Defend Your Castle (Wii)

GameSpot editors' review

• CNET editors' rating: 3.0 stars Good
  Detailed editors' rating
  Overall score: 6.0 (3.0 stars)

• Reviewed by:
  Chris Watters
• Reviewed on: 05/20/2008
• Released on: 05/12/2008
• Originally published on GameSpot: Defend Your Castle (Wii) Review

Released in the first batch of new downloadable games available through WiiWare, Defend Your Castle is an interesting test case for Nintendo's new venture. It was originally released (and is still available) as a free, online flash game, and the WiiWare version is largely the same game despite a total aesthetic overhaul. The gameplay consists almost entirely of grabbing stick figures and flinging them to their doom to stop their mad rush toward your castle. The sound quickly becomes grating, and the constant wrist-flicking is tiresome, but the wacky presentation and frenetic multiplayer action can provide a good bit of fun in small doses. And Defend Your Castle is just that: a small dose of short-lived fun for the low price of 500 Wii points ($5). As test cases go, this one is a moderate success.

Defend Your Castle milks its simple gameplay with castle upgrades and tougher foes, but it ultimately comes down to how fast you can point and flick with the Wii Remote. To defend your castle, you point your bread-clip reticle at a button-headed stick figure and press a button to grab. Then, with a twitch of the wrist, you smash your foe against the ground and vanquish it, or just fling it into the sky and let gravity do the rest. You gain points for each eliminated foe, which you can then spend on castle repairs or upgrades between levels. Upgrades let you convert enemies to your side, where they can man the archery tower, repair your walls, or roll explosive wheels of cap-gun ammunition out onto the battlefield. Each level brings more and more numerous foes that keep coming until your walls collapse under their onslaught.

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