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Score: 0

"Great idea, HORRIBLE execution!"

by: ShadowDragon8685

date: March 2, 2007

Okay, let's go over this, point-by-point.

Graphis: Graphics in this game are awesome, like the very last of the Super Nintendo games. In fact, I think some of them may have been ripped wholesale from Seiken Densetsu 3, aka Secret of Mana 2. :)

Style: Just awesome. The style on this game is great. It's like a hybrid defense/shooter game.

Sound: Eh. The sound could have used some work. The only sounds were the BGM and the sounds the characters made, but those sounded like they were sampled at an annoyingly low bitrate, so they kind of jarred. Some more sounds would be nice, too - two, three, or even ten different "fire" sounds for the characters.

Violence: Hells bells, you're shooting people from the sky! That's violent.

Humor: Not much to speak of, a few chuckles in the dialouge, but not much.

Overall: 0. Why?

FRUSTRATION FACTOR. This game is one of the MORE frustrating games I've played. There is a reason, a very GOOD reason, in fact, why most such games use mouse to aim and fire, and the KEYS (Arrows, please; don't be an AZERN hater) to move.

In this game, you cannot dodge fire and aim. It's just not possible. If you're aiming at something to shoot at it, that means your character is moving slowly TOWARDS it, in a predictable line pattern, and cannot dodge any incoming fire. So while you have to try and hit them (because in this game, the enemies can move laterally while firing, but the hero cannot), your hits are not a sure thing - their hits are.

Extremely unfair, first off, and secondly it's ridiculous. Fighting up to level 4 was hard. TEN TRIES on level four and I wanted to rip my monitor from it's stand and crush my skull with it. I went back to the earlier levels, gold-whored everything up to level 3. And it was still impossible.

This game has potential, but please. You MUST revise it so that you can use the arrow keys to move - it's bad enough we have to move along a set track. But you cannot, CANNOT, dodge fire and shoot with one control at the same time. Let us move with arrows, and shoot with mouse.

Score: 0

"gay"

by: hotrodhead88

date: March 7, 2007

i had the newest flas player and it said that i needed to update. i updated again and it still didnt work. every other game on this site works fine except this one.

Score: 0

"what have you done....."

by: kingoftheundea499

date: December 15, 2007

This game could have been great but you ruined it. The controls are to complex.

Score: 0

"The damned thing still wont work!"

by: DarkAron

date: March 4, 2007

All it friggin' does is flash, still, even after I downloaded the new flash.

Score: 0

"flash"

by: Medion

date: March 3, 2007

just did everything on the Flash site, even though i knew i had the right version already..doesnt work still....who the hell knows

Score: 0

"It just screams of terribleness"

by: Nondo

date: March 7, 2007

Never have I seen such a game that made me want to play it, but after playing it, made me hate it so much.

What's there to like? Graphics? Sure, if you're talking about the sprites and the little character pictures you see during speeches, but that's about it.

What's there to hate? Hells lot.

1) Well, I'm very sure tons and tons of people have already told you this, but the controls, are absolutely the worst controls thought of, plus it's not original because that one space game where you're supposed to protect the world from various UFO's already has controls such as this. At first I didn't mind it because I was just shooting monsters, like that space game, so it was ok. Then when the enemies fired back, I got slightly annoyed at the controls, but 2nd level was pretty easy. Then for the 3rd and 4th level, it really hit hard and bad, FAST! For one, if you're gonna make us use the mouse for shooting, at least make us use something else to dodge the projectiles with. It's absolutely terrible how confined our movement was. Ugh, I can't possibly tell you how terrible of an idea it was to use this kind of movement system for this kind of game. You can't possibly expect us to shoot at the enemies if our movement relies on moving our mouse, when we're also relying on our mouse to aim at the enemies, since... you know... they're kind of FIRING RIGHT BACK AT US.

2) Storyline - Typical treasure hunter storyline. Nothing more.

3) Upgrades weren't "upgrades" at all, at least, compared to the amount of points needed to get them. Projectile speed and movement speed barely upgraded at ALL, and I was still having just as much trouble trying to dodge projectiles without them being upgraded. I'll admit, the projectile re-fire upgrade was pretty decent. However, the HP upgrade didn't help AT ALL! I still died just as fast as I did without the HP upgrade.

Overall - 0. I think it's the first time I've ever given something a 0. I don't think I've ever hated a game as much as I've hated this one.