Originally posted by: gutsman004
Originally posted by: bertsampson
I understand what you're saying guts, but it's a matter of overcoming the inability to surround a castle with walls. Quickly seeing that there is too much fire, or the chances of getting a two block piece is not going to happen. I played this game for the first time last week, and I've really enjoyed it.
Quickly identifying the fire is not the issue,it's when there are numerous bomber ships that move really fast that's the problem. They carpet bomb every inch of your defense,making it to where you have to go to another castle. Wash,rinse,repeat and hope you don't run out of space. I played one level and I kept pulling out last second surrounds thinking after 3-4 rounds I would win but the level kept going until basically most of the playing field was ablaze and I couldn't do anything. This game just doesn't give you enough defensive abilities. At least you should be able to put out the fires in some way and/or be able to upgrade your cannons without dying. The game penalizes you for succeeding. Live,same cannons....die,upgrade! Plus the difficulty regresses back to level 1. Makes no sense at all. My updated score photo pretty much sums it up. I'm just going to use your line from the Ninja Gaiden contest....NEXT!
"Good. You've identified the problem, the next step is washing it off."
I found that the most important thing was to take out the red ships (their bombs cause fire), then take out the docked ships and any "tanks", then try and shoot down the other ships. Then, on building, stay away from the outside wall, and don't put your guns next to the walls or castles when possible. On the hardest difficulties, I opted to not even build all my guns just so I would have an easier time building walls the next time.
One other thing, I played on my PC as well as my NES, and I felt like I could move faster on my NES. I never beat the game on my PC. Felt like I could build the walls faster on my NES.
I'm ready to move on the next game as well, but Pin Bot? Tom maxed this one out too, but I'm having a hard time getting more than a couple million!
