Really torn on this one. It has a great look, and excellent fluff, quite engaging story, but that just isn't enough to overcome a few serious flaws.
My main issue is that the maze building is really tedious. I was on level three, and my hand started to hurt before I even got half way through the process. I really wish that you could save and come back, on the maze building! I had seriously laid over two hundred pieces of wall, not counting when I something dropped in the wrong place and I had to redo a chunk.
I had to quit out, and all that work is now gone. Sigh..
The second issue is that the towers almost seem secondary to the players hands-on weapon, Bombard in the early stages. It recharges so quickly that you seldom have time to do anything else. I really like a game with a strategic weapon options, but it shouldn't be something you need to be doing, all the time. There are even foes that can only be hit by it.
Not far enough into really know much about the towers, but they seem to be upgrade twice and nothing else, very disappointing.
Games like this are built on player-choices. Between the need to constantly be firing my own weapon, and the towers having so little to them, there simply isn't much game there.
It's like eating chicken wings, a lot of flavor, but not much meat.
Sad, I love the genre, but sometimes I think the free ones from Armour Games four years ago understood what makes the genre fun, and that knowledge has been lost.
