![]() The two other Kingdom Rush titles coming to Nintendo Switch are as yet unannounced. Kingdom Rush: Frontiers will be available for the Switch in the Nintendo eShop beginning February 27,with pre-orders beginning February 13. "Get ready to guide your troops through an epic (mis)adventure as you defend exotic lands from dragons, man-eating plants, and ghastly denizens of the underworld-all with flashy towers, levels, heroes and more goodies to help crush your foes!" But fear not! You will have the help of every frontier's hero and tower to aid you on the perilous adventure," developer Ironhide Game Studio said, in the announcement for the Nintendo Switch port. ![]() "Prepare your tactics! This remastered version is more challenging than ever. Ironhide has also announced that Kingdom Rush gameplay, which was originally tailored to PC and mobile players, has been optimized for Switch controller play. Other announced features coming to the Switch edition of Frontiers include 60 enemies (sandworms, tribal shamans, nomad tribes and "underground terrors," to name a few), boss fights and three different game modes: Classic, Iron and Heroic. The remastered game will also feature eight specialized tower upgrades-like Crossbow Forts and Earthquake Machines-plus more than 80 achievements to test your mettle over three difficulty settings. The Switch version of Kingdom Rush: Frontiers will come with 16 heroes, which are powerful tank characters who can level to gain new abilities as you use them. Ironhide Game StudioĪbilities coming to the Nintendo Switch version include attacks like Reinforcements, Rain of Fire, Chill Wands and nukes, which can be deployed in environments ranging from deserts to jungles-even the underworld itself. But you could spend 50 hours going round and round the London Underground for £1.50 by the same logic.In 'Kingdom Rush: Frontiers,' players must carefully balance multiple tower types to defend against different enemy units. The Android Market description promises 50 hours' worth of gameplay, making Frontier Tower Defence a bargain. The presentation is ugly, the sound is sparse and repetitive, and the graphics, though quite detailed, are too small to make the detail anything other than an annoyance. Underneath the surface lies a solid tower defence game, but it would take a forgiving player to overlook the game's faults. Your avatar frequently blends into the background, and landing on exactly the right spot to set up a tower is a royal pain (the game won’t let you place units on any square not occupied by a tree.) The final frontier? The D-pad and button take up a good quarter of the screen, and the rest of the play area is frustratingly fiddly. Not only would this have solved the control issues, but it would have helped the game’s user interface, which is crowded, confusing, and frustrating. It's not clear why the developer didn’t let you control things from above, as in every other successful strategy game ever. And it would, if you couldn't pause the game and steer the bear with impunity around frozen enemies, collecting coins and building towers. You may think this would add tension to proceedings. The game tries to fit a D-pad and button at the bottom of the screen, and it’s all too easy to blunder straight into the path of an enemy for an instant lost life - and you don’t have many. The problem with this is that the controls are awful. The same goes for collecting coins from the fallen enemies. If you want to construct a tower, you’ll need to send old Bear-face over there to set it up. ![]() So how does Frontier Tower Defense set about breaking the formula? Well, the main issue is its innovation: you’re given a creepy looking anthropomorphic bear to be your on-site builder. Kingdom Rush is a beaut of a tower defense game, with new ideas that make it feel extremely polished and refined. ![]() Kingdom Rush is an instant classic and is guaranteed to turn up on 2012 'best of' lists. When enemies fall, you get coins to build more, perform upgrades, and so on. From the great graphics to the extreme level of detail, Kingdom Rush is a game you cant miss out on Flashmush. The strategy is in cunningly placing them for maximum damage. In case you were unaware, tower defence games involve you placing down static defensive units to keep baddies from reaching your base. I don’t think I’ve done anything to offend my Pocket Gamer masters, but if I had I would consider this assignment a cruel and unusual punishment for my crime.įrontier Tower Defence is a tower defence game that manages to mess up even the basics of the genre with some horrible controls, bizarre design decisions, and nasty bugs.
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