Have you not bought PixelJunk Monsters yet?

Jaxel

Jaxel

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There is one major thing that differentiates XBL vs PSN... On XBL, you rarely get experimental games, all it ever had was Braid and Geometry Wars. However, PSN has been a lot more supporting of niche and independant type gaming. With games like Everyday Shooter, Echochrome, Dark Mist, Blast Factor, The Last Guy, Pain, Soldner-X and many more. Sure, if you want retro classic gaming, going with XBL would be the better choice, but PSN offers way more original games; and who wants to pay for classic games on XBL or Wii, when you can play those games for free on ROMs. Now I've bought over a dozen different niche PSN titles and so far there is one that stands above the rest... and for the next two weeks, you can get it for only $5!

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PJM is not your average Tower Defense games... the mechanics of the game make it that way. Instead of controlling your build queue with a mouse and keyboard, you control a character on screen and you walk him around to build things. This limits your ability for speed builds and forces a more Tactical approach to your builds. Not only that, but you can't build anywhere you want, unlike other TD games; you need to use trees as the foundation for your towers, so you can only build where there are trees... and thats where the strategy comes in. Some advanced warning though... PixelJunk is notorious for making their games REDICULOUSLY hard, this game is no exception (although they have just added a difficulty patch, so who knows).


Here's a video of one of the hardest levels in the game to Rainbow (win without losing a single child in the creche)
 
i really love this game. it's just so well done, the music is great, and it gets really challenging (especially the expansion island). it was my first tower defence game, and i totally junked out on it.

everyone should get it now, seeing as it's only 5$. no excuses!!
 
I was wrong... it wasn't PixelJunk Monsters that is $5... its PixelJunk Eden...

PixelJunk Eden is a good game too... but its TOO hard. Its so frustratingly hard. Its really fucking hard. Its ridiculously hard.
 
eden isn't hard at all :p

some of the trophies however are very hard. 50/50 spectra is an easy task compared to collecting all seeds imo and a few other of the trophy requirements.

and to keep on topic, i love towers games, played them since wc3 but i just can;t get into pjm for some reason... i think the pacing is a little slow for my liking and certain little mechanics annoy my such as the way you upgrade towers and the way you have to collect the dropped money >.<
 
This and Everyday Shooter should have been on sale but I ended up buying The Last Guy and Eden since they were on sale. Next time I buy something from PSN I will check out Monsters.
 
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