Game Revolution writes: "Ninja Town takes a popular video game scheme that is traditionally rooted in ranged combat and makes it a little-not much, but a little-more personal. Even though a lot of bad, cowardly people seem to use them, I personally don't see anything dishonorable about ranged weapons per se. If you think about it, giving the other guy any opportunity whatever to hit you back is just, well, stupid. Still, there is something satisfying about coming down from your tower and wailing on someone ninja-style… even if the ninjas in questions are almost too calculatedly-cute to handle.
Ninja Town for the Nintendo DS is half hybrid action/strategy game, half blatant marketing ploy tie-in to the nearly limbless, collectable little plushies of the same name. Mechanically, it's a slight tweak of a 'tower defense' game, wherein players knock up huts of various defensive capacities along the path of a road twisting through town-along which march processions of different enemy types. Making the most of available resources, it's the player's job to strategically place said huts in a manner that will most impede the enemy's surprisingly-orderly, parade-route onslaught."
Vgamerz writes: "As we know, licensed games are always a dodgy prospect. Alarm bells start to ring at the very mention of a ‘game-of-the-film,’ and we know they’re in immediate danger of rating high on the crapometer. For this egregious prejudice, I blame Superman 64 and its legacy of awful."
GR - "Tower defense has come a long way since its inception in Warcraft 3. Find out what the best of the tower defense genre has to offer."
Cue "but you didn't include my favorite!" comment: PixelJunk Monsters is the best TD game ever. Fact. :)
I was just going to mention that. PixelJunk Monsters was an absolute blast to play. Even better co-op with someone else. :)
It's there in the "Awesome Tower Defense Games" below the first one(at the end of the list).
Wish Ninja Town would get ported to PC or something.
Edit: Cat, when reading this, I was thinking you'd say just that :P
Castle TD is a freaking grind for crystals to level up, though. And, would love to have an ad free version for $1 or so.
Otherwise, it's got some great challenges with dastardly creep options. What's that? The four zeppelins in a row wasn't hard enough, here's some healers to show up just as you got them down in life!
Lol I'm fealling your pain man at points it makes me wanna slam my phone but I'm hooked and I don't mind the ads but I blocked them so I guess its why I don't mind them lol
It's good to see they remembered Defense Grid: The Awakening. It's the best tower defense game, when I start playing it, I just can't stop. I played many others, including Plants Vs Zombies and Ninjatown, but none gets close to Defense Grid.
StartGame: A volcano erupts near Ninjatown, which brings along Mr Demon and his hordes of devils, who are bent on the destruction of the town.
Great writing, hilarious, and balanced.