i think you are locked into whatever upgrade you choose
― O_o-O_O-o_O (jjjusten), Thursday, 2 May 2013 16:11 (eleven years ago) link
you can still power it up tho, not that it seems to be doing me any good, still stuck on bloody castle entrance
― jabba hands, Thursday, 2 May 2013 16:11 (eleven years ago) link
hint: pay attention to the asterisk on castle entrance
― O_o-O_O-o_O (jjjusten), Thursday, 2 May 2013 16:20 (eleven years ago) link
i can be less cryptic obv but i dont want to spoiler
― O_o-O_O-o_O (jjjusten), Thursday, 2 May 2013 16:23 (eleven years ago) link
super mario crossover is my favorite thing right now (but so hard)
― shit tie (Jordan), Thursday, 2 May 2013 17:16 (eleven years ago) link
beat the dragon and unlocked SPOILERhellSPOILER
― Mordy, Thursday, 2 May 2013 17:35 (eleven years ago) link
________\o/COWCOW__________COW____________COW__________________"The cow king ! It looks like a normal cow, but it isn't..."
"The cow king ! It looks like a normal cow, but it isn't..."
― sleepingbag, Thursday, 2 May 2013 19:37 (eleven years ago) link
the cow stage is more than a joke! lots of candy, and you can get the horn of plenty which gives you triple lp production.
i can beat the dragon easily using invincibility, teleporting and the seed. but hell is hell.
― abanana, Thursday, 2 May 2013 20:35 (eleven years ago) link
p.s. never buy "more candies" from the witch, at least not at this point. she never gives you more than you give her in lollipops.
― abanana, Thursday, 2 May 2013 20:38 (eleven years ago) link
i can't beat this fucking dragon.what's the seed good for? You stop and cast attacks behind it? oh waiti think i just got it
― brb buying poppers w/my employee discount (forksclovetofu), Thursday, 2 May 2013 20:38 (eleven years ago) link
does dropping candy on the ground do anything?
― Nhex, Thursday, 2 May 2013 20:41 (eleven years ago) link
not that i can tell
― abanana, Thursday, 2 May 2013 20:41 (eleven years ago) link
booooooooooooo ok
no i haven't got it.
― brb buying poppers w/my employee discount (forksclovetofu), Thursday, 2 May 2013 20:43 (eleven years ago) link
teleport, use the seed, use health potions while chopping
― abanana, Thursday, 2 May 2013 20:45 (eleven years ago) link
ohhhhhh. let me try that later
― brb buying poppers w/my employee discount (forksclovetofu), Thursday, 2 May 2013 20:47 (eleven years ago) link
aw thought for sure the dragon was the final boss. now you have me coming back to this game again
― chilli, Thursday, 2 May 2013 20:48 (eleven years ago) link
Number of saves which killed the devil : 8709Number of saves which finished the game : 3996
looks like hell isn't the final stage either
― abanana, Thursday, 2 May 2013 20:49 (eleven years ago) link
this is awesome, i'm avoiding reading y'all's comments for spoiler fear as i'm still very early. Love how it works completely well as a time-wasting whatever-tab, and simultaneously as a parody of RPG grinding, children's lessons in deferred gratification, and god knows what else. First trick I've picked up: keep hitting up the peaceful forest, it's worth it.
― Doctor Casino, Thursday, 2 May 2013 21:18 (eleven years ago) link
you're going to leave that peaceful forest behind preeeetty quickly!
