Score: 6
"It's a defence game?"
date: October 13, 2009
I felt the game was too easy up until the scoring round. Buying as many thorn towers as possible or upgrading your attack power as much as possible results in getting to the end of the game. I didn't particularly notice that there was something to actually defend until the last round, it just felt like a beat 'em up until that point.
If there was an option to go right to the scoring round and then let you buy upgrades and build towers then it would have felt much more like the defense game it is advertised as.
On a positive note it is pretty entertaining and beautifully surreal in its art style. It also has a great potential of being strategic if the game lasted longer.
As defenses go, not too bad but not too good, as a game itself it's entertaining for a moderate amount of time. If you are interested in achievements then your gameplay time is more than trippled. If you are into highscores, then the system is pretty good, not too many scores that it's impossible to get into the table, but not too few that getting a position means nothing. Finally, while the music fits the game very well, with only 1 track it gets mindmeltingly irritating after a while.
p.s. Can YOU defeat Joe?
