I've been really addicted to this game. It's like Pixel Junk Monsters on steroids. I really loved PJM, but it pales by comparison. Savage Moon has better graphics, better game play, and more sophisticated strategy.
Most particularly, a failing of PJM is that there were many kinds of towers, but most of them weren't worth building. It was better to ignore most of them completely and stick to the few effective towers. Not so in Savage Moon. The wide array of different towers in this game is actually useful and really makes for more options and variety in how to effectively approach your defense.
Even things like the blocking towers are not ignorable. In the early levels, you can get by without them. But in the later levels, they become increasingly important. They affect the dynamic of path selection by the enemies, and despite being themselves simple, they have complex effects on strategy. Usually, if the enemy manages to crack one of your blocking towers, you're doomed because the enemy will now turn around and flood through the crack in your defenses.
The game is difficult, and I really like that. It's become harder and harder to find challenging games as 'casual gaming' has become the new industry mantra. However, I would call it the good sort of difficult rather than annoying difficult.
After the tutorial levels, don't presume to beat each level the first time you play it as in most games. In fact, expect to lose several times. If you expect to be winning most of the time, you're going to be frustrated by this game.
Each level has a different key to victory. And it takes experimentation to figure it out. And experimentation means you're going to get rammed on thorax. So don't sweat having to restart a lot of times. Once you figure out the key to how to build your defense on a particular level, this game does not require you to be ultra fast and precise on the controls and time usage to win.
In PJM, there weren't many choices about how to build your defenses and so the direction you needed to go was generally pretty obvious. The game was really centered on perfectly tuning those defenses. In Savage Moon, there are vastly more choices. The challenge is in figuring out an approach that works on a particular level, and not as much in fine tuning it. It doesn't actually need to be tuned that well to survive the level. However, great tuning is still needed if you want to get the trophies by surviving perfectly.
It's very well balanced and thought out. And when I'm playing it, I sure do feel like I'm living in Starship Troopers. It's very cool. And I'd highly recommend it to anyone who enjoys the tower defense genre.
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I can never seem to get repair towers up fast enough and even if I do, they still take some out and then I have no money
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