― your holiness, we have an official energy drink (Z S), Thursday, 2 May 2013 21:27 (eleven years ago) link
i love hate this game
― O_o-O_O-o_O (jjjusten), Thursday, 2 May 2013 21:28 (eleven years ago) link
pretty minor spoiler for those who have beat the dragon already: there's a rly good item randomly dropped by a certain type of enemy in the castle keep level + you might wanna go back and beat that a cpl more times until you get it if u haven't already
― sleepingbag, Thursday, 2 May 2013 21:37 (eleven years ago) link
ain't that the way: i finally beat the dragon and didn't get shit to show for it
― brb buying poppers w/my employee discount (forksclovetofu), Thursday, 2 May 2013 21:41 (eleven years ago) link
i've crossed the threshold and this game has turned me into an actual insane person, keep an ear out for me, rambling about candy and the government, coming soon to a streetcorner near you
You have 9940016029 candies! | | Candies converter VYou have 37355537 lollipops!You have 7 chocolate bars \o/ (a bug ? Oo)You have eaten 2401693790 candies!You threw 0 candies on the ground.
You have eaten 2401693790 candies!You threw 0 candies on the ground.
_.-^-._ .'''. .-' _ '-. | cnd | / |_| \ '._.' / \ | /| _____ |\ | | |==|==| | ||---|---|---| |--|--| | ||---|---|---| |==|==| | |^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ The lollipop farm Lp planted : 1737211Production : 10000 lp/sec
― sleepingbag, Friday, 3 May 2013 01:24 (eleven years ago) link
i beat it.... but it never ends.... the numbers just keep going UP
― sleepingbag, Friday, 3 May 2013 01:25 (eleven years ago) link
you haven't thrown ANY candies on the ground?
― your holiness, we have an official energy drink (Z S), Friday, 3 May 2013 01:28 (eleven years ago) link
without giving anything even a little bit significant away, there's some function later that retrieves all those candies.
i cannot type sentences about this game without feeling like a schmuck -_-
― sleepingbag, Friday, 3 May 2013 01:29 (eleven years ago) link
i feel ya
― Nhex, Friday, 3 May 2013 02:15 (eleven years ago) link
I can't beat hell. :(
You can't get any more berserker potions other than the 5 that the frog gives you, can you?
― Dan I., Friday, 3 May 2013 05:40 (eleven years ago) link
don't need them for hell, though. hell requires invulnerability
― your holiness, we have an official energy drink (Z S), Friday, 3 May 2013 05:44 (eleven years ago) link
I am also stuck on hell
Right now I am rly into making a shit ton of invulnerabilities and buying a ton of teleport scrolls and beating the dragon over and over bcz you'll spend like 13,000 candies on supplies but then get like 50,000 candies every time you beat the level!
― siouxsan sarandon (Stevie D(eux)), Friday, 3 May 2013 05:51 (eleven years ago) link
Feeling like I've hit a wall with this - the dragon just seems impossibly out of my league and I don't seem to have access to anything that will upgrade me in any really useful way. Also feel like the "Frog Fractions" expansiveness/unpredictability has faded a bit, though that's enhanced it as a parody of RPGs and old-school BBS door-game good times. At first it seemed really open-ended, like, oh, there's nothing on the screen, now I have the candy salesman! Now there's a quest mode! Now I'm farming resources! But all those things start to lock together as an actual grinding mechanic, and while there may be more surprises around the corner, there hasn't been anything really crucial in a while, although maybe it's just that I'm underwhelmed by the cauldron.
Another, maybe related challenge - not necessarily a flaw in this, but maybe something to chew on - in these kinds of 'expanding' games, how do you signal the player that a certain thing is a dead end, that there's nothing more to find, that the candy salesman isn't going to offer something new for sale if you only throw enough candy on the ground?
― Doctor Casino, Friday, 3 May 2013 06:14 (eleven years ago) link
yeah, i was stuck on the dragon for a while, it's much too difficult unless you know to use abanana's strategy
i got past hell by spam-clicking healing potions while moving around enough to avoid most of the fights, then invulnerability against the boss. it helps to have the healing item from the previous level and the summoning sword is great for clearing paths in the golem waves.
