{"id":323,"date":"2009-04-07T10:27:00","date_gmt":"2009-04-07T17:27:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/andymerrill.com\/blog\/2009\/04\/crystal-defenders-impressions\/"},"modified":"2009-04-07T10:27:00","modified_gmt":"2009-04-07T17:27:00","slug":"crystal-defenders-impressions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/andymerrill.com\/blog\/2009\/04\/crystal-defenders-impressions\/","title":{"rendered":"Crystal Defenders Impressions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"http:\/\/www.chooj.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/crystal-defenders-review-1.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 440px; height: 240px;\" src=\"http:\/\/www.chooj.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/crystal-defenders-review-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a>I&#8217;ve been playing <a href=\"http:\/\/www.xblaratings.com\/component\/content\/article\/36-action\/618-crystal-defenders\">Crystal Defenders<\/a> for the last week or so and I&#8217;m loving it.  Yes, it is another tower defense game, but it is pretty different from the ones I normally play. Every level requires a different strategy. In most tower defense games you find a strategy and you stick with it for every map and level.  In Crystal Defenders you will loose quickly with that strategy.  There are 3 different grouping of maps and each group has 4 levels. All 12 of these levels requires different strategies and units to win.  I&#8217;m about 2\/3 of the way through the maps and the fun and challenge for me has been finding a strategy that works and then trying to improve it complete a level perfectly.  On some of the maps I played through well over a dozen times before I worked out a strategy that works well. If you like tower defense games you should check out Crystal Defenders. It is a very different type of tower defense game that is very challenging but very rewarding at the same time.<\/p>\n<p>If you&#8217;re interested in Crystal Defenders Square Enix has <a href=\"http:\/\/www.crystaldefenders.jp\/na\/index.html\">a great site<\/a> with a lot of information about the characters.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been playing Crystal Defenders for the last week or so and I&#8217;m loving it. Yes, it is another tower defense game, but it is pretty different from the ones I normally play. Every level requires a different strategy. In most tower defense games you find a strategy and you stick with it for every [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[6,29],"tags":[7,5],"class_list":["post-323","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-xbox-360","category-xbox-live-arcade","tag-review","tag-video-game"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/andymerrill.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/323","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/andymerrill.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/andymerrill.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/andymerrill.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/andymerrill.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=323"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/andymerrill.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/323\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/andymerrill.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=323"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/andymerrill.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=323"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/andymerrill.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=323"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}