I absolutely love this game! I was going to wait until the 24th to get the US version but decided to purchase it off the Hong Kong store. And guess what? It's all in english! You can also remote play it on the PSP.

A fun, addicting game that has my vote for the best psn game to date. My son and I played 2p co-op for 5 hours straight last night. :D

here's a link to the trailer:
http://www.gametrailers.com/player/29741.html

I played a lot of the flash game Desktop Tower Defense and really like it. Looking forward to see an updated version on my PS3.

I never played DTD. But I did play lots of Towers in War3. I am looking forward to this. I heard Pixeljunk Racers wasn't that great though. I hope they release a demo with it! But if they don't I'd probably buy it anyway. :(

I never played DTD. But I did play lots of Towers in War3. I am looking forward to this. I heard Pixeljunk Racers wasn't that great though. I hope they release a demo with it! But if they don't I'd probably buy it anyway. :(


Pixel Junk Racers was garbage IMO. This game is a must have.

This game is getting crazy. My son and I hit the wall on the 2nd Medium map called "smile". Well, we ain't smiling. You'll all know what I mean when you get the game. I'm sure its some simple tower combo we haven't tried. The damn game is too addicting. ;)

Am I the only one playing this? Post your thoughts of this lil' gem here. Well worth the 7.99 IMO. I need you all to catch up. Need help with medium 2 (smile) level!!!!

No you are not. I bought this yesterday on a impulse and ended up playing it till 2 in the morning. This is the second must have game on psn after super stardust.

No you are not. I bought this yesterday on a impulse and ended up playing it till 2 in the morning. This is the second must have game on psn after super stardust.

LOL. I've never had time fly faster than with this game.

I am going to pick this up tonight. For $8 there is not much chance of buyers remorse.

The list of games coming to PSN that I really want are:

Pixel Junk Monsters!
Echochrome
Super Street Fighter II HD

Now to just find some of these prepaid PSN cards I keep hearing about.

I think this game is great, simple and great

I can't imagine what the hard levels are like. Trying to "rainbow" all the easy levels is impossible for me and i'm stuck just trying to get by the 2nd medium level. I'll be able to sit down with it this weekend to try again.

Online co-op with voice chat would be incredible for this game.

Echochrome


Echochrome does look amazing. It's coming to the US right?

yep... echochrome should be amazing.

yep... echochrome should be amazing.



Etch A Sketch on acid!

Etch A Sketch on acid!

...huh? I don't get that at all.

I bought this last night as well -but haven't played it yet. If I could quell my COD4 addiction for a few hours, this is the game I'll play.

LOL. I've never had time fly faster than with this game.

I know! At first I was like "oh yea its a cute game i'll play for 15 minutes here and there"


2 hours later....


"STUPID SPIDERS ARRRRGH Yet another one slipped past my defenses, why doesnt this bastard dance faster!"


4 more hours later.....


"I'll never get a rainbow :("

I know! At first I was like "oh yea its a cute game i'll play for 15 minutes here and there"


2 hours later....


"STUPID SPIDERS ARRRRGH Yet another one slipped past my defenses, why doesnt this bastard dance faster!"


4 more hours later.....


"I'll never get a rainbow :("

Ya pretty much. Even the easy levels are hard if you're just putting down towers haphazardly.

...huh? I don't get that at all.



Isnt this the stuipid ass game with the stick guy walking around Etch a Sketch drawings. If not sorry. If so come on..... how about a piece of string and a ball of yarn to tie ya over!

Anyone get past medium 2 Smile? My son and I keep getting owned on that level. Those damn lil guys with the force fields.

Anyone get past medium 2 Smile? My son and I keep getting owned on that level. Those damn lil guys with the force fields.


Seem to be into this game .......... is it really that cool or just annoyingly addicting?

Seem to be into this game .......... is it really that cool or just annoyingly addicting?

I do like it. Its both cool and addicting. You'll get frustrated especially if you're trying for a perfect rainbow run (no natives dying). Its 8 bucks. Download it. If you don't like it.....well you're out 8 bucks.

I do like it. Its both cool and addicting. You'll get frustrated especially if you're trying for a perfect rainbow run (no natives dying). Its 8 bucks. Download it. If you don't like it.....well you're out 8 bucks.




worth a shot for 8 big gulps i guess!!

