TharosTheDragon's game Reviews on Newgrounds

[Rocket to the Top]

Oh no! I have to press down to go up and up to go down! If only they were reversed!

*gets cursed ruby*

I changed my mind!

platformalist responds:

That cursed ruby might be the most cursed pickup I've ever made! haha

Thanks so much for playing, TharosTheDragon! :)

[Lairun]

I know I recognize that knight. What is he from?

[Ice And Fire Tower Defence]

Like with Age of War, you can only win at the final level, and it's pretty easy to get there and max everything out. Money doesn't matter in the endgame, so you just spam the most powerful units and wait for your level 5 summon to charge. This means all the other stuff you put in the game, all the units and turrets and abilities, they don't matter. There's no strategy involved in the sense of weaker units being preferable because you need to save money, or needing to buy more turrets because your old ones can get destroyed or something. It's like most of the work you did on the game is just wasted because of lack of more involved game design.

Not only is the fine-tuning way off, but I think there may be an actual bug. The difficulty levels don't seem to make any difference. Easy and hard feel the same.

Also I want to mention that this is not tower defense. It's a one-dimensional RTS, like Age of War

octopus58 responds:

Thanks for the review! It's interesting to hear your experience with the game, as I feel the audience is scattered on it being too hard or too easy, etc.. One thing I will say though, it's actually both possible to beat the game before the last upgrade level (though harder, of course), and lower level summons are actually useful even in level 5! Allow me to give some examples if I may:

With the first point, if you wait certain periods between spawning your units, as well as summon the right ones to kinda "control" your opponent, you can win as early as level 2 sometimes. If anything I was somewhat worried people will find the game too easy because of that, but it doesn't seem like people are able to do that as much as I thought they would. As for the second point, as an example when I play on the fire team but don't want to wait for my level 5 summon, I use the level 3 summon as the green flames often take out even the tankiest opponents if used right and allow me to send in more troops early. Summon level 5 is more the safe option for me on that team if I want to KO the opponents for sure, and level 4 is to ward them off if there is a battle in the center and I'm stuck midway.

In addition, a more "creative" strategy sometimes involves sending out the speedy unit (unlocked level 2) as canon fodder to slow down the opponent teams while you secure the tankier units from behind, etc.

These are just my suggestions, but either way I'm glad you played my game and thank you once again!

[Darkwood]

I had to do a double take because I just played this game: https://store.steampowered.com/app/274520/Darkwood/

That one also involves a wolfman so I guess there are a few parallels

ErikSwahn responds:

Same name but different game. I guess that is for the best :)

[Yule Duel]

Santa: "Oh you thought I was the boss?"

Well I mean, the boss card literally has you on it.

The money symbol you used keeps making me think I'm paying in Armenian dram. ֏

[Slippery Delivery]

17:05.25
102 deaths
16/16 stars

[Primo Richards: Case 1]

Very nice presentation, but still just a visual novel. I don't like the pacing because there's often a loading screen and it even makes me wait for text to appear. I did test the autosave feature and that works very smoothly, so good job with that. Unfortunately I feel like the game got softlocked after I found the phone and toothbrushes because I can't get Aiesha to analyze the phone and nothing I do seems to make the game progress

arrogancy responds:

Thats where the demo ends unfortunately, which is why that "fourth wall" message is in there that says you can kind of look around but not really progress. My cut-off point got hit due to this being entered into a game jam, so that's as far as I got, haha.

[Energy Quest]

Once I figured out that dashing refreshes your double jump, I realized I could use it to fly over the entire level and even fly above the background graphics

[Race Against a Duck]

Oops, not bad but wish it saved my progress

[Loch Crystallo]

Absolutely beautiful pixel art. Immaculate vibes. And I got 10/10 on my first try. Not sure how you could get 0 since Black Moor is a gimme