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Reviews for "Kingdom in the Clouds"

Kind of Meh

5 years ago, give or take, when Newgrounds sported a lot more amateur-grade content, this game would have been excellent, but today, I can sign on to Newgrounds and play games that are nearly console quality.

This game was clearly designed with a focus on being cute, rather than a focus on gameplay or entertainment. You control a lovably drawn, goofy hero -- you know the type, bald, glasses, fat, slow and clumsy to move around -- and are supposed to fall in love with the idea of this unlikely dufus overcoming great odds as he runs around shooting clouds at slow moving monsters in an effort to keep them away from himself, and his equally odd looking baby sister. Level after level, you're in what essentially amounts to a 2D arena, with enemies approaching from both sides. You move your clumsy guy around and slowly fire weak projectiles, pick up your sister before bad guys get close enough to hurt her (you can't jump or shoot while holding her), drop her, and keep shooting. Each level, you get to shop for upgrades that let you put walls in the way of monsters, hit every monster on the screen with a special attack, and various other expected things. Every level is worth the same amount of upgrade points, so you can really just do the first level over and over again until you're maxed if you want, not that it matters.

The game was slow, tedious, frustrating, and at some ponts, random. There's just no real gameplay involved. Move left, move right, hold down the fire button, maybe drop a wall somewhere if the level's going badly, hope your full screen attack charges up soon, repeat for way too many levels. The cuteness of a goofy guy saving his baby sister from danger just isn't going to cut it amidst a sea of real games that offer gameplay that's actually entertaining.

wha-?

This game is almost impossible to play without grinding.

Many people have touched the part about the poor upgrading system and the faulty controls, so I won't even go there.

But hey, for the people who say that the cloud attack doesn't get faster, it does...by about 0.5 seconds for 5 levels.

A game that uses the idea of grinding and not skill isn't really the best idea of fun.

Nice graphics/music, though. All you need is a few adjustments and it would have been a nice game!
Suggestions :
- Cloud attack to have a larger improvement in speed per upgrade
- Ability to jump while holding sister
- Platforms per stage where the character can jump on (and of course for monsters to spawn there as well
- Shorter cooldown time for the ulti-attack
- More attacks?
- Cooldown time for being damaged (so that you won't have to die if you're like, say, trying to get past 5 monsters or so)

What a Enjoying Game

I had a Spened time playing this game... i loved it... it has a good plot im surpirzed that it got 5th place in daily it needed more i mean thanks to people like calvin it's not in 2nt or 1st... i mean guys this is a great game IM SORRY THAT YOU DIDNT LIKE IT but hay it is by a great maker and you chouse to hate it

Awesome

Ok. First off I have to agree with a few post about the upgrades system. I thought that when you upgraded your cloud attack it would do more damage or at least allow you to shoot more rapidly. :( However all the rest of the upgrades worked perfectly well. Now for the juicy part of my review. I loved the story line , where you were the prince of the clouds and you had to protect your sister to get back home. The gameplay was refreshing in a way seeing as how you mixed platform mechanics with classic defense gameplay. Very well animated, narrated, and great music that just ties the whole thing together. There were some glitches near the outer kingdom levels where your character would slow down but all in all a great game. Please make a follow up game, and this time around make the cloud attack upgrades more apparent. And maybe you could even make an upgrade for the jump where you can form a floating cloud to raise your sister up to safety for a limited amount of time. Keep up the good work.

Azerty

You can't bind the keys and if you pass your azerty keyboard to qwerty it won't do anything, so unplayable.