Aegis of Earth: Protonovus Assault

Before you buy, this is my impression of the game. You have to manually set the buttons on the configuration menu at the game launcher for your coresponding controller. Also, somehow the game won't even detect left and right trigger button for Xbox One controller. No mouse support, playing with keyboard only is a chore for this game. Don't even bother to buy this game if you don't have or don't want to play with controller only. Frequent crash to desktop on Windows 10, I don't know for the other Windows version. I play it like 5 minutes, it's already crash. I found the temporary solution for the crash. You have to disable or end task any "monitor/keyboard touch application or software" (like TipTap some ppl called them), Gameplay wise, let's just called it RPGTD. Tower defense like game, with some RPG element of progression. Game is kind of interesting and fun to play because of the RPG elements on it and bring some fresh elements to TD game. It's introduce dynamic city defense s...

[H1]Well, it's a terrible port, I think it's a port. But it's actually a really good Tower Defence game with a lot of heart and personality. Oh dear. This one is going to be tricky.[/H1] If it were not for the fact that this game has been ported in such a way that it makes No Man's Sky look competent (and that's a really low bar to set), this would be getting praise from me as possibly the sleeper Tower Defence hit of 2016, it's really "that" good. There's a genuinely brilliant twist on the TD genre that makes it well worth a look, combined with a lot of personality and heart that brings the game to life and actually makes it feel like you're fighting in some kind of "Attack on Titan" anime of sorts. Where your job is to protect a city by maneuvering giant guns on rotating city rings to face off against huge kaijus that are bent on destroying the last vestiges of humanity. But the programmers clearly decided that pressing Unity "Output to PC" *BLAP* was good enough, dumped it out on ...

DONT BUY THIS IF YOU HATE THE FOLLOWING haven't played much so im just gonna list the things that is annoying, -NO MOUSE SUPPORT, EITHER KEYBOARD OR CONTROLLER! -EVEN with controller u have to custom map them -NPC is not fully voice, some speak their entire line, some just speak the first few word and shut up for you to read the rest, this is very annoying for me -very limited camera angling. U spin around ur city, zoom in or out, thats it. no elevation or angle. ANNOYING WILL RECOMMEND FOR PPL WHO IS BORED AND IN NEED OF ANIME-ISH TOWER DEFENSE, the game is still have good design, nice graphics, gameplay is okay

I love this game, it's a great and fun spin on tower defense and it kills me to have to leave it negative review, however Aksys leaves me little choice. They have a dead/unmonitored fake customer support email that as of this review has been nearly 1 and a half months since I requested help and if they were aware of the PC issues of this port,to get absolutely no response whatsoever. I contacted Steam to get a try to flush your cache etc. did all that still no fix, steams final answer, "we apologize but since valve didn't make it there's nothing we can do." Which I think they could, as in keeping trash off steam that's abandoned and unsupported. This is a fairly new game it's not like it's a Good Old Game with the dev/pub out of business etc. Even then GOG will refund in full up to 30 whole days if your issue is unresolvable, but back on topic. I tried looking up the dev to contact for help but they only have Japanese sites unless you read and write fluent Japanese you wont get much...

My conclusion: good game while not properly implanted onto pc. Just one example: there's NOT an 'official' way to exit the game after you start it. No button inside menu nor a dialogue box. So the only way to end the game is to save it first in the 'setting' menu then press alt+f4. It's pretty a new eastern method even for me, a Chinese. But still a good game, especially the designing, which combines the TD strategy with the reaction-test elements(you have to rotate the different circle of towers in time to complete you defence). And since when you have more than one tower in a single line with the same type, those towers will merge into a bigger and more powerful one, it's also very important to make a whole plan at first time. And the RPG elements are also well planted into the game. Each character(more specific, operator of the defence system) has his own personality and skill set while all those skills have different usage when combined with some of others. I won't recommand i...

I had potential, but the achievements don't work and based on what I read in the discussion, Aksys basically slapped the game up, did nothing to improve or change it, and ignores complaints. I admit, besides the only technical issue I personally had was that there's no exit button, but the game has a generally unpolished feeling to me and neither Aksys nor the developer have touched it in three years, so I refunded it. If you can overlook the issues, it's okay.

If you buy this, make sure to try it right away. It might not even run at all... Black screen simulater~ If I EVER find a way to make this game run, I might change the review, but for now... 20ish bucks for a Black screen is not worth it.

I really nice mix of Tower Defense and City Management with a cool gimmick during strikes, if you can look past the technical problems like no exit button and achievements seemingly not working then I'd say it would be a good game to pick up on sale.

TL;DR: slow paced but gradualy exciting anime like and interesting tower defense concept. It's a interesting tower defense concept and it really gives that "Defend the Earth!" anime vibe. The first time a boss showed up I got really excited, it almost makes me fell like I'm inside one of those giant robot against giant monster anime, but using a city instead of a robot. But, just like anime goes, there is as much talking as there is fighting. The beginning of the game is really slow with all the characters introducing themselves. Also, after you get the hang of it the game becomes easy until you unlock new cities to play with increased difficulty, but this is good for those who are slow learners, and also help build up tension for when you finally unlock a stage where you begin to struggle and feel your blood pumping while trying to cope with the new enemies and new attack patterns that catch you off guard. The voice acting is also not that bad but can get tiring after a while consi...

Good game but bloody awful port and barely even considered a rip or copy/paste of the original. To start off things achievements don't seem to work or function so if you place any substance in achievement hunting then just skip this game. Secondly unless you have a controller or just don't like using a controller then this will be basically a deal breaker as there is no mouse support and using the keyboard for the game is a tiring lesson in frustration so you will be forced to use a controller for any sense of consistency. It is a pity that this game or any game for that matter gets such poor treatment as it feels like some faceless suit has just taken the game and slapped it up on the store in the hopes of getting a quick buck and ignoring how it will hurt prospects for any future games these people work on.