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Not a bad concept or a bad game. As mentioned there is a bit of a grandest and not even for middle or end game. In the initials levels you cannot come anywhere close to completing "quests with your starting equipment. 2.5/5
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totally excited to play this game when I saw it and after 1 hour the realization hit me that they made just exciting enough to wanna make you buy premium crap. I didn't, and know think they ruined a great game because of how hard they made it. It's a shame.
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Not a fun game when it takes many hours, or even a few days, to achieve all upgrades. An improvement from the first game where if you fail, you keep your upgrades. Also the random power-ups ruin the combo streak when attacking special balloons. And some balloon sequences that move in a pretty sharp angles are very difficult to reach while trying to achieve diamond.
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Gamers from around the world ! Please don't give any money to developpers like those. It would be an incentive to other unscrupulous devs. One day, "games" like this one will be considered scams and hopefully prohibited. Yea, i'm dreamin ^^ You get the point... This is just a shadow of a game with boring mechanics that can be removed by paying. Anyway, good luck to badge hunters ! A few hours of WORK for you with this one.
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wtf.... i suddenly lost all of my research and my laser weapons. not going to play anymore it my upgrades can suddenly disappear.
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Everybody is losing their minds. Yes, too many store buttons. Yes its too much to fully unlock game. Yes you have to replay levels. But come on, if you played any bloon game before your first upgrade should not have been dart lvl 2. Ive spent a decent amount of time playing without ever feeling like im grinding, and I dont pay devs to be able to play the game less, which is the only thing you can buy in this game so the store prices don't matter to me. The only thing I have a problem with is lag and that could just be cause Im using Chrome. Decent game 3/5
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I wanted this too be good, but its awful. Could be alot of fun with a few added features. 1) Make a research tool that allows you to receive more blops as it levels up. 2) Explain a little more how exactly the research works. I buy a bunch of stuff and really cant tell the difference. 3) The most expensive weapons should be the best weps. I have the dual beam lazer and it sucks so hard because it does nothing to glass bloons. 4) The grind on this is absolutely terrible. Also, when the game can be beaten without paying any real cash, why are the items so expensive with rl money? Really no incentive to get 100% either. Not sure why I care if I get all trophies or all blops. Maybe if you teased an extra 5 levels for the completion there would be incentive.
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Look, you guys can flame NinjaKiwi all you want but the simple fact is that they did not violate the "Free to Pay" rule and that is "Do not sell something you cannot get through free play". While it is true this is a very grindy game, some like that. I do, for one. I want to play a fun game for a couple days, not 5 minutes for a badge. My complaint will lie in the fact that I feel that I am tricked into trying to pay money though. On the level select screen, where I'd expect a store to buy upgrades is a "Store" to pay money. It is rather annoying to feel asked for money every few levels by accident.
That being said, I think they do deserve some money for having an awesome game! I'm not aware of how they do make their money from making games but if they don't have a system in place I would choose to donate to them. If it also gets me some stuff to make my game more fun then awesome, if not, I still would like to give them a couple bucks for being awesome game creators.
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For those who cannot figure out how to pop glass baloons, the middle gun on the very bottom, the red laser looking one? Yeah, that pops them almost instantly, especially at higher levels.
I'm nowhere near done, just about half way and 2 days of grinding in and I'm using the boomerange (glaives) and the laser in the middle. Working very well for grind sessions right now. My favorite ones to grind on are 2-4 and now 3-1 since I can pop the glass ones.
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For the sake of balance, you may want to considering reducing the ration of values for blue to red. I would make it 2 blue to 1 red instead. Also, the completion bonuses are really small and don't impact purchasing as much as they could.
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I can't see "phased" balloons. I know they're there when I can't move past an area, when random bubbles appear for some reason, and when my CPU starts wailing and my FPS drops to around 2. Also ... what everyone else said about the repetition.
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I'm not sure how this happened, but it happened around when I was buying some research items in the game and know no matter what I do my total blops is always -1 or it resets to -1 when I try to buy something inside a level
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Why does everything link to that stupid store?
"What's that? Can't afford it? HERE IS THE STORE!"
"Buying upgrades? HERE'S THE STORE!"
"On the opening screen? HERE'S THE STORE!" The store button on the opening screen is almost bigger then the play button!
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Start a level, position your monkey, press ALT+TAB to another window and then shrink the browswer window. Great for grinding while doing other things (ehem....work)
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Game is definitely setup for greed. I love how it mentions repeating levels to earn badges for achievements... yet the game has no internal achievements.... Game was fun, but if you took down the prices to 1/10 of their value, that'd be great. Until then, F U you JPMorgan wannabes.
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Seriously. Have none of you ever played Bloons TD? Anyone? Nobody here should be surprised by the grinding or the premium content. Now I don't necessarily think the TD games transfer well to a top-down shooter, but everyone is bitching just to bitch.
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Hard badge done, finally. If anyone wants a tip to grind it out, ignore everything except darts for left/right and lasers for eyes. Once you get spike arms it's more or less smooth sailing. Now let us never speak of this again.
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OK ... so progress is saved on your servers, and not on my local machine, and there is no option in game to reset and start again? Goodbye.
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I don't know that they mention anything in-game, but according to the Bloons wiki, red blops are worth 3x what blue blops are worth. Just an FYI.