I picked it up on a whim and it was a good purchase. Been playing coop and have beaten up to medium 2

Anyone get past medium 2 Smile? My son and I keep getting owned on that level. Those damn lil guys with the force fields.

Not so sure I want to buy a game that you and your 6th-place-Rock-Band-drummer-in-all-the-world son are having a hard time with! :p

Looks like it might be fun looking game, though! I like the XMB theme you can download for it. It might be time to change my Christmas theme! I did just take the Christmas tree down yesterday, after all. (Yes, on the 25th of January. the kids like the lights, and I'm lazy....what can I say?)

Why do I suck at this game? I've played for approx 6-7 hours and have only gotten a rainbow on the first stage (let the waves begin). I dont much see the point in beating a stage if you dont get a rainbow.

Oh and now thanks to this game and FF Tactics on the psp I now officially suck hardcore at COD4. Great...

I think I'm gonna pick this up. It looks fun and different from the homogenous XBLA games. I'm also betting the my girl can get into this game and play as well as help with strategies :)

Towers do decent damage vs. ground forces
Anti-air do decent for flyers
Arrows are best vs. spiders and do decent against the flyers

Still trying the right mix vs. the shielded ground guys on Med 2. When we think we are doing great, we hit wave 17 and there are way too many of them. I think we need to save the gems for new weapons rather than upgrading towers, arrows, anti-air.

Just got Burnout Paradise in the mail today so Med 2 will have to wait. ;)

Cysquatch: Thinking of getting this game, but am wondering if my 7 year old son will be too young to "get it" and thus be unable to help me coop. What do you think??

!!!!!

You guys are way past me. I can't get past the last level on easy. (the one with all of the spiders). I guess the correct tower placement strategy hasn't "clicked" in my mind yet. Right now, I just place towers and try to upgrade as fast as possible, while collecting as much money as I can.

Should I be spending gems on upgrading or saving them for new towers?

Are the 10% or 15% bonuses worth it?

This game is "fun in a box"!

:)

PLUS......

The game has the option to compensate for over scan!!!!!!

I have a CRT HDTV, so over scan is something I have to live with. Games which allow me to change the screen size (war hawk, pixel junk monsters) get extra stars from me.

!!!!!

You guys are way past me. I can't get past the last level on easy. (the one with all of the spiders). I guess the correct tower placement strategy hasn't "clicked" in my mind yet. Right now, I just place towers and try to upgrade as fast as possible, while collecting as much money as I can.

Should I be spending gems on upgrading or saving them for new towers?

Are the 10% or 15% bonuses worth it?

This game is "fun in a box"!

:)

Spam the entire level with arrow-towers. Fully upgrade to black any that are in the vicinity of your lil' natives. I saved up 14 gems and put a hive near the middle for the extra damage over a very wide area. That will get you through the final easy stage.

I thought I was going to rainbow it but one of the last waves has spiders come from the bottom and go straight for the natives while more came from the top. Half my arrows started firing on the top spiders while the other half wasn't enough to stop 2 or 3 spiders (from below) getting through.

Cysquatch: Thinking of getting this game, but am wondering if my 7 year old son will be too young to "get it" and thus be unable to help me coop. What do you think??

I think he'd like it. The interface is easy enough that you could basically tell him what you want built in co-op or just have him collect coins/gems while you build. Its only 8 bucks. Get it!

Cysquatch: Thinking of getting this game, but am wondering if my 7 year old son will be too young to "get it" and thus be unable to help me coop. What do you think??

If anything, he can run around and dance in front of all the towers and you can coach him from there. You know, make him think taht the dancing is really cool :cool: I be he will have a blast.

Picked this up today and I can't put it down. :D

Thanks guys. I'll be downloading this when I get home from work. Yesterday I went ahead and bought PixelJunk Racers, even though reviews were mixed. I knew he could grasp that game well, and boy was I right! We'd have played all night if I would have allowed it!

Spam the entire level with arrow-towers. Fully upgrade to black any that are in the vicinity of your lil' natives. I saved up 14 gems and put a hive near the middle for the extra damage over a very wide area. That will get you through the final easy stage.

I thought I was going to rainbow it but one of the last waves has spiders come from the bottom and go straight for the natives while more came from the top. Half my arrows started firing on the top spiders while the other half wasn't enough to stop 2 or 3 spiders (from below) getting through.


