Strong game but missing elements
I am long time fan and enjoyed of the kingdom rush franchise, and truly have the utmost respect for its developers. That being said, I am left slightly unsatisfied by this game, as they uncharacteristically demonstrated a lack of attention to detail.
First, with my minor complaints. There is no encyclopedia anywhere in the game. After you defeat the final boss he still appears alive on the map. Furthermore, it has a little over half the campaign levels as vengeance. I found this to be extremely disappointing. I know they will continue to add levels, but I doubt they will eventually add 60 more levels to the game. I also find the story to be somewhat poorly explained as compared to the previous iterations of the game.
The mechanics are great, and the towers and hero’s are cool and generally more balanced than in vengeance. I have dew complaints regarding the fundamental aspects of the game, but rather all the little details. Throughout the games thus far they have increasingly added more levels and details with each game, which I have always highly respect of ironside studios. This, however, feels somewhat like a step backwards. A strong game overall, however I will say it feels like they pushed it out too early, almost as a money-grab.
First, with my minor complaints. There is no encyclopedia anywhere in the game. After you defeat the final boss he still appears alive on the map. Furthermore, it has a little over half the campaign levels as vengeance. I found this to be extremely disappointing. I know they will continue to add levels, but I doubt they will eventually add 60 more levels to the game. I also find the story to be somewhat poorly explained as compared to the previous iterations of the game.
The mechanics are great, and the towers and hero’s are cool and generally more balanced than in vengeance. I have dew complaints regarding the fundamental aspects of the game, but rather all the little details. Throughout the games thus far they have increasingly added more levels and details with each game, which I have always highly respect of ironside studios. This, however, feels somewhat like a step backwards. A strong game overall, however I will say it feels like they pushed it out too early, almost as a money-grab.
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Corporate greed on steroids
I love this series so much, but each new addition becomes more and more disgusting with its monetisation. 10 dollar game (the most expensive yet) with not only the sadly expected buyable heroes but also BUYABLE TOWERS??! Come the hell on ironhide games, be better. Look into a mirror and ask yourself if you think this is okay. If you want every piece of content this game has to offer, you’d need to spend around $100. You aren’t making AAA, 10 years in development, team of 1000 professionals from countless different fields level content. You’re making a mobile TD game. Take your 10 dollars and give us everything as a progression unlock. A prime of example of what’s wrong with the industry…
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Ruined by in app purchases
Over half the content is locked out for you unless you’re willing to spend massive amounts of money to get it all. It was once just heroes that costs money which was fine but now towers and new levels as well. So for this price, I unfortunately can’t recommend you buy this game, as fun as it is. I would understand if the game was free but it’s not. Play the older games before they locked towers and levels behind a pay wall, you’ll have more fun.
I won’t be buying any new additions to the franchise in the future.
I won’t be buying any new additions to the franchise in the future.
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A diamond in the craggy world of ads
Like others, I’ve been waiting for a long time for this latest release. Thank you Ironhide for not ruining your game by stuffing it full of ads. This is my favourite phone game by leaps and bounds. The graphics are cute, the audio is humourous, the game itself is totally addictive and the company that owns it hasn’t gotten outrageously greedy like others I won’t name. Brilliant and I recommend it to everyone!
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Where are the extra levels?
I have the updates all applied and yet no extra levels as advertised on the October 3 update?? What’s going on?
Response from developer
Hi, you can find the new Undying Fury mini-campaign in the top left corner of the game's map. If you cannot find it, please contact us through http://ironhidegames.com/support and we will help you.
Somewhat Meh This Time
I really like Ironhide and all of their games but this round feels like a rush job (no pun intended). Things just weren’t polished and up to the same calibre as other productions. Its relatively short - relatively easy and it doesn’t bring much new to the table (if the next ironhide game has a tentacle boss with lots of eyes then god help us). The towers don’t level up - you can’t really even tell that the heroes are levelling unless you check after each match and you can simply just purchase OP units. Not as much strategy is required as in previous titles so I dunno what happened. The pressure to produce and then sell for cheap is tough I gather especially with all those gachas out there.
