Friday 23 March 2012

Game Review: Pokemon Tower Defence!

Welcome to the World of Pokemon...TD



For all the Pokemon fans reading this, there actually is a Tower Defence version for this game, and it is quite well made. This was submitted to PlayTowerDefenceGames.com by Sam and Dan who are Pokemon fans and is now available also on Newgrounds and several other websites. The gameplay is simple, although you will have to use your cursor a lot more than for other types of Tower Defence games. I will explain soon enough, but first, let's take a look at the game.

It Is In Kanto

As you can see, these Pokemon are the same starting Pokemon in Fire Red or Leaf green. You may also get special Pokemon by submitting Mystery Gift codes when you are logged in. You may save your progress along your journey like the normal game, and you may also trade Pokemon with other trainers on the Tower Defence website (http://www.sndgames.com/games/ptd/trading_account) by clicking on click on Pokemon Center. What else I like about this game is the storyline, it is quite straightforward, and you will be acquainted with an antagonist and friend. The dialogue is also quite funny and the events that take place, likewise.

So moving on to the game, you should know that there is a tutorial, which I will briefly cover. What makes this a Tower Defence is (as you might have guessed) you use your Pokemon to attack other Pokemon that want (as you probably didn't guess) to steal Rare Candies, although in some situations, you have to protect fossils and Pokeballs. The Pokemon you own can level up, evolve, learn new skills, be dismissed just like the regular game. For Pokemon that require stones to evolve, you can buy stones at the Pokemart, and you use money gained from killing -at least I'm pretty sure they're dead- Pokemon to gain experience for your own when they have gained enough experience, and also for purchasing TMs and HMs. Also, just like the regular Pokemon, your Pokemon will retain it's level, so you can train it at training maps.


GamePlay


Now to move on to the gameplay, at the start of every round, you will have spaces to place your Pokemon and can select what skills they will use against the enemies that will try to steal your Rare Candies. You just drag the picture of your Pokemon onto the available spaces and they will attack when enemies get in range of them. To capture a Pokemon, they must have a red health bar, and you can move the Pokeball on the bottom right of your screen over to it, and you will be able to capture the Pokemon. If the Health bar is Blue, there is no chance of capturing it, if it is green, you just have to lower their Health. The attack animations are similar to those of the older Pokemon ones, but with more style and colour. The only problem I have for this game is that sometimes saving fails and you lose some of your data.

You Have Three Choices

You don't only have to play the storyline,in fact there are 3 modes of play. You can also try out some Challenges, and get awards. For the first few Challenges, you can play it without depending on the Pokemon you have, after that, there are some Challenges that require you to have high level Pokemon to complete. Then there is the Story mode of course, which has a total of 7 Chapters and includes some shiny Pokemon that you can catch. Lastly, there modes of play in the Multiplayer option, you can play a Defence game against another trainer with Pokemon given to you, so you don't have to have strong Pokemon yourself. The second choice is "Zapdos Co-Op Challenge", in which you play with another player also with Pokemon given to you, to team up and defeat a Zapdos.

The Challenges Are (in order)
  1. Pewter Gym
  2. Old Rod
  3. Mt.Moon
  4. Mt.Moon 2 (Recommended LvL 36)
  5. Vermillion Gym (Recommended LvL 40)
  6. Celdadon Gym
Note: some of these are hard, so you can search up how to clear them on Youtube.com

Trading

Before I can explain Trading, I would like to say that there is also a hacked version of this game, it is also connected to the same Trading system, however, the Pokemon gained from the Hacked version (increased Exp and Money) will have a note saying that it was gained from the hacked version. If you trade anything from the Hacked version, your account will also be declared a Hacked Account. I will put the link of the hacked version as well as the unHacked one.

There are a few steps to trading, first you give an offer and state what you want in return (optional). If you do state what you want, then responses will be limited to offers of only that Pokemon (you can also choose the level range you want the Pokemon to be in). Once people have sent offers, you can review them and decide which one it is you want. When you are finding an offer, it's just from the other perspective, you find what people want, if you have it, you may offer that to the person in exchange for whatever he was willing to trade.

Mystery Gift & PokeMart

When you click "Mystery Gift", you can input valid codes to obtain Pokemon, most of them are rare. You may also click "Daily Gift" and you will be sent to the Pokemon Center website and from there, you can test your luck with the Daily Gift by spending some in game money on it. You could get Rare Pokemon or just Casino Coins which you can spend in the Pokemon Center.
The latest code is 46233nc4

The PokeMart is where you can buy stones of all kinds from Pokemon Red, Green, and Blue. Each stone  costs $10,000, it may seem like a lot at first, but later on, you'll be able to get over $4-5k per round. There's nothing else for sale in the PokeMart.




PokeDex

When you click the PokeDex, you will see two buttons, "My Achievements" and "My Collection". In My Achievements, you will see some tasks that you can fulfil for rewards. You can receive Shiny Pokemon and accessories for your avatar as rewards. In My Collection, you can view all the Pokemon you've seen and if you've caught one before. The only difference between this and the regular PokeDex is that it doesn't show Pokemon behaviour, weight, and location in the Collection.


Phases of the Game

As for the levels and such, I think that some are exponentially harder than the last, which requires training your Pokemon a lot, although this game is not as long as the real game. But still, it could take several hours to finish the game, and by then it gets a bit boring, flash games were meant to be short.

Early Game: When you first start the game, it is easy to pass the levels, however the cost for levelling up your Pokemon is quite high in relation to the money you would have in early game. So my advice is to level up as soon as possible, it will help you a lot early on. Remember to catch many Plant types since you will be facing the Pewter Gym, which is Ground and Rock based and then the Cerulean Gym in Chapter 2. Oh, and of course Kyogor

Middle Game:  Once you've gotten a few badges, the level up cost won't be a bother and you will be training your Pokemon constantly on the best map available to you and buying strong TMs for your Pokemon so that they can deal better damage. It does tend to get a little boring at this point -and more mind exhausting- ,but once you've gotten your Pokemon strong enough to complete this part of the game, you're in for much more thinking.

Late Game: Not many people make it here without trying out the Hacked Version, since it takes an extremely long time of training and more training. But if you did get here without Hacks, then I commend you on your patience. Once your at this point of the game, your earlier rounds will seem like a walk in the park, and you are probably getting Solarbeam and Sunny Day for Kyogre. When you are at this point, there's not much I can tell you without you already knowing. So, have fun and enjoy the rest of the game.



The links to both the Hacked and UnHacked Versions of Pokemon Tower Defence will be posted underneath this paragraph. Try the game out, and remember that if you use the hacked version, your account will stay as a Hacked account. So you probably won't be able to trade your Pokemon for UnHacked ones.




Pokemon Tower Defence by SamAndDanGames

Hacked Version

-The Rooster

1 comment:

  1. i play it too! I ♥ the game so much. It's all you want: free, easy to play, but not to easy

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