The Mother of all Bloons

03/18/2015

Okay that review title is stupid as fuck so I reaaaally hope you don't mind it at all. It does make sense though, because this IS the first game of the whole "Bloons Tower Defense" series.

In this game, the gameplay is pathetic. You hate TDs? You'll hate how this one is then. I'm not saying that it's purely shit, but it really doesn't have too much to give. You only get 5 towers; Monkey, Tacks, Ice, Bomb and Super Monkey. Each of them got their own style; Monkey is your good-in-all, he just throws darts at balloons and you can upgrade his range and/or piercing output. Tack is like a permanent mine, it "explodes" in a radius when a balloon gets near. Ice is pretty much the good ol' "slower", except this one just freezes a balloon or two and makes them stay there for some time, not a single dart can break a frozen balloon, only a bomb, makes using this tower kind of stupid and useless, but I guess that's what "tactics" means nowadays. Bomb tower is pretty much what it says, it's a cannon that shoots bombs, gives a good explosive radius but is rather slow. Super Monkey is more like "Monkey on Steroids/LSD", because he throws darts extremely fast and can gain an extremely long range, although he can't even pierce unlike the regular monkey.

What do you do? You just put these "towers" and start the round then see how the monkeys or whatever break these ballons. That's it. You get some cash every round win. If a balloon passes, you lose one HP, doesn't matter which balloon as far as I remember.

Yep, it sounds boring and it's probably boring, this game was surely made to be boring for BORED people. It's funny how boring stuff can make you even more bored, yet you keep playing it. We're all masochists.

Do I have to say anything about the graphics? It's an old game, they are terrible. There's simply no idle animation at all, the details are too scarce that the grass makes it look like the most detailed texture in this game. And holy damn, what's wrong with the monkey's attack animation? It looks like he's moving his...Hairy hand penis with no glans or something. That may sound disgusting, that may sound kinky the same way it may look disgusting/kinky. Well, at least it looks kinky so I recommend this for extreme sexual psychos/maniacs, heh. Oh, it gets extra kinky with Super Monkeys.

There's no music so I don't need to review about that. There is sound though (if it had no sound I'd be pissed and I'm sure nearly everyone else too) and it sounds so primitive, by that I mean 2005s Flash Games. You'll mostly just hear the "Pop" sound and that's it, but when you get the bomb you'll also hear some explosives. The sound diversity in here is just so plain that even Bloons Tower Defense 3 has more than this. But oh well.

I wouldn't recommend this game to anyone that's not patient. If you're patient, if you love Bloons Tower Defense, if you love monkeys, if you love darts, if you love the "pop" sound and--Fine I won't say more. The game is not so fun, it's like what I said before, more fun when bored...Kind of.

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