Kingdom Rush 5: Alliance TD

very good

I must say... As much as I love Ironhide Studio and Kingdom Rush, this game was a bit disappointing. Starting with the downsides; having two heroes at once. In all the previous games, you could bring only one hero with you (though there were some stages where a secondary hero that was exclusive to the said stage was featured). To me, this makes the game much easier compared to the previous installments. Actually, I'm fairly certain that this is the easiest game in the entire franchise. Now, this might sound like a good thing, however, most often you don't even struggle and, honestly, there's no fun in that if you'll ask me. No, not at all. Additionally, while heroes themselves are fairly strong, most of their Ultimate Skills are fairly weak. I found only that of heroes that came with DLCs to be strong and useful, but the rest weren't much of a help for me. Additionally, as something I care a lot about when it comes to Kingdom Rush games, is that there wasn't that many extra content, again. In the standart version of the game there are three mini-campaigns, each consisting of three stages. It's not that low, but it would've been nice to at least have one more (do note that this is nothing but my personal opinion, and doesn't really affect my thoughts on the game). Alright, enough with the negatives, let me talk about the things they did right in this game. The best thing about this game, in my opinion, is that we can FINALLY control the units we spawn; Reinforcements or other friendly units spawned by heroes can be manually controled. They no longer stand in the same place in which they were spawned, like in the previous games. The world map looks sick, and fun fact; it's actually set in the southern continent! Right under the ancient city of Elves. Not to mention that there were also many returning characters, towers, and even enemies from the previous games. However, they didn't just take the assets from the previous games and implement them to this game without any changes, almost all of them underwent minor changes to show how they've turned out after years of conflict, which is a nice detail if you'll ask me. In short; It's not a bad game, actually a really good one, however, it could've been so much better.