Flash Elemnt TD (Tower Defense) is a very simple game, build towers to defend your town. In fact the gameplay is almost identical to Master of Defense which I reviewed recently.
It's a very simple game but it drew me in very quickly. (hint - get the fire tower as early as possible). The graphics are ripped from Warcraft 3, which is also the game that inspired the gameplay, but this doesn't get in the way of a very enjoyable game. The author is currently working on a "sequel" which looks rather promising.
Jay Barnson from Rampant Games has recently "deconstructed" the gameplay of Flash Element TD and makes a number of interesting points about what makes the game fun.
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tbh in my opinion the fire towers become obsolete very quickly, they have inferior damage and upgrade costs to the nature towers, sure they look cooler but they arnt particularly useful. maybe buy one early on as they begin much cheaper with more dmg but past that nature all the way
I'm not sure i agree with that. I have had the most success with the fire towers. The earth towers shoot too slowly to be worth using. I guess it's not so bad if you have a lot of them though.
I think I am going to have to play again to see if I can get any further.
um..ya...all you need to beat the game are fire towers. forget water and earth. Buy Intrest first and go with arrow towers. At lvl 14 buy the fire upgrade and then slowly replace all your arrow towers with fires. upgrade as the levels get harder, but try and mass at the beggining. Eventually you'll get to where most of the fires won't do much dmg on their own, but all together, (with intrest) you should be able to win. Here's what i buy :
Lumber Upgrades: Int | Fire | Int | Int |Int |
Strategy:
stg1: Make 1 arrow tower and upgrade.
stg2: Upgrade to lvl 3
stg3: make 2 others
stg4: upgrade them.
stg5: if any arn't upgraded, upgrade now.
stg6: Build cannons, next to arrow.
stg7: just sit back and upgrade the cannons.
stg11: Make sure all your towers are upgraded
stg14:Start replacing your arrow towers with fire towers.
stg21: have all your massed fire towers upgraded to lvl 2 and buy intrest
stg28: have most if not all of your fires at lvl 4 and all your cannons sold.
stg30: this is where it get hard. Save your money and get ready to mass towers like crazy (all over the map)
stg35:Congrats you're 4 levels away from the end game. buy intrest.
stg39: sit back and relax...you won!!!
All in all, you don't have to do much to beat the game, but make sure you never run out of lives...buy when you want. I've had 214 lives left once, thank god thats what i spent most of my money on >..>)
Thank you for reading...
you've done it all wrong. theres a much easier way of doing it. dont make arrows, make cannons. for flying just make a couple of air towers, by the time it gets to the second flying level, you will have fire towers (if you got it). at lvl 35 you will have got all the elements. replace all your fire towers with rocket towers, and put a few fully upgraded waters in there to slow.
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