Thanks! That worked. Only lost 3 babies/kids/small thingys.

My wife and I couldn't put this game down this weekend! It's a lot of fun co-op.

We found that the shock tower (Tesla?), works really well on the shield guys. We placed two right at the entrance and they rarely made it passed our first line of cannons.

This is the only title that has made me want to play it over COD4. It's a great way to break things up a little and not get burned out on COD4. This title has a pretty steep learning curve and gets frustrating at times but just makes me wanna work harder to get the level beat. It's money well spent IMO.

This is the only title that has made me want to play it over COD4. It's a great way to break things up a little and not get burned out on COD4. This title has a pretty steep learning curve and gets frustrating at times but just makes me wanna work harder to get the level beat. It's money well spent IMO.


PJ monsters and FF tactics have made me forget all about COD4.

Its slow moving for me, I restart a level as soon as I lose onenna muh babies!
The last easy stage with the spiders I made to wave 19 and one fo the spiders decided to take a detour into my house, he ate a baby and it was late so I gave up after that.

Fire towers work awesome on shielded guys. Its just trying to save up that much eggs to get it, then having the money to build it.

Heh, I just got PJM, FFT and Disgaea too. Been cutting into my CoD4 time lately.

PJ monsters and FF tactics have made me forget all about COD4.

Its slow moving for me, I restart a level as soon as I lose onenna muh babies!
The last easy stage with the spiders I made to wave 19 and one fo the spiders decided to take a detour into my house, he ate a baby and it was late so I gave up after that.

Fire towers work awesome on shielded guys. Its just trying to save up that much eggs to get it, then having the money to build it.

It's extremely tough call to sacrifice pumping up your towers or get a kick ass new tower. It 's easier in medium rounds to pump and get new towers. I've beat a couple last night but no rainbows. Now that i have the jist of the game I'm going do better on the first levels.

If anything, he can run around and dance in front of all the towers and you can coach him from there. You know, make him think taht the dancing is really cool :cool: I be he will have a blast.
Thanks for the recommendation guys. I bought this, and my son and I played for nearly 5 hours (I know, I know.... Dad of the Year right here, right?) before we just HAD to put down our controllers! It's really teaching him NOT TO QUIT, and that you can learn from mistakes.
Gotta love a video game that helps me teach my son life's lessons.

PJ monsters and FF tactics have made me forget all about COD4.

Its slow moving for me, I restart a level as soon as I lose onenna muh babies!
The last easy stage with the spiders I made to wave 19 and one fo the spiders decided to take a detour into my house, he ate a baby and it was late so I gave up after that.

Fire towers work awesome on shielded guys. Its just trying to save up that much eggs to get it, then having the money to build it.

ahhh fire towers! I'll try that!

!!!!!

You guys are way past me. I can't get past the last level on easy. (the one with all of the spiders). I guess the correct tower placement strategy hasn't "clicked" in my mind yet. Right now, I just place towers and try to upgrade as fast as possible, while collecting as much money as I can.

Should I be spending gems on upgrading or saving them for new towers?

Are the 10% or 15% bonuses worth it?

This game is "fun in a box"!

:)

That was big question for me too. I beat a couple stages and then realized they have to be perfect runs to get a rainbow. In the easy matches: Is it wise to pump towers or go for a powerful tower. My experience was that while going for the upgraded towers I was not killing the oncoming monsters well enough. I was just upgrading the canons and spacing them in a left right pattern to kill the stone guys in the match that doesn't give you coins for killing enemies.

This is the only title that has made me want to play it over COD4. It's a great way to break things up a little and not get burned out on COD4. This title has a pretty steep learning curve and gets frustrating at times but just makes me wanna work harder to get the level beat. It's money well spent IMO.


I agree 100%. I noticed you were playing this for quite a while last night. Once I was too drunk off Pinot Noir to function in COD4, I moved over to PJM. Hella fun. And weird.

Can anyone post some screenshots of this game?

I was looking forward to this game since seeing the trailer and it has surpassed all my expectations.

It is the perfect 2 player experience (local) you can get, and it's incredibly stategic.

I spent the entire weekend with a friend playing this and can't get the damn 7 rainbows to open up the final boards. Anyone get this far? We ended up getting 6, but that was HARD work.

Also, having not played it as a single player game, how is it? I just haven't tried it yet, but I would think it would be much, much harder.

