Alliance

You have to pay to unlock stages.. after paying for the game up front. That’s ridiculous, it’s basically a scam.

The greed in this game sickens me. <br/><br/>Rather than having towers branch off into two different upgrade trees. Each tower just upgrades once, effectively cutting the versatility/strategy in half. <br/><br/>They have been said replace this with a player being able to pick five different towers before entering a fight, so they can sell you new towers via micro transaction.

Its a good game like always but for a mobile game its starting to feel like these games are getting greedy now with all the towers and heros plus dlc being at least 50$ this isn’t Microsoft

So, I sometimes use the Apple game thing to “demo” games and the Apple game thing has it where the ‘premium’ heroes can be unlocked via just playing through the game, so I figured here I could do the same thing.<br/><br/>I bought the two dlc, and then noticed the game itself felt like a slog to play, I didn’t have much fun, and it half felt like with how often it was tossing the diamonds at me, the premium currency, that okay fine, it’s a game where I’m meant to grind. Kinda annoying that every time I go into the hero tab to upgrade I’m reminded of all the paid for heroes but it’s fine, I can unlock them by playing the game.<br/><br/>No. You can’t.<br/><br/>The premium heroes and towers are purely purchase, for the paid for version, while the arcade version you MUST beat the level that the hero is attributed to.<br/><br/>The game isn’t fun, and after paying over twenty six dollars for just the dlc and base game, the game then demands you cough up another FIFTY DOLLARS for the premium heroes and towers. And I was even wondering why the towers felt so weak, compared to the DLC towers, cause I beat the entire game just spamming the dragon brood tower, cause it had a map-wide kinda mortar attack and a stun.<br/><br/>And then it hit me that the reason why is cause it’s trying to make you get the premium stuff, to pay that extra 50 (cause buying the towers/heroes solo would be a bit of a waste when the bundles are 50% off, according to the store itself) and on top of that there’s also an option to buy the premium currency, which is used for these extra three slots on the lower right hand side…<br/><br/>For anywhere from five bucks to a hundred dollars.<br/><br/>I remember the original kingdom rush, how much fun it was, and iron marines was kinda…meh, with the other installments being either annoyingly hard or just so far out in left field it didn’t feel like the same game nor really worth playing. This one however? I never had a kingdom rush game actively make me hate it, never made me hate it enough that I actually come in and write a review for it.<br/><br/>Yet here we are. This is by far one of the worst games I’ve ever played and it’s purely cause of the sheer greed. You want 50 dollars from me? Make a game worth that 50 dollars and not this microtransaction bs. Kingdom Two Crowns was a hell of a lot more fun, and a lot more simple, and I know from past installments that you can do better than this from the original games.

As a Kingdom Rush Frontiers fan, I went into this game with high hopes, and while it delivers a visually stunning and fresh experience, the core gameplay left me disappointed. The maps, heroes, towers, and hidden Easter eggs are all fantastic and beautifully designed. The two hero mechanic is top notch. However, if you are looking for a true tactical challenge, you won't find it here. Even on Veteran mode using only the free heroes and towers, the main campaign stages are surprisingly easy; once you figure out a few key tower patterns, you can simply spam them to clear every wave without much effort.<br/>Stages 14,15 and additional campaigns are the only ones with true challenge (took me a few restarts to beat). Yet, please keep the main campaign difficulty to difficult when it’s veteran.

My only complaint is that Jormungdar isn’t a character choice ;)

bad game

I love this game don’t get me wrong. But as you progress and the difficulty gets higher you start to see how virtually all the new towers and heroes are loved behind paywalls. Where as before you could get like half the towers unlocked, not you get the defaults and just one alternate of each basic type. <br/><br/>I started noticing the problem when I realize I hav to use guides online to beat certain missions. I never had to do that before. The multiple ways of victory which allowed you before to play and rest different strategies are locked down to virtually just one on some of the later missions if you only have the default towers. <br/><br/>I want to love this game but in an effort to make more money they made the game feel sweaty. 3$ for a new tower is crazy. And towers cost separate from the additional expansions too…wish it wasn’t so.