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Although a simple concept, this game excels. The story and flow between rooms take it away from just puzzle after puzzle. 5/5
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I'm surprised this game's rating isn't closer to 5. It has a wide variation of well-crafted puzzles based on simple rules that create a deep and challenging (NP-complete) mechanic. I thought it was great.
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Very low rating for a well executed game, I guess many kongregate players just hate hard puzzle game especially one without any kind of jumping or timing
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Damn, this one is hard. I put A LOT of effort to get all gold in the forest level, but eventually done it. Can be really satisfying. Looking forward to the next levels ^_^
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i missed one gem, it took me more than an hour to realize that maybe its the gem in training.. sometimes i feel stupid
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@sotlat: You oversimplify. The actual point is that there is no noticeable difference in difficulty between Bronze, Silver and Gold for most levels. For me it didnt make the game less worthwile. But it's worth mentioning from a game designer/developer point of view.
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i am not sure if this important game behavior gets explained along the quest: stone blocks can not be pushed over money bags. this behavior is crucial to the solution of the 3rd level in "the chilling mountains", named "the sweet lure of meat". i did not know that and banged my head 40 mins on the solution, unless i found out by accident. part of the solution is (spoiler alert): to place a money bag 2 fields below the stone block, so the block gets blocked itself and questy can push the yellow switch.
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There is no reason this game should be under AT LEAST 4 stars. People are only giving this game less than 4 stars because they want a game that takes NO thinking so they can grab some badges and go to the next game. This is for sure a 4.5-5 star game! Thank you for another great game!
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I've been replaying the mountain boss a few times now, It be nice if i didn't have to watch the boss video over and over again while I try to get a gold star. I loved it the first time, but now its just become annoying.
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I've gotten 13 Platinum Levels so far. - Simple Green - Up the mountain we go - Whelps have wing - Veiled retreat - The treasure chamber - Someone must be trap happy - A cave with some chaos - The sweet lure of meat - Her high royalness, kro'la - Uh oh, no loot bags - A little help from my friends - The chamber of souls - The Final confrontation
A little hint for getting platinum on "The chamber of souls"; you can finish with either a surplus loot bag or a surplus joint of meat. That's a huge give away, but the level took me an hour to figure out so it'd probably have taken some of you even longer.
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Been a while since I got one of these badges without consulting a walkthrough for the tougher levels. Did it all on my own, and here is, what I'm sure, the least elegant way to get the gem for the alchemy lab, if you're interested.
http://i.imgur.com/cxVFr.jpg
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@RedSun383: There are 12 known possible platinums. (There used to be 14, but then two of those levels had a loot bag removed.)
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I was super excited to see a sequel for this game. The last game was fantastic, and so was this one! Most of the levels didn't take too long, level progression was great, and the addition of stars for the levels made me go back and redo some levels. One suggestion (if it hasn't already been made) would be to perhaps make a list of how many levels have platinum stars. At this point I've hit 6, but I have no clue if there's potentially more. (Simple Green; Bonus Room - Veiled Retreat; The Sweet Lure of Meat; Uh Oh, No Loot Bags...; Someone Must Be Trap Happy; & The Treasure Chamber)
Anyway, great game. I hope we get to see #3!
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When I've already seen a video, please don't show it again as it's slightly annoying to see a few times when going for medals..
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As soon as I saw Talesworth, I knew I had to play it. Absolutely loved Death Watch, so this game must automatically be good!
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If you could just chop down the doors, as it said in the ending, then why go through the trouble of opening a bunch of levers?
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An interesting feature in the next game would be gates that requires Questy to step over them twice before they go up. They would make the planning have to go one step further. Maybe also stacked loot bags? :)
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Why do you guys expect the dev to know how many platinum there are? I bet they just added platinum only for the guys that find better solutions then them. So probably they don't know the best solution in many levels ...
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As best I can tell there are thirteen platinums, twelve of which have been stated by other players.
Simple Green (Green #1)
Up the mountain we go (Red #1)
Whelps have wings (Red #3)
Veiled retreat (Red Bonus)
A cave with chaos (Blue #1)
The sweet lure of meat (Blue #3)
Uh oh, no loot bags (Blue #5)
A little help from my friends (Blue #6)
Her royal highness, Kro'la (Blue Final)
Someone must be trap happy (Purple #2)
Deadly loot (Purple #6)
The treasure chamber (Purple Secret)
The final confrontation (Purple Final)
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Just for anyone who didn't know, on the first level of each land you can get a score beyond Gold, Platinum!!! And you also get an "InGame" achievement. I love this game so much, it's one of my favorite games on Kongregate. Everything about this game is great, it's not to hard but it is also not to easy so it just makes it fun, I love the story to! great job on the game. 6/5! :D
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Just to agree with many of the other posters... I don't see how anyone could give this less than 5/5. Truly engaging game.
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I'm kinda curious how do you make the level. It looks kinda difficult. Do you have some method, or lots of try and error?
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You mean the way you're required to check Scoring and finish with the tools it specifies left over if you want a gold?
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Upon completing all bonus rooms, there's a text saying "Questy hears some door grinding from deep underground..." perhaps a special room? Where can I find it?
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Having enjoyed Talesworth 1, the game started as a 4-star rating for me. The puzzles are challenging and fun, the gameplay is easy to pick up on. The fact that you've put so much thought into things like saving your item placement on a level if you leave the screen is what put this over the top to a 5-star game. Great work!
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I enjoyed the game. However, the 'secret path' to the treasure chamber was open before I did the bonus rooms. Imagine my surprise when being told that completing the final bonus room opened that 'secret path'. Otherwise, it must be quite hard making the levels, and the object placement memory is a very nice touch, so well done.