![]() ![]() I also appreciate the simple pleasures of memorization and execution, as well as the frenzied “should I upgrade this or this or put this here” thought progression that happens in every level, this game included. As punitive as it is, you gotta love the blood-pumping splendor of successfully completing a level without losing any of your goal, which in this specific game, are stars. Tower defense does have its charms, though. There’s a lot of losing in general until you understand and execute on proper placements, upgrade paths, and memorize the order of waves. If you try to be unconventional, you lose. Those towers fire on specific enemy types and have certain effects on them as they crawl towards an ultimate end goal. Jelly Defense doesn’t depart from these norms, nor does it do much to differentiate on any other level outside of its look. ![]() You usually have to “get” the vision the designer had in mind for levels, which leaves a lot to be desired from a play perspective. Without this direction it’d look and feel as flat as a modern FPS, but its detail, vividness, liveliness, and the raw skillfulness employed in making it this way morph it into an experience.Ĭonventional tower defense games are demanding, punitive, and scripted pretty harshly. Infinite Dreams’ Jelly Defense is a well-made by-the-numbers tower defense joint with an embarrassingly unorthodox and captivating art direction that arterially informs and fleshes out its otherwise boring core mechanics. ![]()
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