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Score: 7

"Fun, but needs work"

by: computer-ronin

date: October 22, 2009

The aspect of the game itself is enjoyable: Kill stuff, heal yourself, gain new ways to kill stuff, and repeat. Of the few "one-man defense" games I've played, this is one of the better.

However, there are some problems/issues that should be looked at, as well as features that should be added:

*Problems/Issues*

-Spell Reflection--The timing needed to reflect spells with your sword is difficult, and near impossible if the computer lags. This, combined with being transformed into a boar due to a green wizard's magic, can lead to easily getting caught in an infinite loop of being unable to attack.

-Blind-spots--The large, spike-armor knights have a blind-spot slightly above them, allowing you to attack them unharmed. It's hard to find at first, but it can quickly be exploited.

-What does, and does not, get affected by lag--Some Newgrounds games cause my computer to lag if I play them for to long, and this game is one of them. However, this is not the actual problem. The problem is that the knight lags, but not the enemies.

The prime example: I was pretty far int he game, and I was preparing to deal with a wave of large enemies. The game then lags horribly: The controls became unresponsive for well over 5 seconds. Some of the backed-up movement comes through, snd the knight moves back to the castle. The controls are once again unresponsive, but the enemies are still moving normally. I try to move, I try to cast spells, I try to pause, nothing happens, Roughly 20 seconds later, the enemies make it across the bridge. The knight is killed, and the castle is destroyed.

*Features that should be added*

Others have mentioned these, but nevertheless...

-"Save Game" button--It's frustrating to have to start back at the very beginning whenever the castle is destroyed.

-Shop/Upgrades--As soon as most of your spells go into cooldown at once, you're in trouble. Alternative methods of survival are needed.

Stronger attack, faster swing, higher knight and/or castle health, higher knight and/or castle defense, higher knight movement speed, perhaps even a simple castle turret. You don't need much, but there needs to be something.

This game has potential, Eggy. You just need to polish it some more
before it can shine. Until then, I give it a vote of 3, and a score of 7.

Score: 6

"There's a simpler solution..."

by: h3xx

date: October 5, 2009

Why doesn't the knight just blow up the bridge and be done with it?

Score: 8

"kinda liked it"

by: sk8rdgk

date: September 8, 2009

fairly good game needs to give u soldiers for help or some thing cause u always die against the bigass skeleton dood

Score: 2

"bad game"

by: duncan55

date: September 8, 2009

cpuld have made it better by insted of buying skils buying troops and using the nubers to cast

Score: 2

"fairly bad game"

by: PAC457

date: September 7, 2009

the flash animation is good but everything else was kinda sh*t. In the beginning ity was good. but until lvl 15 when the skeleton with major steroids killed me 3 times even though i had low and great heal aznd he still got me 3 times. most spells are crap. like fireball. it does no damage and neither does ur sword. then comes the mages. u can only deflect one at a time so im always deflectin one blast and getting hit by 3. then come the mages that transform u into a warthog. thats just unbearable. it has good flash, but since this is a game and it has crappy programming i give it a 2

0/5 2/10

Score: 10

"omg"

by: Fram100

date: September 6, 2009

one of my all time fav's it was awesome

Score: 9

"its cool"

by: BananaBoi

date: September 6, 2009

It would have benn better if we had sodliers to help us or something like that, being alone is boring unless the charcter is a badass

Score: 9

"cool"

by: rick6298

date: September 5, 2009

i thought it was pretty good i liked the spells and the creatures so it was cool

Score: 8

"good"

by: lancelongjohnson57

date: September 3, 2009

i enjoyed it but not very challenging

Score: 8

"good game,"

by: Tichlodorus

date: September 3, 2009

very good, good graphics and fighting style, excellant variety of spells and units, but the way you can avoid almost every attack by moving or with a well timed swing of your sword means you could complete this game rather quickly, an excellant game, although I know I've heard that music elsewhere