Foon → Ludum Dare Explorer → LD25 → Smite the King!
By mortalwombat
| Category | Rank | Score | Count | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Humor | 286 | 2.75 | ||
| Mood | 315 | 2.88 | ||
| Audio | 338 | 2.50 | ||
| Overall | 381 | 2.95 | ||
| Fun | 429 | 2.72 | ||
| Theme | 476 | 2.94 | ||
| Graphics | 566 | 2.39 | ||
| Innovation | 591 | 2.39 | ||
| Coolness | 884 | 37 |
I really like the scope of the project, but the lack of any kind of obvious way to save or restarting me with my experience earned was a pretty strong disincentive to play more than once or twice. The gameplay was pretty fun, but it's frustrating to get so set back when it seems easy to wander into an area where the enemies are too strong for you.
Hey, thanks a lot for playing!
Yeah, there's no saving or loading as I intended it to play a little 'rogue-likey'. But there is a way to roughly tell the strength of an enemy without fighting her/him. Also, the outer regions are generally more high-level than the inner ones.
There's a lot of complexity here, like the feelings I have for the game's title.
Really hardcore game, I played it dozen times and they allways kills me before I even find the castle. I don't say its bad because of that, just that I suck at it. Every thing else is very good.
@Mago: The trick is to carefully level up before going into the outer areas. Also exploiting bad pathfinding and sticking to a certain type of attack :)
(I'm giving away too mich here)
I've made it through a couple of times (with sweaty palms, though)! :)
The furthest I managed to get was around level twelve. It's fun and didn't feel unfair despite being tough.
The biggest frustration I had was not being able to strafe in any way, given the nature of the dodging/shooting gameplay.
This is a horrible name for a game.
Good enough game, despite the name... which I don't really like if I'm honest.
Yeah, bad name. Weird when your last LD game was so good.
The game was all around fantastic, but the raw mechanism behind it was way too brutal for me to finish :(
The controls were fluid enough but it's ridiculously hard. You walk out of that dungeon and immediately get slaughtered by blueball throwing guys.
In this game, king's men raped me. I like the controls, would have been nice to have the character face where it is heading. I sometimes misfire not knowing where I am pointing at. Really cool game though, just really hard at start.
Very tough game but I really appreciate gamepad support! Enemies that hang out around the edge of the screen transition areas are tough to battle because you end up going to the other areas. Those knights are in my nightmares forever!