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lol blody hate the ninja's ....and i love it...really creative...definite 5/5....lol i found a glitch in the game...dont know how i did it tho....but i had infinite gems...lol
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very successful TD game. i like some aspects of this better than gemcraft and vice versa, so it creates a nice alternative experience.
the one thing i don't like is how tricky it is to get "brilliant"s fast ninja boss stages. since the upgrades for the individual towers is based on that tower's experience alone and since the fast ninja boss's 5 seconds makes it fly through most of the stage, it forces me to try to build very strong towers very close to the gem nest, and that's damned hard to do when the enemies can't touch the gems. even if i build it right, it's still a low probability that it will actually kill the ninja without a lot of luck (first hit comes from a crypt and it inflicts "fear" and the ninja runs off for a while). too much work for little return; it'd be better if the ninja wasn't fast or if there was a power up that could have a probability of negating the ninja's cloak.
picky concern for a great game though, and it can only get better in future incarnations.
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To deal with ninjas, set up one or two towers near their spawn point to get them to pop their smoke early and build all the rest of your defenses close to the gems. Assassin(miss chance guys): Build a lot of towers. Anytime you don't have towers to upgrade and you have enough cash to build a tower, do it. You should never have more than 200 gold unless you're saving for an upgrade. Upgrade b4 building a new tower.
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BEST WAY TO BEAT NINJAS: build a temple or other tower as close to the entrance as possible. Hits ninja, activates stealth, wears off by the time he gets to your towers
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I cannot convey, in words, my hatred for those ninja's. I declare that my mildest description of this hate for them would get me banned from Kong for gross overuse of "f**k". But I digress, this game is pretty solid but really needs to be polished. For instance the crypt's attacks need to return to the crypt if the target they were aiming for die's and there are no other nearby targets. Its just the small things like that.
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black pigeon here is a hint to beat that boss use alot of skill points on meteor discounts because you can make it stronger,cheaper
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come on. give this game some achievements already and give it front page applet status! i don't even care about the points, this is just a good game.
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Level 11 is IMPOSSIBLE to get Brilliant on. The Smoke bomb moves too fast to become unmasked before touching your gems. UNFAIR!
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5/5. only thing is that the max level for towers is 7. If u didn't know, here it is. And about the reset button, We really need one. i also figured that fire temples don't effect those pirate guy things.
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@Blackpigeon Do you mean the ninja mosses? If so then just have meteor fully upgraded and mana fully upgraded and you can meteor em :p
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What the hell? This game does not deserve this rating. I mean it's okay but, something like Gemcraft is so much better, in this you only have 3 towers, like seriously? I can't believe why this got rated so incredibly high.
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very very good game.
I am having trouble with the invisible champions though. Im going fro brilliant on every single level, but on level 7 the first champion always get me. any advice?
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Simple and complete.
A great tower defense.
Add keyboard shortcuts and reset skill, and this game will deserve a 5 star rating.
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a quick hint for those that have troubles with ninjas: get a couple towers up front and a bunch in the back. when the ninjas first get hit they active thier smoke bombs and in 5 seconds they get past your middle towers. But it wears off near your gems. Your towers back there will be waiting to blast those mofos.
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either fix those units that dodge projectiles or change the description to "95% chance to dodge projectiles" so that you're not lying to us
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It needs more levels, some kind of bonus stages where you can choose just 1-2 tower types and all that matters is the placement.
Towers need more upgrades (not levels), for example, crypt's mana steal upgrade is kinda pointless if you are going brute. Maybe some kind of freezing tower? (I know that there is such a skill, but a tower would be better)
And maybe even a new type of tower that increases the range/speed/power of closest towers. Of course every game has them, but I can't take that those fire/demon/whatever towers have such a low range.
Den becames strong only about when it is upgraded to 1 star. Until then it's more like ninja-activation tower.
Anyway, one of the best games on this site.
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@Boolicious: I haven't tried it yet, but THANK YOU for the pointer about SHIFT also working for meteors. It somehow didn't occur to me that this might actually work.
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I love tower defense games and I fully enjoyed this game. The graphics, the mechanics, the leveling up, the challenge, all of it is perfectly balanced and a blast to experience. The only part of this game that lags for me is having to deal with the enemies with a "50%" chance to dodge an attack. Overall I'm sure it balances well between all the enemies as a whole but it is extremely frustrating to watch all my towers miss a single enemies over and over and over and over again as he rushes for one of the gems. It turns many of the maps into a luck based mission where no matter how I'm set up, they still get through because all their dodging effectively makes them invincible. Perhaps making it so that they dodged every other shot, or better yet, programming it so that sequential hits and misses become less likely as they happen more often to help prevent situations where the enemies dodge everything.
Other than that though, the game is incredible.
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Is very difficult to get the "Brilliant" award on lvl's with ninjas as the final champion. seriously one needs to spam meteor and prey their quick enough with it. fully upgraded it takes 4 meteors to take out that ninja before he gets a gem. near impossible without a hotkey for meteor.
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@CeruleanDragon: You can hold SHIFT to shoot multiple meteors. That works fine for nearly all ninjas and ninja bosses. Don't forget to max the "more meteor damage" and "reduced meteor mana cost" upgrades.
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Level 14 is a hard nut to crack if you're going for Brilliant. Some 5x400 damage fireballs won't kill boss. I guess you've to deal the remaining 500 hp all at once (because of the smoke bomb). How to do this? Getting dens and temples (with Ignite?) up and ready?
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5/5 for being good fun. Kept me busy a few hours now and doesn't get boring. Would like to see a sequel (not more towers, just more maps and maybe abilities or higher levels) with a map editor! :D
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I give up! Level 11 Brilliant is impossible. I waited and stared at the ninja boss on the "incoming" list until the bar just hit and he appeared, then I dropped a meteor shower on him... and another... and another... I got in 3 (would've gotten 4, maybe, if there were hot keys, like there should be), but no... barely got him down to half hp before he grabbed a gem. Fantastic. I should take off a star just for how annoying that is.