Defender's Quest

Best game ever made. Needs to win more video game awardss

I've put in almost 20 hours. Fun game, crashes often. Way too often.

I'm not normally a huge fan of the 'tower defense' genre in some forms, but I found this game pretty darn fun all in all. The biggest problem, ultimately, is that some units are just plain lackluster. I never found much of ANYTHING that came remotely close to some beefed up archers, for example, which means some of the 'cooler' units later in, such as dragons and whatnot, kinda fall flat at times. The art is pretty stylized, so if you don't like the style, it won't appeal to you. The writing danced between good and mediocre, mostly due to some relatively childish or cliche humor. With that said, it's a fairly challenging game with some heavy ramping-up of difficulty on some levels, and some extra New Game+ style challenge, with some incentive to perform well on various levels. The magic system helps keep you active during a fight even while you have things perfectly setup by means of casting spells, and you can always micromanage your 'towers'/units a little during the game. All in all I thought it was a pretty good title, especially given humble origins!

Basically, if you remotely enjoy Tower Defense, and you like RPG elements in your games (ex. Borderlands) you should play this game. It's absolutely fantastic. Okay the story is not the best, but the game itself is absolutely fantastic. :P Side note, I'm generally very picky about art styles (I don't mean I only play games with high quality art, but I absolutely can't get into certain games because I dislike the art) and the art in this game didn't bother me. It's hard to explain... but I just thought I'd throw that out there in case you're thinking of dismissing the game because of the art.

I've seen the trailer of the game and from second to second I was sure that I'm going to love it and I wasn't wrong. Had I been creating a tower defense game I wish it would have been that great. Let's start with the meta game aspect. Each tower is a character, with his own look and items, this adds more depth to the strategy and atmosphere of the game. Moreover, some of the characters have scripts and roles in the story and you can almost feel their personalities. The writing is great, humorous and interesting. The levels are very well designed and they get harder gradually in the exact right pace. The number of different types of monsters is large and most of them have special abilities or attributes. The content in the game is quite huge for this type of a game. Each level can be completed in four different difficulty levels for different rewards, and after you finish the game a whole other game just begins. I was surprised and happy to discover it. I really recommend anyone who likes tower defense games or likes planning stuff to have this game. In short: great gameplay, a nice story, just the right level of RPG elements and lots of content.