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![]() Lighter and Softer: The Wii version features arts and crafts-style graphics and not a drop of blood.Having a Blast: A spell allows you to make an enemy explode.Giant Mook: Around stage 14, giant stickmen are introduced which need to be clicked on several times to kill them instead of throwing them into the air.Evil Overlord: Pillage the Village reveals that you're effectively this.One spell allows you to directly convert an enemy to your side.The Temple upgrade allows you to convert enemies to your side by dropping them inside the castle.Due to subpar balancing typical of old Flash games, it's likely that you'll get so powerful you can just leave the game going forever and never lose. Endless Game: You keep going until your castle is destroyed, or until you get bored due to the ability to load your game when you fail.Death of a Thousand Cuts: Unarmed enemies, can destroy your castle by banging on the door with their fists repeatedly.Giant Mooks only stumble slightly and then keep running when you click on them, but do it a few more times and they collapse into a puddle of blood.The castle shows no visible damage until its health bar is drained, at which point you cut to a black game over screen.Three of the castle's four towers have a yellow, red and green flag.The "Kill" spell uses a red icon, the "Detonate" spell uses a yellow icon and the "Convert" spell uses a blue icon. The three spells use red, yellow and blue icons.The Blank: Aside from the giants, none of the stick figures have faces.Battering Ram: The second enemy type to appear carry battering rams for more damage at the cost of lower speed.Anachronism Stew: A medieval castle, Battering Ram users and archers, as well as suicide bombers with dynamite/TNT strapped to themselves.You can send converted units as kamikazes so they can kill bunches of enemies by exploding.Eventually, you face enemies wearing explosives so they can blow themselves up when they reach your castle.Even the mouth noises are intentional, meant to go along with the The blood, so they went for this new style, a game made out of construction ![]() To release it on WiiWare, they had to cut out Well, okay, except that one game about Tower Defenseon a desktop… or maybe that game… which I don’t remember anything about, exceptthat it had crosswords… So yeah, my surprise was even greater to find out thatįirst and foremost, Defend Your Castle was a Flash game, with blood and guts,Īnd a completely different style. And I would never have expected to pay for stuff IĬan find online for free. Such a simple game (though, to be fair, that’s the minimum price for anything On one hand, I think 500 Wii Points was too much for Methinks the kindergartner isn't taking good care of him.Īlright, so what did I think of Defend Your Castle? That's what little Timmy does in kindergarted? Kitsch is comingīack? Man, all my kitsch-iest clothes are torn! I can’t take on the tacky! So… I suppose that means lame is the new fad. The score screen and the upgrade menu really emphasize on thatĪspect, showing many similar crafting objects, indicating that this style was Poisonous substance if ingested), and some figures are holding popsicle sticksĪs weapons. Paint (which, now that I think of it, means a kid has been playing with a TheĬastle seems to be made of tubes, the background, the clouds and otherĭecorative elements are construction paper, the conversion pool is a pot of As I mentioned earlier, the opponents are stick figures. Everything looks like it was made by a child during artĬrafts class. As for the style, the feel of the graphics, That’s what gives the game a damn weird feel. All of them, from the stick figures falling to their doom, to theĬonversion pool taking an invader in, to the explosions… All done with mouths. Parts of the game) As for the sounds, they’re all sounds made by someone with (Must verify whether there’s music in the other Two things you’ll notice pretty quickly in this gameĪre the soundtrack and the graphics.
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