 | Your everyday tower defence game. |
By Latinnus
I started playing Defend Your Life while I was spending Christmas holidays with the family, as a gap filler in the slower hours, and I couldn’t be more pleased. It’s a very simple and very basic tower defence game, based on defending your body against all sorts of virus and problems which act as your enemies.
The game has a childish look to it that’s reminiscent of the 1987 cartoon “Once upon a time... life". The first couple of levels seem to be extremely easy and you feel that the game will get boring very soon. However, the difficulty level escalates in an interesting progression, and most levels seem to introduce something new. It gives you some time to learn in depth about all the new enemies introduced and how to best use the defences that you have available without overwhelming you before moving on to the next stage. It does well providing a kind of learning buffer: you cannot just jump to the hardest difficulties, as you will have to play "easy" to unblock "medium" and then "medium" to unlock "hard". Though it sounds like an annoying progression ladder, it has some sense to it as you will need to earn money to evolve your body’s defences. Otherwise, the harder difficulties would destroy you.
You will also have the opportunity to play with heroes that help you defend your body. These characters are upgradable in power, speed and health, and they will be fundamental the beating back the waves in later stages. For the achievement hunters, it is also a great game to have. You can actually tick most of the achievements on your regular game play. No need to go into laborious tasks that in the end are boring and sound like a lot of work. All in all, Defend Your Life is a quick and easy game to play that offers you a great value for money. I would recommend it!
+ Quick / easy / fun to play (mildly addictive)
+ Nice gradual difficulty progression
+ Very fluid
+ Excellent for a first tower defence or for younger audiences
+ You can beat the hell out of Cancer
+ Easy to get the full set of achievements
+ Good value for money.
- Doesn’t seem to fit the screen. I keep on getting the impression that I don’t see what is going on the edges of the map
- Game tends to become very slow during the final waves of the last level.
- While playing in window mode, you will have to minimize windows bar
- Sometimes the UI blocks you from seeing enemies or selecting them
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honestgamer - March 27, 2016 (10:58 AM) Wow, thanks for reviewing this! You could have gone into a bit more detail on the +/- stuff in the body of your review and this would have been just fine as a "regular" review, but what you have here is still useful and well presented. This game sounds like my kind of jam, and I've added it to my Steam wish list. |
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