Defender's Quest

3 stars from me. It's not that this is a bad game by any means; its actually quite delightful. The writing is quirky and amusing, and I admit to laughing more than once. Rather, it's the game play I take issue with. Perhaps its intended for a much more casual audience, but its simply far too easy. This is due in part to two 'problems': It's designed to allow you to level up your characters on your own time, thereby allowing you to plow effortlessly through subsequent levels even at higher difficulties. "But a lot of strategy sims do this", you might say, to which I reply that it spoils them just as much. However there is an additional design 'flaw' here that complements this to make it even harder for me to maintain interest: The maps. Upon entering a map for the first time, it feels like its all laid out for me. I can spot at a glance, EXACTLY where the developer intended me to place a given class. Also, nothing changes. If your strategy worked once, it will work a thousand times. This means that it quickly becomes a grind-fest, placing your characters in the same spots, and clicking the speed x4 button to move things along. Play it for the story. I don't personally feel as though there was very much "game" involved; even the rpg-elements of skill distribution are pretty linear and limited.

First time I play a "tower defense" game and it seems I'm landed well. Very solid game design with some RPG elements, different classes with different ability trees, so that you can specialize characters of the same class to cover different roles, I won't comment the story since I always skip cutscenes, it doesn't look interesting in the slightest, just the usual bad guys. A bit tiresome near the end, where you've uncovered all classes and there's not much else to see.

We here at gog are very privacy concious so leaving phone-home option on by default is seen as offensive. Also, AIR is bloatware / hack prone so if it can be distributed without it, please do. There is no reason for AIR on normal system.

I decide to play this game one afternoon and bam 13 hours of my day gone. Very addicting and I'd recommend to anyone who enjoys tower defense games or RPGs. The combination of both seems to go hand in hand so well it's a surprise I haven't seen more of it.

A very cute, well-made tower defense game. It blends in some role-playing elements and a decent story line as well. Graphics are merely serviceable, but the music is great, especially the mellow tunes. I liked the characters, too. Defense Grid is still the gold standard for tower defense games (now why is it not here at GoG?), but this is a nice entry in the genre.