Saturday, March 7, 2009

Sweet New Picks!

Last weeks picks: Popopop, ClickRace, Divergence Turret Defense, Elite Forces: South Osetia, The Virus Game

The New Picks:

Jigsaw Deluxe: It’s jigsaw puzzle with a new arcade mode, when the pieces of picture are floating around the playing field and a player should manage to put them together in order to create a picture.
GravPull: GravPull is a puzzle game that with simple gravity physics gameplay. You start a level rotating around a planet and must add thrust to your ship once you think your angle of rotation is good for the direction that you intend to travel in. Each level has a goal planet that you must reach to pass to the next level.
Platform Combat: Blast, impale, burn, freeze, snipe, laser and explode other players in this fast paced multiplayer platform deathmatch game.

Bible Fight

Bible Fight is a game from Adult Swim Games. A new developer to Kongregate that has only uploaded this game.

Introduction
In Bible Fight the goal is to beat your opponent. It's a 1 vs. 1 game. You can be different religious characters.

Characters and their attacks
This games' characters are all related to religion as the game's title tells us. Each character can do normal moves (X and Z) or special moves. NOTE: The attacks will be reversed when looking left. Example: Down, Left, Z will be Dwon, Right, Z.
Here's a helpful image to all characters' attacks.

Levels
When you're against an opponent in Tournament Mode, you'll fight in different levels. There isn't any difference in fighting or controls, just difference in background. List of levels:
Garden of Eden (Eve's level)
Noah's Ark (Noah's level)
The parted seas (Moses' level)
The manger (Mary's level)
Hell (Satan's level)
Golgotha (Jesus' level)
Heaven (God's level)

Practice Mode
This mode allows you to play for fun. If you win you'll get the Bible Thumper Badge (Easy)(First win). If you lose, nothing happens.

Tournament Mode
In the Tournament Mode you play to win. If you win you'll get the Forgive Me, Father Badge (Medium)(Beat all your opponents). If you lose, you'll have to start again.

Fight
Beat your opponent in 2 KOs to win a battle. You have to kill your opponents with your attacks.
KO: A KO is beating your opponent once, not a fight.
Perfect Round: Get a perfect round by killing your opponent without getting yourself hurt.

Badges
Divine Prophecy Challenge (Card): Get this card by getting 5 KOs, that means, beat up 2 and a half opponents.
Bible Thumper Badge (Easy): To win this badge, go to Practice Mode and win one time with anyone against anybody.
Forgive Me, Father Badge (Medium): Go to Tournament Mode and beat all your opponents (including God) to win this achievement.
Losin' My Religion Badge (Hard): Beat Tournament Mode with the 6 main characters (excludes God).
Devil's in the Details Badge (Hard): Defeat Satan in Tournament Mode with 2 perfect rounds.

God
You can unlock god by typing JEHOVAH in the Practice Mode.
Or you can unlock him by being the winner of a tournament.
NOTE: You can't be God in Tournament Mode.

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Play Bible Fight Now!

Friday, March 6, 2009

Review - Exorbis 2

Getting tired of these generic headers? Me too.

The game I'm gonna be reviewing today is Exorbis 2. It's one of the BEST puzzlers on Kongregate. That SHOULD be the end of the review right now, seeing as it's just too awesome to miss, but since this is supposed to be a full-length review, I guess I've gotta elaborate. :/

Do you like puzzle games? How about level creators? Do you like games to have tons of levels (I dunno, like one hundred?)? Do you like games to give you reasons to come back to the levels you've already completed? (I dunno, maybe an ace system of some sort?) Do you like to live? If you answered yes to any of the questions above, Exorbis 2 is right for you. (This review comes with 10% more rhymes and half the fat of a regular review)

Anyway, Exorbis 2 is developer editundo's latest game. "editundo" brought us Flash Games such as Jumpcat and Rocketcat, so you know this game's gotta be quality. (Man, I'm starting to sound like the guy who advertises ShamWow.) Exorbis 2 is a fairly unique puzzle game, in which you press arrows in order to slide circles on top of switches that are the same color. It may sound like a simple concept, and you might think you're a master while playing through the first couple levels, but believe me: It gets a LOT harder. Levels range from being able to be completed in two or three moves, to the lowest amount being something like twenty-five. Oh, and yes, Exorbis has an "ace" system similar to Pyro's. If you beat all the levels in a row with an "ace" score, you unlock a bonus level for that row, which is significantly difficult.