I bought it yesterday and played it for a few hours, pretty fun!

Can anyone post some screenshots of this game?
Try this...
http://forum.blu-ray.com/showthread.php?t=17452

Alright, I've been playing this more and more lately and have some basic questions.

When you upgrade your towers, do they fire faster and/or stronger? I was doing this at first but didn't really notice any change, so I started saving the blue eggs for Mortar and Fire towers, which are fun but expensive.

And what is the best defense against those silly linebacker-looking statue guys? Canons seem to work pretty good, but on later waves they go too fast for the cannons to do enough damage.

Great game. Simple concept, yet difficult and addictive.

Alright, I've been playing this more and more lately and have some basic questions.

When you upgrade your towers, do they fire faster and/or stronger? I was doing this at first but didn't really notice any change, so I started saving the blue eggs for Mortar and Fire towers, which are fun but expensive.

And what is the best defense against those silly linebacker-looking statue guys? Canons seem to work pretty good, but on later waves they go too fast for the cannons to do enough damage.

Great game. Simple concept, yet difficult and addictive.

I know upgrading your towers makes them stronger but not sure if their faster. Saving the blue eggs for better towers is different in most levels. Most times I make towers quick and level them up maybe once on each and then dance at some while saving up eggs half way thru for a fire tower or lazer. The linebacker guys are taken out easier with the cannon. I usually stager them left then right to get hit with one after another. Hopefully after a while you get a flame tower to easily take down their power. Yeah Khowe22 (Myst) I have been spending a lot of time the past two days on this game but I'm going to put in a few hours with COD4 tonight. Even though I've caught the PJM bug!

What's this "dancing" that you guys are talking about?

What's this "dancing" that you guys are talking about?

You can power up towers with eggs that you receive from killing enemies. The towers have a power meter and a flag that changes color when the meter fills up. The egg fills the meter all the way up and changes the flag and standing on top of the tower will fill the meter up as long as your on top of it. But while standing on a tower he sways back and forth.

So you can upgrade a tower just by hanging out in it??

I've been upgrading mine with gems, and then cursing when I run out.

So you can upgrade a tower just by hanging out in it??

I've been upgrading mine with gems, and then cursing when I run out.

Just read a post yesterday about holding L1 so you can see all you towers meters at once to best choose which tower you want to stand on. Helped a lot.

So upgrading them makes them stronger, but for what reason? Stronger defensively, or stronger as in more power/damage done per shot?

So upgrading them makes them stronger, but for what reason? Stronger defensively, or stronger as in more power/damage done per shot?

I seems to hit for more power/damage. I usually place a couple of cannons close to the starting part of the enemies to weaken them before they hit the scattered ones placed throughout the map. Those are the ones I pump up the most.

This game is kicking my butt. I can't seem to get past the first medium stage, no matter what I do. I get to wave 15 and then I get swamped.

So upgrading them makes them stronger, but for what reason? Stronger defensively, or stronger as in more power/damage done per shot?
Depends on tower type. If you stand on the tower and hit x you'll see a different picture depending what the upgrade is , hit o to back out.
Pic of arm making muscle= stronger attack, like for cannon
Pic of tower n circle= greater range, like for arrows
Pic of pencil= I think is a faster attack, like for air targets, towers
Anyone know if having two players dancing on a single tower upgrade it faster then just having one player dance?

Depends on tower type. If you stand on the tower and hit x you'll see a different picture depending what the upgrade is , hit o to back out.
Pic of arm making muscle= stronger attack, like for cannon
Pic of tower n circle= greater range, like for arrows
Pic of pencil= I think is a faster attack, like for air targets, towers
Anyone know if having two players dancing on a single tower upgrade it faster then just having one player dance?

What he said.

Having two players dance at the same tower makes it upgrade faster.

This game is kicking my butt. I can't seem to get past the first medium stage, no matter what I do. I get to wave 15 and then I get swamped.
I finished it by putting cannons on the top treeline and arrows on the lower one of the top path. Get 3 or 4 anti-air in the top treeline and build them up to max. The lower path you can put 1 anti-air and some arrows. Near the village I put 1 cannon and the rest arrows.

The cannons have such a poor range when firing north and they can cover only a small section of the path if you put them in the lower treeline. Anti-air can sit one level back in the forest if you need them to because they have great range.

As for timing, I try to place the first towers where they have the maximum path coverage.

