Corrupted , Boring Wave Defense in Wild Terra Online Universe

Disclosure: This game copy was bought by the reviewer.

I was originally given a code to review the previous game, Wild Terra Online, that left early access earlier in the year. The reason I bring this up is for the express comparison of the assets used in the game, which is mainly pulled from that title. Similar issues were also carried over, like the inability to remove the black borders on the screen and the awkward way your character moves. This time around, the adventure is set in individual levels and features the Huntress, who must help a young wanderer find his sister. Each level has a certain amount of waves you must defeat, but instead of a steady difficulty build up, the enemies swarm out as if the PC was spamming units onto a Age of Empires 2 map. To make matters worse, you need to keep your allies alive, but you have no direct control of them and must utilize precious perk space to force allies near you or influence when they run away. It gets frustrating when you have to worry about yourself not being instantly killed by them dog piling you. You basically get 20 levels blocked off by an artificial difficulty system to prolong the boring gameplay that forces you to just ability spam your way to victory. Some abilities don't activate when pressed (but go into cooldown), the game slows down when too many enemies appear on screen and the localization job leaves much to be desired. I just can't recommend this game at the present moment.