― chilli, Friday, 3 May 2013 07:16 (eleven years ago) link
i'm with Doctor C more or less, losing interest now, even as the tab sits away in the background stacking up lollipops
― we're up all night to get relegated (Noodle Vague), Friday, 3 May 2013 09:52 (eleven years ago) link
I beat hell. Get a decent amount of HP (500+) and use both hands. Use invulnerability and health potions. Use a seed to heal before the boss, then use invulnerability. Took me a few tries because I kept trying
Now I'm stuck on the developper's (sic) computer.
― abanana, Friday, 3 May 2013 13:05 (eleven years ago) link
...I kept trying to fight the boss before using invulnerability.
― abanana, Friday, 3 May 2013 13:06 (eleven years ago) link
Are there any random item drops in the underwater cave to justify going back there? Besides the candy from the whale, I mean. I just ground back through the damn castle gate again, grabbing the "strong armor" by the skin of my teeth...wondering if I'm missing any other good random item drops from the other rooms.
― Doctor Casino, Friday, 3 May 2013 17:24 (eleven years ago) link
finally beat this stupid game. the last few levels were such drudgery. btw banana it tells you what to do while fighting the dev, theres a trick to it
this is another of those pixelly platformer games but i found it pretty cute:http://iamclaw.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/LMA.swf
― chilli, Friday, 3 May 2013 21:12 (eleven years ago) link
beat it!
― abanana, Saturday, 4 May 2013 01:27 (eleven years ago) link
Yeah after you beat it are you supposed to just leave the browser tab open for hours/days on end to get enough lollis to get the bugs? How do you get lollis faster besides lvl2 bug and candy converter?
― siouxsan sarandon (Stevie D(eux)), Sunday, 5 May 2013 04:35 (ten years ago) link
i dunno. i lost interest before seeing if there was a level 3 bug. i imagine going back and redoing the final boss would net you a lot of candies though
― chilli, Sunday, 5 May 2013 04:58 (ten years ago) link
So....I beat the devil and...nothing happened? Got some candy but a piddling amount considering what I'm currently generating every few seconds. Is there something I'm missing? The only thing obviously outstanding is that I've never figured out the "beyond the universe" riddle, it's probably something really obvious and I'm a moron but I feel like I've tried everything!
― Doctor Casino, Sunday, 5 May 2013 05:02 (ten years ago) link
oh duh, there's another quest. sorry, it's late!
― Doctor Casino, Sunday, 5 May 2013 05:06 (ten years ago) link
SPOILER
*******************
read the beyond the universe riddle carefully, it contains its own answer
― Rowdy Rathore (Noodle Vague), Sunday, 5 May 2013 08:05 (ten years ago) link
The candy converter bugs out and dumps all the candies into lollipops instantly after a while. Takes an hour or so.
Repeating the final quest will also net you a ton of candies.
― abanana, Sunday, 5 May 2013 12:21 (ten years ago) link
― Rowdy Rathore (Noodle Vague), Sunday, May 5, 2013 4:05 AM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
ughhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh
kinda pissed off now at the frog's misleading syntax
― Doctor Casino, Sunday, 5 May 2013 12:43 (ten years ago) link
man so many hp acquired and so many power-ups bought and I don't think I'll ever beat Hell. reaching that "is it worth it" stage.
cute game, though.
― susuwatari teenage riot (a passing spacecadet), Sunday, 5 May 2013 19:50 (ten years ago) link
flaming out on this too, what's the del with beating the dragon? I just die very quickly even with seed / invulnerable, like I barely seem to hit him
― Euler, Sunday, 5 May 2013 20:22 (ten years ago) link
i did invul/teleport scroll/teleport scroll/invul a bunch of times. when you teleport it gives you time for your potion countdown to run out, so you're only hitting the dragon when you're invulnerable.
― Spectrum, Sunday, 5 May 2013 20:33 (ten years ago) link
ah ok
gotta make a bunch of potions then
hmm not sure if I'll bother, but it was fun while it lasted!
― Euler, Sunday, 5 May 2013 20:45 (ten years ago) link