![]() ![]() That’s not necessarily a bad thing, but the enemies come harder and faster, and the powerful balloon units seem better prepared to cut through your defenses unless you bring additional help. ![]() That’s important, because Bloons TD 5 seems considerably more difficult than Bloons TD 4. (Provided, of course, you have the gold to place them on the map.) Not only does such an approach allow greater freedom is setting up your levels, but it also allows you to tackle the harder modes with confidence. Such a robust system would run the risk of tedium if you had to unlock these dozens of units with each playthrough, so it comes as welcome news that Bloons lets you access unlocked units once you start a new game. Non-combat monkeys add further spice to such an appetizing serving, such a monkeys who operate farms beyond the battlefields and supply extra money for upgrades and new units. Once you’ve placed them, you can unlock further upgrades by using a specific monkey more frequently, such as an upgrade that morphs your cannons into missile launchers that spread carnage over a wide radius. The balloons themselves benefit from similar variety: you begin with one pop balloons and graduate to balloons encased in metal shells or others that remain camouflaged unless ninja monkeys reveal them.īloon‘s love of diversity doesn’t end with the units themselves. In the earliest minutes you’ll throw simple darts, but by the time 15 minutes or half an hour fly by (and they will), you’ll litter your map with monkeys who can bomb balloons from airplanes or “super monkeys” who can pop them faster than a speeding bullet. Rather than halting running enemies along preset paths with armed towers, you fire at balloons using monkeys with widely different abilities. Much like its predecessor, it doesn’t bring much innovation to the genre, but it makes up for this considerable shortcoming through sheer variety and a fun aesthetic. That’s why it’s so surprising to see Bloons TD 5 rocket so far up to the top tiers of the App Store. The glory days of Fieldrunners and its ilk waned as promising new contenders entered the casual arena, and almost every new entry seems but a variation on the same tired theme. Bloons TD 5 maintains the series’ reputation for fun tower defense, but isn’t without it’s flaws.Īt this point, you could be forgiven for thinking that the tower defense genre ran its course years ago.
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