Potion Panic 2

I've found that light Foam works well

I was so freaking offended by the pay-to-play and the facebook connect that I stopped playing and will never play that game again. Too bad.

Facebook connect alone would be fine but it somehow feels dirty and obnoxious alone side with the mochi trash

the only reason we play online games is that they are free. mochi=communism

What I found good

Bugs

Useful pots: Yellow, red for some purple aciddy thing, All 3 is a small fire (kinda worthless, but if used to hit airborne enemy, splits into 5~8 flames) And 3 red, 2 blue for rock burst. When the enemies reach your wall, its nearly impossible to kill them as you can't fire through your wall...

I found RRYY to be enormously useful. Naptha FTW. Fire it and detonate it in midair- it scatters pools of acid on the ground. They stay for about 15 seconds and they kill anything that enters.

Thanks for the review - it's fantastic.

To be clear, we aim to make all our games 100% playable, winnable and fun without any purchasable stuff. If it seems like you have to buy things to win the game, then we have failed in what we set out to do.

We thought a lot about whether the final boss should be easier or more obvious how to beat them - in the end I guess we needed to make it clearer that each head was only vulnerable to 1 type of potion.

As for the negative comments about Mochi - it's a shame to be so close minded about it. Again, the purchasables are meant to be 100% optional and for those fans who truly love the game and want a little more out of it. The Mochi team aren't some spam ad network looking for a quick buck, they are a creative and hard working team based in downtown San Fran who have created loads of developer and site publisher friendly services. In my opinion they have done a heck of a lot to help our fledgling flash games industry move beyond the enthusiastic efforts of a few part timers, to a point where there are teams of independent developers all around the world who produce high production quality original stuff - and kept it free for the most part.

Stephen
ninjakiwi.com

I got a good recipie early and just rode that to victory...

*sigh* NinjaKiwi's games seem to load as you play, and this is good as it means no waiting time. Unfortunately.... If you have a slow connection, you are SCREWED. It usually stops working after a few seconds. Im on a wireless plan, and played this game earlier today with no problems. However, a couple of minutes ago I ran out of internet, and the game locked up. Oh dear. Ah well.

i really like games, where you combine stuff to make new stuff, but i didnt feel there was enough time to try and experiment because of the oncomming horde of whateveryamacallits. but still fun, i stopped playing when i used all the combonations

I like the concept. The problem is there are a couple of potions that are singularly useful, and you can get through the game using only those. If you had to be using 2 or 3 different types of potions regularly then the gameplay would improve, but as it stands you just experiment until you stumble onto one of the uber potions

which would burn you through the entire game easily. I can see all kinds of tactical complexity and depth that could be utilized, and it is all completely unnecessary because of these few potions.I'm not saying that it should require you to utilize all of this, though a hard mode where it is necessary would be good, but a single-potion answer is too simple.

ok mochi=america

No offense, but Mochi coins are the worst idea anyone has ever come up in the history of the internet. They actually end up being more of a waste than you'd think. If the developers will bother to make extra features to make the game fun, people should at least be able to use the features without making some account and buying online currency. Nobody bothers to buy them, and the games that would normally be popular and entertaining are forgotten underneath the massive pile of free, fun games. The entire point of online games is that you do not have to pay for them (other than the electrical and internet bills). Unfortunately, all games eventually will have Mochicoins implemented into them. When that day comes, I will smash my computer with a bloody spiked mace until it is impossible to identify as a computer, defenestrate the remaining flakes of metal, cook them at 400 degrees for 1 hour or until they are golden brown, sprinkle salt on them and eat them.

Andrew, start smashing :-)

Seriously while I'm no big fan of payment plans, don't know what I really prefer most. You must realize that internet+electricity bills don't get the games developed.

There will always be free games to play.

And the ones that want you to pay will be competing with them for your time and attention.

Okay, after reading the developer's response here, I decided to give the game another chance since the pay-to-play was ostensibly limited to extra, non-essential features and the game was essentially fun.

But Mike's analysis is spot-on. The boss monster is a unique animal, and the time is limited to figure out which recipes will defeat it. It's simply not possible to do the first time through.

Players who pay for the premium "Guardian Angel" feature will have as many tries as it takes, and players who do not must play through all 29 previous waves before having another chance.

My first impression was that the game was a bait-and-switch: "We're a fun casual game! Hooked yet? Now pay."

And that impression didn't change after giving the game a fully chance. Sometimes first impressions are accurate.

I haven't gotten to the final boss quite yet, but something tells me it's the only thing in the game that isn't easily crushed under a torrent of light foam.

And I'm also guessing that the only reason that's the case is so the devs can have the tiniest hope that someone will waste money on MochiCoins to beat it. The entire game turns out to be just an advertisement for an imaginary product. It's kind of absurd.

Honestly, why not just get a publisher if you want money this badly? The game's got a solid concept behind it, unlike the MochiCoins system.

While I do agree that the ability to continue after a failed wave should be free, i very much agree with many flash developers using mochi-coins, becouse of the extra momey that provides them, giving them continued interest in making flash games. Making these games is not easy, so others shouldn't complain when developers use their own cree time to make games, instead of going to a longer, better paying job.

could anyone post what each of the bosses heads is vulnerable to? It sounds like it's what most of the gripe is about....

Mike, we agree that the Guardian Angel should be free - so we've done just that. We don't like to mislead players, even unintentionally.

The first game to have this "pay for continue" was SAS: Zombie Assault 2 which worked much better because of the faster paced nature of the gameplay and the different strategies you could try if you started the game over multiple times.

We can't do anything for the people who have already paid for the upgrade except say thank you.

To Kill the end boss:

Well, I think the game was fairly fun and entertaining. Easily an addicting game. But they need more levels. I just bought the spiked wall first and then flames and so on. But I must say, not as much as Bloons.....

I found a useful formula: huge explosion.

all recipes

my favorite is large burning boulder

The RRYYY Acid thing:
You can click over a hoard of enemies after launching the potion to make acid rain!

You can block enemies on the gorund then the game is pretty easy. The block will stay for some nice time so you can wait for many enemies to gather, then throw 4x flamable gel and explode it with fire for example.
Block the enemies on the ground, take care of the air. Block again...
You can even block the final boss. That way you have lots of time to find out how to kill it.

cheat 4 best shots

I found a pretty cool combo!

I like it because the color combos are kind of small so it doesn't use up all of your potions.

Everyone is Fussing about purchasing the gardian angel.... Did anyone even look at the price? It was free. I already had an account with mochi - which was free by the way- went and looked at the premium stuff and that was free... nothing else was though.

on another note I like the explosive rocks... airburst to get 8 kills at once...

the recipe yellow x 2 red x 2 and yellow x 1 is very damaging.so is blue x 3 and red and yellow x 1

I know someone already posted this and I take no credit I just couldn't read it very well so I've typed it up better.
Here are all potions: