Score: 6

"Good effort, but..."

submission: Imperium II

date: November 10, 2009

I was enjoying it until I first got attacked by an enemy kingdom - the resource management bits of the game were good but the battles ruined it. It all LOOKS pretty nice but there's basically nothing to do and battles just goes on forever.

Also, getting attacked again immediately after winning a (very long) battle was infuriating, and since I didn't fancy sitting and clicking for another hour-long battle sequence (which I was guaranteed to lose, since I hadn't had time to move more troops into the city being attacked) I decided to quit altogether.
Having to suddenly respond to things very quickly after hours of sitting around waiting for things to happen is just completely annoying.

There's a good game in here somewhere but it ain't there yet, sorry dude!

Score: 7

"Runs slow"

submission: Inca Blocks

date: February 12, 2009

Really nice concept but how about a lower-quality graphics option? The game seemed really cool but I had to quit because it was running so slowly. Those stone face animations took about a minute each time!

Score: 5

"Lots of potential, but..."

submission: Sin Mark

date: January 18, 2009

...what the hell is up with the scrolling? I press the arrow to move my character to the right, and the screen pans way off leaving the character far behind, usually getting killed while I can do nothing about it.

I don't understand why the screen pans/scrolls at all while neither the cursor or my character is anywhere near either edge of the screen?!

I would probably love this game if you managed to fix this issue, but as it is it's unplayable and totally infuriating. I assume this is what others meant by "hard to control". I feel bad giving it a low rating since there were many other aspects of the game that I liked, but ultimately it just did my head in!