comments for Nova Pilgrim

1st run, picked orb and got rekt shortly after... 2nd run picked laser...and then lock on... and game turned into something else... 200k score in the end

fun game, feels similar to space invaders. end score 54940.

54130 was my score. I agree with some comments that this feels like a mobile game, there are some mobile games out there with a similar gameplay loop, the very slim vertical screen also adds to this effect, but I'm not saying it as a negative. Mobile games exist, they can be fun or they can be crap. This is OK. It's not something I'm likely to return to very often. Given this website is primarily incremental games, the first thing I'm thinking of is how you could inject incremental elements into it, permanent upgrades, a prestige system, progression, things like that. But as it is, it's a fine game to play a little bit when you want something that's not too demanding, a little bit challenging, but also you're not looking to dedicate a half-hour to it. That said, that does sound like something that might have a better life on mobile than on browser.

clearing stage 4 might be impossible unless you need to memorize where enemies was about to spawn or just need more dps, end score is 5,808,500

Sadly, this doesn't load for me. I'm on firefox, if it helps.

For a bullet hell this ship feels way too big.

basically impossible to beat. even with super easy mode, max everything it was incredibly frustrating to fight the last stage and the last boss. Took me about 100 credits (i changed it in dev console). Stage 5 very laggy as well. Doesn't feel fair or fun.

Uh... that was a really fast response.
You should probably wait for some other people to share their opinion, this could totally just be a skill issue on my end.
Just because one person has a certain opinion doesn't mean they're right.

last boss guide:
bombs level 10
orbs level 10
use orbs to absorb bullets, bombs will eventually kill it.

if u take hits it feels like it lets u do more damage, but you get damaged too. i was on my last life so i just tanked hits from time to time up to 3% slime and spent 15 minutes killing it.

final score 42899360
10/10 game

Having reached lvl 3-2 with 750k score... Oh boy... How do i start this?
First of all, it's not idle, it's not incremental, so it's the wrong place to post this game. But ignoring this, this has a lot of problems :

-Weapon balancing. Why is there some godly weapons, and then some absolutely horrible one? Lock on is strong. Really strong, but vulcan? Absolutely useless, no point in upgrading that. Fire is incredibly strong too, and orb is way too situational to be useful, so wasting too many upgrade will make you too weak for later. Every weapon need some balancing so that they are all equaly useful.

-Bullet pattern are non existants. The only thing everything does is : shoot at you, shoot straight in front of them with some variance, or just explode in bullet around themself. That's it.

-Difficulty curve/RNG : This is the biggest problem. The game is so unbalanced that, if you're unlucky with upgrade, you will get swarmed, and it is LITERALY impossible to dodge the bullets because it simply fill the whole screen, and because of the sheer number of ennemies flying in a straight line down and you don't have the damage to kill everything, you will have nowhere do dodge. And colliding with ANY ship is instant death, so you'll most likely try to get out of the way rather than try to slowly crawl through it. I don't know if you wanted to make this a bullet hell or a regular Shoot'em'up, but for either : either the number of bullets is way too big, or the ship hitbox need to literaly be cut down to 20-30%.

-"Die if you didn't know" stuff. In stage 2-2, the game introduced mine that will insta kill you if you hit them, which.. is fine i guess. Until the mine appear from the side of the screen without warning, and you die. A warning label 2 second before they spawn should be put, otherwise it's just blatantly unfair.
The boss in 2-4 ( or 2-5? ), the big bee ship boss that goes on the bottom part of the screen. If you don't have anything that attack below, the boss become near impossible. You could do very small amount of damage at a time by playing it slowly, but then it become terribly boring to do, and still complex since other ships spawn at the top of the screen constantly, making this an extremely long process.

Talking about boss design, literaly all of them put a swarm of bullet in front of them without break, while going left and right. So, again, you'll want bullet that don't shoot in the middle, or you'll need to slowly kite by being in the right or left of the bullet swarm, making a boss that could be killed in 20 second, in 2 minutes.

I do know it says v0.01, but clearly it has not been playtested enough. A lot of work need to be done.

oh yeah i forgot to add my score of 6.482.000

managed to clear with rocket, ice, laser, and ball
rocket for the most dps
ice to slow/freeze everything
laser to penetrate when the screen is all bullets
balls to destroy some bullets so u can actually survive
really laggy at the end though

Why I feel this game like mobile game
lmao.

I need option to pause the game fr

4.3M on my second try, if the upgrades say what they do i can prob have an strat that hits 10M eazy and sadly it takes a lot of time for 1 run so i cant really go for improving myself a lot
and for some reason everytime i respawn the site just crashes so i cant use respawning for more score.

I really like the concept! The gameplay is fun, I like the variety of the weapons, it feels like several have their own unique utility. If I could offer a handful of criticisms, I think having to clear an entire stage for an upgrade to the starting bonus is a little slow, and it makes an otherwise fun gameplay loop into a looooong gameplay loop. I also think that the lock-on weapon feels A Lot stronger than the rest of the weapons. Also, not sure if I just couldn't find the pause button, but I couldn't pause the game, which makes things difficult when runs are so long. Really hoping you continue to update this though, it's very promising.

5-1 seems so impossible Idk like at the start it's okey but once more than a few start spawning at the same time the screen is legit filled with green dots even with 4 maxed out guns :(

laser needs to be more dense - moving down makes laser split into pieces

Same, just a white vertical bar with the word Nova in red. Nothing to click.

lowkey one of the best shooters that ive had played in forever, i had so much fun for this bullet hell and maxing rockets really makes you ultra strong (except the laggy stages)

this has talent and i love it 9/10