It is a cool top down shooter with defense tower game play. However, the upgrades are very limited and the variety of enemies are few. Because your upgrades are customizable before each mission, you can switch up your tech trees and basically experience them all within the beginning 1/3-1/2 of the game. The DLCs do add more variety but the boss battles are recycled with exception of only one in the Paris level. The last Bastion just had the same boss battle in the main campaign but just upped the numbers. I beat them all on Brutal including all story DLCs and I can tell some of the missions are extremely difficult, but once you get over the hump, you can basically spam one type of tower without having to worry about drawing the paths of the incoming enemies. Overall, it was a okay to fun game, but don't expect too much. The CO-OP it features is only offline here and splitscreen on the same computer. I was looking forward to some online game play but it doesn't have it. Lastly, it lacks the level editor that the steam version has.
The game IMO is mediocre. The gun fights are not consistent. Some weapons do head shots in one while others in two. The boss fights are absolutely horrendous. They're just regular AI with extra HP and higher accuracy. The last boss was even worse in that regard. I couldn't beat him without exploiting a glitch. The saves are also checkpoint systems but not during checkpoints, which I learned the hard way myself. So if you thought that a checkpoint was met, you didn't have to save yourself, then ya, you'll go back to your last save, or to the beginning of the game. The graphics does not hold well even with cel-shading and the voice acting was also hit or miss. The only thing good about the game was the intriguing story that just offers enough motivation to play on. At least I finally got to experience it and for the price of $2.29 CDN, it could've been worse.