If you do take a liking to this game, you will truly never get bored. This game is packed with 110 levels for the main game (100 initial levels, + 10 bonus levels unlocked by acing.). But no, after you finally get done with that, you're still nowhere near at the end of this wonderful tunnel. Exorbis also comes packaged with a level editor, in which you can make your own levels, share, and play others' levels.

If I had to pick a weak point for this game, it would be the music. It's horribly repetitive, but thankfully the developer included a mute button.

Now it's time for everyone's favorite part: The graphics. Excellent. They are just virtually flawless. And it's not just the basic graphics presented in the game which make it great. You can turn on the special effects, which are great, and don't lag your computer at all. In addition to having the special effects, Exorbis even has a mode for color-blind people! If those aren't accesible graphics options, I don' know what is.

Overall, Exorbis is a very long puzzle game, which will draw you back over and over again. It's very simplistic in design, yet surprisingly challenging in the later levels.

Final Verdict: Definite 5/5, favorite. Seriously, go play it. I'd also be willing to bet money this game's gonna get badges sometime or another. :)

~PlatinumIce
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Play Exorbis 2 here!


Thursday, March 5, 2009

Don't Look Back Walkthrough

This game is pretty simple though there is a few hard parts, in which help can be found below.

Video by Tasslefoot:

Monday, March 2, 2009

The Halo Wars Challenge got changed.

Some of you may have noticed, but the way you acquire the Halo Wars Sweepstakes ticket got dramatically changed. The original requirement was to complete the secret level in Battalion: Nemesis. From the many complaints about the difficulty of this task, it was changed to a fairly easy requirement of killing 30 enemies. I'm sure I don't need to post a guide on this, but if you need any help in general then you could refer to the many other guides on the internet, or the original secret battle guide I posted. Kills in the secret challenge are counted for the sweepstakes.

Disclaimer: Completing this new challenge in addition to the original doesn't give you 2 entries or tickets into the contest.

EDIT: I was wrong, here's a quote of what greg said.

There was a communication error with Microsoft regarding this challenge, and we were apparently not supposed to use the image of Master Chief within the game. We were asked to remove the bonus level immediately.

Since the challenge requires finishing this level to earn the ticket, the challenge task was therefore changed to 30 kills so that people can still earn the challenge if they were putting it off until today. You cannot earn the ticket twice if you’ve already earned it.

I apologize for the confusion regarding this matter, but it was not changed due to player feedback.



Edit 2: Challenge extended for 4 more days.

The original challenge is also back.

Globetrotter XL


*gasp* Did I just post a miniature map that links back to a larger one which could possible help you get the badges for this game? I give you my sincere apology. :o

Ahh, learning! Something many Americans apparently don't want to do. Well, tough luck, because with this game, the only way you'll get good if by memorizing where the countries are; by playing over and over, taking note of the country's location after the each round.
Strategies and Tips:
List of Cities.
Easy Badge: You'll need to score 1k points for this badge, which is pretty easy being that it's possible to get this purely off of the first level. You should be able to get this one within 5 tries if you have some basic geography knowledge, and within 10 if you haven't really studied it too well. Not much to say about this badge, other than don't give up right away. It's easy once you get into full swing with playing this game.
Medium Badge: This one requires a bit more time and patience. You need to make it to level 5, not needing to pass it, to acquire this achievement. Similar to the first, you need to play the game multiple times, maybe more than an hour, paying attention to the location of the more difficult to know countries, such as "Yemen" "Quinea" "Uzbekistan" or even "Cambodia".
Hard Badge: Impossible for those that don't pay attention to the countries. This badge requires you to beat level 10 and get a strike. Amazingly, I found getting a strike far easier as for the fact that many popular American cities were thrown in, giving me the edge. As for getting to level 10, it's the same thing as mentioned before; memorizing countries and playing for long periods of time.

Overall Tips:
- Memorize the more difficult countries, as they do repeat.
- Use Google to get yourself at least the medium badge. This doesn't work later on, since eventually you only have 4 seconds to click on the map.
- If you at least click somewhere within the country, you'll easily get the easy and medium badges.

Rant: Can you guys please stop posting cruel comments and/or rating this 1 star just because you suck at geography? It says in the challenge description, that this challenge has to do with learning. Even in the game description is says that you'll be learning geography. Many of those " not ugly Americans" who have all of the badges played many times before they beat it. Don't be a sore loser, and comment "this game suz 1/5" upon failing.

KongCG Presents: Strategery on the Mastermind

The comic with the strategery is here!

Due to the layout of the blog and its huge image size, users must click the link below to see the comic.

Episode 1

Episode 2

Episode 3