Recent reviews by referee111

Wow. Wow, wow, wow. For this price, I have never played a game with this much quality. The 3D graphics are stunning and are sometimes not seen in games worth $5 or more. Again, the game is worth buying just for its quality. Not to mention the control screen is as easy as pressing a button. The game is as simple as that, too! However, we haven't even gotten to the actual game yet.

So, what is the game, you ask?

This game has 4 different modes with 7 total variations total. Arena and Trails are free-for-all modes, Blizzard and Multiball are team modes, and Arena, Trails, and Blizzard have practice variations. For every mode, there are 7-8 maps you can play on. On these map, there are circles of various sizes and location through it. After you select your button, you can press the button when in the circles to go around them in an orbit (hence "orbits" in the title). When you press your button outside the circle, you dash forward, which can be beneficial or hurtful, depending on the mode. You can always tell the direction of your character by looking at where the arow points. It never breaks physics, but it is helpful for when you have a lot of characters on the screen, and a small bit of color isn't enough to keep your eye focused. In addition, there are modifications for the four multiplayer modes, giving you flexibility and countless arangements of fun! Lastly, if you are in a circle and an opponent or sphere hits you, your orbit will break unless you hit your button immediately afterwards. Alright, let's go on to the modes!

First, we will begin with Arena, which is probably what could be considered the basic mode. You have to direct your character towards various white spheres. When you hit one, every other player cannot hit them or thy die. The same goes for you if you hit an opponent's sphere. It is possible to change the color of spheres around you if you hit a big open circle. However, these are really uncommon, aren't seen until later in the game, and only have a certain radius from which all the spheres will become your color. It's a relatively simple mode. (*_* )

Secondly, we have Trails. In this mode, you have to pick up white spheres like before, but this time, they extend off of you wen you pick them up. You become a big snake, and you have to use your sphere segments to kill the opponent; hitting head-to-head with your opponent bounces the two players off one another. There are big open circles in this mode, too. In this mode, they steal any nearby white spheres or segments from other players and adds them to your length. The game functions on a first-to-five basis: First player to five wins... wins!

Thirdly, we have Blizzard. Blizzard is different from other modes because it has a solid line down the middle, preventing you to leave your half. On the black line lie two spheres which can be hit from either side. The objective is to hit the white spheres into the goal on the other side. However, players can send spheres your way, too. You can defend by touching the colored spheres that head towards your goal. If you or an opponent miss, it is probable a goal will be scored. When a goal is scored, a line of the goal is taken away, making it tougher for that team to hit into it. It keeps the game balanced and exciting the entire time and gives the team that's down a chance to come back. It's also important to know that spheres hit out of the middle never despawn, but turn white after a goal is scored. This results in the screen being filled with madness come late game if you don't play your cards right!

Lastly, we have Multiball. Multiball is like easy-mode Blizzard. There is no black line, so players can move throughout the map. You still defend and score in the same ways. However, there are some big changes. Goals are circular and don't take up the entire edge, so it is a little harder to score. You can hit your colored sphere into your goal, but it will not count against you and the sphere will rest in the middle. Lastly, an open circle spawns in the middle when two white spheres are present, making it so a team could quickly posses both of them from the outset.

Though there are practice versions of Arena, Trails, and Blizzard, they are based on endurance and a lot less fun then the actual game. If you have a friend, play the real game, not practice.

This game gives remarkable value for $1.99. I am thouroughly impressed with what was accomplished with this game. It will be tough to find a great game like this for under $10, and I'm being serious here. I cannot thank the developers enough for making this, as my friends and I have had countless great moments with this game, with more coming long into the future. Dev(s), I love you. <3

Lemme put this simply: Merchandise costs $600+ together (with merchandise), the game used predatory practices coming here and trying to rob people of their money, hackers and disconnections run rampant, I couldn't play for 2 hours because I got reported because there are no gates or anything for reporting, when you unlock something, you unlock 1/3 of it, the insane fanboys that defend this game, the lack of new content, and much more... all coming to you for "free"! This game should be reported for the predatory use of microtransactions, and other games like this now and in the future shouldn't be allowed on Steam. Just stick with BTD 5. It's pretty much the same thing.
I had an in-depth review, but it got deleted. Probably because I exposed them breaking several national laws in the US. ♥♥♥♥ these developers, and get this game off of Steam. Thanks.

