
Chrono Crystal is a tower defense game. Spanning across 5 major regions with the Prince and facing numerous challenges, an unprecedented great war is about to break out. Build your towers, upgrade your heroes, and defend your crystal against waves of enemies—until the countdown timer runs out!
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VERY good. The closest thing to Kingdom's Rush. Better in some respects. Quality design and programming. It's fun.
因为需要花钱
"Chrono Crystal" is not a complete game, it's an advert/demo, and you have to buy the full game through DLC. What is this advertisement all about? Well it's Kingdom Rush from Temu... it resembles Kingdom Rush visually, but the TD aspects of the game are a shallow, unpolished, clunky yet simplistic mess. And while this doesn't seem to have been published on the mobile app stores, it's a mobile app at heart... an immediate disqualifier. The purpose of this advertisement is to get you to shell out $4 USD on buying the DLC, and I don't recommend you do that. As an advertisement, this is only free in the same way that adverts on Youtube and banner ads in your browser are. This is a game demo that's been dumped on Steam to advertise another Steam store page in the hopes of raking in some cash. Just because advertisements are free, doesn't mean they're worth your time. It's important to understand there's a formal process to create a demo/page for a game which hasn't been followed here: https://partner.steamgames.com/doc/store/application/demos While it might seem like an inocuous mistake, publishing demos and advertisements as if they are full games is misleading and in some ways harmful. This advertisement is taking up marketing space and visibility that would be better made available to a developer that's done the right thing and created a full game. Instead, that visibility is given over to a demo/advert that's been published incorrectly and is polluting the marketplace. It's unclear if this mistake was made through incompetence or a deliberate intent to mislead gamers. Often developers may choose to incorrectly publish demo/advertisements as separate games as a cheap way to bypass paying Valve for marketing presence on the Steam front page, which may seem clever to them, but it's harmful behaviour and it's not good for gamers. Despite having no up-front cost, this failed to appeal to the 120 million+ gamers on Steam. SteamDB showed the game peaked at only 12 concurrent players... this is a dismal public reception. This was so bad they couldn't even give it away. Advertisements and incorrectly published demos don't add +1 to your game collector count, they aren't full games. It's impossible for me to recommend this incorrectly published advertising spam to gamers, you deserve better than adverts.
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bug太多
玩了一会,感觉很乱,不清晰,没有爽快感。
Игра Chrono Crystal — это настоящее погружение в мир, где время становится не просто мерой, а активным элементом геймплея. Отличная стилизация под ретро-RPG с глубоким сюжетом, где каждое решение игрока действительно влияет на развитие событий. Боевая система, хоть и пошаговая, обладает достаточной тактической глубиной, заставляя просчитывать каждый ход. Особо радует музыкальное сопровождение — оно идеально дополняет атмосферу и не надоедает даже после десятков часов игры. Конечно, некоторые головоломки могут показаться слегка затянутыми, но в целом, Chrono Crystal — это тот редкий случай, когда разработчики смогли удивить и порадовать как ветеранов жанра, так и новичков. Однозначно рекомендую всем любителям продуманных историй и нетривиальных механик.
This is going to be a weird review, because honestly I didn't enjoy this very much, but it's free, and it all works which makes it better than a lot of games that expect you to pay for them. For me, the maps are way too cramped, and not very fun, and I am told I have won out of no where, no clue why, still monsters on the map. It all comes at me way too fast, I like time to plan my set up, and explore the map, these maps are small and the monsters just start right away. And the super power of my hero, which kills everything, seems to recharge really quickly, which feels strange. So it's a meh, for me.
There's some joy to be had here, but there's enough frustrations to move this into a 'no'. First, the grind to upgrade towers and heroes moves from 'irksome' to 'actively painful' pretty fast. Second, if you try a mission and fail you get zero resources as a reward, not a reduced amount, and some of these missions can have you doing really well right up until the last minute - of a LONG mission - only to hit you with an impossible wave you weren't prepared for and drop you to zero, which would be one thing if you got a consolation prize but as it is you can get completely hosed and no reward for it and that just discourages you from trying harder modes until you've ground a LOT of resources up the slow way. And third, there's a cash shop to speed up the grind. I cannot stress enough how much the presence of a cash shop in a game like this is an irritation. The grind feels like it's only there to incentivize the cash shop, and the cash shop feels like it's only there to have a reason for the grind. Yes, yes, I realize it's a free-to-play game, albeit with paid DLC, so maybe this shouldn't be that much of a gripe, but the way it's done here just...grates on me. There is joy here, in a bad-copy-of-Kingdom-Rush sort of way. But not enough. And that cash shop can take a long walk off a short pier.
Great game a bit hard to understand how it works from the start and how to counter some enemy. Yes you dont have to buy the dlc to complete the game really low that too. Not sure if this game its 100% legit bc its using some copy right sounds, mostly from world of warcraft.
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