Game: Evil Defenders
Genre: Tower Defense
System: Nintendo Switch (also on Steam, IOS, Android )
Developer| Publisher: Crazy Panda
Age Rating: EU 7+| USA T
Price: €9,99| $9.99|£8.99
Release Date: 14th May 2019
Review Code kindly provided by Crazy Panda
Evil Defenders is a tower defence game. Unlike the usual tower defence game, where you defend your territory from evil, this game is the opposite. Here, you defend your territory against the good with you playing the evil part. A nice touch!
Evil versus Good: and you are evil
Evil defenders is set in the fantasy Kingdom of Evil. With the help of your evil minions, mages, orcs and goblins and all their towers you’ll fight back the power of good.
In the first few levels the game takes you through a tutorial of how to play. If you forget anything, there is a handy compendium to read that lists all the enemies and all the towers that can be built.
Keep the good guys out!
Your goal, as the player, is to place various structures along the predefined path to combat ever increasing and more challenging waves of enemies.
The structures that you place to hold of enemies, or towers as I’ll call them, can be upgraded with special abilities. These counter specific enemy types, for instance you use mages or archers that can bring down flying enemies.
Along with the towers you place there are also god-like powers that can be used during a level. For instance, you can invoke a powerful electric charge that rains down on enemies.
You can also call upon special hero unit such as the giant demon MacHellman. He’s a nasty red ogre who will help fight a few enemies with his powerful fists. All special hero’s are on cool down timers and must be used strategically to get the best use out of them.
90 levels, 15 mission maps, 60 towers to play with
You can make a huge number of upgrades to your defence towers and the special abilities can all be upgraded as well. Of course, that all depends on how much cash you have. Or in case of Evil Defenders it’s Spirits that is the game currency, collected during gameplay
Each level comprises of six different mission, each providing the player with more of a challenge. Added to that the challenge mode is included, which gives the player unlimited battle practice and a big challenge.
There are 60 towers with distinct abilities and features. The Old Crypt, the Crossbow Goblin and the Poison Lord are just a few. With 90 levels across 15 distinct mission maps, you’ll visit various places like the Wasteland, Frostlands and Highlands.
Some of the levels have unique landmarks which come into play during the level, these can range from the Altar of Wind, which decimates the on coming hoards with fierce winds, or the Toxic Swamp which as you might have guessed inflicts the enemies with poison.
While it starts out easy, later on gameplay is fast and can get a bit frantic in the later levels.
Bright and colourful in the Fantasy Kingdom of Evil
Evil Defenders can be controlled either by touchscreen or by Joy-con controls and I found that both worked equally well. I preferred the joy-con controls over the touchscreen but that is just my personal preference.
The levels are bright and colourful with lots of little details. Flowing rivers and birds flying overhead bring the levels to life. The accompanying music is upbeat and fits this style of game very well.
Conclusion
Evil Defenders is a great tower defence game to have on the Nintendo Switch. It suits the portability of the system with short gameplay times that the levels offer as none of them are very long in length.
The challenge in the game ranks up after the first few levels. However, nothing felt too frustrating while playing. If you do get stuck in a level, there are plenty of other challenges in the game to undertake. While Evil Defenders doesn’t offer up anything new in the tower defence genre it does have fun and engaging gameplay.
I like Evil Defenders.
