Ninjatown

akonnick's Ninjatown (Nintendo DS) review

Why Play This When PixelJunk Monsters Exists

Maybe I'm spoiled, but my first introduction to the tower defense genre was PixelJunk Monsters. Monsters is one of my favorite games of all time, and a game that really set the bar high for the entire genre. Playing Ninjatown just made me appreciate all the things that Q Games did right with PixelJunk Monsters. The towers (ninjas) all felt nearly identical aside from the standard melee vs. ranged unit. Everytime I unlocked a new unit, it felt like a small variation on a theme rather than a new wrinkle in the gameplay. Ultimately, I walked away from this game bored after a couple of hours thinking that I may never give another tower defense game a try after being burned by every game that isn't PixelJunk Monsters. I gave Ninjatown the extra half star for the humorous writing (that ultimately couldn't do much to take the sting away from the lacking gameplay).

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