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A fun game, but terribly balanced.
I found the optimal team to be 3 ninjas, and one cat to drive them into shuriken overdrive. All the rest of the classes are virtually worthless.
The reason being that even with a high speed stat, and the speed upgrade maxed out, your rate of vertical movement is still WAY too slow. It makes all the straight-line firing classes, completely worthless. you just cannot manouevre fast enough to get in line with enemies to hit them, and then dodge their projectiles.
Ninjas can do it all. they don't have to be directly opposite an enemy to hit them. And their special gives damage in all directions, which is essential for combatting enemies from behind, and the final boss.
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A pause shortcut on keyboard (P or ESC) and a pause when the game lost focus would be really great, I've lost a few games because of that. But anyway, I liked it, great concept ! 5/5
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Whoever it was who suggested 2 ninjas + 2 cats, brilliant. Easiest hard badge, seriously! Major machine gun special for the entirety of the run, got 30k by wave 17. Try to dump everything into candy drop first and it should go pretty easily.
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Great game you got here! Love the pixel art style. The houses remind me of Paperboy. ONE thing is irking me though... I wish you had a bit better description of each character's projectile. For example, the Ninjas throw three stars but the only way to know if when you play with them. Also, something showing the order of character unlocks would be nice! Great work! (PS, Want a pretty kick ass starter group? Try all ninjas, maybe a fairy for healing)
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For the hard badge, a robot, two ninjas and a cat work fine in a fully ranked party. The cat turns the ninjas into machine guns. Thanks to the robot, you will get enough candy (usually more than 30k) by level 18, when multiple bosses make it hard to survive.
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Rage quitting. It wouldn't have been so bad if there was the opportunity to repeat a level, but having to go all the way back to the beginning each time, with only a marginal improvement in your stats each time? Far too much grinding for what should be a fun game.
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> *At 27,000 points in Survival* > *Fire alarm goes off downstairs* Me: OH GOD NO...Uhh...HOLD ON I'LL BE OUTSIDE IN FIVE MINUTES
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Let's take a moment to remember the poor kid who dressed up as an alien and was eager to show his friends his wonderful costume, only to be slaughtered and left lifeless in the gutter by his bloodlust frenzied contemporaries.
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The game quickly loses any challenge if you just run 4 ninjas. The class is horridly overpowered and there's no reason to run anything else.
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The rank bonus caps out at +90. I think I got the Survival badge at level 17 when I only had +75 bonus. Just unlock Cat (one of the first low rank new classes you get) and then do Ninja x3 and Cat x1 (x2 also works, it's just a bit more upgrade-dependent). Focus on literally killing everything on the screen (staying as far back/left as possible helps a *lot*). As long as you don't fall behind, the Guns-Aliens will never be a problem, since they'll always die before they get a 2nd (or 1st!) shot off! Goodluck!
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There is a bug about bullets. Or rather a feature. Bullets have limited lifetime of several seconds... and this lifetime continues to tick even under pause. So, if you found yourself before barrage of bullets, click to pause, wait 10 seconds, unpause game - and bullets will disappear. I didn't want to share this bug, but using it i managed to pass wave 18 - and found nothing! My team just keep going on clean empty road infinitely. Obviously, developer though to kill any player on the end of 18 wave and didn't bother to make wave #19 etc. This isn't good, if you want to cut survival (in most games it is infinite), make some trigger after seemingly impossible obstacle. May be there are some geeks, who can overcome that obstacle in any way... and fall into vacuum :( this is kinda disappointing
+ so developer could see it and improve this game
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It took me 21 minutes today to get the badge of the day, but I already played the game for 37 minutes on October 1st. It took me 14 minutes to get the easy badge. Then I played 23 minutes and didn't complete story mode. I did get some stat boosts that probably helped me complete story mode today. I used 4 ninjas. They are fast (20 speed), so you can avoid enemies and bullets easier. They also add 20 attack and shoot spread out bullets, so you can hit enemies above and below you. So much easier than Superman, who shoots straight lasers!
This is definitely a tough Badge of the Day! Kongratz to you and all who got it! Most of the week is easier, so if you want to skip today's, you can plan other badges for the shiny kongpanion.
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Played forever, then took four Ninjas. Went straight through the game to the final boss and beat him. Ninjas rule, as always.
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Well, after i tried the meta team of three ninjas and one cat i went straight from losing on horde 7 to fight the final boss, even if i have still lost with all the useful stats maxed out. Game is fun but i'll give up on today's badget, takes way too much to achieve
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Well, whew, took about 6 tries getting owned by final boss and starting all over again, but with some patience it's freaking posible to achieve medium badge. Nice halloween challenge, kong. Happy halloween y'all!
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The comments speak the truth! The best way to get to 30,000 points is with 3 Ninjas and 1 Cat. Focus on accumulating candy and all the kills. Spam that Frenzy, don't worry -it recharges quick.
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It is frustrating that progress is lost. Twice now, I have gone back down to soldier and have Survival mode locked after closing the game. The second time I checked everywhere to see if there was a way to save, even played a dummy normal run in the hope that it would save my progress.
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Apparently the easy badge only requires you to collect 500 candy total, not 500 in one game. As my total for my third attempt (4 Ninja team) was 618 candy, this seems overly generous.
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game has surprising depth.
Two complaints
No apparent key bind for pause
and the big one -> you cannot get rank/party upgrades except after death. This turns what should be a skill based game into a grind; quickly sucking the fun out of it.
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Contrary to popular belief, all ninjas is not the best team. Pirate Ninjas are the way to go! Pirates and back and ninjas in front gives a much better spread than all ninjas.
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My winning setup was 2 ninjas, 1 cat and 1 knight. The cats help you to chain your special attacks nearly right after when your previous special ends. The knight blocks 75% of the incoming damage. Chain that and you'll get a very effective shield.
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I definitely agree with NanakoM, it's a fun game, but the speed stat seems to have rather negligent upgrades, making straight shooters nearly useless without at least two ninjas at their side. By the way, I managed to beat the game with two ninjas in the back and two pirates at the front. 4/5
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To get 30.000 points, I used 2 ninjas, a fairy, and a cat.
Wave 18 was almost the end for me, but I used my special JUST ENOUGH to get 30010 points before the screen faded completely to black. Good luck if this helps you.
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The hard badge is EXTREMELY difficult, at least for me, maybe I don't know some trick. But it's a great game overall, the story mode was a lot of fun, bit lopsided towards ninjas, I think it's literally impossible to beat the game on any mode without ninjas. 4/5 though! Good job, hope there's a sequel.
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I remember Halloween as a kid. With the killing-the-aliens and the real weapons and special powers me and my friends had. Oh, and sweet costumes. Good times.
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edit: 3 ninja and a cat is better. For the Hard badge, focus on candy upgrade first, as it adds to your score. By the time you get to wave 18, you will need to have earned your 30k points, or be luckier than me.
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Yeah, cat to push the ninjas into shuriken overdrive? If you mean getting the special faster, wouldn't you rather have the witch with her +20 Special? And the her special gives attack and speed, instead of the cat's just attack.
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Got me the Hard Badge with 2 Ninjas, 1 Cat and 1 Knight. To get to 30.000 you totally need some defence, simple attack won't cut it.