The Last Friend

For about 2-3 hours I thought this game was ****ing awesome. A plants vs zombies clone with a higher difficulty (not try hard but often requriing a few retries as you plan and adapt), brawler mechanics thus reducing the amount of dead air and cute doggos? Hell yeah! However around the second boss the difficult and strategy go out the window, with the optimal strategy just being mindless spamming the basic turret dog and mashing basic attack and uppercut, and the difficult goes from being moderately and enjoyable challenging to utterly brain dead. Its not like I found an obscure exploit either, litereally just spam basic turret and spam punches and uppercuts and completely roll over everything. There's another bug where if you fully upgrade your attack branch tree your attack power drops to 20% instead of going up to 120% and the devs never responded. For a game that's been out 5 years thats ridiculous I get a feeling the game wasn't tested past the 2nd boss either because I quickly found a glitch that should have been patched years ago where pressing the advance wave early button gives you the money but doesn't advance the wave, and you can do this indefinetly, which i have to resist doing lest i make the game even easier. And you cant actually start the wave early even if you want to. The towers are also poorly balanaced, the controls for placing them is awkard opting for some wierd wheel thing instead of just the button and press the number/button asocited it, and the systsem incenstivises spamming one tower and having the rest be Skill dogs, who provide passive buffs to your dude. This game could have been awesome but needed more time in the oven. Might still be worth it heavily on sale but don't buy at fully price. Its a shame because plants vs zombie with brawling and dogs was such a brilliant concept