Toy Defense: Feast on this bird’s eye view tower defense!
If you’re familiar with Balloon Defense and enjoyed it then don’t miss out
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Gameplay: In your average tower defense games you simply
build, upgrade and destroy. Soon enough you become bored and you fast forward
knowing that you’ve achieved maximum domination… you have the game in the palm
of your hands whilst the enemy units are barely crossing half the map. However,
Toy Defense is different here – it features an original idea whereby you upgrade
your defense system outside of the battle. Improving your facilities outside
enables you to upgrade your towers within the warzone. In other words, your
towers will remain weak unless you develop them outside of warfare.
You also get special abilities which can save you in tight spots, like
repairing all towers for free, or reviving your defeated units. These fancy
skills make the game that little bit more interesting, but don’t assume you can
abuse these abilities because these have to be bought outside of battle. You’re
only given three to start off with, and you have to decide whether you want to
spend your points on these abilities or upgrading your towers.
Never underestimate your enemy: Your towers have life bars, and unless you
repair or upgrade them, they will be bombed to smithereens, thus leaving behind
a grave stone which will obstruct you from building. Make sure you’re alert
when you hit that fast forward button… it is FAST. If you look away for a
moment then you can lose all your towers around your enemy’s route. It’s almost
as if your fingers have to move three times as fast because you’re forced to
repair continuously. This makes the game really challenging so don’t get cocky
and hit that fast forward button or else your game will turn into a complete
mess when you can’t keep up!
100 lives for gold: Most gamers will consider this immensely
difficult, but those who strive to reach that 100%, that gold badge,
that perfection, will welcome this with open arms. It’s undoubtedly easy to
pass the game with flying colours of silver and bronze, but to achieve gold is a
hideously difficult task. The loss of just one person can lose you your trophy,
so imagine this: you get single stray enemies crawling along the map throwing
grenades at you… the enemy trucks which are loaded with troops explode sending
their platoon out into the open. So you have to focus fire down on the squad,
but to make things worse, the enemy tanks are still in motion like they’re
invincible! In the late game, either the computer or the game designers really
hate you because they unleash mob after mob of units in your face making it
almost impossible to surpass.
Game Stylisation: It’s a military themed tower defense game,
which features soldiers, trucks, and tanks. As for air units, you have what
looks like bombers from the sky. Your towers include troops that physically turn
themselves into miniature battery guns, flame throwers, and you can buy the
strongest defense unit (a tank). Then there are the cursory anti-air cannons
too. What I really like is the military march intro music, it’s up-beat, cutish
in a way and extremely catchy as well. Overall it really does energise the
player… (I’m starting to tap my feet already!)
Some control issues: You have 24 levels to play and each level is a large
piece of land where you navigate via touch controls of swiping left and right,
zooming in and out via pinching with two fingers. However the main problem is
that you need to be very precise when tapping on the unit you want and you need
to be careful whilst selecting the option to either upgrade/repair /sell a unit.
The buttons are impractically small for even my own not-so-chubby fingers.
Playing on a bigger screen would help but without that option it’s just
discouraging when your intentions are to repair the tower above instead of the
one below, thus leading to the death of the tower above…
4/5 Rating: Toy Defense is a satisfying game that emits blissful joy right
from the start. The awesome challenge and thrill you get when you push the fast
forward button is fantastic. Personally I find the unique and original gameplay
makes this great to play, and it’s an essential “must have” in your download
history. Furthermore, it’s free! The only reason I deducted a point from
perfection was simply due to the controls but that can easily be forgotten when
you’re completely immersed in the game!
Developers: Melesta Games
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