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xodarap777

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This game has immense potential and is high on my radar for the future.  However, the current state feels less like a functional alpha of a full game than a proof of concept and demo of ideas.  There's no window for fun (as it currently stands), though there always feels like a promise of it.  Everything is either way too easy or way too hard with no player options or creative wiggle room.  In other words: It's not really Tower Defense from a strategic or creative point of view; it's more like a timed puzzle game with TD elements.  Every wave, I feel like I either jumped the predetermined hurdles in the right order at the right time - and in no way feel "connected" to my setup or invested personally in it - or I didn't.  When I didn't, I don't feel like it's my fault, either.  Either way, I feel like the game set me up one way or the other, and I either decimate them or they decimate me, and it feels like I'm watching someone else's game because I didn't creatively set up my own TD system.

This is likely mostly a matter of tuning and creative latitude (e.g. more towers, more economic choices, upgrades, etc.)  TD suffers when there's a predetermined "right answer" and "wrong answer;" that's not strategic, it's a puzzle.  That can be fun, too, at least for some, but I don't think this game sets itself up for that.

More towers, tower upgrades, and the "wiggle room" allowance for creative solutions outside the campaign expectations would all go a long way.  Longer levels that allow for real "city building" would also be great.  Specific difficulty modifiers like "allow pause-building during waves" would also help for those of us with particular abilities.