As glad as I am to see Reversi or Othello which is what we called it when I grew up, get some love the game is a tad weak. You lose much strategy by making the game a end all be all gotta have the corners race which is really a begginers concept of winning. I would have liked to see some other features and game modes. Also the canned dialogue at the bottom is nothing more than distracting. All in all I will still give you a 4 because of my love for the game you based it from.
Easiest way to grind out all upgrades.
Use Vigraf with Imps and Lord of Fire Titan. Simon with Pixies and Celestial Angel and Popo with mad bull and Sky Dragon. Select level 13 (XIII) and go afk for 5-10 minutes and you will come back to 100-130k gold. Once you have all your units including titans max level then select hard mode on level 13 and go afk when you come back you will have about 1,000,000 gold each time.
Ok what gives. How is someone supposed to play when you can't even build a castle to start. Every unoccupied territory you try to click on says either too close to colony or out of range of the watch towers, ..... /mega fail
Ok Can we please STOP having these interactive story's pretending to be games. While containing stunning art work and a lot of hard work THEY ARE NOT GAMES! Games give a player the chance to win or lose based on actions they take within NOT to click the screen until you get to the end of what I put together for you. This did't even have the feel of the Zeebarf games because there is actual thinking invloved in thoer to combine and use items. Here you just click ...
I rated this game a 5 because I enjoyed it. There were a few bugs though that need to be fixed. Some of the awards are broken. I have beat levls in < 10 secs but cant get the 30 sec award. Also dissapointed that level 50 seems to be the max and can't max out all of my skills.
The "strategy" comes in two ways. #1 When do you send all your troops. #2 When do you use your spells. If you can't understand that perhaps you should try something simpler like pong.
And for those that are worried about thier hero, ... dont. He will respawn too and they can do a ton of damage. Especially in the later battles you will have your hero respawn at least twice. Since I have never lost a single attack or defense I must be doing somethng right.
Anyone that thinks this game is hard needs to go back to play Super Mario Brothers. The "hard" aspect of the badges is that they are time consuming and nothing more. As long as you upgrade your skills as well as your troops and put the right troops in you should never lose a battle. 3 words is all you need to know to win. "Zerg, Zerg, Zerg" and use your skills at the right time.
Decided to give this another try and I was happy to know that I wasn't wrong the first time. This game is terrible! The only "logic" in this game is that you shouldn't follow logic to beat it. All this waste of time is a gimmick for an arogant wannabe programer to inflate the refresh count of his game to try and steal money from other GOOD games that deserve it. I implore people to rate it a "1" as there is no zero or negative option.
This has to be the worst game I have ever seen on Kkongregate and that is saying something. I wish we could register a vote of zero stars because I feel even a 1 is too good for this luke warm turd of a game.
For those out there trying to knock the guy for ripping Mario Picross, you might want to read the credits. He states that it is a recreation of that game. Also there is no "Hard" level. Harder puzzles and badges woul be great. Still 5/5 for me.
Key to this game is gold farming. Once you unlock the boss you can fight 20 more opponents before you dont get gold anymore. You want to have enough to buy your new skills right away when you level.
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