Quick Review

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The good

• It's a tower defense with archery after all and the shooting mechanics have been done nicely enough. But that's all there is to it really.

The bad

• From the get-go, there is no option to move freely in the menu room. You have to manually rotate and point the trigger to predetermined locations to get there. Screenshot
• There is some little interaction with the objects implemented but the fingers do not move. I have vive wands and usually the trigger moves the index finger and the grip moves the rest. But here the hand just snaps to the objects directly. Even then, the hand animations glitch into each other and sometimes I could see my wand model with the hand, and sometimes both open and close hand at the same time. This is the polish that is still needed for this game. Screenshot
• The game has 3 maps. This is a screenshot of the first map. First thing that bothered me was that the waterfall did not have a high fps animation which kinda stands out. Nothing changes in the maps. At least some daytime, weather changes could add more variation. Imagine if the game had the option to change lighting based on time of the day. That would have been cool.
• The enemy types use very similar models with some added assets. A limit bit of color variation would be welcome. The running animation does not quite match the walking speed. It's stiff and unnatural.
• I felt like the waves for single player are actually designed to be played with multiple people. Before reaching wave 10 there was already running, flying enemies with a big one at the same time which was very difficult to handle for one player. So separate wave scaling for single player and multiplayer would make solo playing feel much better.
• While the archery mechanics are good enough, there is still room to improve. There could be the option to actually get each arrow out of a holster. Atm, for the big enemies you can just spam shots mindlessly. If the arrows did not regenerate in the hands, trying to get critical on their head would have beeen much more pleasant.
• I got 14 coins for clearing up to wave 9. The cheapest bow upgrade costs 200 and the most expensive one is 10'000 (Screenshot). So do I have to play 700 rounds to unlock the best bow and helmet?! The grinds seems to have been miscalculated. Besides, the expensive upgrades are just recolorings of the same model which is just lazy.
• Honorary mention to the same font that is used in menus, announcements, kills, etc. without any kind of background and framing which feels like a placeholder.

Verdict

Original