Monday, March 28, 2016

Game Review: Dungeon Defenders 2 - First Impression


Hello all! Welcome again to another game review.

I think I have played enough of Dungeon Defenders 2 to share my first impression of the game.


Dungeon Defenders 2 is an Co-Op Role-Playing Tower Defense Game developed by Trendy Entertainment with 4 playable classes: Squire, Monk, Huntress,and Apprentice. The game is currently on Alpha stage with minor bugs here and there. This game is available on both PS4 and PC platforms. The game was released in 2015.

This game offers both single player and multiplayer gameplay in which players are being tested on coming up with strategies utilising towers to protect Eternia Crystals from being destroyed by waves of orcs, goblins and dragons.

Quick Question: Dungeon Defenders vs Dungeon Defenders 2?

I have not personally tried Dungeon Defenders but most reviews, I found out that there are mixed feeling regarding both.

Dungeon Defenders:
  • based on longer runs over 1hour-2hours
  • much friendlier for single player mode with insane boost to towers
  • Smaller base
  • Less maps

Dungeon Defenders 2:
  • shorter runs (20-30mins)
  • more co-op based.
  • bigger base to run around
  • more maps 
  • companion features
  • customizable attribute skill spheres for
  •  upgradable loots


Dungeon Defenders 2 is currently free-to-play downloadable from STEAM.

Following are the system requirements which I personally tweaked a little due to personal experience:


Recommended

OS: Windows Vista/7

Processor: minimum Intel (R) Core (TM) i5-3210M @ 2.50 GHz

Memory: 6GB Ram*

Graphics: ATI Radeon HD 2600 or better / NVIDIA GeForce 8600 or better, 1024 MB video memory, with Shader Model 3 support

DirectX: Version 9.0

Network: Stable connection of at least 1.0 Mbps

Hard Drive: 10 GB available space

Sound Card: DirectSound-compatible sound device



If any specs fall below, you will encounter certain degree of lag and delays which may hamper your gameplay a little.

Here are some snapshots of my gameplay.





My Personal Tavern - you can join game, upgrades and do anything else inside your private tavern


COME & GET ME, GOBLINS! 


 Protect the crystal!



First time entering 'Multiplayer'




Multiplayer Town. It's quite huge for Tower Defense RPG




 Booo Yeah!








Throne Room.




SMACK DOWN!




Please give me an awesome kitty!








CARNIVAL MAP,  LET'S ROLL!




This is how DESPAIR feels like...



 NICUH! PURPLE CHEST! (Chest grades: Purple > Blue > Green)



 FINALLY! LEGENDARY DRAGON!



SPIN TO WHEEL RNG-ESUS!



ROAD TO GLADIATOR!



 Weapon Upgraded! Woots



Huntress Legendary Bow!

 


Do note that we can at 1 time own all 4 classes and summon different towers before switching to our desired class and start the Tower-Defense Match.

Overall, I had a good time playing the game. It was extremely laggy for me to be in the public tavern aka town. I usually meet up with my friends, party up and enter Private tavern for our games.

Graphics significantly better than Dungeon Defender. Every map is refreshing and feels not so grindy. Leveling curve is pretty decent (speaking from an experience of owning Lv48 Squire).

Dungeon Defenders 2 is a game of tower-defense hack & slash combat with colourful graphics beautifully refined to its fullest.

If you are bored and looking for something different than usual Grind-Leveling RPG, this is the game for you. Another good feature of the game is that if you mess up your stats, you can reset them at fixed 1.5k gold each time. (Gold is easy to earn).

Hard Mode Maps offer  decent challenge to me which is good as playing with bunch of friends and figuring out how to defend against waves of monsters kinda hype me up.

Another thing to note, the cash shop system does not offer an advantage to players. Cashing in this game is purely unlocking more inventory slots ( you will have enough of slots even as F2P player), cosmetics features and Premium Pets for Cashers.

Join the Newsletter Group in Steam for free 200 gems. As you can see, the avatar and costumes are obtainable even as F2P player. Fret not, and hit the Download Button if you are up for some Tower-Defense RPG gameplay.

That is all for today. Hope to see you guys real soon on my next post. I will be trying out Tree of Saviors starting 29th March for Early Access. Look forward to my reviews on the game! Cheers!


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