well
its pretty fun game. i like the way it is set up. good challenging game. good job.
Reviews for "GemCraft 0"
Fun. Up to a point.
Both Gemcrafts were fun.
To a point. When it becomes impossible to complete a level, this is no longer fun. When you have to learn every nuance and detail of the game to have a chance of winning, it ceases to be a game, and becomes a job. BOTH games were fun, but there is a point where you will just spend hours throwing tower placement strategies out their to see what works.
Winning is fun. Playing is fun. Difficulty can be fun. Work is not fun.
a little hard
its a good game a little hard
mmmhhh...
I was so happy to see that gemcraft 0 was out, but then i played it.
The gameplay is awesome again, but so many modes is kinda annoying.
You play every lvl over and over to get good scores on every mode and it takes ages to do all modes on sooooo mmmmmmmmaaannnnnnnyyyyy lvls.
I like the game, but all those modes are taking me to long.
Anyways, I hope part 3 will be a better sequel then this one.
Keep it up!
Excellent but needs some improvement
There are tons of tower defense games out there. *Tons.* None of them, however, are nearly as innovative or addictive as GemCraft. I mean really - I *love* this game. With over half a dozen game modes unlocked of dozens of levels (wizard levels, not game levels!), it's massively replayable. With traps, shrines, and bombs in addition to towers, you can adapt your playstyle to each level, battle mode, and skill specialties... and that's where things begin to get a little... bleh.
Leveling up is great. Instead of mindlessly grinding your way through each battle, you have something awesome to look forward to (plus the amulets, although those aren't nearly as exciting since, you know, they don't do anything), but the skill system makes no sense. On the surface, it seems awesome, and it is! But at the same time, it isn't. This makes sense, just bear with me for a second.
Every time you level up, you get five skill points. The first rank of every skill costs five points - so one level-up, one rank in a skill - to begin with. The ranks then gradually get cheaper, and then become more expensive again. This is the first thing that doesn't make sense. Why are we changing the cost of skills, exactly? If you wanted to encourage players to max their skills by making the first rank the least efficient, I could accept that. But then they get expensive again, so this is clearly not the case.
Secondly, each rank in a skill gradually gets less effective, which means that once you reach a certain point, skills are just no longer worth the points needed for the next rank. Let's take a look at Focus (X% higher initial mana at the beginning of each battle) as an example:
Points / Rank / Effect / Bonus per point
(5) 1 [48%] 9.6%
(4) 2 [84%] 9%
(3) 3 [114%] 10%
(2) 4 [138%] 12%
(2) 5 [159%] 10.5%
(2) 6 [171%] 6%
(3) 7 [183%] 4%
(4) 8 [195%] 3%
(5) 9 [204%] 2.2%
(6) 10 [210%] 1%
So rank 4 is the most efficient, rank 6 is more than 50% less efficient than rank 1, and everything after that is just horrible. Granted, having a large amount of mana to begin with is very helpful, but when you can also spend points to reduce the cost of everything, maxing this skill (or any other, for that matter), just isn't worth it. Thus, skills become an irritating mathematical min-max mini-game that could have easily been avoided by implementing a system that actually makes sense.
Also, it would be lovely if every skill and amulet was actually available on NG. I was a little miffed when I noticed that wasn't the case. Sure, you want to advertise Armor Games, but my game is saved to NG already and I don't want to start over at level 1!
In the end, despite its shortcomings, it's still a great game. I would love for these issues to be fixed in the next version/chapter/whatever, but it will be enjoyable either way.