This could have been one of the greatest TD titles of all time. Excellent balance, fun graphics, a good sense of progression... so why do I hate it so much? 1. You can't jump back to a previous wave. 2. No options to increase mob speed. You will have to sit and watch every painfully slow enemy make its way to the end of the path every single time you play a level. And you will be replaying these levels often, because when you lose (or, if you're going for a perfect score, if you let even one mob by) you'll have to start it all over again. This can become especially frustrating when the final enemy is a boss that can require several attempts to take down. A TD game without a speed option or a rewind option is a complete waste of your time.
I'm sorry, but investing a lot of time into a game only to find that the game is now unbeatable due to one earlier missed item or location is not acceptable.
I gave it my best shot. I sat down, made sure I had plenty of time to play, and dove in. The interface is atrocious, the dialogue is poorly written, the tutorial is an awkward and uninformative joke, the graphics (especially when designing menus) are awful, the AI sucks, and the worst part? THE CAMERA. The camera is the absolute worst part of this game. It's zoomed way, way in and there's no way to fix it. You can barely see what you're doing, and wind up panning around for the majority of your playtime. Skip it. Play any other sim because this one is a disaster. I wish there was a way to remove games from your shelf on this website...
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.
