Crystal Defenders is a tower defense with a Final Fantasy(Tactics) theme, with many of the more popular characters to choose from. The ultimate goal is to prevent every enemy from reaching the ‘exit’ of the stage.
They add multiple layers of challenge and strategy into the game in many different ways.
– The more money you have at the end of the round the more ‘bonus’ you get(which is money you can use to buy other units). – Each character unit has it’s own strengths and weaknesses aka aerial, magic, etc(the same thing with the enemies too). – Thieves and Time Mages give you the upper hand if placed in the right spot.
I am a huge Final Fantasy/Square Enix fan. I’m actually more of a jRPG fan, which Square Enix makes the best games of that genre(in my opinion). I am also a huge fan of Tower Defense games. Before I thought Fieldrunners was the best one out for the iPhone and iPod Touch, but no longer.
The one thing that I hate about this game is how the game controls. I’m not a fan of a small screen at top, and just buttons at the bottom. I’d almost rather have the buttons on top of the screen(when it’s full screen), even though this is a horrible way to do things(most of the time). Using the ‘control stick’ at the bottom can sometimes be slow and lag behind. . .but you eventually get used to it. It’s very obvious the developers slapped this game together and didn’t put much thought(or money) developing a clever way to control the game. I hope this is updated in the future(instead of just releasing a part 2 fixing the controls).
I have held off on reviewing this game for so long because I have just been playing it for that long. It took me this long just to learn enough strategies to beat the first set of levels. There are 2 more for me to beat and those add some handicap in spots, but also add more layers of strategy. While it may seem that an 8 dollar price tag might be too high, it has proven(at least to me) that it provides more gameplay than almost any other application that I’ve purchased in the past.
Now that they have given you the option not to use the giant joystick, I say buy it. I’m glad I did.
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