Phweengee
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I found this game called Dot Wars. It's not turn based, but the mechanics seem to be like DROD in how one moves and rotates the sword to defeat things. Now that I think about it, it's actually a lot like that DRODer thing that someone here created a while back, only with more stuff to do. I like the music. Sorry if this is a repost.

http://www.i-am-bored.com/bored_link.cfm?link_id=15372

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stigant
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wow... that's quite... difficult. Backslashing doesn't work at all.

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Doom
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After 1355 deaths, the king of blues was defeated. I left about 8 rooms uncompleted, thinking I could've returned to them later if necessary. (Fortunately I didn't have to... They would've at least doubled my death count)

Generally, the difficulty was too high. Specifically, a fight near the brown door against a single enemy with the key gave me a lot of trouble. There were a few other frustrating rooms too. I kept thinking through the whole game: "Why can't I get a longer sword like all those enemy guards"!

If you're having trouble, setting the game speed to lowest should help a lot. It still doesn't make it easy, though.

Similar controls, "Roach queens", JtRH:L25 type rooms... Some things could definitely be inspired by DROD.

mrimer
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Phew -- I beat the game (at default speed, except for the last couple rooms). Took me over 2000 deaths, with about five rooms left unsolved. I agree with what Doom said, except Here's some more remarks:

* Many game elements are circles, but they use square collision detection (including the player) -- annoying! Circle-circle collision detection is no more complex a calculation and should be used where appropriate (i.e. is the distance between the centers of two circles < their radii).

* I don't really like the bad-guys-pop-out-of-nowhere rooms.

* White kamikazes that break your sword down are interesting. It took me a while to figure out that I can keep my sword by hitting them from a certain direction or something.

* What's with the rainbow guy that remaps your command key settings? That would be okay for the last part of the fight, but it's annoying that they doesn't get put back on death.

* It's cool to have some background story, but regarding game elements, a lot of things happen that are never really explained, although the player can kind of figure stuff out by fumbling around a lot. I'd suggest having a message pop up the first time a new thing is touched explaining what's going on.

All in all, I'm glad the author made and published the game. It had some neat real time+space DRODlike concepts in it.

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chowyunbrent
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It was all a bit too frantic for me... a lot of pressing the space bar. I can see the DROD link though.

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I'm moving this to the "Electronic Games" board.

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Doom
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mrimer wrote:
Phew -- I beat the game (at default speed, except for the last couple rooms). Took me over 2000 deaths, with about five rooms left unsolved. I agree with what Doom said, except

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×I snuck the yellow key from the box next to the captain and learned how to parry, then went back to finish him off easily.

I did the exact same thing. Note that I was talking about brown door. It just didn't want to work.

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Mikko
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I've played this for a while and it's an OK game. Can somebody tell me how to kill a pink circle? It just seems to reappear every time.

Chaco
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Unfortunately for you, you have to hit it four times before the stupid thing finally dies.

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Nillo
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I really don't like death counters. It's like an inverted highscore that tells people how bad you are. Also, the game has way too many instant kills. But more games is always nice, and I'm sure others could enjoy it.

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eytanz
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I actually managed to kill the brown key guard by turning the speed up to maximum and just charging him. The game is less responsive at higher speeds.

My main problem playing this game is that I find the protagonist to be totally unsympathetic.

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Banjooie
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eytanz wrote:
My main problem playing this game is that I find the protagonist to be totally unsympathetic.

Beethro is sympathetic?

Chaco
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He uncovers an empire that would probably get destroyed by the armies of the surface... hmm, I don't exactly think that's sympathetic.

Anyway, is there an easy way to kill those four black swordsmen at the start of level 2? I managed to get the Green Sword, but I have Sword 15 and Speed 11, and it's been a big bother with the enemy swordsmen.

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eytanz
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Chaco wrote:
He uncovers an empire that would probably get destroyed by the armies of the surface... hmm, I don't exactly think that's sympathetic.

Huh?

First, Beethro's uncovering the empire was more accident than anything else, I don't think sympathy comes into it.

Second, what in JtRH give you the impression that the empire is under any risk from the surface?

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