That’s the core mechanics of the gameplay, but what Bloons does so well is include a ton of towers, erm, monkeys, that have multiple upgrade paths, tons of different challenges and modes, and more. You earn cash for popping these balloons which helps fund placing more monkeys, or upgrading the ones already placed to make them even better. Don’t roll your eyes quite yet, as I made that mistake initially as well. You do this by building towers, each with their own types of weaponry and attacks, though in Bloons your towers are actually different types of monkeys. If you’ve managed to avoid playing a tower defense game previously, the basic goal is to stop the enemies (balloons in this case) from reaching your base on a specific path. Bloons knows what type of game it is, plays into that fact, and is better for it. I thought I was going to be done with it quite quickly, but it’s anything but, as I want to keep playing to level up. While Bloons employs the same base mechanics of placing your towers (monkeys) near a path that the balloons take, tasked with stopping every one of them, there’s a level of deepness and strategy that really took me by surprise. I mean, how can a TD game based on monkeys stopping balloons from popping at their bases, wrapped in a cartoonish visual style, not make you think it’s based more towards kids? Well, you would be wrong, as Bloons is incredibly deep, much more than I was initially expecting. Luckily, Bloons TD 5 surprised me, by quite a margin actually.Īt first glance you’re going to assume that Bloons TD 5 (Bloons for short) is a tower defense game aimed for a younger audience, and I wouldn’t blame you, as I thought the same thing. So while I like the genre, it’s hard to get excited when a new one arrives, as I tend to usually just expect the worst. Truth be told, there are a handful of decent ones out there but they are usually overshadowed by the sheer amount of poor to moderate Tower Defense titles. On console there may not be nearly the amount as on PC, but there’s still a handful to choose from if that’s your genre of choice. This game is not that bad but it could be fixed up just a little but luckily there are a few updates that they release that fix some of the bugs.There’s absolutely no shortage of Tower Defense (TD) games. All there is in the maps that they have different designs and trails for the balloons to go to but other than that, I don’t really see a difference. Personally when I play the game and try out different map difficulty, I don’t really see the difference between the easy, medium, and hard maps. But one thing that I don’t understand why the creators added this on the game is the difficulty of the map. I have to say that the upgrades for the Super Monkey are WAY TOO OP! All it takes is one Super Monkey to take out 100 balloons every 10 seconds and with multiple Super Monkeys, they are unstoppable! The amount of maps they are insane, and they add new maps in updates. The good side of that is that you will play the game more often to get the EXP to level up the monkeys. EXP is used for leveling up the monkeys but since you barely get any EXP for completing a level, you will have a difficult time leveling up the monkeys. You gain very little EXP when you defeat a level. Another issue that I have for this game is that the EXP system is not the best. They can be easy challenges or they can be very hard challenges which add excitement to the game. The amount of achievements, goals, and challenges there are in the game brings more fun into the game. The game also freezes at times which is a little annoying but it would fix its self which would’ve taken about a couple of seconds. The graphics could use a little fix due to the fact that when you’re in a game, the frames tend to drop when there is too much action going on in the game but it’s understandable since this game was made in 2011. The game idea is truly an original idea which is a good job by the creators.
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