EDIT: Guess who is at fault for this? There are 3 groups of people involved: NinjaKiwi, YouTubers, and you. The NinjaKiwi part has already been pointed out. YouTubers are the people who started playing it and giving it such a massive hype train. And if you've ever played a bloons game in the past, you are responsible for supporting this ♥♥♥♥. If you hadn't gotten on the hype train for the series at the start, they wouldn't have had any reason to make this. All fans of bloons are partially responsible for this.

This is a post to a thread on the official forums which talked about DLC for this game. This is, word-for-word, what I wrote:

"DLC!? Doesn't that make it more like pay-to-win before? More content which can't be unlocked by every user who just gets the game is pretty much that. Also, what DLC is reasonable? There pretty much is no soundtrack. 11 tracks or so totaling under 10 minutes (probably 8 or 9 minutes max) is unrealistic. He hasn't even finished adding weapons into the real game. Heck, we aren't even out of the dreaded early access stage yet. We're not even sure if he's ever actually going to release it with CropDuster Supreme in the way and somewhat less devotion to updates. Skins and other accessories like that should be added into the real game, not added as DLC. Other games have DLC which I disagree with (like Rocket League and FNAF), but those are actually high quality games (not so much for every FNAF game imo, but whatever). This game is not up to that standard. I mean, the damage system isn't perfect, and will probably be rebunked in the future. There are still bugs coming in, and it's been almost a year at this point. The new menu is complete trash, as more than half of my tiny monitor is just empty space. I can hardly read any chat messages or anything without my glasses at this point, and my eyesight hasn't retrogressed. Besides, DLC adds MORE price to the game. It's still absurdly high for what's there. Why would you make any DLC which would push this game over $8?

Also, doesn't it just show we're giving up on him, but we're finding new hope in a new way which isn't beneficial at all to us? This is stuff which should be part of his updates, which do not assist the game much. We have given up on these updates, as we pretty much should at this point, but we are doing the wrong thing. We're begging for DLC to help this game out, which a) makes this even more like a money pit and b) just poops on everything kChamp said in the past. It's getting closer to the time to bail on this game. Rather than pay for cool DLC which should be in normal gameplay, let's do a more rational option: leave. If this game isn't giving you what you want, go back to SSL2 or find a better game to meet your needs. If this game is the Titanic, it has already hit the iceburg and has 80% of itself under water. Due to the situation, this game is unfixable, and will remain unfixable kChamp starts listening to the community and actually makes a decent attempt to fix the gameplay issues. Seriously, it's almost better to find a new game. "

I apoligize it has some DLC-based stuff, but there is more reasons not to by the game than the DLC content.

In addition, I think the community is an issue. We've pretty much been sitting back, letting kChamp control this ship once again with the same results. We aren't listened to, but that doesn't mean we should sit back. Someone who is more dedicated to pulling off a magical comeback should constantly email him, telling him to check the forums every day. He won't do it otherwise. You can't talk to him on the forums and ask him anything because he rarely checks. This game will never leave early access.

Now, why am I not saving this game if I have the advice? I have tried for the 10 months to follow it, but none of it works. I sent him an email for three weeks straight to get him back on the forums before giving up. He didn't ever come on during that span. I've been here in this community a long time (September would be Year #3 in the game, July would be Year #2 on the forums). I've seen a lot happen to SSL2, and I've seen everything that has happened with this game. What has happened to this game is tragic. I'm to the point where I will never recommend it. Yes, I've been in red for 6 months now, but he can't save the game now. It's too late. Save your $7 and go get a game which you'll actually enjoy and is out of early access unless you actually want to help with bugs. Please. Don't get caught up in this web of frustration like we have.

And don't get CropDuster Supreme, either. It's been Greenlit, and watching this trailer when somewhat sick literally made be vomit my guts out. Check out its Greenlit page if you don't believe me. This game is a GODSEND compared to that piece of crap (literally: it's all based on farting). This is another precautionary warning.