My experience matches that of the other negative review at this time. Most importantly, the tutorial and all of its essential information have been removed from the game and the rules regarding what tiles fall and what paths enemies will take (especially after their initial paths are disrupted) remain unclear even after seeing the tutorial in a video. Consequently, I ended up struggling for a while to figure out what the results of my actions would actually be instead of what action would be best. The game already highlights your character's and the enemies' range of movement and attack if you click on them, so it would have been simple to add a highlight function to show the chain reaction from dropping a tile. But perhaps that was intended to be the real "puzzle" here.
Further negatives include:
*Tedious gameplay due to its slow and turn-based nature, the lack of an undo button, the number of enemies, and the stakes of making a single mistake
*The Wanderer enemy moves randomly and can walk farther than the player in its turn, which messes up the puzzle aspect of the game and makes getting the no damage achievements frustrating
*Tiles created by the player have a randomized height, which means that a strategy leading to success on one attempt may lead to failure on the next -- another puzzle game no-no
*Levels feel uninspired; most of them play the same and "difficulty" escalates primarily by the levels growing larger rather than clever player limitations or enemy placement
*Clicking on tiles behind enemies is difficult
*Looks and feels like a mobile port, which it is
*The developers do not seem to respond in the forum any longer and never elaborated on the game's rules
As for the positives, the music is relaxing and appropriate (though repetitive) and the achievements work. That's about it.
The concept here is mildly interesting, but the execution is poor. I recommend that you avoid this game.
However, if you choose to play it anyway, here is the relevant tutorial text that is now missing from the game:
I. Select the feet button to move
II. Select a blue tile and confirm your selection
III. Select the lower tile button to drop the enemy's tile
IV. Using all your available actions will end your turn
V. Drop one tile, and you'll drop the entire row
*Careful not to drop yourself!*
I. Your lower tile range increases by 1 each turn
II. You can have a max range of 3
*Your range depletes when you lower tiles*
*The farther away you drop, the more it depletes your range*
I. Raising a path is a useful skill to traverse the map
II. It can create a path up to 6 tiles long
III. It takes a full turn to charge
I would add the following:
1.) Tile height only affects how many times the player has to lower it before it affects adjacent blocks or drops an enemy that is standing on it.
2.) As I understand it, the basic idea of tile dropping is that tiles only stay up if they are supported on two sides by other tiles or are an anchor point (an end tile) for another line. Consider the following scenario, where the numbers form intersecting lines of tiles:
1
2 4 5
3
Tile 2 is the anchor tile for the two lines because they share it. If you drop that tile, all other tiles will lose their anchor and thus fall as well. If you drop tile 4, only tile 5 will fall because tile 2 is supported by tiles 1 and 3. If you drop tile 5, tile 4 will fall away because it will only have the support of tile 2.
Note that green tiles, being unalterable, often serve as end points for lines of tiles.
3.) Clicking enemies reveals their name, the amount of damage they cause, their movement range, and their attack range (I think).
