I don't know if its a general bug or just happened to me but never received the gold from the collect items quest in rondo
Reviews for "JUGGERNAUT II: Uprising"
TheEnkian responds:
It seems that it's happened to somebody else, definitely a bug.
thanks for making me late for work tomorrow! This is a great game, very old school Kings Quest, keep it up. The only suggestion I would have is maybe add some puzzle elements.
TheEnkian responds:
Haha, my bad! I'm taking your lateness as a compliment though. Yeah, I'd agree that a few puzzle elements would make the progression a little more interesting. Thanks for checking it out!
I thought this game was pretty cool, but something I didn't like was that when you saved, it asked if you wanted to continue playing. I honestly don't think that's needed. I also thought the music was repetitive in the battles.
but this is just so similar to the pokemon games. the house layout and the battles.
also, it would be awesome if the HP of the opponent showed.
TheEnkian responds:
We figured it wouldn't hurt to have the option to return to the menu. Glad you enjoyed it!
Nice work! Plays well. Shame it's not 8 directional, but has a real Final Fantasy vibe about it.
TheEnkian responds:
Don't get many reviews for this game anymore! Glad you enjoyed it, thanks for checking it out.
Well, it sure was improvement over the previous one... Sadly some issues still remained.
Out of good stuff: Nice to see faster movement speed and a few other convenient quality of life fixes.
Out of bad stuff: Combat pace is still very slow, it could easily be 2x faster on most actions(some are already more or less fine, but most are way too slow). Encounters are even more frequent.. which is pointless since you can flee them anyway, making it more tedious than anything.
New game+ is really poorly done, I expected to finish some stuff really fast by fleeing most stuff and getting to content I missed faster, but fleeing is impossible and battles are even slower in NG+...
Medals are also still unreasonable just like in chapter 1 - for example the level medal could easily be 50k instead of 100k - 100k is just waaaay too much grind. As for levels - level 20 could easily be max instead and be much more reasonable considering there are 6 chars to level.. 25 is just too much - beat the optional cybeargator boss without much fuss on lvls 18-20 with best weapons.
And well, bugs again - in previous I couldn't earn medals because of reload bug and I didn't want to start game for 3rd time. In this one of the quest girl in Rondo just didn't appear like she was supposed to.
Well, basically if you are still planning to continue the series - there is a lot of room for improvement.
TheEnkian responds:
Thanks for the review! It's nice to see that people still play my old games. You're probably right about most of the issues, but because it was only our second game we've definitely learned a lot from it since. I'm still developing games and released a full length RPG on Steam at the end of January, Tale of Enki: Pilgrimage. I'd recommend checking it out if you want to see how much my art and game design has improved.