Toy Defense

Genre: Tower Defense

Players: 1

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Review:

Toy Defense is a Tower Defense game released on PC and mobile devices in 2012 and ported to Nintendo 3DS in 2016. As the title indicates, this game has you defending your base by placing weapon encampments in strategic positions on a path leading to that base.

At least nominally, all of these armed forces are toys, though it’s not easy to tell that from the presentation – everything is so tiny from your high-up top-down perspective that the only clue anything you’re looking at is supposed to be a toy is the clockwork-style wind-up mechanism spinning behind vehicles. Otherwise, this game’s visuals are just military-themed with a slight cartoony style and silly screams from the forces you’re gunning down. Oddly, there’s not really any music throughout the gameplay, making everything eerily quiet for something intended to have a lighthearted theme.

As for the gameplay… this is pretty standard Tower Defense stuff. You only have a few different unit types, each upgradeable if you purchase the ability to do so in-between missions. You’re limited in where you can place these units too, really limiting the strategy of the game. Still, there is some satisfaction to be had in seeing enemies get mowed down by your emplacements, or upgrading your gunner to see him more swiftly take out those enemies.

As Tower Defense games go, Toy Defense does little to set itself apart from the crowd. Its presentation isn’t very good, players aren’t given many options, and even the toy theming doesn’t come across very strongly. This is an adequate entry in the genre for players who just want something cheap, but it’s not one you’re likely to sink much time into.

tl;dr – Toy Defense is a Tower Defense game that at least nominally has a toy theme, though this theme isn’t very strong. The presentation isn’t very good either, nor are the variety of options players are given in setting up their defenses. The result is a game that does little to distinguish itself within the genre or give players much reason to stick with the game.

Grade: C-

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