Reviews for JUGGERNAUT II: Uprising

[WarmanSteve]

Really nice to see a larger scope RPG on Newgrounds like this. The art is really nice, and the music fits the atmosphere really well. Lots of items and NPCs to talk to too, and subquests are a nice touch. While the programming works fine and there don't appear to be any bugs, unfortunately the gameplay is just a bit dull to me.

The random battles really slow down the pace, and don't seem to consist of much more than clicking attack until stuff dies (The skills don't seem to be particularly useful). Maybe some sort of auto-battle function that just automatically attacks whatever is at the top would speed things along a bit. I know a good RPG is very hard to make, so it might just be the nature of the project. Congrats on what you were able to accomplish with such a small team!

As a side note, I sometimes found it difficult to get through narrow passages (such as the bridge in the first town) and doors. Maybe increase the walkable area by a bit?

TheEnkian responds:

Woo! First review is positive! Thanks for checking out the game.

The skills get more useful as the game goes on and boss battles are a good bit trickier without them. Some characters get ones that hit all enemies at once, heal, inflict status effects, etc. The attack is intentionally not all that weak just because it drives me nuts when RPGs make you rely almost solely on your MP for the entire game.

Yeah, I totally get the narrow entrances thing. That's the entire reason we intentionally slowed the character down for doors :P It may not have been quite enough it seems.

Anyway, glad you ultimately liked it. Thanks again for playing!

[wct]

Walked into one of the houses in Kanneah and the game froze. The screen was mostly just white, with a few sprites showing like the main character and the bookshelf and door of the interior of the house. I could open the menu and go to title screen, but couldn't move or find a way to workaround the freeze. Had to reload the page in order to access the Load feature of the title menu (it was still grayed-out even though I had saved many times previously), and when I did finally reload the saved game, I realized I hadn't saved in a while. Not worth retracing my steps. Argh. Up until that point it was fun enough to keep going, but not after such a hefty crash like that.

TheEnkian responds:

I've not heard about this bug before, very sorry that it ruined the experience for you. Hopefully we can fix it.

[neuropsychotic]

Better than the first but I HATE that we have to use the mouse to interact with things.

TheEnkian responds:

We thought it would be an easier way to do things, but possibly not. One hand on the keyboard for movement, the other on the mouse. You know?

I don't think it'll be a control scheme we'll use again. We'll probably stick to just keyboard, just mouse or both, but fully controllable from either.

[Rocketchips]

Excellent game , but the thing that may bother is that when you finish the game, you cannot load it again,in otherwords it restarts and i lose all of my progress making impossible to get all medals., i though that you can get the 100% until you finished it but no, so really you must take a look of this for the third part and if it is possible maybe enable the option of autosaving, and the player decides if he enable or not. Anyway and excellent storyline remember me the old FF games. I hope the third part arrives soon. Overrall of rating for the game 7/10.

TheEnkian responds:

Honestly, I thought you could load it after defeating Valkyrie. Really sorry about that! Glad you enjoyed it overall and are looking forward to III though :D

[PooniiDavid]

i am not sure if im an idiot or something but i cant find any way to start the game o.O or is it becaus i am an bitch who uses Explorer?

TheEnkian responds:

It may be the browser, I can't say for sure. The game will show you the option "New Game" at the start for you to click on, if you don't see that, there's definitely an issue.