Orcs Must Die! 3

I'm rating this up but i'd sooner rate it mixed if i could. The first campaign and story mode revolving around the two kids was fun for the most part. A distinct lack of flyers let the game focus on what it does well, tower defense and being able to fight alongside your defenses with much fun to be had with trap combinations. I especially love the new weapons added that give many varieities for attack. Hand Gatling feels alright but the Flamethrower is amazing for example (atleast until the fiend enemies). War Scenarios during the main campaign felt fun and different at first, but very slowly turned into a chore at the length of the missions, and the later ones not even using the war scenario traps, instead favoring indoor killboxes, making them into super ultra long and boring levels with nothing good to them. If the game kept fliers out and stopped after the main campaign, then it would've confidently been positive. However the post game and first DLC really hammered home why Fliers are the biggest ruiner of the OMD games, Traps never being good against them with a lack of placements, and just answers. Any of the seldom answers get countered because they send 5 different types of bats, each having elemental immunities making it impossible to let traps actually deal with them. Doesn't help that pathings for these fliers are usually annoying and out of the way, requiring you to hope your traps can handle orcs, but you can't watch them to see what's wrong because you're too busy dealing with fliers. The 3rd dlc has some unique enemies and the sort but ironic flier fatigue by that point has ruined the game, and losing 1 life to some random enemy who slipped by requiring a restart on the slower and longer maps feels awful. The game struggles with things that Dungeon Defenders 1 perfected years ago. This game is fine with a friend and can have some family guy funny moments if you wanna call them that, but otherwise stay away as a solo player.