User blog comment:Tecku/How the Dark Ages could have been saved/@comment-4417029-20140814091735/@comment-24951189-20140815054937

The only place in the blog where I get angry is the King Zombie wheeze segment. Not counting that bit, I only have 5 words capitalized for emphasis, and 7 exclamation points. I'll admit that's not super calm, but that's not even close to a rant when you consider the blog size. But as for your points:

- If few people can get through without powerups and coins, what does that tell you? I know that I didn't need any coins or powerups for previous levels, or at least not nearly as much. I didn't need them at all pre-1.7.

- 10 Manget Shroom would take up one-fifth the entire lawn. That leaves maybe....two Sun-Shroom columns, two Fume Shroom columns, one Infi-nut column (King Zombie crushes right column) and two Laser Bean columns. That's not gonna be enough to deal with Gargantuars, and especially not the "shove-you-off" graves. And when that column of Infi-Nut falls, the Coneheads will get the Magnet Shrooms. Then the Knights get the other plants.

- Cherry Bomb has too slow a recharge for dealing with a frequently appearing zombie.

- What happens to your Winter Melon + Tall-Nut strategy when the Wizards turn the Tall-Nuts to sheep?