Tower Fortress

Even after having this game on my phone for years and getting a good handle on the controls, the difficulty feels poorly executed and unfair. The bosses, mainly the final boss, are not well designed. They're either tedious and boring or frustrating to the point where success feels like pure luck. This is largely because of their huge health pools (the final boss is especially guilty here) and attacks that are not telegraphed whatsoever. If you didn't get lucky and find a good weapon before the boss, good luck. You'll have to whittle down it's health while trying desperately to avoid taking damage. You WILL take damage. If you did find a good weapon before the boss, you can drain its health in seconds. Honestly I feel like the main issue with this game could be fixed just by giving the bosses better animations where they clearly telegraph their attacks. The final boss is such a ridiculous difficulty spike as if the devs expected you to be some powerhouse by then. The handful of upgrades you get along the way really don't make you feel much more powerful, even if you got the exact upgrades you wanted. You're still largely at the mercy of luck and RNG. Not Nitrome's best work.

If you get damaged near a wall on the levels where a grinder breaks the floors you can get stuck in the wall, other levels too, but rarer. A fun bug is finishing the game while still in the final boss floor, meaning the credits either don’t roll or aren’t visible. Requires rocket gun which will track the enemy generator. You fall to the floor and the game freezes. Last, if you kill an enemy at the same time it kills you (while you are in the air) it will let you spend points to continue, but will not restore your health and you will not be able to move. Very fun game, very few bugs. The getting stuck in the wall is annoying, but finding the others was enjoyably difficult. Five stars.

ADD A SAVE SLOT FOR WHEN YOU EXIT THE GAME, IT MADE ME LOG OUT ON THE FINAL BOSS

I loved this game when I had an android. I still love it, but it’s a little buggy on iOS. I haven’t gotten the audio to work in days, even after restarting my phone, and I just died on my last run because I got stuck on a wall.

When the ad takes longer to get through than each stage, my time spent in game is more being forced to watch an ad then actual game play. I don’t know what happened recently, but this game used to be essentially ad-less with the option to watch an ad to continue a run after losing. My question is why? This is an old game that hasn’t seen updates in years on this platform.

The game itself is very good, but that’s not why I’m writing this review. The game crashes constantly; you turn off your phone and turn it back on? Crash. You accidentally clicked the ad that popped up? Crash. You beat a boss? Crash. This Can be very frustrating when you’re trying to farm gems since a crash doesn’t seem to give you the gems you gathered.

This game was so close to being a one-handed version of Downwell. Even simpler controls that can be played with one hand, lots of color, various outfits… but instead it’s just Downwell but upwards with inferior gameplay and a fresh coat of paint. I know it’s been 5 years, but if the only thing they do is update this game with a one-handed option, this game will have vindicated itself completely.

I looked up Metroid just to see what the App Store had to offer for Metroid and This was the first result. To clarify I love rougelikes like enter the gungeon and nuclear throne (which you should try both of you haven’t) I read it’s little description and saw it was a rougelike so I gave it a try and it is a short but hard game. I will complain that the controls are hard but you will get used to it. As of writing this review I just beat it lot of suits to mix up gameplay I recommend recoil because the laser as a default is really solid. Bosses are challenging and creative you will get an add every level but it’s only like one second and you can skip it nothing to bad overall a good game that you should definitely try remember this is a rougelike and if you die you restart your progression on levels

It’s a pretty good game and it’s really hard which makes it fun but I have one more question please add more health boxes

I bought the premium for this game when it released years ago. Just bought a new iPhone and redownloaded this. I can’t find where to restore purchases. It only has the option to buy the premium. I did that years ago.