Samurai Defender is my kind of game. It’s simple to understand, easy to pick up and play and has just enough depth to make it really fun to play.
Samurai Defender is a simple defense type action game set in the Warring States period of Japan. You are tasked with defending the castle from approaching enemies.
Doing so is fairly simple and the game is equipped with both touch screen and button controls. With the touch controls you tap on an enemy soldier to aim at them. Your bowmen defending your castle will take care of the rest. As the enemies move towards your castle gate, keep moving the target to take aim and stop them from getting too close.
While you start with just a single bowman on your castle you can upgrade and add more to increase your defenses. Plus you have a number of defense schemes at your disposal. From ninjas dishing out poison barbs from the camouflage of the trees, soldiers rushing out to cut into the onslaught, engineers building barricades to slow down the ambush and more, there are a lot of things you can do to keep your castle safe.
The difficulty in Samurai Defender is evenly balanced, with each level just a bit more difficult than the previous one.
While you can get through the first few levels without much difficulty, the number and types of enemies slowly grow from level to level. If you aren’t using the coins you earn in each level to boost your stats, you’ll eventually come to a point where you can’t progress.
At times the enemies will come in waves and you won’t have any chance to mow them all down before your castle walls crumble around you. Spending the coins, or the gold, to boost you defences and improve your schemes is key to defending your castle.
Especially when you encounter a boss battle.
One thing that I tend to love in games is the audio. The audio of a game, including the sound effects as well as music, really make a game. The music in Samurai Defender is very well done and fitting for the game. You know the music in a game is good when you can pause the game and use its soundtrack as background music as do other things, like a video game review.
Samurai Defender isn’t the most complex and deep game you’ll play, but it has just the right level of depth to make it an engaging and enjoyable game.
Samurai Defender is being released on May 21st, 2015 in the Nintendo 3DS eShop by Circle Entertainment. The game is rated E-10 and will retail for $3.99.
