Reviews for Kingdoms

[Soapbubble]

A little simple

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Score: 7 / 10
Summary: A little simple
Review: I like these risk-kinda games, and like Fro, I'm usually pretty good at them. But, also like Fro, I sucked at this one.

Graphics and animations
They really look good, the drawings on the front-page, and the simple gameboard. I'd like to see some animations in fights, but that's not necessary, that's pretty much just a bonus.

Plot/Story/Gameplay
A backstory would be great, but it isn't necessary. I like these games, as I said, but this was kinda hard. It seemed like the computer was working together to kick my ass, and I had no idea what I was doing with the training of new units and building stuff. I was completely lost. You might just wanna have the units auto-generate, like in so many other games, but that would kinda ruin it.

I'd like the battle-module to be expanded, but as it is, it's simple, and I don't really know what's going on. More stats, that'd be awesome. Some battle animations, sure, I agree with Fro here.

Audio
Not saying the music is bad. It was actually pretty good, but I'd rather hear some music that really fit the era that this game is set in. It's not medieval enough. Great use of SFX.

Conclusion
Not a bad game, it has some potential. I'd love to see a bigger version with the tweaks and changes mentioned. I didn't get to see all of it, I didn't even get far into the easy mode, so you might wanna do something about the AI or the difficulty.

-=Review Request Club=-
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[Fro]

~ Review Request Club ~

~ Animation/Graphics ~

Pretty good. Nothing amazing, but still not bad all around. I think the graphics are pretty good right where they are and there isn't much room for improvement here.

~ Story/Content ~

I love these types of games, but for some reason I sucked at this game. Perhaps make it so there are difficulties for people to choose at. I mean I sucked at it and didn't have a chance to make it very far no matter how much I played so I couldn't see much of the game.

Another thing that you could think about would be adding a battle animation of the certain character attacking the others in a movie clip. Then you could have people choose whether to turn that off or keep it. You could create a couple random ones for each character so you could have some variety in there.

~ Audio ~

I personally thought the audio was very fitting for the submission and that the sound effects were well done.

~ Overall ~

A good game. I just sucked at it so I couldn't get to see the entire thing. I'm not saying make it easier because games should be hard, but perhaps a choice of making it easier or harder.

~ Review Request Club ~

[Coop]

Well, it's getting there

A nice turn based strategy game, that could use things like a soundtrack to really get the piece going. I'd suggest that you look around the Audio Portal, as it's the best place to find music that would suit your needs for this sort of game.

The battles could have been given some sort of video piece to show who was being pushed back or obliterated during the conflict, giving the player something to keep them interested. I'm slightly different, as I'll play games like this quite often, so I don't need hooks to keep me playing all the time. I might come back and play this one again, the engine worked well enough.

Perhaps something at the end would have really set it aside from the rest of the game, as it did just end with "You are Victorious", as opposed to some sort of tale about how the kingdoms were united and a time of peace temporarily returned to the land, until the new king died of Pox and the whole thing started over again.

[Review Request Club]

[LightbulbSun]

It was alright

But it seems the RNG favors the computer no matter what you pick. I was on easy and I won the first two battles on the first map, and then after that, even when attacking with a castle of 300 vs 100, it would get slaughtered. Erm?

lubossk responds:

300 vs 100 of what type of units? And "attacking with castle"? Castles have defence bonus and axeman is weak unit compared to others.

[bloundhound]

liked it but

i liked it but once i noticed that with an army of 300 vs an army of 40 with a king in it i lost all of my men i was like what? then i tried it with my own king and i got ownd even though i was the knight and i chose the reds wich apperantly are the easy ones?

lubossk responds:

Sorry about that I will fix it in a minute ;)