This will be the game of year!!
Reviews for "Epic Battle Fantasy 4"
It's probably a good game, but I just don't have the time to sit down and legitimately play an RPG. And if I really do want to spend the time playing one, then I won't play a flash game RPG, I'll pick up any of my other unfinished, real title RPG's and bang that one out. Flash games in my opinion are meant to be quick, addicting, fun. Flash I just can't see as being a platform to devote repeated hour after hour into.
I loved the first two, I really really loved the first two. It was quick, fast paced, very satisfying. Everything was done gorgeously. I just feel like extending the series into this drawn out style doesn't suit the platform or what I've come to know as your style. I remember when EBF3 came out I was super excited and jumped onto it immediately. After getting into the game and seeing this odd open world was really confusing. I only had about half an hour so I wanted to bang out a few fights but after I started playing for a bit, I just dove into the no interest pool and never looked at it again.
Like I said, I'm sure it's a good game and I'm sure you put a lot of time, effort, and dedication into making it. It's just not for me and I couldn't really ever see myself devoting the time to completing it. You really are one of my favorite artists and animators in the online flash community, but something like this just feels inadequate.
Criticisms:
1. Flow. This regards both the UI and level design. All you're equipped with is a map, and other than that, you have to scrutinize every map section. Also, you can't even tell that well if the adjacent map section is accessible, both due to poor visual flow or from level design. Some adjacent areas only have a 1-block spacing to connect them. For a lot of the game, I was just wandering around in circles, trying to figure out where the hell I was supposed to proceed.
2. Carbon copy sequel. This game offers nothing innovative to make it stand as its own. In fact, a majority of the assets were just copied directly from the other game. The battle mechanics, enemies, spells, and animations are EXACTLY the same. The Bloons TD series showcases what this game utterly failed to do which is find the game's flaws, remedy them, and implement more dynamics to the game.
3. Buggy. After 3 iterations, bugs shouldn't be an issue but I still ran into quite a bit of bugs.
4. Not user-friendly. A big example is that looking at your quest missions doesn't even tell you where the respective NPC is located.
--The game just wasn't fun for me this time. The upgrade curve didn't feel rewarding. Design principle of having lesser spells is completely obsolete (why upgrade the first lightning spell when I could get a stronger lightning spell and upgrade that? MP hardly matters). Playing the game was a task void of enjoyment. The game needs much polishing.
this games the best in the whole while world (y)
Mage bird need's to be nerfed