Reviews for Heavy Weapons

[CaptAcid]

With a title like heavy weapons...

I was a bit disappointed. Most weapon upgrades didnt do much to balance the more difficult enemies imo. I dodged most of the time and tried several variations but found most weapons didnt have the staying power to handle the number of enemies being thrown at the player. I did enjoy the level design and enemy variety, I just wish my cool looking weapons actually dealt out death and destruction worthy of such beautiful enviroments.

Probably my biggest complaint was, because of the weapons, I couldnt clear enemies quickly enough to grab the coins before new enemies spawned. This would be fine except you need money in order to get new weapons, so if you fall behind in collection of money, you are handicapped the next level, which creates an ugly cycle.

I always look to a game to be two things: fun and challenging. It is a difficult thing to find that balance, and I think in this particular case it may be unbalanced. Frantically trying to grab money while more enemies spawn not only off screen but through portals while the turrets unleash fiery death on you sounds like challenging fun until you realize you might as well be shooting peas at most of the turrets and portals dropping out enemies.

I felt like I could finish the game but I didnt want to finish it because the gameplay wasnt fun imo. I didnt feel like all the game mechanics came together to provide a balanced experiance.

Really all the game needs is some tweaking. The presentation was excellent. Just balance the weapons so that they can actually handle the enemies and the portals/turrets/bugs/tanks...or reduce health on some enemies.

Good Luck on future flashes!

LongAnimals responds:

Thanks for the interesting review. I appreciate that you found the game unbalanced, however great pains were taken to alleviate this problem. First and most importantly is the question of weapon choice. Some levels which you find extremely difficult might well become much easier through the use of a different weapon selection. That's how the game is designed to work.
You have to mear in mind that we've had an equal number of comments suggesting that it's a little too easy - What are we to do - everyone is different! :-)

[ShadowstepNL]

This game has it all

Awesome game , good graphics and great creativity with the weapons , even when you die you'll enjoy it , I can see you really put some time and effort into it ... I think its great , hard work does pay of 5/5 10/10

[IIChaosTheoryII]

pretty much great

this game is awesome!!! and most games like this i think suck....there are plenty of different levels and upgrades to keep you interested throughout the whole game and it starts out easy and slowly gets harder.
good f'ing job
10/10

[s0m3b0dy]

great game

although some might say it was unoriginal of your part to add enemies from various other games from newgrounds, i think it was just fantastic! really gives it the "newgrounds game" feeling to it, i really enjoyed the various tributes you added :), oh and the "WTF" yell was awesome too haha

one complaint thought, most weapons, were quite useless imo. i finished the game with the big laser, the short shield and the spiral...and wtf was up with the last weapon? sure it does a lot of dmg, but its extremely short with a huge cooldown being the most expensive weapon in the game >.>
aside from that great game

[SLiPZ]

Amazing!

Kick ass graphics, simple arcade style gameplay, and increasing weapons/difficulty make this game tops!

Only recommendation is that some rewards would make this kick 10 asses at once... But since this is a Kongregate game.