Tower of Doom

After a super long lasting brief interlude of no game review/guides at all. I have come back to my senses and found a new game to play through. I am sure there have been many good ones out there in the past few months but none that quite tickled my fancy enough to finish. Anyways, enough with the feeble excuses and on to the game.

Tower of Doom is a fun little game with eight different levels of funjoyment. Your goal in this game is to build up your tower's fire power to fend off the villagers --who don't want to see their land demolished-- until you can demolish their land. There is a set time on each level that you must survive until and then your tower unleashes its invisible doom spell. Do this seven times and you have won the adventure part of the game. The final level has an endless supply of farmers, knights and catapults; your goal here is to attempt to survive long enough to place yourself into the high scores. Good luck with that one..

On to the specifics of the levels.

The first level, Aragoth, is a tutorial level and pretty simple to beat. You begin the level with 120g. I start (the level) with one fire tower and, as the level progresses, pick up one extra magic tower. This is sufficient to beat the first level.

The second level, Narnijah, starts you off with 100g and a new unit, the armored soldier. Again I start off with one fire tower and later when I have more money I purchase one magic tower and one upgrade for the fire tower. I lost a bit of HP here waiting on the fire tower upgrade but it wasn't enough to ruin me. Seeing as how HP is replenished on each level, I didn't see any need to attempt to end the level with perfect health.

Futland, the third land, begins with 170g and your new unit(s) is the royal soldier. This is the first level where things start to get a little hairy. In fact, it was the only level where things got a little hairy. I tried several different tower combinations to start off with and had little success until I tried starting off with 1 fire tower and 1 magic tower. After trying so many tower combinations, only to find that most of them left me dead seconds after the royal soldiers hit, I knew that I had come across a gem with the fire and magic towers. Magic towers are the only towers besides the ice tower that hits multiple enemies and the fire towers are the hardest hitting tower. These two towers made a very powerful combination that would lead to a pattern that I could use for the entire game. Anyhoo, I started this level off using my gold to build one magic tower with one upgrade. My next tower was the fire tower and I upgraded it as quickly as I could to help take out those dasterdly royal soldiers. Those two towers, each upgraded once, were plenty of power to finish off the level without a second glance. Of course, there is no point in saving money in this game since it does not carry over to the other lands but I wanted to see just how little I could scrape by with on each level.

Land four, Telaroth, begins with 150g and your new units are the knights. The knights ride in fast and will do a good deal of damage to your tower if you let them. The key here is to get them down quick before they come too close. I started this level off with 1 fire tower and 1 magic tower. I upgraded the magic as soon as I had the chunk of change required. Next I upgraded fire because without one upgrade on the fire tower the knights were able to come in and get 1 hit off on the tower before finally dying. I ended this level with one fire tower with one upgrade, two magic towers with two upgrades and an extra 1k gold to do nothing with.

After completing Telaroth, two new lands open up, Beldar and Infiniland. Infiniland is the home of the survival level and the "chance" to go down in Tower of Doom history with your name burned forever into the high score table. Beldar is the fifth land that you will attempt to release your doom spell upon.

Beldar commences with 250g and your new units are the royal knights. These are just like the last knights except now they have pretty armor that protects them from the fury of your tower. With this wealth of gold I started the level off by building one magic tower, upgraded once and one fire tower. At some point, someone thought it would be funny to unleash a herd of knights galloping towards your tower. This tower setup cuts it a little close when the groups of knights are sent out. I ended the level with two magic towers, upgraded thrice and one fire tower, upgraded twice. I also got the closest I ever came to losing in the adventure mode, sinking all the way down to 43 hp.


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Land six, Centori starts off with 350g and a new unit, the catapult. This level introduces you to that catapult right off the bat, sending one lone ghost operated catapult towards your tower just to show you how tough it is. After demolishing this first catapult, you won't see another one of these guys for a whole two minutes, just until you start thinking that maybe you never even saw one in the first place. I start this level by building one fire tower, upgraded once and one magic tower, upgraded once. I ended with two magic towers with three upgrades and one fire tower with one upgrade.

Land seven, LionPeak, is the last of the adventure section of the game. This level begins with 400g and no new units, although it does reintroduce the catapult as a new unit. Interpret that as you will. I began this level with one fire tower, upgraded once and one magic tower, also upgraded once. This was supposedly the land of the King and would be the most difficult land to defeat but I found it quite uneventful. I expected maybe a new background with a castle or something but I was left wanting. I ended this level with one fire tower, upgraded once and two magic towers, fully upgraded.

Infiniland, land of the infinite barrage of farmers and soldiers. This King must be very persuasive to be able to send unit after unit to their death and still have an infinite number of humans lined up ready to sacrifice their lives. I am sad to say that I was unable to land myself in the top 25 high scores table. Infiniland has a few surprises in store for you. If you are able to make it to the six minute mark then you will enjoy units that become increasingly harder as time passes and also units that slow for a shorter duration of time. I was only able to make it to the eight minute mark so I do not know if there are any more surprises in store for those who are able to survive longer.

I enjoyed this game from the start. From the music and sounds, to the amusing way the villagers fell onto their backs as they died defending their land, it was a delightful game. I was disappointed at the lack of actual doom spell realization. I was hoping that when I "cast" the doom spell I would expel a large mushroom cloud of, well, doom, that would kill the rest of the farmers and soldiers left on the screen. Instead, I received a nice little pop up message that let me know I had lived long enough to cast doom upon the poor people of the land. Also, once I discovered the Holy Grail of fire tower plus magic tower the game lost any sense of difficulty that it once had. I finished all levels with three towers or less and plenty of extra gold to spare. Other than those two cons, the rest of the game was fun and well worth a play through.

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