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a flash puzzle game that actually requires some thought, grats.
Just an idea, this would make a nice DS game, hint hint.
At any rate, compared to games like bejeweled, which only require a good eye and luck, this is very refreshing to see. It requires serious thought, and relies more on logic than trail and error than simple clicking.
Most flash puzzle games are extremely simple, and arn't all that puzzling. (pardon the pun). This game really stands out among the mind numbing puzzle flash games and the bust a move/tetris clones. Good job.
I gave you a 9/10, simply because there is always room for improvement.
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At, first, i thought it reminded me of lights out on the game.com..and for some strange reason, i knew exactly how to solve each puzzle.
Then i realized, it wasn't like lights out, it was lights out. You get a 2 for graphics, but all the puzzles are exactly the same as lights out, down to a T. Either you and the designer of lights out think extremely alike, or you copied.
To me, a good game requires originality, not the rehashing of old ideals to people that never saw them in their original form.
2 points for graphics, 1 point for the coding. Had you came right out and said it was a flash version of lights out, i would have commended you for renewing a classic. However making no mention of the classic its obviously based off of makes it theft of ideals.
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2 Main issues with this game:
First being, the laser tower is just too power full. Once you get two of them up, the last 10-15 waves are a cake walk. Once you can build them, theres no real reason not to sell all your other towers (with the exception of the slow towers), just to build more. Their first upgrade more than doubles their damage as well. I found the game more challenging in early waves than towards the end.
Second is the fact that alot of the challenge comes from trial and error. This means at first its really hard, but once you know what to expect, its a cake walk. Challenging for the wrong reasons. If you build slow towers too early, for example, you will lose to the waves of mass overlapping monsters. Wait till you need them to make them, and you won't have enough.
Im all for a challenge, but theres not allot of thinking on fly either. Play through a few times, lose because you don't know whats coming, then it becomes far too easy. Money is so hard to come by at earlier levels, the "sell and buy" method isn't enough either; Which either way, having to constantly sell and buy towers because you didn't see a different type of wave coming detracts from the game.
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Was entertaining for a few minutes, but it loses alot of value because its so easy to glitch it for really high scores. Repetition is bad after only a few minutes, would have really helped if you added new features to make it more interesting, or atleast changed the backgrounds everytime you replay it.
It's saving grace would be the score board i suppose, give it some minor competitive feel to it, and give you a reason to replay it more, but with the glitch it makes the score board moot. The best thing about this game i thought were the graphics, but they aren't anything really awe inspiring either. Overall its mediocre, and the glitch really takes away an reason to replay it more than a few times.
Still could be made into a good game, but it needs alot more to it, start with fixing the glitch and wiping the score board then go from there.
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I think that this point, must of us feel the same way. It's not enough that the upload such trash, but that the sometimes get frontpage too.
Now ill admit right away, i am some what of a fan of the flashes that are "so bad its funny" like jerry jackson, but KK's flashes are so bad, they are just plain bad. Theres no jokes, no punchlines, it's not poorly made to be funny, its just poorly made for the sake of being poorly made.
I suppose that in the end, they have the last laugh though. I imagine they get quiet alot of satisfication knowing they got front page for a flash that they intentionally made to be pure crap. So the real question is, who is the real idiot, them for making the trash flash, or the guy putting it on the front page.
In a way you have to atleast have a small amount of respect for them; They are intentionally making fools out of NG everytime they get frontpage. Everyone gets mad at them, but im sure everything they do is on purpose. If their plan is to insult NG, they have done a very good job of that, and no one even seems to realize it.
Author's Response:
VENOM:- " i know u feel the VENOM"
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This is beautiful, seriously. It reminds me of all the times in teamspeak, counter-strike, any game that uses voice chat really, that you have to listen to people like that. How many times i wished i had a recorder running.
It's really a great example of the internet "community" as a whole, I laughed through the entire thing.
As for the ratings i gave it, even without animation its so funny i had to give it a 10; Anyone who doesn't find this funny probably does the same thing as this guy.
Author's Response:
Oh yeah it reminds me of CSS too... sadly these sort of freak outs happen more often than you'ed think...
Thanks for the review.
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Whats that song called that plays during the intro scenes? It's jammin'
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The whole series has been very good, and the story is top notch aswell. I have to say that even for a stick movie, its secound to none. I can't help but feel that the sticks don't do the story justice, even with aswell done as it is.
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Thanks
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I will say that there is alot more you could have done with this game to make it more intresting and challanging, but its point seems ment to be simple, and i can respect that so im not judging it too harshly as alot of people enjoy something simple alot more than a complicated game.
That being said, my only real complaint is that i often lost because i moved the ball close to the edge of the play area and the mouse went outside the window for a moment, causing the ball to stop moving and get hit in that instant.
Id recommend enlarging the actual gameplay area by 15% or so, and adding a border around the gameplay area that the balls cant pass through; would fix the issue of the mouse leaving the flash window, so you could still control the ball. Granted this is more an issue with flash itself than the game, but you have to take into account its limitations too.
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