Reviews for Agony: The Portal

[gumbo8]

great game but has bugs...

I'm assuming that the bug where there are no more spawns is a bug that has been reported... it was very irritating to hit that bug on lvl 100 on darwin mode...

another bug is where the king stays off screen and the soldiers keep coming... there is a rough fix for that where you just cast nightmare and the king will run out on his own...

but other than these bugs... great game...

P.S.- a great strat is to just use the lunge attack using the border of the screen to aim your attack... a great strat to lay waste to a king in moments..

[d3m0n1c]

Okay guys, take this advice.

///First off, to all the newfags here: the item shop there doesn't need to be accessed, you don't need to buy. It's as simple as that.///

I played through this game in 4 hours, getting all the 8 artifacts on normal mode and getting to about lvl 50 in Darwin Mode (Nice pun on that one). The game was easy. Very easy.

There was one boss which was challenging if you didn't know what to do, but after about 12 stages, you understand the game mechanics and you get very fluid and fun play.

The Darwin mode was a nice way to add to the replay value, as you can grind it for amazing items and OP stats. (Hint: 2 bosses then die).

There is a lot of criticism to be made, and please listen carefully:

- The spells were abundant, but after you have them all once, there isn't a real need to upgrade anything further (except heal). I'd like more spells at a later level, or a better incentive to upgrade spells.

- The Heal spell doesn't improve after 10 stats, which means that you're only increasing its downtime. This is stupid.

- The monsters could have more variation. Semi-bosses, dragons etc. would've been nice, as well as different races.

- Even though the items only cost 10 cents-1 dollar, there is no incentive to buy them whatsoever. They look nice at their current level, but then you start getting better mob drops 5 levels later, and you've wasted your money. At the end of the game, the best items can be bought, but why would you want to continue after you've gotten past the most of Darwin mode? The weapons need to be persistently good (improve with levels), otherwise no one will want to buy.

- Last piece of criticism: there is no end-game content. Because it's not multiplayer, you can't duel, you can't get new spells etc., you'll never feel like playing through the game more than once. This ruins the item purchase option, because unlike with F2P giants like Ijji, you won't use the items again.

And so, I reckon it's best to add something of a multiplayer, or make a multiplayer game alltogether. (Maybe add rankings, ratings) Improve the items, make them adjustable (added damage, swifter slash, like the jewel system in WoW).

I don't think SP flash games will have a future other than a hobby.

The game was very good, and could easily become really good.

Thanks for listening,

~ d3m0n1c

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Positive: weapons with spells

[Unsaw]

"nice but.."

Well its a fantastic game ... but it got stuck....

[firehawk320]

cool game

for all the ppl complaining about the real money "issue", wtf? u dont NEED those extra items to beat the game so y r u complaining its the designer's way to make a living

[namerman]

im giving you a ten...

i would normally give a game like this a 7 or 8 at most but because you have stupid people complaining about the money factor im raising it to ten to give a little push up. (all i can do) But to the people complaining about the money, you get one free item just wait a bit till your at the final king and buy it i went through the whole game without getting the item on insane mode its not that hard you just have to use the combos to get extra damage and the enemies aren't that hard to kill if you boost your str. There is no reason to give them a 0 because you think the game is to hard because you want an extra weapon. No the game is to hard because your playing it like an idiot, you dont use combos to gain extra exp. and damage(and that helps a lot) when the king comes out let him get to the center of the field and build up your combo until then then just keep comboing and attacking the king every other time. The game just takes a little time and skill to play so if you cant manage that just stop playing games because you will never be good at them and give the man a little credit he made this whole game without a sponser so he has to have a way to make some money from it.