DragonFire: Defense

Shorthand: -- Enjoyed 'playing' it, but would never suggest anyone else play it in it's 'current state'. -- Feels AI Developed, or Developed by someone who has no idea how system stacks or meant to interact. Positives: - Enjoyed the cute (I think so) Dragons - Potential for something more - Multiple stages of the dragons. - Great pixel art -- I'm choosing to believe that the art is all above board & is human made Negatives: This feels like .... AI aided development in the bad ways. - Multiple Progression systems that don't related to each other & have no real interaction with each other other than superficial stuff that isn't thought through. - Meaningless Upgrade & Items because of how absurd things interact - Unbalanced area progressions, due to what amounts to spamming the same enemy. - Player upgrades that aren't even consistent. -- auto collect for wood/food, but not for stone (Not that it really matters) - Items that at the same time are excessively powerful, and meaningless at the same time. -- Wood/Stone ones are insanely broken for early game, and while the higher tier ones are nice, it genuinely does not matter. -- Higher ones, use gold (which is all good), but the % to upgrade drops to the point where it's not worth upgrading based on clicking requirements alone. --- Top end ones where it would be impactful to upgrade, it genuinely doesn't matter because the levels the dragons gain by that point. - No consideration is given for clicking when the level/number of items starts to grow -- If you gain more than one chest per 10s on average, it becomes a headache to open the chests. -- you end up spam clicking (and in truth, I'd suggest an autoclicker, as even at silly dumb levels the dragons get towards, it can gain levels while clicking) -- To the point that even 'upgrading' end game gear for the luls isn't worth it for the clicks alone it would take (1-2% upgrade odds, at a 5k gold per chance with a max of lvl 50. The painful part being the clicking... as gold flow is borked, easily able to hit 50+Million without thinking about it - The player talent system is .... not thought out. -- There is no way without entirely cheating you're reaching the 'end' without being around 3100+ Player levels, and 1200+ Dragon levels per Dragon. ---- This is accounting for a soft level scaling system. where it's harder to level, and is why exponential systems exist. - Not that it really matters, but the slingshot is kinda .... just sad and a wasted of points. - Poorly thought out skill tree area with an infinite scrolling and an ability to literally scroll the buttons away. - Designed around touchscreen devices, with poor KB/M Controls -- The items are finicky as heck. - The Screens are so loosely connected that it is like they started from one area and loosely drew each area only mildly connecting the areas visually, but ... not really. -- The skill point map looks great is more of a mouse mat / Wall art design that is more game thematic rather than actually connected to the game logistically. - The events are .. neat, with most the events being utterly worthless & have no real impact. -- The only one having an impact would be the dragon one, as improving the dragon star breaks .... just everything & there isn't a good reason to ignore or even drive off the dragon -- The wizard one just feels like a developer self insert, with the Rejected & drive away coming across like an action that wasn't taken, and the ignore is so guilt coated its trying to shame you for a micro-aggression. -- There really is no variety in the events, no real risk or change in outcomes. - The Boss Skulls are .. a joke & not worth using till they really don't mean anything because of the redeemed gear. -- By the 2nd world end ... you're kinda able to reroll the shop if you care about a certain gear, or just doing something looking to replace gear. - Stats ... are kind of meaningless -- Range is ... a joke where 17 is enough for full screen. - Base Upgrades .... Well, it was slightly slower to get 1k wood/stone, than it was to get 10k wood/stone/2k gold - The merchant ... -- Technically works buying stuff for a singular resource -- Selling is .... Well, only useful for freeing up space if you're still item hunting. ---- upgraded items sell for ...gold, resource, & food... Which .... .by the time you are selling anything ... means So very little it's insane, and nothing when you start to sell things that are REALLY upgraded (which for me was only the wood/stone swords & bows, as the numbers lost their meaning when the higher tier stuff worth getting showed & replacing was more an exercise in .... dealing with a touch screen system with a mouse that seemed to double click or drop clicks. - The Genre .. is only skin deep..... to the point that the only 'Defense' that was going on was dealing with RL stuff waitingfor kill numbers to reach a goal to manually move on. -- Sure it was ... harder at first for the following - Unbalanced experience, -- World 1 was harder because of the number of enemies, -- World 2 was harder because of the enemy style for the first half of it.. then it shattered as the tipping point hit. -- World 3+ ... were nothing but time gated waits for kill counts that only showed up as fast as they could spawn.. While I personally love the dragons & how cute it is..... I don't think it's really thought out enough to suggest others to play. The genre barely matters if at all, the progression to the end is entirely time locked to ~2hours even if you had insanely OP dragons from the start one shotting them as they exited. This can go some where & I hope it does.. Though ATM this shows why an AI can't design a game.... all the elements are there ..bbut no direction, no checking how systems play with each other, no double checks on 'dumb things' (like what if I scroll to the right forever or zooom out for ever), no ability to gadge feel or impact of intended waiting or 'difficulty scale / time gating', and no consideration for thinks like impact on the human body (excessive clicking in a short time)