The Wii version was fantastic (the bread tie cursor is a nice touch), but Switch feels like where Defend Your Castle belongs.
It feels good to pluck enemies and fling them, to tap on towers to load them up with soldiers and wizards and select your next upgrade. This is a game that was simply made for portable mode, because it started its life as a mobile and PC game. Soon enough there’s a push and pull that involves reinforcing your castle, rebuilding lest your “helth” falls, and converting enemies to feed the machine, as it were.
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As you earn points that you convert into currency, you can update your castle with different warriors stationed on various parapets. As you move on, more enemies appear with new weaponry (popsicle stick battering rams! Soda cap ogres!), which means you have to up your game. At the outset you simply have to pick them up (the game is touch only) and fling them into the air so that they fall and crumple on the ground. In a paper cutout world, you are tasked with making sure these little (and literal) button-headed stickmen don’t destroy your domain. Over a decade later, the game has made a return to the Switch, and I love it as much now as I did then. One of the first games I ever fell in love with was an art-and-crafts tower defense game by Xgen Studios called Defend Your Castle. They had file size limitations, so the games that came out for it had to be concise. Xbox 360 led the charge to be sure, but being a Nintendo fan meant I was always smitten by WiiWare.
While digitally sold games are part and parcel of the gaming scene these days, there was a time when they were relatively new, and I tended to pay attention to them more because you could count the new releases on one hand.
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