Generally a good game but a few things have made playing it less rewarding than I could have hoped... Here are some suggestions:
- SAVES: I'd like a way to export the save, many hours were wasted when my first one was lost.
- UPGRADES: Getting Brilliant on the last 3 levels (day or night) is stupidly hard even with full upgrades. This is annoying, I'd rather try and get the Brilliants BEFORE levelling up enough for full points (which can be like a patronising "well, you tried" pat on the back) rather than have full points and STILL rely mostly on luck. As it is, every time an enemy touches the gems that's my time utterly wasted. Max level sucks like that, at least earlier in the game I could still play through to unlock levels and gain experience...
- IN-LEVEL SAVE: Continuing from the upgrades point, maybe a limited use system of starting from the previous round could be awarded when you beat the last stage at max level? As in, your gems get touched, you click "retry" and you get restored to the previous wave and try to make it work. I'd say give it a limited amount of uses of 1-3 goes per level attempt, and have it hard to earn (it's really just to help getting Brilliants on the last levels).
- "BRILLIANT" LEVEL WARNINGS: I'd feel much better knowing whether or not I could still get it, sometimes it can be hard to tell if an enemy nudged a gem or not. A little "stars still available" icon could help.
- ACHIEVEMENTS: There's a "kill 50 divers underwater" medal but no "upgrade everything to max" medal? Harsh.
- GRAPHICS OPTIONS: This crashed at least twice, and I don't normally get that with games.
- FASTER FAST MODE: The hardest point is the start of the game, once you're rolling in mana and cash rarely any reason to even watch the rest unless there's a boss. A faster fast mode would be nice, after all, this game really eats up time!
Only level 20 and 21's Brilliants to go but I may give up on this soon, level 19 took so many goes of the same tactic (for night and day) before it worked and 21 relies partially on the end boss' bombs not landing in a pile of scrolls... At this point I'm really only doing it for the medals rather than fun, which is a shame.
I hope there's a good ending if I do get everything...