Defender III

Played this game a while back. Enjoyed it the first time but got tiresome at a higher level, making mistakes and prioritising the wrong upgrades perhaps. Saw an ad and thought I'd have another go, something else to kill the time during lockdown. Who would have thought I'd be missing going to work. Anyway.. Back to the game. Its pretty good, if not repetive at times but you do unlock new modes as you level up. Lets hope I don't make the same mistakes second play through.

The game is good fun. Incredibly grindy, almost too much, but I don't mind that anywhere near as much as the incessant crashing. I've lost hundreds of crystals at this point just trying to complete quests, and hundreds of points in the pvp mode, and the best part: Quests don't track if you don't come out of the battle. Fix this, and I'll change this review, but right now this is unacceptable. It's been far too long since the last update, and it's desperately needed. And give me back my crystals!

Annoying bugs - after upgrading to 2.3.9 no matter how hard I fight in the World Raid, I register no damage and I end up unranked. I could get in the 20-ish in the previous version. The game becomes more and more pay-to-advance. They've made Stage impossible; some upgrades are real-money only (one could almost buy an AAA PC/console game for what they're asking). That's greedy. It was fun to play in the past. Update: the bug previously mentioned was fixed promptly, but I'll remove a star because the last version (2.5.8) introduces the "Battle Pass" feature... something asking you for $19.99. Trying to profit from people's boredom, in these harsh days?