I loved this when I started playing it, and it definitely has the 'just one more turn' factor. But while you move into bigger offices and learn better engines, each turn is pretty much like the last, and in order to nderstand what consequences your choices have, you have to play far beyond my boredom threshhold. (At some point, I just asked myself why I wasn't coding instead and stopped, and I've not felt any urge to pick it up again.) But if you want a taste of what being a developer is like, this is not the worst introduction.
We did not get off to a good start. I chose a character name, I was told the character name was taken, I repeated this, I went away from the screen and came back to find that iuowzziernd *was* available to play. There's a button that alleges to give you instructions, but it takes you to a web page with general playing info. You get to choose between eight characters, seven of whom are male, and the female one is Nervous Nellie. (Sorry: 'Cautious Cathy'). Then we get to the game which runs inside Flash Player: the planes are unresponsive, and half of them taxi through the building to the edge of the screen and beyond after landing, so you can't make them depart again. At that point, I gave up.
I have completely and utterly fallen into this game. It fills the void left by Civ 2 - a nice mixture of city expansion and outmaneuvering enemies. Only with more story and a lot of content and mechanics I haven't seen done before. Plenty of options for choosing the right difficulty/challenge level, from 'I just wanna bash a few spiders' to 'Ok, let's see if I can pull this ultra-complicated maneuvre off. It's not a perfect game - attempts to make the interface clean fail on occasion, and I find the tutorial annoying (too much text, and even when you've turned it on it doesn't repeat for new characters, so you can't repeat information you too carelessly clicked away).
I expect to play and replay this *a lot*, it has that vibe to it. And now, finally, I can bury the ghost of Civ 2. In a couple of turns, I can use my fireball again...
This is not a game that takes itself seriousy. Yes, you get werewolves and ghouls (and a lot of other, much more rarely-seen monsters), but what you also get is a lot of funny and sometimes touching moments. There's a red button - 'wonder what happens if I press this? ' - 'nothing good' and the snark level is high. Gameplay between the three classes feels fundamentally different, and between skill trees and extras I find it has a great replay value.
You'll die. A lot. But you'll laugh even more.
(Runs on both Yosemite and ElCapitan. Have encountered a bug, but the developers are onto it.)
If you have RSI, this is not the game for you. It's fast and furious, you need to click a lot, and then you'll want to do it all over again and again because it is just _that_ addictive. I would have loved to have a bit more story - character backgrounds, maybe a choice of powerups - but I adore the gameplay and general quirkyness. Buy this.
Unusual gameplay, good example of the genre, some niggles remain
This has unusual gameplay for a Match 3 game, nicely done graphics, and it's very addictive. (Also runs great under Yosemite). I would have liked to see more story, and a better explanation for the bonuses you can use - the first time I played through I used up my extras and found myself in a place where I had to replay certain levels a lot before hitting the right combination of skill and tactic. That's par for the course; but little things like a sparse tutorial and no 'replay' button make this more tedious than it needs to be.
Overall, if you like the genre, and like a quick - but not unchallenging - Match 3 puzzle, wholly recommended.
(I'm giving this three stars because if you're happy to only play up to level 6.4, it's still a pretty neat game concept; the crashes don't render it unplayable as such.)
Well, yes. Level 6.4, where you need to clear everything and ask Boreas for help three times, and every single time bar one the game locked up, grabbed 100.2% of processor power on my Macbook, and stayed there. Bar once, when I wanted to document this crash again (a year after first reporting it) and much to my suprise, was transported to the next level. Imagine my annoyance when after finishing I started playing the bonus level and the game crashed with a failed assertion every single time I tried to play the first bonus level. Every. Single. Time. There's much to like about this game - some of the graphics are a bit twee, but there's a storyline and varied gameplay and you can make some decisions about which buildings to erect (though they seem mainly cosmetic); tiles, boards and gameplay are well-designed (a couple of levels are a bit tedious, but this clearly has been playtested and is well balanced) - but with persistent, repeatable crashes on more than one OS I hesitated about giving it even three stars.
I wanted to love this game. KB: The Legend is one of my favourite games; I play it a lot, and I had been looking forward to this. What little I've seen of the game was far too linear and very boring; but due to bugs I lack the patience to play any longer.
- the arrow keys were disabled, so I could only use the mouse to play which makes gameplay tedious and many places on the map inaccessible - the mini-map and main map have different orientations, which is confusing - battlefields overlap the content at the bottom of the window so you cannot click on all cells of a battlefield - there is no tutorial, it's sink or swim. Even as someone familiar with the franchise, I felt I was sinking - the text is written in a near-unreadable font: far too small and so badly rendered it keeps dropping certain letters, so that every piece of text becomes a chore. When you spend as much time figuring out text as you do playing, something needs to be fixed. - the game crashes every time I switch to another application. (Much of my gaming time is while waiting for other things to happen: I need to check apps and respond to e-mail. This is not negotiable.)
Other than that, the ability to explore which the other three games had to varying degrees is missing from this game: until you reach the island of the Light you can go along corridors only in a fixed order and the interactions and battles you have are strictly scripted; the opportunity to experiment with different armies and equipment has been mostly eliminated in the first part of the game. I started games as all three races and had very similar experiences, which destroyed the conceit of the game. And then I got to the Island of the Light, which felt as if it was phoned in: you can sail around the outside, or you can stay where you are dumped and fight three very overpowered enemies. There was nothing to explore, no-one to interact with, no side quests or quirky details or minor enemies guarding small treasures: all the things that made the first three parts of the game fun to play.
Add to that the requirement to run Steam, which is a resource hog and causes problems of its own, and I can only throughly recommend that people stay away from this.
Play King's Bounty: The Legend. It's a great game.
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