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There's one boss that shoots three streams of bullets at you. In a sense, it's one of the more difficult bosses. I don't know if it's the one I lost the most lives on, but it's close. The problem is that it's way too easy to graze. Instead of grazing one bullet, you graze the whole stream. You gain a life after every other shot. In the boss rush, I gained about twice as many lives from that one boss as I lost from all of them combined.
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Awesome game! A word of advice on the last level.
That one boss that shoots spiral shots and also shoots three beams at the same time is one of the trickiest. To get past that one you need to graze one of the three beams while shooting at it. If you do this you'll get a ton of extra lives. I managed to get 13 without using the redrum. Try it! Hope this helps!
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The contrast on my laptop's screen leaves much to be desired- dark blue and green enemies on a black and dark grey backround are very difficult to see. Adding an outline in a high-contrast color would have made dying from being rammed by enemies you could barely make out clearly might cause some people to ragequit. The bullets can be clearly made out on all the levels (that I saw...) at least...
The opportunity cost of trying different powerups/levels is very high, measured in player time spent.
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an even easier way to kill the final boss is getting into melee range. You will graze so many bullets, thet you will gain lives instead of losing them.
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Did you know that when you get to the 3 last level's final boss(the one that shoots 3 beams of bullets) you can stay in one spot and the beams will just graze you FOREVER? this makes you gain a life every 3 beams! once I got 116 lives by doing that!
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This game is quite fun.Especially the miniboss in the levels(when there is WARNING).I could dodge them without getting hit,I say!Or is it??
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1. loved that you had to paths to choose, tried them both and liked the pods path the most
2. The enemy moved a tad bit to fast
3. Notices the blue enemy path was hard to see
4. Adding a bit more ship selection would be awesome
Good game Overall, 5/5
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There is no indication of where the border of movement is which makes me blind on my range of mobility. Worse is that when your ship meets the border, instead of sliding towards the move, it stops completely and ends up getting a bullet to the face. The difficulty of this is not the amount of bullets on the screen but the bad interface and interaction between user and ship.
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I felt as if the music was slightly distracting and that the hud got in the way, so when I went to evade to that corner, I was unable to see where my hitbox was. Overall I enjoyed the concept although I wish it had different starter ships to choose from.
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people compare things to frantic because frantic was so well-put together that it raised expectations for us all. sort of like how toss the turtle was a genre-starter
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Crap! Totally crap! This game deserves a deleting process on kongregate and every flash game hosting site! Don't blame yourself DN8-maker! Maybe you are just a jerk for copying games! -_-
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Thanks to grazing, that "3-beam" boss is basically a lifegiver. (BTW, I haven't tried this, but I guess it's possible to abuse him for infinite lives)
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Pretty fun game. Just two things that I think would improve the experience:
1) Keyboard controls. I can't see my cursor, yet if it ever goes outside of the frame, -1 life.
2) There's a small graphical glitch when I have 20+ lives. The glowing gradient doesn't fill the entire mask, so most of the "2" and part of the ones digit is just a white strip.
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Have to agree with kingofsorrow; that boss with the streams of red bullets is absurdly good for getting extra lives. My first time through I finished with 19 extra lives >.>
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just a question: does one of the bosses only exist for sapping extra lives out of? you know the one that shoots 3 streams of red bullets in short bursts?
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@N45H, I never made the DN8 / DNB connection! I just called it DN8 as DNA was too obvious / easy, and DN8 just looked right. I guess there was a subconscious choice going on there with the music :)
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+18 lives because of triple stream boss on third last lvl xD other good things: visuals, grazing, music (D.N.8 = DNB, much? =D) 5*
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this game would be fun, if it weren't for the mouse controls. it doesn't help that the cursor occasionally warps to someplace outside the playing field and the ship along with it, resulting in almost certain death
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Very playable. I like the advancement tree. I really appreciate not having to do that same thing over and over to earn money to but a frigging power up. This is pure game, no mobbing. Respect for that.
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Also, the sidekicks that can shoot are limiting my movement. Rather than allow them to pass the edge of the screen, like the defensive orbs, they're stopping me from approaching their respective edges, which makes it harder to dodge some bullets, especially when you're not expecting to be stopped from going farther left or right when you're not there yet.
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A lot of the bullets I'm trying to graze are spontaneously disappearing near my left and right wings, and this is without the defensive pods blocking them. Please fix this. It's making grazing a pain, even moreso because the graze range is so godawfully small.
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Great game, adds new concepts to the genre and a real incentive to play again. i also love the random generations you have added, great job. 4/5
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@ "LOL the boss on "dr. X would be proud" can give you tons of extra lives if you graze on his triple death ray."
Yeah, and it's pilot is named Captain Obvious...