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[Nerd's Journey]

Meh. Seriously needs some nerfing. In fact I think it is impossible even with two players you git hit once and lose half your health which makes the health upgrades nearly useless as you are lucky if you take 3 hits with 5 hearts. If anyone needs a way to get past the glitch you will have to use the password system to unlock all the characters after deleting the cache. Simply match 3 of a kind and press enter. You can also try Nerd Monster Nerd. If you need money I recommend fully upgrading Frankenstein's laser and then getting on the top platform and shooting everything that comes. Likewise you can use the fully-upgraded wolf man to kill everything by touching it.
Glitches:
The aforementioned unlock new character glitch needs to be fixed and you can run off the screen and kill yourself by accident in some stages

[Drake and The Wizards 2]

Great game. I played it all through in one sitting. The controls are more fluent now and the addition of the upgrade shop is quite nice. I've only noticed one problem however, when entering a new area the music will stop sometimes other than that I love this game

lartar responds:

Thanks Matthew, we are going to look the bug you report ;)

[60s Santa Run]

Good game but the score you get depends heavily on how fast your pc is at the moment. The timeris independent of framerate which means if your pc has been on for awhile or is slow don't waste your time trying to get the last 3 medals. It will not happen. After my gf got done with my pc I tried to play this and the highest score I got was 8k and after that I could not finish in time. After a cold boot the next day my score was 18k the first time.....this wasnt such a big deal with burger run as it was not as long nor did you have to wait for lasers to get out of the way. Here it makes the last three medals unachievable for a lot of people

[Miami Shark]

Okay but some serious flaws:
1. Some items are not updated like those should be after they are destroyed. You can spend all the time at mid-depth killing sailing boats only to have the game register 7 killed. Refreshing the game enables the game to count seven or so more before you have to refresh again.
2. The ad fails to load and locks that stats screen forcing you to restart the game wo being able to see your stats

[Scarecase 2012]

Pfft. Willing to bet the medal is what made it pass the portal. The medal itself is awarded at pure random. Just keep pressing right and then left

[Infinite Loop]

Very original and if you have a VERY basic grasp of programming you should have no problem with beating this game

[Super Adventure Pals]

Ok but there are some glitches:
1. Once one of your attributes is maxed the other cannot be raised at all. In fact you can raise your one of your two attributes past the max.
2. Last boss is a bit glitchy as I got stuck in a platform being unable to move and also had the level end when I had beaten him once.
Lastly and the biggest problem is the one million coin achievement. I thought MMOs were insane with their leveling requirements but this will force you to play the game over 31 hours. For the curious here is my calculation:
It is possible to beat the first stage in 1min 40 seconds, rounding up that puts it at 2min. You can get roughly 300 coins a level and 1 crystal each time that makes it 800 coins each time roughly. In order to get 100k doing this it would take (30 times beaten in one hour*800=24,000) approximately 4.5 hours just to get 100,000 coins. You could also spam kill the boss with the large number of bombs you have for 400 coins a shot it takes about 20 seconds to do that (waiting for the cutscene etc) and you can do it 20 seconds/60 seconds= 3 times/per minute, 3*60min = 180 times/hr, 180*400 and that can get you 72,000 but you will rin out of bombs eventually. You will have to go back to the store and waste 15k to buy more or go back to grinding on the first level. Provided one played the first stage for 4.5 hours and spam killed the boss for one hour you would only have roughy 172,000 coins. This means it would take a GRAND TOTAL OF (172,000[5.5 hrs] + 172,000[5.5 hrs] + 172,000[5.5 hrs] + 172,000[5.5 hrs] + 172,000[5.5 hrs] + 140,000[4hrs] )= OVER 31hrs:30mins. Assuming my math is correct I do not want to waste my time trying to get that achievement. Yes you can do it in steps but even that will take you over several months if not a year depending on how insane you are when it comes to grindingAt least the Madness Project Nexus 53k kills achievement doesnt take as long since you kill over 300 in about 30 minutes at or around Wave 49.

[Quietus II]

Despite the whiners on the review boards the game isnt too hard. It takes patience and planning to beat and level 35 took me less than 15 tries. There are much harder games on NG. Give it a whirl I say