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Well... this is the game that has been grabbing my attention for the past months and even tore me away from Genshin Impact (I suspect my Hu Tao is lonely and sad now xD). What is Arknights? Arknights is a Tower Defense/Gacha game from Shanghai developers HyperGryph Studios for iOS and Android. Arknights players assume the role of the amnesiac doctor in charge of deploying Operators to protect and defeat invading forces in Tower Defense fashion. Operators come with different skills and classes that players must bring together to successfully defend their objectives. Each Operator has a Rarity, Deployment Cost, and unique Talents and Skills, allowing for many flexible strategies. Launch Trailer from 4 years ago: What's the appeal? What pulled me in wasn't actually the plethora of cute or cool (designed) characters, even though those are definitely a plus for any anime fan or gacha veteran. I just really like tower defense. Be it Bloons TD, Kingdom Rush, or my beloved Tower Defense/Ego-Shooter hybrid Sanctum 2, I have tons of fun playing those games. And Arknights gives you simply a very solid Tower Defense experience. There's an endless variety of Operator (your towers) archetypes, each fulfilling a unique role on the battlefield, be it pure damage, blocking the mobs from reaching the end zone, slowing them, generating currency faster to deploy your units faster, healing, other buffs or debuffs. The possibilities and viable strategies you can come up with seem to be near endless at a certain point. There is also a plethora of enemy types, bosses, and stages, sometimes with environmental quirks and multiple pathways. There are also different game modes and between the main story, events, side stories, annihilation missions (where you have to defeat a whopping 400 enemies that come in waves), there's even a roguelite mode to explore. Arknights has a lot of content to offer for a free game. Of course the Gacha has it's appeal too; even if you stay F2P, you will occasionally try your luck in the character lottery. And raising your favourites' levels and skills to make them stronger is a core part of the game. You can even buy skins for your favourite characters. Latest event trailer with new characters and costumes at the end: As it is somehow with all Gacha games, they have great music too. For example, here's the BGM for the menu during a certain event series that took place a month ago: That all sounds great. But there are certainly cons. How can all of this be for free? The game itself is free to download on the App Store and Google Play Store. There's the usual in-game store where you can buy the premium currency and packs (and it's usually not worth it). As a Gacha hybrid, it comes with the genre's typical downsides: Operators/Towers have different rarities and "stronger" ones are harder to obtain and more expensive to level up. A stamina system that let's you only play for so long. Every mission consumes "Sanity" and when you don't have any of that left, you'll have to wait for it to restore until you can continue playing (or buy a refill, lol). You do get a few free Sanity refills at the beginning, along with level-up rewards. FOMO (fear of missing out). There are banners with limited characters who will either not appear again or only after a long time. Same with some events. Complexity of mechanics, resources to gather, things to level up... Especially if you're not used to this genre, you'll be overwhelmed at first. Apart from that, you'll need an internet connection to play and not everyone will like the art style or the anthropomorphic characters. The story (text to read) is huge and presented in the style of a visual novel, which can become tedious to read. I tend to skip the story and sometimes read it up online afterwards. From a gameplay perspective, there's also the downside that you have no insight into the enemies or their mechanics (especially bosses) without actually playing a stage. You can do practice runs though, that don't consume any stamina. Finally, it is important to mention that you absolutely don't need high rarity characters to win in this game. On the contrary, it is recommended at the beginning to start with your standard (3- and 4-star) Operators. There are even popular guides that revolve around using mainly 3- and 4-star characters to win and borrowing a high rarity unit from a friend. That sounds interesting and all, but I'm still on the fence. Can you show me some actual gameplay maybe? Sure! Just hit me up on Discord and I'll happily show you the game and explain how it works.
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Make sure to pick up your free copy of Sanctum 2 here (offer ends in 2 days): https://www.humblebundle.com/store/sanctum-2 This is a mixture of Tower Defense and FPS in a sci-fi setting. As someone who has played this game for 500 hours, I can certainly recommend it. It can be played in SP and MP (up to 4 players) and has four different characters, multiple towers, weapons and perks to choose from, allowing for a lot of character customization and various strategies to win the different Tower Defense levels. There's also a DLC for it, which you should probably wait for to go on sale. It basically doubles the number of maps to solve and gives you additional weapons, towers and perks and a new character to play with. If you have any questions about this game, feel free to ask me about it. And once you have it, make sure to contact me via PM, Discord or Steam so we can play together.
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Bloons TD 5 (PC) (Also on android and other smart phones) Tower Defense Cost: Around $2.99 You can also play for free in your browser http://ninjakiwi.com/Games/Tower-Defense/Bloons-Tower-Defense-5.html Bloons TD 5 is the very definition of Tower Defence. You play as the mighty Monkeys, being invaded by the evil Bloons (Ballons). There many, many different tracks each with their own difficulty, and obstacles to work around, starting at Beginner, and going all the way up to expert, and each level has 3 awards, Bronze, Silver, and Gold. Bloons TD5 has heaps of new features including all of your favourite towers from BTD4 with 8 awesome upgrades each instead of 4, and two brand new never before seen tower types. So much new awesomeness: tower upgrades with cool Super Activated Abilities, new Bloon types, fun new tracks with moving parts and tunnels, powerful Special Agent towers, Daily Rewards, Special Missions, and Daily Challenges - a fun new challenge to play each and every day! Updates are coming all the time, and your progress is tracked for ranks, upgrades, and achievements when you log in using our new NK login system. Have fun! If you are a fan of Tower Defense games, Bloons TD5 is the game for you. It accommodates all play styles at every level, and if you have never played a Tower Defense game, it will ease you into the game play, and before you know it, you are a bloon popping king! Pros: Many tracks, tons of new towers, and upgrades, and easy to learn gameplay. Cons: Once you hit level 100 in any given track, you will start to experience slow down, even on high end machines. On lower end machines, maybe even earlier than that. Music can get very repetitive and annoying. Score: 9.5/10 (Slowdown is a bummer)
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