I've worked with a lot of Flash developers, and they seem to think they're being "cool" or "edgy" by adding in blood, guts, and gore. On a personal note, I like how the gratuitous violence was toned down for this release. (I especially love the clouds hanging by yarn. While the new graphics never gel into more than the sum of their parts, they do look nice and greatly help smooth out the gameplay. The graphics of the game are great! The game has a home-project look to it as if an accountant got bored and decided to make a game on paper. This keeps the game moving at times when the Flash game just left you scratching your head. Adding archers, masons, deploying suicide bombers, and developing "magic" are all intuitive actions that take no time to understand and use. Thankfully, that's been smoothed out in the Wii version. The use of the castle's defenses was a bit hard to get a grasp on in the Flash game. (It's kind of cool to have just defeated a horde, only to have all their little stick/button bodies come crashing to earth seconds later! Mwhahaha!) This is a great improvement over the Flash game, where it felt like the only effective method of dispatching enemies was to smash them against the ground. With a slight flick of the wrist, you can send an enemy flying so far that you won't see him for another 5 seconds or so. The characters are super-easy to whip around the screen. The GOOD news is that it received a solid upgrade in the physics, control, and graphics departments! There really aren't any gameplay upgrades over that version. The bad news is that the gameplay is almost exactly like the Flash game. Even if you don't end up loving it, your $5 won't be wasted.I got this game last night. It provides some real fun, eventual difficulty, and many laughs. Overall, Defend Your Castle is the same thing over and over again, but well worth your $5 nonetheless. The multiplayer is quite fun, and the game is nice to be enjoyed with a friend. The craziness is at its peak in multiplayer, though, as up to four players can be playing at once, but the more players there are, the more hectic and difficult it is. The game can get very intense in higher levels, you will find yourself exploding many suicide bombers in front of your castle as tons of enemies attack the castle at once. These things add some value to the game and force you to make decisions based on how the battles go. The suicide bombers are of one-time use each, you click on the blue flag and a guy with a blue wheel (aka a bomb) walks out onto the field and you click on him to make him explode and destroy everything in his range. The repair guys make your health slowly regenerate and the more guys there are here, the faster your health heals. The magic users do nothing, but as you add to their flag you get more spells to use including an eraser and a bomb. The archers shoot at enemies and the more guys there are on a flag, the faster arrows fly from their spot on the castle. Those converted enemies can now be added to one of four flags on your castle (each also bought with points): archers, magic users, repair guys, and suicide bombers (as I call them). The first thing to buy is the Pit of Conversion, into which you must drop enemies, converting them to your side. The death sounds of the enemies are very entertaining and are some of the highlights of the game, and as you get farther into the game, the stick figures are screaming nonstop, pure comedy!Īt the end of each level, you get points which can be used to buy stuff to upgrade your castle. You kill a stick figure by pressing A or B and throwing them up into the air, and they will die when they hit the ground in a comical fashion and letting out a funny scream. The gameplay is really simple and never changes, but is still pretty fun. It looks like a crayon drawing, which is really cool and give the game a nice air of fun, and the objects are simplistic but still look nice. The first thing to note is the graphical style. You point at the screen to defend your castle from incoming stick figures, stick figures with popsicle sticks, big one-eyed monsters, and eventually catapults. However, the game is actually really good. By TissueShoe | Review Date: Being the least expensive WiiWare launch game, many people may not expect much from Defend Your Castle.
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