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I'm glad to see that people are catching on that this was never meant to be a "shoot em up" type game where all you do is use your guns. The talents are definitely designed to be the Mech-Druid's most powerful tools, and I think they do the coolest stuff. The standard guns are a quick but costly option, since you may find yourself buying ammo with all your skill points.
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Way cool! After all those casual puzzles and boring turn-based "tactical" games which have occupied Kong lately, this was like a breath of fresh air.
Liked the concept, loved the challenging endboss. Next time, it would be nice to see the difficulty ramped up a bit (so that the game is fun even before the boss) and some explosions added. :)
Oh yes, one last thing. Graphics RULE! Finally someone realized the importance of fluid gameplay over fancy eye-candy.
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btw, got to mention, tree of life with entangel and when im bored electric (with pull tiems talent especialy) nukees all. didnt use blade after the start where i used it to kill blue bastards. dragon was nice, but didnt need to mvoe at all later in game and staing in tree form healed me a lot... + phoenix form isnt good, too fast, too donkey (lol, couldnt resist :), too poweful. the flamethrower was ok and funn, but not this.
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once you get the druid entangle talent, you can stay in any form any long you wait practicly, cause you got loads of refill focus drops around (GET THAT TALENTS FAST! believe me). as for ammo once i got this i didnt use any wqeeapon, jsut too many sure kill technices... (once you get hight lvl talents, all is death) when i ended got all waht you can buy for skills, 100 skill points left (never boughth any supply, didnt even need too) and full statistics. but still, i suggest unlimited forms. or better, not unlimited but for free (no essences). would be great i think. also a little more talents in the tree (though I cant even think of anything not overpowering yet useful to add (maybe because tlaents are OP already :D)) otherwise - 5/5, was funn! and story seems great! add more games of this sort from this world!
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not sure what the problem is with the imac. I programmed the whole thing on a mac and use firefox, and it works fine. And, I guess its not only for right handed people, since you could use the AZERTY key layout above if you wanted, even on a QWERTY keyboard.
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every time i click to start a game my firefox (i'm on an iMac) freezes, so i can't play. and i have a question...is it another game for right-handed people only?
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/// One thing you could try is letting us set a favored form to shift+click, although that's a bit of a stopgap. Also, Q and E should cycle through weapons in a loop, not wall out at the highest/lowest numbered weapons. One of upping the drop rate on ammo, automatically granting a fair amount of ammo at the end of each level, or making the pistol unlimited would be a nice gesture, as would taking another look at your autoreload implementation. I understand why you did Essences along with Focus, but I don't think they really *add* much to the player's experience. If you really want to retain them, consider significantly increasing the length of time characters can normally remain in a form.
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Also: Right now the game demands simply too much attention juggling for me to really enjoy it. I have to worry about essences, focus bar, which form I'm in (and it's not particularly easy to hit the form buttons from WASD, much less juggle weapons while doing so), health, ammo (both my total and manually reloading), etc etc. The mechanics are neat, but the carpal acrobatics just aren't worth it.
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When the main weapon goes to autoreload, it seems to simply display the bar and do nothing until I hit R to manually reload it. Also: Consider upping the movement speed increases on Agility, using something other than skill points for ammo/essence costs, and/or letting us sell unwanted ammo/essences.
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I added a mute all sounds option to the pause menu, so you can now listen to your Dr. Dre CDs peacefully, without hearing the game in the background.
I also upped the movement speed "a tad", but if you really need to speed up, you should use DRAGON FORM by pressing 4, or you can increase your permanent base speed by maximizing your agility attribute.
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Fun game overall, great mechanics, add some flashy effects to make it a little les bland and it will become a Kongregate favorite. 4/5
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i've gotten a lot of feedback about the AZERTY issue, so I'll be working on that immediately. In the meantime, azerty players can shift over and use UHJK to move, 6 through 9 to shift forms, Y and I to switch weps, and O to reload. (its the same layout on the keyboard as the original, just shifted over 5 keys)
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hey everyone. thanks for the comments and helpful advice. this is our first published game, so we are really taking your input seriously. I just uploaded a new version that alleviates the zoom problem, and I'll probably get to most of the other issues throughout the day, so keep the feedback coming, thanks for playing, and please stop back, as things will be cleaning up throughout the day!
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Many small things that have been named before... Zooming, linking Buy to SP and such... Other than that, really promising game.
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The slippery slope of linking xp to performance in levels is superfluous, also don't like the ammo pickup mechanism on drops from enemies. More seriously though is the zoom forcing you to play mostly from the minimap, which isn't colour coded for different enemy types and wastes 90% of the screen.
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That was very good. This is probably what I will consider "finished" when I start creating games. Very good, I enjoyed it.
4/5
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As mention below
You get hit by enemies well before they get close, it looks to be about the same radius as the shock shield. I am all for guns with ammo, but there should be 1 gun that has inf ammo so you are never completely screwed. It doesn't have to be good just make the pistol inf ammo because with the giant radius to get hit I tend to spend all my point on hp.
fix those things and this will be a top class game
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Despite the flaws I give 5/5 because I see great effort and potential. But the game needs polishing. In the comments I saw very accurate observations and criticism which must be followed. More polish and BALANCE and the sequel will rock!
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Could really stand to make the screen start scrolling earlier when you move towards one side. Also, it's annoying that you default back to the machine gun when you switch back to normal form. Make it remember your last weapon and go to that. Flaws aside though, this was pretty fun. Good job.
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I think attributes have a bit too high starting cost. Auto reload please! Tutorials should be a bit less long winded - have less pages.
Last, but def not least, I refuse to play more than the first level; the viewable area is way too small for me to even consider this game. I found myself shooting urchins based on their minimap position. Also, I found the screen scroll and the basic movement of the druid way too slow. I would also prefer to play a game like this that has unlimited ammo on the starting weapon (even if you have to make it a knife).
Here's a suggestion for version 2. Hybrid modes that are even more powerful.
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It'd be nice if you'd auto-reload. I kept thinking I was completely out of ammo.
And the "buy supplies" thing doesn't make sense for ammo. What does 0/400 mean? Clicking it (buying more) just gives me more on the second number. I assume the first number then is how big the gun's clip is, but...
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when i kill final boss i found a bug that i got to fight again and my shot cannot hurt them
and no boss so i stuck and when my hp lower than 0 i not died?
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It's a good game, but Im a little overrun by the controls! I mean, weapon selection, forms, and movement all with my non dominant and is difficult. Maybe you could switch it to an auto select (which you could change with your right hand) and make firing spacebar