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I'm not fond of criticizing other people work or creators or Kongregate!
But this game doesn't deserve 1/5 + doesn't deserve Kongpanion week award. For starters, I've played most of Factory Balls game versions and all of them are great. But this one is "work-in-progress" version. And I don't see how it belongs to Kongpanion promotional games. It's actually unpromotional.
It's Christmas soon, place http://www.kongregate.com/games/bontegames/factory-balls-the-christmas-edition?acomplete=factoy+balls for the week award. Game itself is bad. Life system is great if you know how many levels there is versus how many balls. Some pictures of characters don't match the ball you CAN create. And I've noticed some bugs on tools - I place ball on No.3 it uses No. 4 tool. And then I have to lose balls. No restart game button, even after you finish the game. So: many bugs, work in progress game that helped evolve other series, but by itself - ungame.
And btw
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Though the lives system is annoying, you have to remember this is the first in the series. And yes, the later games allowed you to recycle balls if you made stupid (or not so stupid) mistakes.
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I don't see the point of a limited number of balls except to make players start all over from the beginning repeatedly.
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The lives system only stops me from experimenting. It also made my little sis lose interest around the second/third time she had to restart. Which is a shame seen as she really enjoyed the other ones.
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For those wondering, the last line after completion is Dutch (or more Belgic) and roughly translates to 'See ya, and good luck!"
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Recycling got a new definition in this game xD Anyway I wanted to try out the first game and it's good, I like the physics and the thinking about it,.. gotta try the other ones too! :)
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I played 4 first so I didn't realize I was losing the balls! Still fun but I hated having to drag the ball each time instead of just clicking. 4 spoiled me!
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If you're confused or stuck, check out my quick walkthrough video: http://goo.gl/UfBySV I hope it's not too fast for you guys.
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cool game duuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuude how about you friend me and friend ilikehorses and + this if you agree that it's cool
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it can be either the hardest or the easiest game in the series. Easiest if you never make mistakes, because there are like 3 lifes and no level select, but it has only 14 levels and max 6 tools, or the hardest if your method is trial and error.
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"lives system kind of unforgiving"? No, it's just stupid. Maybe if I have n balls from start and I lose'em along the way, maybe if there were not silly "?" buckets, most of all not if in the last level I have only two lives for no whatsoever reason and there are two new components I have never seen before (well, sort of sprayer once). 1/5 only because I cannot rate 0/5. And I loved the previous ones.