Defender's Quest

This game claims to be both a RPG and a Tower Defense game. It doesn't do either of these particularly well. In the end, Defender's Quest commited the cardinal sin of games: it failed to entertain me.

The idea of combining tower defense and RPG elements sounded like a dream combination to me. Actually, it still does, but Defender's Quest is not the game to deliver it. The biggest problem here is that there's no challenge to this game whatsoever. Once you know how to beat a level, you can do this over and over again (which can take under 30 seconds) to farm XP insanely quickly. To make this even more absurd, you get to decide how much XP you get! There may as well be a checkbox labeled "WIN NOW." From a technical standpoint, the graphics are a little bland and the music fairly generic. The cutscenes feature large, awkward renditions of your in-game characters that resemble something from a Facebook game. The "story" (driven by amateurish dialogue sequences in these cutscenes) would had been better told via the in-game sprites. Not a good game, but I'd be interested in a sequel.

Took several minutes to get through the initial cutscenes - long waits when going to the next frame in the story. Then locked up completely after starting first level (nothing after optimistically waiting 5 minutes).

This package does the following: 1) Installs Adobe Air on your system, opening up an attack vector 2) Phones home whenever it senses an internet connection 3) Opts you into unspecified "Data Tracking" (can opt out in Options, but doesn't stop it from phoning home) Shame on GOG for not disclosing any of this.

A game that you must play if you love tower defend genre