Prime World: Defenders 2

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Prime World: Defenders 2

by Aethyna Dec 9, 2018 | 1 Votes | 1 Played | 0 Reviews

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Nival Developed by Nival, Prime World: Defenders 2, an innovative tower-defense/CCG, will have you build towers and cast spells to stop the local creeps from stealing your carefully hoarded “prime” or destroying your prime-mining sites. Will you be able to defend your valuable resource from the relentless creeps? Play Now Similar Games Played Post a Review

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Summary

Prime World: Defenders 2 is the highly-anticipated sequel to one of the most innovative tower-defense/CCG hybrid games available. Developed by Nival, the game is set in the world of Prime where the valuable resource, which is also called prime, has caused much conflict between its inhabitants. In this game, it’s your prime directive to safeguard your stash of prime and your prime-mining sites from being overrun and destroyed by the local creatures, the aggressive creeps. Build towers, cast spells, and defeat powerful bosses in this brilliant Prime World: Defenders’ sequel!

Plotline

Prime World: Defenders 2 is set in the fantasy world of Prime where “prime” is a very valuable resource – enough to make various creatures across the world to fight for it. This particular game is set in a prime-rich area called the Primezone. However, the area is inhabited by a lot of creeps and it now falls on you to clear the place so that you can collect all the precious prime.

Gameplay

Prime World: Defenders 2 is very similar in gameplay as to the original. However, in the off-chance where you’re not familiar with the original, the game does provide a helpful tutorial to guide you through the basics.

Generally, your goal is to stop the waves of creeps from reaching the end-point, which could be a stash of prime you’ve collected or your mining base. The base will lose health for every creep that got through but in order for the creeps to steal your prime, they will have to carry the prime orbs from your stash to their base. This little change provides a certain level of variety to each level in the game.

Each of the levels you play provides you with a grid-based map where there are specifically-marked grids for you to place your towers. The grids can be quite restrictive, forcing you to really think and strategize your tower placements. That being said, sometimes, there are open areas in the map where you can then place towers to strategically force the creeps to alter their path.

Towers can be upgraded both in-game and out. To upgrade a tower in-game, the tower will need to have gain a certain amount of experience points from slaying creeps. How many times you can upgrade a tower, however, depends on your tower’s card upgrades. Similar to the original, you’ll collect tower cards in this game and fuse them to unlock new levels for your towers. The card upgrades will also allow you to build more of the same towers in a game.

Like most tower defense games, you can build towers while an attack wave is commencing, but in this game, you can actually – and I would personally recommend doing this - pause the game to build or upgrade your towers. You won’t be pressed for time when making tower-building decisions and you won’t accidentally waste your very limited prime on towers that just won’t work.

This little trick works for casting spells too. Aside from towers, you are allowed to cast spells to “sweep up” the creeps that have somehow gotten past your defenses or simply to help your poor towers out. By pausing the game before casting, you can pinpoint the best spot to place your spell to maximize its damage. There’s also a speed-up button and if you click on the next wave (top part of the screen), you’ll be able to start the next wave instantly while netting you a couple extra prime for doing so.

Similar to towers, there is a sufficient variety of spell cards for you to use. Spell card upgrades work in a similar manner as tower cards, and this unfortunately also means that you can only use a spell for a very specific number of times.

Not to mention, you can’t bring all your towers and spells to battle in Prime World: Defenders 2. Depending on your level and how many levels you’ve played, you’ll have between 2 to 6 slots open. Which cards you bring all boils down to the types of enemies you’ll be facing in a level though. For example, it’s always wise to bring the cannon tower if there are creeps that travel in groups in a level.

If you managed to complete a level without any loss of life – you’ll get 20 lives per game, then you’ll be allowed to continue playing the same level on hard mode. This basically means that you’ll be facing extra waves of creeps, all of which are jacked up a bit in terms of their stats just to make the game a lot more challenging. Clearing a level on both normal and hard mode will grant you double the rewards, so you might want to give hard mode a try.

Now, the coins you earn from playing levels can be spent on buying card packs (of 5 cards per pack) at the in-game shop. There are also several card packs and even individual cards (limited choices though) that you can buy using premium currency, Stars. The coins are also needed for you to uncover new regions, and hence, new levels, in the world map.

Every new region you uncover will have a nice reward chest in it. The chest contains 5 different cards but you can only choose 1 for free. To choose other cards in addition to your free card, you’ll need special silver keys. Naturally, these keys can be hard to get unless you’re willing to spend real cash.

Although Prime World: Defenders 2 does not have head-to-head PvP, you can still compete with other players via its leaderboard system. You can also capture special mining areas to earn extra resources. There are a couple of other features which seem to be locked to the free-to-play players, such as different characters to play as, or are locked until you reached a certain, higher level, such as the ship upgrades.

Community

Interestingly, this sequel has a unique SOS Help Me feature which allows you to link your game to your Facebook account. From there, you can then ask a friend to help you clear a level. However, as a player has commented, since the game has made the move over to Steam, it might be more logical for the developers– at least for the PC version of the game - to switch over from Facebook friends to Steam friends instead.

Graphics/ Sound

As a mobile port, the graphics in this game are still pretty good. Most of the game assets are basically the same as before, so the looks and effects would be similar. In terms of sound, the music and sound effects work well to immerse the player in the gameplay as well as in the pretty cool fantasy/sci-fi setting of the game.

Conclusion

Ultimately, Prime World: Defenders 2 is a sequel that seems to offer more of the same. However, the game comes packaged in what many players have called a “pay-to-win” wrapping. There is plenty of grind where there are almost none before, rare tower cards are more difficult to come by, and some fans may be instantly turned off by the microtransactions even though the game’s pretty generous with its premium currency and well… the game’s free-to-play.

So, overall, I’d say that in terms of the actual gameplay, the game is a fun, free-to-play tower defense/CCG to enjoy, especially if you loved the original. It’s definitely a game that’s in its own unique niche genre. Find Games Like Prime World: Defenders 2