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Savage Moon (PS3)

I cannot really make up my mind how I feel about tower defense games. For sure, they can be very satisfying when you set up a perfect defense and watch it go to work. However, these games are limited in what they can present to you and it's hard for designers to get the difficulty right. In my experience, the games in this genre are either too easy, or too unfair. Very rarely do they get it just right.

I feel like Savage Moon is a bit on the unfair side. Success in many of the levels just depends on knowing the enemy patterns in advance. If you do not know what is coming, then it's basically trial and error gameplay, which is not very fun. Nothing like setting up a great defense and then halfway through the level, flying enemies come in with a new path that completely skirts your static defenses and annihilates your base. So now you start the level over again and make sure you place towers in that path to deal with it.

That's not to say I did not have fun with the game. I still enjoy finding out the optimal placing for defenses, upgrading structures, and so on. My patience with the game ran low, but not before I pretty much finished it.