Bowmaster Prelude - Game Review

Bowmaster Prelude 

Game Information:

Made by: lostvector.com

Total Playcount(kongregate): 3.345.088

Game Design: Jason Reinsvold.

Sponsored by: Dragongamez.com

Total stages: 30.

13 Weapon types and 6 different units. 

4 Shooting modes.

You can create multiple profiles to play with. 

Game Information From Creator: 

Your kingdom is under attack! you are armed with a legendary bow and can use a variety of spells and different types of magical arrows to defeat your enemy. Use strategy to prioritize your targets and exploit their weakness. 

When we first log into this game online, we are presented to a new profile of the game. We can see this information:
Name: Thorgrin
Rank: 1
Xp: 0/500


Class: BowMaster
Mission: 1
Gold: 0 
Skills: Arrow

That indicates that we would be meeting rank-ups, shops, levels and maybe other skills.

This game is all about the bow shooting. It's your castle (blue) against the enemy castle (red). On the first round you're only armed with your bow and the regular arrow to use. There are enemies incoming and you have to kill them all, or else you loose. After the first round you can buy 3 main items; Armies, Better arrows or special abilities. All these options have higher tiers which cost more money, when I tried the game I bought the heavy warrior instead of better arrows or abilities. You send them out to fight for you and they can capture the flag which makes you win the round.

As the rounds goes on, you get better and better. There is a total of 30 stages. There's something I noticed, which is a good thing, and that's friendly fire. If you shoot on your own warriors, you are able to kill them! And that makes it a bit more difficult to hit the enemies when your warriors is near the enemies.

I think the graphics fitted the game good. It's sort of pixelated, but it looks great. We have to be nice to the graphics since it's made for many years back, and it's good for that. The gameplay is fun, but it may be a bit painstaking after awhile.

Overall it's a good game with a variety of weapons and stage terrain-form. It's kind of the same concept all the way though. This review was written by Bjørnar Tufthaug.


Play it yourself: 
http://www.kongregate.com/games/lostvector/bowmaster-prelude