Royal Defense: Ancient Menace

In Brief

Royal Defense: Ancient Menace is the third in the Royal Defense TD games and the second time this has been given away two years ago HERE (Oct 1st 2017) where it received a positive 81% out of 31 votes and 13 comments. This time the game has a darker environmental theme. It's similar to the previous two titles (Royal Defense and Royal Defense: Invisible Threat), though it does start a little harder at the beginning of the game because right from the outset you have multiple entry points on each level rather than a single route to content with. thee only warning you get which direction the enemy are coming from is a next wave indicator, which if you click on it right away awards a small amount of gold, the sooner, the more gold you get, but that gives you less time to prepare for the attack. So, you really need to carefully think about where you are going to place your first tower defenses to cope with the various routes the enemy can take.

Introduction:

Become a part of an exciting story based on the Dwarven kingdom's eternal struggle against the Ancient Menace, who only wants to crush the dwarves and claim their territory! To defeat the monstrous hordes, you must construct defensive towers and units and learn to wield powerful spells. All your towers and units have specific stats: Damage, Fire rate, Damage radius, Damage type, as well as various other features, such as enemy slowdown and Damage Over Time. Each level also brings new units and structures to help you fight your enemies. You’ll never be lacking for new and exciting ways of decimating those ancient threats! Build towers, earn money, collect crystals and upgrade your spells – the enemy shall not pass!

Reference accessed HERE. 15th November 2019

The Game:

Defend your lands from the monstrous invasion in the dynamic game Royal Defense: Ancient Menace! Due to the ability to choose the difficulty mode this game is suitable both for kids and adults. The game Royal Defense: Ancient Menace is a perfect time killer that will make you live through the dangerous yet exciting adventure. The hordes of monsters are invading your lands! Will you be smart and strong enough to protect your territory? Two wonderful campaigns are waiting for you: "The Molten lands" and "The Mystery valley". However you need to earn 40 stars to unlock the second campaign. Your aim is not to let the enemies cross the outpost. Build the towers at the sites and use spells to kill the invaders.

For those new to this type of game, the aim of a Tower Defense game is to stop waves of enemies from reaching your castle, fort, stronghold, etc. In order to stop these enemies you need to build towers to attack them. Players need to strategically place different types of towers in order to try and stop all or most of the enemies.

The time for the ultimate battle has come for dwarves in Royal Defense 3 Ancient Menace PC Game. In your key positions you are going to use even cannons - yes, gnomes now can build cannons and set them aside of the magic towers, putting deadly spells across the enemy hordes! Ancient Menace came from the deepest caverns under the gnome kingdom, and only desperate attempts to hold them back are continuing the existence of the Dwarven kingdom. Download full version of Royal Defense 3 Ancient Menace PC Game and destroy enemy waves one by one until no one will left to threaten Dwarven homes!

The game it is all about strategy. Using the right weapons or mix of weapons. Upgrading the right weapons, placing them right, using the spells at the right time. Try, and try again but try something different. This game is such a breath of fresh air in contrast with those games that you simply get gold by clicking your fingers off or doing things in a certain order. And it was the right kind of difficulty - you can get 3 stars on each level it's doable, but probably not the first time you try.

Royal Defense: Ancient Menace has four basic types of towers all up-gradable in two stages. The game includes the typical arrow, cannon, mortar/splash, and the money tower. Though the majority of towers that you will probably build are going to be arrow and/or cannon towers becasue each level only has a limited number of positions you can place your towers, so trying to make to much gold for example isn't of much use if you cannot spend it on more towers. Personally I've always found a mixture of the two main destructive towers are the best formulae for success, the cannot weapons tend to have a longer range and are more destructive, but cost more to build and upgrade, so it's always best IMO at the start of a level to build the cheapest arrow towers so as to get the maximum number of towers built from the limited funds you have a the start, but also, arrow towers are effective against both ground and air targets so you are prepared right from the outset to cope with both types of enemies.

I did notice in contrast to last weeks Royal Defense: Invisible Threat giveaway that there were more grouped hordes of enemies as opposed to a constant stream, which does mean the use of mortar/splash towers can be a lot more useful instead of arrow towers due to their greater destructive power over larger groupings of enemies. However those concentrated groupings made the magic spells/meteor shower weapon less effective because the magic spell/meteor shower which takes up to a minute to recharge only lasts for several seconds at the most and is partly wasted on these concentrated groups as opposed to a constant stream, where the effects of the spell/storm are more effective.

Royal Defense relies pretty heavily on its’ special currency, gems. The gems allow you to purchase more upgrades based on how well you do in a level, with gems being dropped during the level and at the end. Do watch out when purchasing tower upgrades while playing through a level because if you don't have enough gold you can use the gems instead of gold, but gems are better used to improve your towers through the shop purchased upgrades that are permanent rather than buying the temporary tower upgrades, especially as Royal Defense is a little stingy with the gems. It's easy to accidentally spend your gems on upgrading your towers and every level also has a placement that can only be unlocked by spending gems, but I found I could ignore that position most of the time..

If you find the game difficult you can download a couple of trainers for Royal Defense: Ancient Menace HERE and HERE. The former link adds 1000 gold, 20 gems and makes the fort invulnerable, and requires win 7 or above to work. The latter link gives you access to either a 32 bit or 64 bit trainer that gives you the maximum amount of gold and gems plus an infinite number of lives. I haven't tested either trainer, so cannot vouch for them.

Unfortunately the original reference that I referred this to no longer exists. Edited and re-posted by Whiterabbit-uk 16th November 2019

Conclusion:

This is similar to the two previous Royal Defense games. The main thing that has changed is the darker environments. It's a playable game, but personally I've seen far too many of these top down Tower Defense games recently and am becoming a little jaded despite this genre being among my favorites. Still if you haven't played many of these, it is definitely a worthwhile game to download. The graphics are decent and the game play is okay, though for those of you who have played a lot of these top down tower defense games, the game play will be very familiar.

Other Reviews and Videos of Royal Defense: Ancient Menace:

You can read other comments and other issues HERE and see a slide show of around 40 in game images HERE. Also, you can see several in-game videos of game play HERE, HERE, HERE & HERE.

Useful Information not related to today's game giveaway:

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