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Excellent game overall, but the final ninja champion on level 14 is unfair. The only way to get brilliant is to get a lucky proc to prevent him from using smoke bomb long enough to go under 2000 hp (and then be killable by meteor). No ninja should ever have enough speed to reach the gem pile before becoming visible if hit instantly at the map edge. And if you must put one in, it should never have enough hp to survive 5 hits from meteor.
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Excellent game 5/5 But Id like these thing added
1. Nerf Ninjas
2. "reset skills" button
3. As soon as you click the upgrade it closes the towers menu very annoying when upgrading a lot of towers
4. HOTKEYS!!
5. More levels or a ∞ waves level
6. Upgrade all button
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finally beat level 14 with a brilliant :) took about 15 tries, but I leveled up a fair amount. Max out fear towers and just spam them. with freezing and the skill boost (MORE FEAR!) 1/2 the time you 1 hit the ninjas and the other 1/2 they flee back to the start, or freeze. then you can mop them up. Fireballs also help.
Also make sure you clear ALL the red terrain when cutting wood for extra gold early. At the end you can spam red towers to keep your mana up.
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wow.... i finally got the Didn't Touch my Gems badge....... so worth it! at level 28. it seems like i was too high, but whatever
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An effective anti-ninja strategy is to strengthen inner defenses by not leveling outer defenses until needed. Actually, this allows towers to attack more overall since they damage less, meaning they continue to rack up experience quickly, until you're ready to level them. Makes a huge difference.
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Great game. Totally addictive. But once you reach level 42 you start to accumulate skill points with no skills to put them in.
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Just one phrase: OMFG!
Nice graphics bundledd with great music and sounds,
Very simple, yet addictive gameplay.
The best tower-defense game I've ever seen in MY LIFE!
5/5, and guys: pls make a sequel!
To the users: Donate ur kreds, support this nice piece of fun!
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Great Game. Gets my vote for best Tower Defense game (and I play a TON of TD games). Same complaint I have with most all the TD games, difficulty level is too low. But I think with the "simple" games that is the market trend. I really hope for a Cursed Treasure 2.0! And... just change the name of the game to "Don't Touch My Gems" far more catchy name.
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Sonar009, your tip for level 14 sounds quite good.
Well, I filled up the spots (especially the high-floor ones) with crypts - Ninja Boss froze and my 4 Ballista Towers (upgraded Den Towers) around hit it while it was frozen. My meteor (shift-click) on the boss did the last part.
Upgrades needed for this tactical strike: Mind Control (Max), Mana Pool (Max), Ice Mastery (Max), Meteor Study (Max), Meteor Mastery (Max)
As you can see, these upgrades don't need a really high level to be maxed.
Some luck and you beat the ninja easily. Worked on my 1st try with this method.
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Sample strategy > instead of placing Dens or Temples at the start of the map, put Crypts. When at level 3 or higher, crypts makes the ninjas freezing or dancing from the start. It'll help you buy some time to let the smoke bomb disappear. At the late game, you might want to maximize the use of the crypts especially the Fearful crypts. I won map 14 and defeated the last boss without using meteor on him. He just danced on the start of map and froze him to death
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here's a tip for easy leveling and to put brilliant on all levels: You just to play on 2 race in your skill chart > Orcs and Undead (for Gold and Mana farming). The following skills are important: Gold Vault, Height Advantage, Cut Down Study, Bounty Hunting, Mana Stock, Mana Pool, Mind Control, Mana Extraction, Lich King, Ice Mastery, and Soul Vault. I recomend playing Orc first, then Undead later. You might want to put on max your Orc skills for easier leveling (it gets you money fast and kills fast). You might want to put some points on Basic Training
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Great game! in another version it would be sweet to have a small xp bonus for a killing shot, to give you a chance to develop towers further back from the front. Also a view showing what parts of the path are in range of a tower, and maybe a 'slow enemies' spell?
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Found a glitch - was in high speed in level 11, i was level 35... one character was thrown off screen, the round never resolved, even after i killed everything else
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To those having trouble with level 14:
You can kill the boss ninja outright with 6 fireballs, which is achievable. Max mana pool, fireball damage, fireball cost reduction, and mana regen for good measure, then get the demon ability "adoration" which gives you 20 mana each time you build a temple.
Early in the level, cut down 5 red forests, and leave them empty. Make sure you have 500 mana when the boss ninja shows up. When he spawns, turn game speed down if it's up, wait for him to get hit, then shift-click 5 fireballs. Shift build 5 temples in the clear spaces, and then cast one more fireball. That should kill him.
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URGH! I open up Kongregate today and my saved game is gone! I was working on beating lvl 15 and now it's back to 0. WTF?
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hesodios: Use the shift key when you want to throw meteors then each click releases one so you can get upto 5 strikes which will kill champion ninjas outright if you hit right. Also, if you use freeze towers at the entrances (and nothing else) once these get fully upgraded they do a lot of damage to the ninjas before they go stealth and sometimes freeze them (easier to hit with meteors...)
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the game is good, the skill trees are balanced and the game is fun. the only problem is that on the 14th level its almost impossible to get the brilliant badge cause u have to rely on the 25% chance that the frost tower will freeze it. you could add a skill that allows you to see ninjas, because other than that the 14th level is impossible unless u get lucky.
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i seem to cant get past level 9 can any1 help me?? im level 13 and btw there is a glitch i found where a ninja went outside the screen and i cant press next wave button
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@Hesodios
For a lvl 14 brilliant rating I put those green balista towers near the entrance upgraded with the triple bomb shot. They hit for a lot and then I meteored his ass.
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Could use hot keys...
Overall fun but a few glaring problems. Ninja Champions are insane first of all, it shouldn't be impossible to get a brilliant without having maxed meteor and mana unless you get lucky with a crypt. The game also suffers when assassins come into play... The insane doge rate is bad enough with the way they can sometimes just walk right through everything if you're unlucky, but dodging meteors? That's just irritating. Especially seeing as how it specifies "50% chance to dodge a missile".
Fix it so it can't dodge AOE, beams, and meteors, or at least change the description so it isn't so misleading.
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this is acctually a very awesome game.... is this your first or just first up-loaded to kong.... its a bit much for a beginne i would think
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How the hell you get a brilliant rating on lvl 14? I tried so many times and the last boss always makes it to the gem. Even when i 5 meteor his ass.
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Congratulations! You just won the Didn't Touch My Gems Badge and 30 points!
By far my favorite achievement on Kongregate. Fantastic balance to this game.
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okay seriously that is annoying, i click cutout, but i didn't wanna use it, so i click on another icon but it uses cutout even though i didn't click in the map? same for meteor spell it shoots offscreen by accident... cancel button plz!?