I usually sacrifice a few villagers to the spiders that take the shortcut. I can kill 1 or 2 but some always get through. There are so few who go to the lower path that I don't think it's worth worrying about it. I'd rather spend the jewels maxing out the cannons at the top or the anti-air.

I plowed my way through the shielded beetles but I'm not sure what their weakness is. Anyone know the best way to get them?

I'm kind of shocked that you don't unlock anything except the run boost by the end of the Medium #1.

I was just wondering if anyone has beat the easy#3 where you don't receive any coins for killing enemies? I started by placing 8 cannons staggered on the first trail and 3 anti-air guns and 3 cannons on the back portion with two anti-air. I pump the cannons up the most and one anti-air to the max to deal with flying.

I'm going for a perfect kill for a rainbow and I keep coming up with just one person getting by and ruining my game.

The Sony devs said that the earlier stages get easier once you unlock some of the better towers. Right I've gotten a couple of rainbows but right now I'm just trying to advance and hopefully unlock some more weapons. I hope you don't need rainbows for that.

The Sony devs said that the earlier stages get easier once you unlock some of the better towers. Right I've gotten a couple of rainbows but right now I'm just trying to advance and hopefully unlock some more weapons. I hope you don't need rainbows for that.

From what Ive seen, you have to unlock the towers each round. Ive unlocked the flame thrower a few times and every time I go into a new lvl its locked again.

After attaining 7 rainbows you can travel past that barrier to the other part of the island. So just beating levels doesn't mean you will keep going, you have to get rainbows.

After attaining 7 rainbows you can travel past that barrier to the other part of the island. So just beating levels doesn't mean you will keep going, you have to get rainbows.
But don't you get to use the new towers in the older levels? It would be a lot easier to get rainbows with better towers.

But don't you get to use the new towers in the older levels? It would be a lot easier to get rainbows with better towers.

Having the speed boost helps with some of the early levels.

I just saw this link (http://boardsus.playstation.com/playstation/board/message?board.id=ps3dlgames&thread.id=70811) too on the official PS forums. They are speaking of using laser towers on Medium #1 to get a rainbow. It's weird that he has all of those towers but hasn't beat that stage yet. I must be doing something wrong because I've beat it but don't have any of those types.

Let me throw my name into the ring of "hooked on junk" people. My daughters and I have been playing an hour each evening.

Excellent game.

But don't you get to use the new towers in the older levels? It would be a lot easier to get rainbows with better towers.

If you open a tower does it remain open for other levels? I start out using the three given to you at the beginning of the game and never went around the wheel to see if the other towers are open. And where did you get the boost? I haven't left easy levels until i get a rainbow to progress. Guessing there in the medium levels.

Each level "resets" any previously unlocked towers. You have the start again with your 3 towers. You may get to start with a 4th tower later on (past the medium levels) but I'm not sure. Lot more strategy and longevity in the game when they not let you carry towers over.

We've beaten the medium 2 (smile) level. The secret for those shielded ground guys? TESLA TOWERS. They absolutely destroy them.

We are on the infamous medium 3 (bridge level). This is the level that everyone (namely the 1up staff) is stuck on. My son and I tried it a couple times and gave up for the night.

Cysquatch you have any tips on the level that gives no coins for killing enemies (I think it's Easy #3). Every time i change my strategy I let one monster through on a different kind.

Cysquatch you have any tips on the level that gives no coins for killing enemies (I think it's Easy #3). Every time i change my strategy I let one monster through on a different kind.

I think i gave up trying to rainbow that level. ;) I'll probably retry it though after I get my butt kicked on the bridge level.

Each level "resets" any previously unlocked towers. You have the start again with your 3 towers. You may get to start with a 4th tower later on (past the medium levels) but I'm not sure. Lot more strategy and longevity in the game when they not let you carry towers over.

We've beaten the medium 2 (smile) level. The secret for those shielded ground guys? TESLA TOWERS. They absolutely destroy them.

We are on the infamous medium 3 (bridge level). This is the level that everyone (namely the 1up staff) is stuck on. My son and I tried it a couple times and gave up for the night.

i have a rainbow on the bridge level you need to buy the upgrade for the air weapon put one in the middle of the first group of trees and one at the top where air guys take the shortcut. i used cannons and arrows for the rest.

anyone gotten past the level with only 4 trees??

i have a rainbow on the bridge level you need to buy the upgrade for the air weapon put one in the middle of the first group of trees and one at the top where air guys take the shortcut. i used cannons and arrows for the rest.

anyone gotten past the level with only 4 trees??

