The Power
First released in 2008, The Power was a behemoth of a Metroidvania-like shooter for downloaders only. Now, The Power is back and available for your browser pleasure! Search, shoot, and upgrade your way through a massive world to discover the mysteries of The Power, and why it's so important to a strange planet.
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I made a map.
It is not super well made, and most of the power-ups are already taken. But it might help someone :)
Pretty fun! I got the good ending, didn't take me very long to beat. Was stuck a bit on the final boss fight. Here is a tip for anyone who is also stuck there:
Don't waste your time trying to dodge the attacks. Just stand in one place and fire your rocket as fast as you can at the enemy. You will kill them before they are able to get too many energy shots off at you and make it through all three levels relatively quickly. I must have tried five or six times to defeat them with dodging and running around and I just could not get past the second guy. I beat all three rounds the first time with this strategy.
Not as fun, I guess, but definitely effective!
That's a nice feature for The Power :) about Jump boost you will get some stuff that will help you :)
About the Guards that looks like ninja when u shoot them they jump so they may shoot above u not hitting you so keep shooting missles and normal bullets and try not to move a lot and he shall die easily :)
Terrible and repetitive music. Annoying game physics that pushes you back when you hit something. Enemies that respawn if you leave the screen, made even more annoying by the bad sprite mapping that causes you to leave the screen about an inch before you actually get to the edge, forcing you to have to kill all your enemies again. Not enough save points, especially near bosses, forcing you to have to go back and redo all the mind numbingly boring screens leading up to it. Over all, one of the worst games I have ever played.
Ok, so I solved my last problem -
I had to go talk to the king to get the grappling hook, and then go defeat the three-eyed frog to get the super blaster
Now I'm stuck in the water level
in the room past the big fish it seems like I need to grapple up to the top, but there are uncracked stones that prevent me grappling, so I'm stumped again.
It's...okay. Has some serious problems. First of all, as has been mentioned before, there should always, ALWAYS be a save point IMMEDIATELY before a boss in this sort of game. ALWAYS. To do otherwise is only to create frustration, not fun. I can't believe this game was completely rewritten in a different language, four years after its initial release and they didn't think to fix that.
Second, there are a few specific rooms that are just way too annoying. Being pushed back a bit by enemy attacks is not a problem by itself. It is a problem, however, in a room where you have to make numerous precise jumps while also dodging the shots of an invulnerable enemy.
Third, for bosses such as the second one, the missle-shooting frog, there really should have been some kind of hint. Expecting a player to just try everything available is pretty unreasonable; people tend to try really convoluted ways to solve their problems before going through all the simpler ways, or sometimes even stubbornly stick to trying the same thing over and over without any prompting to do otherwise. Plus, the aforementioned boss didn't need to have a bunch of stupid trap enemies in the way of hurting it. Just figuring out how to hurt it was enough challenge without having to duck around those things, especially for the second boss in the entire game.
Frog (4th) Boss:
Don't bother mining the worms if they are in a tight cluster, as they will just respawn if there are less than 3. However, if they are spread out it will be hard to do damage to the boss. Try to distance yourself away from them and grapple hook the frog's eye when his mouth is closed.
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I made a map.
It is not super well made, and most of the power-ups are already taken. But it might help someone :)
https://jayisgames.com/images/jesper_the_power_map.jpg
Posted by: Jesper Post | June 3, 2012 1:58 PM