I noticed that there are only 3 basic maps, forest desert and arctic and then their crazy versions, how about some other maps like volcano and city
I feel that the ability to scroll even on the small maps would make it easier to tap the spaces near the borders on the iPhone atleast. I also feel that being able to zoom in or out would be a very nice feature also. I found that if you tap on a stage that is locked it will pop up a message box in another language. I have included a picture of this and another screen where the English is incorrect. With the items I tend to only really use the shovel but perhaps there should be a chance you can get a random item during the match when you defeat one of the "mini bosses" of the stage. This way it could help some folks out if they were having a tough time getting through the stage and were repeating it. I hope there will be some more music added because I enjoy having the sound on but the music can get a bit annoying since it's the same over and over even if it had some boss music when you were fighting the boss that would be nice to help mix things up a bit. If there was an option to access your itunes that would be even better! That's my last post for day 1 really enjoying the game so far!
The Korean shows up in Select Theme only when you touch the LOCK instead of the Enter below. As far as I have tested, the swipe works fine. Maybe there can be a scroll, which is similar to the one in HELP menu. Players can use the arrows to skip to next point. About the special items in the game, there should be instructions or descriptions in the tutorial or help menu. During the tutorial, there's only the usage of shave is explained. I'd like to learn the functions and usages of all these items.
Elf Defense: To start off, the graphics look beautifully done. As for grammatical errors, there were alot and I'm not sure if anyone else already noted these but I will list what I found and state the corrections. I also changed some of the wording to make better sense. The "-" is what is in the game and "*" is my suggestion. In the Help Menu: -Mercenary towers can be hired with holy leaves *Mercenary towers can be built with holy leaves. - You can upgrade elf towers, hire mercenary towers, and buy items with holy leaves. *You can upgrade elf towers, build Mercenary towers and buy items in the shop with holy leaves. - Golden seed is used to summon and upgrade elf tower * Golden seeds are used to summon and upgrade elf towers. - If you feel difficulty in normal mode, try easy mode. * If normal mode is too tough, try easy mode. - in crazy mode you will gain interest golden seeds at end of wave in proportion to left life points. * In Crazy mode, at the end of waves, you will gain extra golden seeds equal to the number of life points left. In the Upgrade Menu: MERCENARY SECTION: -Spray toxic gas for deal continuous damage to enemies in 1 wave. *Spray toxic gas to deal continuous damage to enemies in 1 wave. Coldy Bear -Raise Blizzard for slow every enemy in screen.�� *Build Blizzard to slow every enemy on screen.�� Fire -Increase attack powers of every towers for a moment. *Increases attack power of every tower for a moment. T.Rex -Build earthquake to stun all enemies in screen. *Build Earthquake to stun all enemies on screen Note: the word "Hire" is used frequently and isn't a terrible choice but I think using "Build" is more suitable since you are building towers. Holy Leaves Section: -Can gain more holy leaves at playing game *increases the number of holy leaves while you play. In the Shop Menu: Item Package: -Buy item package with inexpensive price for valuable strategic use! You can get every item in this one package! Extra holy leaves will be given for bonus! *Buy item package to aid in your strategy plans for this low price. Get every item all in one bundle. Extra holy leaves are included as an added BONUS! Mercenary -Chance to hire every special mercenary tower in one package! Extra item pack will be given for bonus!! Don't miss this sale. *Chance to build every mercenary tower all in one package. Extra item pack will be given for FREE! Don't miss out on this sale Achievements Menu: -Wait at main menu more than 5 minutes. *Wait at main menu for more than 5 minutes. -Clear the forest theme with perfect score. *Clear the Forest theme with a perfect score. The above error goes the same for the every theme, Artic theme and Desert theme achievements as well. -Hidden Achievements *Hidden Achievement Note: I had an achievement unlock and the pop-up wasn't translated. There are in-game achievements and gamecenter is integrated without them maybe because its just beta now, but I hope the in-game awards are linked up with gamecenter before its released. For the levels, you have small, middle, and large. Middle should be Medium.
Nope it is actually 15, 35, 50, etc. If you look closely you will see that white outline of the box actually looks like a dot in between the numbers. I wanted to bring that up as well for the devs since it is kind of irritating and can be confusing at first.
I have to add that I do not really like the way the item system is implemented either. I personally never use them besides the shovel (which is rarely). The seem like a distraction, they take up screen space until you minimize them, and honestly the feel like they deract from gameplay enough to feel like a money grab. After, you could buy as many as you wanted in the store and pass stage easily. I feel like they need to be individualized for each level and upgraded for each level, and not be one time use thoughout the whole game.
I guess it's to late to sign up as a beta-tester, I don't care about the prizes I just thunk the game looks really cool and wanna help...
I also have rarely been using the items. For one they weren't proper introduced in the tutorial and this needs to be fixed. I also am disappointed that they're one time use items. I would have found it much more fun if they were reusable items that had a decent cool down length. These items would then be able to be upgraded through using holy leaves. These upgrades would both make the items stronger as well as shorten the cool down time of the items. I think this would take a bit of tweaking but it's really necessary that you change the current item system.
After playing through the game a little bit, I found it to be a more fun and a little bit more casual tower defense then normal. Definitely a good thing. There were a LOT of text errors as well. In short: look wherever you use the word "for" when it often should be "to". That's the most common one. Also take a look to make sure you capitalized the first letter of each elf's name (saw popups without it (looks a bit unpolished). Overall I like it, though more explanation on items and such might be a good thing.
Overall The Introduction is very good. It outlines the story very well and cover both what to do and objective. A few things i would like to Address is of course some of the English Problems, Now i know that English might not be your first language so something as easy as a few proofreaders could fix this. This alone would make the game feel even more proffesional. When First starting there needs to be more emphasis placed on using items, because at least for me i did not find out that there were items even available until a few rounds in. One other thing i think needs more focus is the Shop menu, A small tutorial is needed just to clarify a few things such as what the different menu's actually do. Not one crash yet, which is a GREAT thing and i am thoroughly enjoying this game. asy to spend just a few minutes on or even a few hours. Great job so far!
One other thing i noticed is that when i play on X2 Speed the arms of the elves are VERY Jerky, in the way in which they are very distracting and look a lot too fast. I love the difficulty settings also, Very easy to get used to, but not too hard in which you feel overwhelmed like in some Tower Defense Games. Last little annoyance from me is that you can pause mid level and upgrade your elves. I find this a bit sully because as soon as you are getting a bit overrun you can pause and upgrade. This makes the game far too easy in my opinion.
Only into the first few levels, but having a blast Pros -Amazing graphics, love the art style, especially the elf towers and the opening scene was very well done, very polished -Different difficulty modes(allows for people of different skill levels to equally have fun) -Nice game music, which many games do not give serious attention to -Gameplay speed: love the implementation of the 2x speed, as during some stretches it is necessary to speed through. -So far, seems to be no need for IAP Cons -As many have mentioned before, several glaring text errors, but none too serious to detract from the gameplay. -Items system seems a bit...meh. Most of the items seem like one time use, and I think you guys could implement an upgrade system where you can use the items after a cooldown period. -The path of the monsters(white stones) sort of blend in with various stones at times, and are a little difficult to discern at first glance. Will post some suggestions later!
quick suggestion...i feel we need a better explanation of all items ...even a chart would be fine...also a reference guide to all towers (elfs), powerups, and enemies...bosses too...mainly cause the art is great and it would also help gameplay alot... TWO MAIN THINGS WE LEARNED TODAY... 1. This is definitley in need of translation work...mainly in the most used areas like item bar and elf descriptions... 2. There seems to be a bug with hitting home and resuming...i have gotten flashing white graphics on my ipad2...twice...but not on my phone.. all in all i think the speed and gameplay are solid enough to stand up to most TD games on the appstore...all the added items...powerups..bosses...speed waves...upgrades...and overall extra gameplay perks also make this stand out above the rest... also no crashes btw ...! im off to play more and ill talk to everyone tomarrow.. peace to alex(saiyukialex) and animex! good to see you guys on this one!
Thanks for the points by Trev1. I'd like to say something else: I have no problem playing the game when receieving any pushes or notifications. Most descriptions about elves, mercenaries and items are in SHOP. But there's still no descriptions about enemies and bosses. LOL, find some bugs. Sometimes, when you press START at the main menu, the game doesn't move on. You are still in the main menu and you can see a bigger START, which means it should have been pushed. What you have to do is to press START again. Every time you go back to the theme selection menu and enter map selection menu, the difficulty is set to be NORMAL even you leave the map menu with the selection of EASY already. Tap the green buy beside the Holy Leaves at Map Selection screen, you will see 500EA for 99c, 2000EA for $2.99, etc. However what the hell is EA? There's no EA in the shop if you want to buy Holy Leaves there.
Suggestions -More in game music! -A more detailed storyline to follow, kind of like Lost Earth by Com2us -A better implemented items system(in previous post by me) -Definitely a zoom in/out mechanic -Gamecenter achievements would be nice!
It might just be me, but I'd really like more to the back story. What is the aggression all about, are all the elves related or in separate tribes, what will be the outcome of either side winning, what are the motivations of both sides, etc.
Double agree. The x2 speed is not really smooth. The choice of difficulty is one of the great option. Or you could enable the normal mode once the easy mode already been finish. I really like the tips that being shown every time we launch or load the game.
