I'ts a rather simple game to get a handle on. While the demo on their main site isn't as long nor does it have one of the upgrades that the version on Kongregate has. The full version does, and much more.
Granted the game is $10 to get the full version, I say it's well worth it. But if you care to play the demo, I'd say do a little of both, and grab the demo from their site, and also play the version on Kongregate.
It is very simplistic graphics, and has an OK storyline throughout the full version. Although at the end it's a small bit religious (Christian?) ... it's still a good storyline. If I were in any way religious in that manner, I might be awestruck with how the story played out in the end. But for my understanding of that religion ... I don't think God would step in, give mankind a super-weapon, and the method to wipe out another race... Oh, it doesn't stop there... see, apparently this religion setup isn't Christian at all? No? ... Greek mythology? I've no clue.
The gameplay is pretty straight forward, you've got a town, that you can move around, and the ability to build a network of energy collectors to power the construction of other things, and weaponry. The enemy is spawned constantly through some 'emitters'. This enemy flows across the land, somewhat like the Creep in Starcraft, but it doesn't really stop there. It will flow downhill. Yes, there are different elevations to the game area.
As this creep fills up low lying areas, it will eventually spill over the next level higher, and eventually shoots to fill the entire map. Think of it as a deadly water with springs that constantly flow. Well, the creep IS blue after all.
The Kongregate version is quite simple, and while you should watch your production to power intake, it's not that necessary. But on the Demo and full versions, you do need to watch this if you want to win easily, or win at all on some maps. There are different strategies to the maps that may allow for an easy traversing of the world, while there are other strategies that you just build up however much you want, and go from there.
There is one map in particular on the full version that is pretty much impossible to beat unless you know a good strategy to work around the lack of a future upgrade. Mainly it's a tactic that once you learn, it makes all maps pretty much easy as all heck (including the last one).
The last stage it basically tells you right in the storyline text what you should do to set up at the start. If you then expand on it and build like you've had to do in other stages, you can 'beat' the last stage without using the super weapon. The reason I put beat in the quotes there, is because if you do it that way without the super weapon, the game kind of hangs... The closing storyline basically has you pilot the super weapon into a black hole, thus sacrificing yourself to save 'all of humanity'.
When you do beat the storyline, it throws the religion bit around kind of strangely. I can't grasp some of it as it seems to be a mixture of different religions or mythologies. I won't ruin the ending of course, but still, it's strange.
The end of the story line in the full version isn't the end ... you are presented throughout your travel some conquest type maps where you are visiting 5 different areas on a planet attempting to wipe travel to the next area without dying. There are 5 or 6 planets in conquest to run through.
Once you've beaten those different conquests it unlocks some other special maps that are made to represent different things, like the world map, or a checkerboard.
Overall, a great game worth the $10...please, support the indies, don't go trying to find downloads for hacked versions or free versions of the full game.
Anywho's, time for me to go try to finish off all the maps, then try my hand at making my own map...or perhaps download one from their site that others have made!
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