Enjoyed the Internet version? Yeh, me too. Best stick to it too...
For those of you who haven't experience Defend Your Castle on either the Flash or the Wii version, the idea is simple - you have a castle. Little stick men run at your castle and try to destroy it by punching it, smashing it with giant lolly pop sticks or even blowing it up with bombs. Your castle has a health bar, and when your health reaches 0, game over. Your part is having to throw, squish and flatten the stick men, stopping them getting to the castle. A brilliant and simple idea.
The first thing that caught my eye was the brilliant design of the game. XGenStudios switched from the basic design to a new design which makes the game look like it has been designed by a toddler. For example, the monsters heads are made out of bottle caps, the battering rams from giant lolly pop sticks...you get the idea. Another high point of the game is the sound effects. The addictive, high pitched screams of the stick men will have you addicted, just smashing them to hear the crunch of their body crumbling and the squeal of their voices. I could listen to it all day, and as well as being addictive, it is very humorous.
Now, all that is left is the actual gameplay. As you would imagine, you throw the stick men my resting your cursor over a man, pressing the A button, and using a flick of the wrist and letting go of the A button, you send them flying. Simple. And for the first 10 or so levels, it is a brilliant control scheme. However, as the levels get progressively harder, your wrist will be dieing when you get to around level 25. You will be spammed with little stick men, having to lob every little one of them. Luckily, you can assign jobs for stick men such as archers, wizards and ... suicide bombers. The suicide bombers are a GREAT touch to the game. Without them, you'd be ripping your hair out. As they stroll out of the castle, you simply click them to blow up any living creatures around you.
This would be an excellent game if it wasn't for the massive difficulty. I am only on level 28 on easy mode, and I am already finding it close to impossible. The only way to complete levels sometimes is to get some friends or family to play as well and help get rid of stick men with you. However, then you don't feel like you have actually completed it yourself.
This game is worth the 500 wii points i payed for it, however 500 points is around £5. That isn't a lot at all. I recommend buying it if you have a fiver spare, however if there are better games you could put that fiver towards, I would highly recommend you stick to the Internet version.