Comments on: Thoughts: Kingdom

By: Hentzau

Hentzau — Tue, 26 Jul 2016 09:02:06 +0000

I think much of your reaction is going to be fundamentally determined by how much you like trial-and-error gameplay. I personally dislike it, especially when you can’t rectify the errors. But if you were a little more forgiving of that then I can easily see somebody getting along fine with Kingdom – hell, even I was having a lot of fun on the very first run where I felt like I was figuring things out and making progress.

Out of interest, and I appreciate I’m asking this question a little late, how did you feel when you cracked the last of the portals? Like it had all been worthwhile?

By: Hentzau

Hentzau — Tue, 26 Jul 2016 08:57:53 +0000

Which is a fair point, and I think if Kingdom had a satisfying payoff it’d probably be worthwhile in spite of its deliberate obtuseness. Sadly all I felt when I finished it was disappointment; it’s too basic to really support anything else.

By: ilitarist

ilitarist — Wed, 20 Jul 2016 11:22:43 +0000

It’s sad that even if you don’t try to attack the game for being to simple it sounds like a humiliation. “Just a puzzle”.

I think strategy genre would be a healthier place if everyone didn’t try to make infinitely replayable games like Civilization or next favorite online game of Korea. I that last thing had already killed RTS genre.

By: Oliver "Mezmorki" Kiley

Oliver "Mezmorki" Kiley — Mon, 18 Jul 2016 14:16:56 +0000

I think the game is a really just a one trick pony. It an example of a “strategy game” really functioning as a puzzle. Once you’ve solved the puzzle, there isn’t any reason to play it more.

That said – I really enjoyed this game. It took me about 10 hours across many attempts to figure out how to solve it – and I don’t regret my time with it in the least. It was a fun challenge, and pixel art is absolutely amazing and atmospheric (I have an enormous screenshot folder), and there is a sort of beautiful and haunting feeling to the game that I really enjoyed.

But once you do finally beat it, there is no real reason to go back to it. But that isn’t so different from many other game story driven games where you generally only play them once.

By: Ninja Foodstuff

Ninja Foodstuff — Mon, 18 Jul 2016 13:43:38 +0000

What a pity. I had my eye on this for quite some time as it seemed like a pretty interesting concept. I’d love to find a game that has this style of gameplay but which is actually fun.