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There's no "Defendin'" this game
posted by JMichaud (BETHESDA, MD) Sep 28, 2008
Member since Jan 2008
4 out of 6 gamers (67%) found this review helpful
You are a penguin named Little Blue and your fellow penguins and their villages are being attacked by other creatures. What do you do?
Naturally, you build towers that shoot snowmen, icicles, freezing air or ice cubes.
How you do that without opposible thumbs is a big mystery. But it's not the biggest in Defendin' Da Penguin.
And it's not how the attacking animals are so stupid they walk along a clearly marked path, ignoring shortcuts, one by one to their death via your towers.
No, the biggest mystery here is how this game can be exciting.
I know, it's a strategy game where you place the right tower(s) in the right place(s).
But after less than a minute of watching turtles, crabs, cats, wolly mammoths (aren't they extinct?) and other creatures march single file to their doom, the game got boring.
The dead animal marching just kept on going and going and going, and my interest kept on falling and falling. After a few levels, I almost lost all interest in playing this game.
Making things worse is the extremely bland text driven story. Every day starts off with Little Blue and his friends talking about the newest upgrade or tower and the latest suckers ... I mean enemies to attack the village. It ends with our heroes saying we beat them.
The story doesn't go anywhere - it's just the same talk over and over and over again. Boring!
The only thing that kept me interested was seeing all eight available towers. Some towers were interesting, namely the one that tossed snowmen. But once I've seen all the towers in action, I was done playing this game.
I say stay away from Defendin' Da Penguin.
Naturally, you build towers that shoot snowmen, icicles, freezing air or ice cubes.
How you do that without opposible thumbs is a big mystery. But it's not the biggest in Defendin' Da Penguin.
And it's not how the attacking animals are so stupid they walk along a clearly marked path, ignoring shortcuts, one by one to their death via your towers.
No, the biggest mystery here is how this game can be exciting.
I know, it's a strategy game where you place the right tower(s) in the right place(s).
But after less than a minute of watching turtles, crabs, cats, wolly mammoths (aren't they extinct?) and other creatures march single file to their doom, the game got boring.
The dead animal marching just kept on going and going and going, and my interest kept on falling and falling. After a few levels, I almost lost all interest in playing this game.
Making things worse is the extremely bland text driven story. Every day starts off with Little Blue and his friends talking about the newest upgrade or tower and the latest suckers ... I mean enemies to attack the village. It ends with our heroes saying we beat them.
The story doesn't go anywhere - it's just the same talk over and over and over again. Boring!
The only thing that kept me interested was seeing all eight available towers. Some towers were interesting, namely the one that tossed snowmen. But once I've seen all the towers in action, I was done playing this game.
I say stay away from Defendin' Da Penguin.
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