11/24/2018 (0 of 0 found this helpful)

Fun Tower Defense

Dungeon Defenders II is a tower defense game combined with hack 'n slash play, which complements each other well. This is the second game of this game series, and Trendy focused on having micro transactions in this new game. Luckily, they've done it right, you really only need to spend money if you love buying costumes to deck out your characters.

Story:
Dungeon Defenders has never been known for having a good story, and this second game is no different. This is an area Trendy could improve upon to really bring this game together.

Presentation:
The graphics are really nice, very cartoon-like, and an improvement over the first Dungeon Defender game. If you are a fan of this style of graphics, it won't disappoint. Music is also decent.

Gameplay:
Trendy, after many rounds of...

Rating of
3.5/5 

07/17/2018 (1 of 1 found this helpful)

Protean Shifted in the Right Direction

Last Summer, in 2017, the MJ Crew first took a stab at “Dungeon Defenders 2” (“DD2”) because Nick simply couldn’t hold-out any longer and wait for the game to come out of Steam Early Access. What we experienced was a rollercoaster of highs and lows, with Trendy Entertainment, the Indie dev behind the ‘Dungeon Defenders’IP, absolutely nailing the core gameplay, seamlessly blending Hack ‘n Slash RPG and Tower Defense into a whole-better-than-the-sum-of-its-parts… then ruining everything as they brought the game out of a multi-year Early Access period with sweeping, misbegotten overhauls that broke the balance, ruined the difficulty curve, and hid important pieces of information from players for no good reason. At the time, I published a review noting that Trendy had a repu...

Rating of
4/5