Nice! Is that the pink laser beam?

I think i gave up trying to rainbow that level. ;) I'll probably retry it though after I get my butt kicked on the bridge level.

I'm was really close last night and I know what I have to do to beat it. I would post how but I'm a work and don't have the time to type it all. The reason it seems hard is that killing enemies doesn't give you coins, they start you with quite a few and you have to work with what your given. Going for a upgraded tower doesn't work, just upgrade the hell out of the first three.

Nice! Is that the pink laser beam?

yeah thats the one.

I was hoping to use the Lazer beam tower to take out the rock monsters which did absolutely nothing. What beginning creatures does it work against? Flying Creatures?

Edit: Just read it was for flyers.

after you beat the "boss" medium stage you unlock a bomb feature with the square button(it takes 5 gems to plant one). it works well for that one monster who gets past your defense

How about we post specific strategies for each level (ie: easy 1, 2, etc., medium 1, 2, 3, etc.). The easiest way is probably post what you do in order like:

Build 3 cannon towers along the Left treeline
Then build arrow towers, etc.

Would this be helpful at all?

How about we post specific strategies for each level (ie: easy 1, 2, etc., medium 1, 2, 3, etc.). The easiest way is probably post what you do in order like:

Build 3 cannon towers along the Left treeline
Then build arrow towers, etc.

Would this be helpful at all?

Some may consider it helpful. Others may call it cheating. :D:D

Some may consider it helpful. Others may call it cheating. :D:D

I would be on the helpful side of the fence.

So based on the recommendations here, I downloaded this last weekend. What a time demolisher! I'm playing co-op with my wife, and we stayed up WAY too late the first night.

We've got rainbows on all of the easy levels and about half of the mediums. We have one more medium to beat before we move onto the hard levels.

Great game for only $8!

Warning Cheat:







I kept having problems on the medium level "Smily face" untill I figured out that if you put a flame thrower way up by the place they first come out and jack it up to black, it pretty much takes everything out on its own lol

Warning Cheat:







I kept having problems on the medium level "Smily face" untill I figured out that if you put a flame thrower way up by the place they first come out and jack it up to black, it pretty much takes everything out on its own lol


Just so you know, you can do spoiler tags. The tag is [ SPOILER] [ /SPOILER] (without the extra spaces after the opening brackets) and the result looks like:

This is the spoiler.

Useful when you want to leave information like this, but others may not want to see.

So, is there any way to permanently unlock different towers? This game is pretty fun and was just curious to see if I will unlock new towers after a number of rainbows.

i have a rainbow on the bridge level you need to buy the upgrade for the air weapon put one in the middle of the first group of trees and one at the top where air guys take the shortcut. i used cannons and arrows for the rest.

anyone gotten past the level with only 4 trees??

this is how i rainbowed the 4 trees level:

I built an Arrow on the far left tree, 2 Cannons in the middle, and another Arrow on the tree closest to the base. Save gems and money. Upgrade both Arrows to yellow first. You want to upgrade the far left Arrow to Black as fast as possible afterwards, but also upgrade the Cannons to yellow when you have time. Once you have 13 gems, get the Flame tower. Sell the left Cannon first and build a Flame. Repeat with the other Cannon when you enough money. Upgrade the other Arrow to black too. Continue saving gems and buy a Mortar tower. In the later stages, the land units will be reddish and the Flame towers will not do much damage, so replace them with the Mortars. When you come to the final air stage, the fat twirling things, sell your right Mortar and build the Anti-Air tower and fully upgrade with gems. I think that's the last level before the boss, so after that sell the Anti-Air and the 2 Arrows and build Mortars. Upgrade them with gems and sit back. Don't count on getting the highest score with this strategy, but you can prob. tweak how far you upgrade the Mortars at the end to save some gems.

My wife and I bought this game last Thurday or Friday and just rainbow'd the 4 tree level last night. Great game for so little cash. The big key to the tree level is not going for every last coin. You never come close to running out of cash and the time you spend running around is time wasted that you could be upgrading the towers. We only went for the coins when everything was fully upgraded(aka: we didn't have anything else to do and were competing to get the coins, the rest of the time we played tag). We rainbow'd it with 4 black mortars in the end with 9 gems left and about 2k coins each.

