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The Spear Stickman
Aim, shoot, and get rid of your enemies!
Get ready for intense action! Aim carefully, shoot swiftly, and eliminate your enemies before their arrows hit you. In this fast-paced game, your reflexes and precision will be tested as you try to obliterate your foes while dodging their attacks. Can you stay sharp and take them down before they get the best of you? The challenge is on—get shooting and defend yourself!
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Balancing Precision and Frustration: A Closer Look at The Spear Stickman
So recently aged to compare at The Spear Stickman out of nature by the its with-spacing premise: annihilate the enemies before whose arrows tucks the frost the you. The controls are simple enough, but it does make aiming difficult and sometimes, frustrating. It appears that plenty of players, including myself, have had trouble landing hits on opponents that are positioned low on the screen. While Oslo does manage a solid apple count, the challenge of the game comes not only from enemy pokes but from its fundamental design restrictions. Being unable to vary shot power or angle at sharp downslope is an arbitrary difficulty. And deaths with no even chance of seeing the attacker — yeah, those are more frustration than challenge. On the plus side, the game’s addictiveness and polished mechanics are making me keep at it, frustrating as it can be. For a comparable high without quite so much ire, you might consider Stickman Archer 2. All in all, The Spear Stickman is at once entertaining and frustrating, a lot like an exercise in the delicate balance of patience and skill.
Discussion Forum
hey! The counter dropped 1000 apples on my score
Around 18 to 20 your guy cannot shoot down at opponent. Even without taking any arrows. This effectively ends the game. FUNDAMENTAL PROBLEM with the game. I have @ 19,000 apples now and play this game a lot. This is my experience and observation.
I'm at 14,505 apples. The red apple removes arrows but it DOES NOT fix the ability to shoot at opponent low on the screen. You will be unable to reach these guys and the game is effectively over. This is a MAJOR GAME FLAW. The red apple allows you to deduct the cumulative arrows which will add up to game over in most cases (areas specific) but do not allow the game to be played at length.
oh and another peeve; not infrequently I am killed without ever seeing the opponent shoot. Typically the opponent is not shooting while you are sending a volley. I was just killed while sending a volley against two opponents standing together. they should have been killed but I died and they remained. Losing while not seeing the opponent shoot is another flaw to this game.
another game where two opponents at the bottom of the screen were not within my ability to reach them and I had not been shot at all. Totally unfair. No chance to play under that scenario. And this can happen at any time during any game.
so I have an arrow in my knee and two opponents to the right below the level of my feet. I cannot shot them because there is an arrow in my shoulder? Then same situation with an arrow in my right knee. So one shot in the beginning is game over when I can only wait for the game to position an opponent below me that I cannot shoot at. This is lame... fun game but these flaws get really irritating since they cannot be defended against.
why can't you vary the power of your shot?
why can't you lob a shot like the opponents can?
Why can't you shoot a high arc shot which comes back down (like your opponents do?)
Why doesn't your last shots, which will hot an opponent land after being launched, when you are shot. The opponents shots hit after they are out. Why not mine?
often your player is unable to shoot an opponent who is situated at the bottom of the screen. This is not always caused by getting an arrow in your leg and is sometimes just a flaw in the game. When you get hit in the leg sometimes your mobility/flexibility is lost so you are unable to aim, in this case, low enough to get your opponent. This means one arrow in your leg means you are automatically going to lose when an opponent is down below you.
Went to different browser and shot a 25. The game was still pretty aggressive however with up to three adversaries at once.
This appears to be a game where you should clear the cache because it is getting MUCH harder game after game. They shoot at you with much greater accuracy, with more simultaneous opponents and they get increasingly close to you. This makes the games shorter and your scores lower than when you were inexperienced. I have only tied 21 even with 1000 apples.
18/495
up to 17 guys and 215 apples
How are you doing?
That's half the fun!
why doesn't it keep a list of top scorers?
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