JoshuaJSlone
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Crystal Defenders R2
Has anyone here beaten the last stage? I've seriously spent at least a half dozen hours playing this one and I've gotten pretty good at getting pretty far, but wave 34 kicks my ass. A lot of my earlier wave victories come from the help of time mages slowing things down to a crawl so the rest of my forces have plenty of time to beat on them. Then around comes magic-immune wave 34, and they just waltz on through.
American Popstar: Road to Celebrity
So I got through the rest of this. In the end I can't recommend it to a GAF audience. The music minigames aren't bad but neither good, and the three songs get old fast; this game definitely exceeds the amount of time a normal man can stand to listen to "Hey! You! I don't like your girlfriend! No! Way! Think you need a new one!"
Past that, it's way too linear. There's almost never any question of what to do; they put a big honking arrow to show you where to go. There's never much point in getting off the beaten path. At a few times you gain new ways to make money... but there's almost nothing to spend it on. A few new outfits (increasing your wardrobe by a fifthor so), and cheap gifts as one way to show affection. Making friends with people, which seemed like a big focus of the game, is also pretty pointless. Other than the few times when the game says you need a couple friends or puts a big arrow over someone you're supposed to cheer up, it really makes no difference whether someone doesn't know you at all or is your friend--and the higher levels like "best friend" and "family" seem even more pointless. The characters are just going to stand there, anyway, it's not like what they think of you is going to make a Sims or Fable-like difference.
The game also auto-saves every time you switch from one room to another. This involves watching a percentage bar on the bottom screen while the top screen gives you quotes from people like Leonardo DiCaprio, Miley Cyrus, Hillary Duff, Will Smith, and Madonna. There are a lot of quotes, but you'll save several times more than that.
It's plenty long, though. I don't know if I got an hour for every dollar I spent, but not far off. It's just that there's so little to the gameplay. Not that I'm even necessarily against something that's gameplay-lite, but if so I'd have more fun walking my character through it if it was a more interesting story than becoming a high school pop star.
Has anyone here beaten the last stage? I've seriously spent at least a half dozen hours playing this one and I've gotten pretty good at getting pretty far, but wave 34 kicks my ass. A lot of my earlier wave victories come from the help of time mages slowing things down to a crawl so the rest of my forces have plenty of time to beat on them. Then around comes magic-immune wave 34, and they just waltz on through.
American Popstar: Road to Celebrity
So I got through the rest of this. In the end I can't recommend it to a GAF audience. The music minigames aren't bad but neither good, and the three songs get old fast; this game definitely exceeds the amount of time a normal man can stand to listen to "Hey! You! I don't like your girlfriend! No! Way! Think you need a new one!"
Past that, it's way too linear. There's almost never any question of what to do; they put a big honking arrow to show you where to go. There's never much point in getting off the beaten path. At a few times you gain new ways to make money... but there's almost nothing to spend it on. A few new outfits (increasing your wardrobe by a fifthor so), and cheap gifts as one way to show affection. Making friends with people, which seemed like a big focus of the game, is also pretty pointless. Other than the few times when the game says you need a couple friends or puts a big arrow over someone you're supposed to cheer up, it really makes no difference whether someone doesn't know you at all or is your friend--and the higher levels like "best friend" and "family" seem even more pointless. The characters are just going to stand there, anyway, it's not like what they think of you is going to make a Sims or Fable-like difference.
The game also auto-saves every time you switch from one room to another. This involves watching a percentage bar on the bottom screen while the top screen gives you quotes from people like Leonardo DiCaprio, Miley Cyrus, Hillary Duff, Will Smith, and Madonna. There are a lot of quotes, but you'll save several times more than that.
It's plenty long, though. I don't know if I got an hour for every dollar I spent, but not far off. It's just that there's so little to the gameplay. Not that I'm even necessarily against something that's gameplay-lite, but if so I'd have more fun walking my character through it if it was a more interesting story than becoming a high school pop star.
