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Barad The Dwarf
Belgium
De Haan
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The Wildlings are a actually three races of small cutelooking animals. Each live on an island but unfortunatly they are being attacked by monsters the whole time. They want to escape their islands and head over to a new sunny island where they and their cute little babies can live in peace. Will you help them?
In general this is quit an easy desktop defender game. You have a nest of three wildling babies and tons of enemy creatures walk up to the nest and try to kidnapp the three babies. You control the father or mother of these creatures and have to click to where they need to go and then the hit the enemy and he is destroyed. Off course they are coming from all directions so you will be running over the map.
The game consist of three basic levels, each represents an island on which one type of Wildling live. The first island is filled with some sort of bird, the second with some sort of mole and the third with some sort of pinguin. Each island has 15 different missions you need to get through. Off course they need to get off the island so there is a ship that needs to be build, at the end of each mission you get another part of the ship until it's fully assembled. Sometimes instead of a piece of ship you will be awarded a special power or a stronger sort of parent to help you.
During each game you will also have to collect golden suns, these originate in the nest or with each enemy you kill. You need the suns to open up the 4th and final level in which you will live for the rest of your life. You are in need of 3000 suns before you unlock the island. But the suns are not only used for unlocking the island, no they also are used for activitating the special abilities. A couple of examples: Baby Bubble (5) protects the nest with a bubble, Hot Hot Lava (10) pools of lava come out of the ground and destroys the enemies, Earth Slam (15), temporally stuns your enemies, ... To destroy your enemies most of the time you just need to hit them once but there are some enemies in the game that have more live and you need to hit them more. Bigger parents hit harder so they don't have to hit that much.
The last islands, once unlocked brings together all the three sorts of children and in a nice land you will have 90 seconds to collect as many suns as possible from happy, cheery looking clouds that you need to hit to destroy. And the number of suns you seem to collect in this round gives you your highscore. This somewhat was a downer for me, I had rather a lot off fun going through the whole game and then when I had unlocked the final island all I got was some happy joy joy scene in which the children hit a couple of happy looking clouds and you just need to get more suns. What was even stupider was the fact that I did not even have to get 3000 suns because I could like the whole game on facebook and open up the last level.
So this brings me to my conclusion, it's really a fun game and the graphics are really nice. It has a good feel about it, the creatures are cute and the enemies are evil little buggers. There are some great and fun looking enemies as well each with their own way. Some great creatures spit out lots and lots of smaller you also have to kill. Or the crabs just crawl up but when you hit them they hide in their shell and you need to walk away before they come out again and you can hit them again (great idea). But in the end it's all a bit to easy. Actually when I was typing this I started a couple of levels just to find the names of the abilites and after using the abilites once I just let the game run and I still one, even without telling the Wildlings what to do. Okay it wasn't that good a victory but still I won by doing nothing. So what I think this game really needs is to become a bit harder to beat, get some difficulty levels in there. They have a great looking game, you really feel sorry for the babies and you want to save them but it's way to easy. In the 45 levels there wasn't one I had to replay because I didn't meet the goal. Plus you actually have three goals: complete the level, have all the babies and get the nest untouched. In quit a lot of levels I got all three, most I got two as a couple of times a baby was kidnapped, but only know when I wasn't even gaming I only got to the level complete. And as far as I can see there isn't even a penalty or a bonus when you (don't) complete all three goals in a mission.
So in general, if you like a good looking and fun defense game, pick this up, if you do want some challenge, don't pick this one up.
(images by kidsplinter)
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