Honestly Junk World+ is like 10x better and definitely their best game. It’s really fun so I hope to see another of those.
Honestly Junk World+ is like 10x better and definitely their best game. It’s really fun so I hope to see another of those.
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Excellent game
Really enjoy this game as well as Kingdom rush game. Best game in the world.
Good but my least favorite in the KDR franchise
It’s decent. By far my least favorite in the Kingdom rush franchise however. It just doesn’t have quite the same feel as the other 4 games and I think the towers and hero’s and maps are the least fun out of all the KDR games. I like that they brought back some of the old towers from other games but I wish they would expand on this and bring back even more of the older towers and hero’s. Using two hero’s is cool. I’d really like to see more endless wave challenges like in the earlier games. I also wish some levels only had one gate to protect, all of these levels have at least two. The one gate maps were some of the best in the older games I think. I also really didn’t like the final boss level with having your towers moved and destroyed throughout the level. I get that they are trying to do something new but it just isn’t as fun for me. Also $50 to unlock all hero’s and towers is a bit much. And that’s the sale/ bundle price too. I think $20-$30 to have all all content unlocked would be more reasonable.
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Decent
Nothing new. Even uses some of the same towers from previous games. Too short- beat all levels in a day. Have played all kingdom rush games and was hoping for more content. Maybe longer maps with only one exit, so I have time to actually max towers. Clear that this game was put out to make money off of heroes since there is a lack of content….new heroes are the only way to add onto that. No end game. No reason to play after the first day. I don’t mind spending the extra dollar since we are in Biden times, but when you up the price you shouldn’t release the same content. Edit- added a few levels and a new hero….that costs 7 dollars lol…..think this will be my last one from this company. I don’t like greed, it’s killing many countries.
Response to developer- at no time did I say you needed money to progress a level. I stated that your add on content was a few maps and a 7 dollar hero. Not sure what happened to your company, but maybe hire some of your game players to help make decisions going forward. You have lost touch.
Response to developer- at no time did I say you needed money to progress a level. I stated that your add on content was a few maps and a 7 dollar hero. Not sure what happened to your company, but maybe hire some of your game players to help make decisions going forward. You have lost touch.
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Response from developer
Hi, we understand your frustration but you don't need to make purchases to progress in the game (in fact, many players don't). Our community can definitely help as well! You can join our Discord server right here: https://discord.gg/aqHGabqupe. We're always working on improving so user feedback is always welcome.
Not P2W but feels off
I love this game and this series - I have 100%’ed each of them. However, I really hope to see some changes made to this game or upcoming games.
The bad reviews that complain that the game is impossible without paying are laughable - there are numerous videos online showing every level being completed at the highest difficulty with no paid content.
That being said, locking so much content behind paywalls does leave a really bad taste in my mouth. I’m not naive, I understand that developing a quality game like this costs money, and I want Ironhide to be a successful company that properly compensates its employees. I would have been happy to pay more for the game upfront to have full access to the content, although I understand how a $20 sticker price would deter many casual players.
I think a good compromise would be something like allowing the purchase of towers and heroes with gems. In this game and in Vengeance, I have amassed tens of thousands of gems that I have no use for because I, and many other players, do not use items. This is likely not done because this would significantly drive down IAPs, but I think that something like this would make this easily a 5 star game. I hope that the company is able to find some kind of balance here.
Thanks to anyone who reads.
The bad reviews that complain that the game is impossible without paying are laughable - there are numerous videos online showing every level being completed at the highest difficulty with no paid content.
That being said, locking so much content behind paywalls does leave a really bad taste in my mouth. I’m not naive, I understand that developing a quality game like this costs money, and I want Ironhide to be a successful company that properly compensates its employees. I would have been happy to pay more for the game upfront to have full access to the content, although I understand how a $20 sticker price would deter many casual players.
I think a good compromise would be something like allowing the purchase of towers and heroes with gems. In this game and in Vengeance, I have amassed tens of thousands of gems that I have no use for because I, and many other players, do not use items. This is likely not done because this would significantly drive down IAPs, but I think that something like this would make this easily a 5 star game. I hope that the company is able to find some kind of balance here.
Thanks to anyone who reads.
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