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Nice game concept, and it was rather fun in the first level or two, but after that point, the levels begin to get really tedious to the point where it almost feels like a grind. 3/5 stars.
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smaller plants need less foods. sometimes stick some food together is also a good idea, even before "the plant" is born.
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avoid lag? : make this game the only browser tab open. and for those that think the game is too tough: avoid oil hit all the nasty enemies of your reef building , get the right sort of bacteria colour to match. on the last level: even oil shot directly at your plant can be intercepted and hitting the coral eating creature here is more important: he eats finished plants.
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Got to the 4th or 5th screen, it when moving between levels it didn't scroll far enough for me to actually do anything.
I hit quit to reload the reef, and was happy to learn this completely restarted my progress. Glad to know quit restarts the entire game not just your current reef .... :(
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Sheesh, all of you whining about the game lagging and having no save : get a computer from this century, it take barely half an hour to finish. I just did, was surprised to already be at the end, and it never slowed down.
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Tried the game on my low-end laptop for the badge, saw the comments here and started using my medium-end PC, game wasn't so laggy anymore.
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Very little enjoyment behind this one trick pony. The art style is nice but the game play is shallow and one dimensional
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OK. I don't have a problem with slow. I even had fun figuring out the tricks of each level. But I can't beat this game because of it doesn't save and becomes more and more laggy, by the (I think) last level even I think it's unplayable.
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great. while i won't deny the fact that it's a fun game (honestly it is, i can't just give it one star), it's as good a game now as it was to me when it first came out: worthless, as it is infuriatingly laggy and completely unbeatable. literally. i mean i literally cannot finish this #%*$ game. pick something that works, dammit.
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This game became a lot easier to manage once I realized that you could collect a small swarm of plankton just by grabbing one and holding the mouse down while mousing over the others. Many (if not all) threats can be attacked with clicking, too.
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Boring. Annoyingly repetitive. Difficult to figure out what I need to do and then get it done. My hand is cramping up already and I want to save this and play another time when I don't feel like slamming the mouse down and yelling...HOW DO I FEED THE YELLOW ONES WHEN THE RED POISON THINGS KEEP EATING ALL THE DAMN FOOD!!! But sadly I can't save and try again when I am calmer and by the third level I am in fact this frustrated. Might be worth the frustration if there was any fun to it. 1 star is generous.
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I remember trying to get the badge a few years ago but ultimately giving up. I remember the game to be much much longer then. Am I just getting old or were there changes?
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The reg levels were fun to play, but what´s the point of the aquarium mode? Only the whales and "bad" fish coming, and you have to defend from them, but there´s no progress, no new levels, is that just an infinity mode? It gets tedious after a few minutes of playing:(
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I'm confused. The scene with the anchor. The only color food available is blue...but they won't grow from it. I ended up just smacking the squids for ever hoping new food would come.
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couldn't finish the game yesterday because there's no save feature and the bloody thing keeps crashing. thanks a lot for a BotD i literally cannot get, Kong. interesting game, but deduction since i literally cannot play to completion. wise up, Kong.
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It's rate gets a deduction for the feeling of being addressed as an infantile the game gave, the rate increases due to the game being quite unusualish. 3/5
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This game needs two things: 1) a mute or no music option and 2) a save feature. I had to start the game many times because I could not finish at one sitting and because flash crashed a few times.
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Grab a dozen at once and push them towards the corresponding colors, voila the whole game gets pretty easy. Like placing the correct colored coral nearest the production zones for those made the slanted rock a breeze. Kudos to you sir, amazing and fun game. Took a little bit of problem solving which helps us all in the realm of mental plasticity. It's great for us to try new things, and make some mistakes, and get the endorphin rush of figuring it all out.
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I am going to allow my children to enjoy the game. We've been studying the coral connections, to the oceanic web of life. This will be a fun little adventure, to get personal with the coral, feasting on different bacteria, and the connections with life, feeding on life. I loved the parrot fish eating a massive amount. Because by that level you should have realized ways to deal with the fish. (Holding poison and force feeding them the 'red skulls' upset them enough to buy a little time.)
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Simply put, Amazing concept, nice graphics... Perfect level of challenge and we all can accept the frustration felt, like a hot coal before bliss one encounters when you pass light on your ignorance... finally realize the volcanic vent exists, or the oyster opens up...
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The whale can recover 4-5 times before the next polyp appears. Terrible, awful level, super tedious, bad timing+pacing, requires way too much fine motion w/ inaccurate and/or small hitboxes.
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Took me a painfully long time to realize you're supposed to drag the white jelly things onto the rocks. Also, while it's nice to show the fish reappearing as a sign of progress, it makes the screen way too busy.
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Very bad game. Interesting idea to start with, badly executed; little to no explanation, bad balancing, becomes very difficult and/or tedious very quickly.
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this game really sucks, no save function, but the game will start to lag after like 10 min, no instructions, bad control.
you might be good at making animate, but not good for a game
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INSTRUCTIONS does not say how to play or what controls to use. This game has no sense of direction at all as is little more than an interactive screensaver of a polyps falling endlessly
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It really would be nice to have some actual colorblind settings. This game was way more of a headache than it needed to be. Not to mention that when things start overlapping, even if I could tell the difference, there's no way to actually do things.
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Frustrating game. No save available, so you need to complete the game in one sitting.
Tip for final level (the one with the oil monster) Try grouping all your corals together by colours and keep adding, makes it a little easier to get the right coloured plankton to the coral.
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Sorry, but this old game stinks as much as the pollution in it. Spent 20 minutes trying to figure out what to put in the yellow topped coral, never did figure out why some things worked and some didn't. Accidentally learned I could click on the bad fish to chase him away. No badge for me, can't put up with this poor of a game. 0 out of 5.
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Starting this game, it was a solid 3.5, even without any instructions (which is a terrible sin). By the 3rd level, that had dropped to a 2. By the end of the game, I was desperately wishing I could give a rating lower than 1 star.
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Yeah it's pretty tedious, but it's fairly short. Tips: 1.) Most importantly, you can grab multiple bacteria by holding on one and trailing the cursor through others. This makes the game much shorter. As stated by others: 2.) Putting blue bacteria into the volcanic hole gives yellow, and yellow makes red. 3.) Clicking the oysters releases bacteria of different color. That pretty much sums it up. Quick and easy badge.