive monsters, the scorpions, are in a island. Set your pet to "stay" near the entry for the fourth map while you go alone to the scorpion island, so you know where the scorpions are.
With the Marsh, the game got considerably easy, since the marsh has lots of maps where enemies are passive (the two maps after the first, and the third one, which has only black beetles). When you got to the Magma zone, you can safely grind at its two first maps (with the normal skeleton, who are passive). Btw, if you are short on money and do not want to spend it resting, just wait (a looong time) in these maps to heal HP without any risk.
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The game became significantly easier once I just let my pet die. In hindsight, it should've been obvious: I spent most of my time rushing to save it or using items on it, it never actually helped in any way. Once I got rid of it, tho, those 200g meat suddenly became a nice money source. And now I had room in my inventory for things like potions and castaway feathers!
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You heal passively, your pet doesn't. You can buy healing supplies for yourself but you have to find berries for your pet. Definitely a thing that makes keeping them alive harder :|
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this is one of the worst put together games i've ever played on kong (or really anywhere). the idea is pretty decent and it could have been a solid 4star game, or even 5star, but it's so poorly made, jesus haploid christ on a stick!
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This game is difficult for no other reason than bad programming. Once you learn how to somewhat work around it, it's playable, but it's really unfortunate that what could have been a really nice game is kept back by bad pathfinding, bad interface and arbitrary limitations. Castaway 2 definitely fixed some of these problems. The Hard badge for this game is a time sink as you really need to overlevel by grinding to overcome the bad combat. Also, your pets will die - a lot. Level your EyeGuy safely and grind with him and use leveled hatched pets to do boss runs, in which you will probably lose them. 3/5
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Worst game I played so far. Endless and pointless grind, unwelcome controls and shitty "save in town" feature, that can literally obliterate your 2 hours progress because of ONE mistake. Definitely 1 star
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Hello
Nice game
Mouse disappears everyplace Except the Game itself,
Unless it highlights have no idea where you're at on the page.
Thanks
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I see that many people are having basic problems. To exit a building, click x, or if there is no x, then click back and then x. Make sure that you save every time before leaving your base area. To exit there, on the upper right you'll see the words World Map, click that, then you'll have a choice of where to go. If you're just starting out in the game, you'll simply want to be in Castaway Beach. After clicking, before you move, notice where you are. See how the land sticks out there with the length of 3 blocks? Well, when you want to go back to the buildings, that is where you'll want to go. If you walk around that section, to the lower right you'll see the land stick out again with three blocks, that is is where you can travel to the next section.
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If you walk there, again remember your surroundings as to leave the next area there are two options of where next to go, but those are definitely more dangerous than those first two sections, where those sand beetles will not hurt you unless you first attack them. I do recommend not ever selling any healing items or shards as you will likely want them at some point. In fact, when you use heal, it is likely best to use up your weaker heals first so that you'll have stronger heals when you most need them. If you are one that thinks that the game is difficult then take it slow and steady. Simply battle those Sand Beetles for quite awhile, and I do mean quite awhile, to improve yourself. I realize that that can get monotonous, but you'll be much better prepared for the tougher creatures down the line.
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Then you can venture to the next areas, etc. But always be careful how you progress and don't get to big for your britches. This game actually isn't very difficult if you do that. As for directions, while it is not optimum, it is the same that many other games use, and one simply just needs to get used to it. While battling those easy Sand Beetles, orient yourself to those directions. (FYI, there are different sections on the World Map, where you will also find creatures which won't attack you unless you attack them; they are simply more powerful adversaries. That is where you should again spend lots of time to build up your supplies and improve yourself.)
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I'm guessing it was cool in 2010. Controls are wonky. Exits are odd. A bit of imbalance at the beginning. I like trying out new stuff, this wasn't great or anything.
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So there's no way to know what is an exit and what isn't, even once you get used to the controls it seems to stop working momentarily every so often, the scenery is constantly in the way, the price for staying in the end and thus healing gets absolutely bananas quickly, you have to carry equipped things in your inventory, seriously limiting what you can carry, and to top it off the UI is ugly and it is so wearying to try and scroll through all the active quests or shop items. Thanks, I hate it!
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What am I missing here? Been playing for an hour and all I've done is grind sand beetles. 20 shells? That's going to take all day. Still can't afford to buy the first piece of gear.
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WASD is horrible for isometric games unless you can actually move left right up and down.
Why should S move me down and to the left?
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I did enjoy the game, however: how in the world do I get back to town?! I died without being able to figure out the crappy map.
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Constantly trying to work out how to get to the town when on an island. Just needs something like a little signpost placing at each of the exit points.
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If you are fighting two or more enemies at the same time, you can swap attacking each of them for a quick attack that has no cooldown.
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There are so many bad design choices that the basic gameplay loops is unbearable. Unclear/unmarked exits, awkward movement, opaque obstacles, Abilites and Attacks on separate pages, no hotkeys for heals, long slogs to home base with exhobertant Inn pricing...
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I think I found what's causing the bug I encountered, after the initial reload of the game I went to castaway beach and the beetles were doing me 3 damage a hit, but after I completed the quest I went back to town and saved my progress in the traveler's den. Upon returning to castaway beach, the beetles did me massive damage once more and almost killed me. Upon reload of the game again, beetle damage was 3 per hit again. It seems for me anyway that I have to reload the game after every save of progress or I encounter this bug
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OMFG I just got the easy badge by reloading the game and the bug fixed itself and the monsters no longer do me 40+ damage a hit
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Yep this game is broken, 1 star... gonna report it as the botd its gonna be for is unobtainable. I cannot get sufficient armor at the start to fight monsters at castaway beach that do me 40+ damage a hit and kill me in 2 hits before I can land 1 hit of 15
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I think I encountered a bug in the game and got instantly killed, I went to castaway beach and the monster straight out killed me and my pet... I couldn't even escape from battle. I'm going to try once more but it looks at this point the game is worth a 1 star due to bugs and clunky movement... the other version of this game I played was MUCH better than this version