Our technique is pretty easy. Tree are labeled numerically starting from the left, like reading a book. So #1 is the left tree, #2 is the middle-left tree , #3 is the middle-right tree , and #4 is the right tree. To start #1: arrow, #2: cannon, #3: arrow, and #4: cannon. The two arrow towers never change until the middle of level 18. Talk about efficent! For the first 5 levels you need to keep all the towers about even as far as upgrades. Priority for upgrading goes left to right, with the 2 cannons never needing to go above purple. You need to have the the #2 cannon red by level 3 and purple by level 5. You should be able to do this without spending any gems, so don't go running for all the coins, just make sure you get the gems. You'll have enough gems to purchase a fire tower by the time the first round of sheilded guys comes in(somewhere around round 10). Put a fire tower in the #2 tree and make sure it is red by the time the sheilded guys get within range. When you put the red fire tower in #2, put another arrow tower in #4 and get them upgraded. There will be a long while that things are fully upgraded and you'll have nothing to do but collect coins at this point. Buy the laser and mortar towers during this down time as well. Even though a bunch of enemies come out with fire sheilds, the fire does weaken them a bit and the 3 max'd arrow towers take care of the rest easily. Don't demolish the fire tower until just before the big fat flying things come out(up around round 14 or 15). As soon as the last round of ground enemies is outside of range before the fat flying creature, build a laser tower in it's place(#2) and max it out instantly with gems. As soon as you are done maxing it out, turn the #4 arrow tower into a mortar tower. As soon as the big fat flying things are killed, replace the laser tower(#2) with another mortar tower and max it out instantly with gems. Get the other mortar tower (#4) upgraded. Things stay like this until the middle of round 18. As soon as the enemies are past the arrow towers in round 18, replace the two remaining arrow towers (#1 & #3) with mortar towers and get them upgraded as fast as possible.

Thanks for the gameplan. This level has been kicking my rear for days! Can't wait to try it tonight with my kids!

I just finished the game. I played it casually, maybe 2 hours a night with a 2 week vacation to Disneyland in there. One of the best 15-20 hour values (for $9.99) I have played in a long time. Takes me back to the earlier simpler days of games like that, the first command and Conquer (and Dune 2 before that). Back before they just got to complicated so they were really fun.


The hardest level I found was I think it was "Hard 2" with the "T" type setup. That level took me a long time to pass.

I finally beat every level, but I don't think I'm masochistic enough to try for rainbows on every level. BTW, I don't know if this was posted yet,but an expansion pack was confirmed by the developer.

Expansion pack?! Awesome! We just got done with the game last night. We have rainbows on all the levels and Hard 2 is the hardest level for sure. Most levels we finished in 400th-600th. But inHard 2 we were 102nd, so I assume most people give up on the rainbow on that level.

Let me just add that this is a real great game....$8 for rather simple play that keeps you coming back. It's a perfect hour-long wind down after work.

So I beat this game and got rainbows on all of the levels (FINALLY!!). I have a question for anybody else who has achieved all rainbows.
Once you get all rainbows, the backgroung scene of the island turns to night time (instead of day time...duh). I have tried going back to some levels but they seem unchanged. Does this night time background affect anything or offer anything new? or is it just there to acknowledge that you achieved all rainbows?
Anybody else got this far yet??

I noticed the same things, but havn't played through it again. I'm guessing it isn't any different cuz they say to keep playing it to go for high scores.

I just bought PJM tonight, and it cost me $10.75. Everyone's saying they paid $8.00. I don't really care about the difference of a couple bucks, but it's currently $9.99 +tax.

What a fantastic little game. I downloaded the demo and had to buy it. It's Desktop Tower Defense on whatever Roger Clemens was injecting. I'm ashamed to admit I spent nearly two hours finishing the first "special" level, after finally figuring out that cannons weren't doing the trick against the spiders. Now that it's 2:58am, I finally had to turn it off.

Nice little game.

I just bought PJM tonight, and it cost me $10.75. Everyone's saying they paid $8.00. I don't really care about the difference of a couple bucks, but it's currently $9.99 +tax.

What a fantastic little game. I downloaded the demo and had to buy it. It's Desktop Tower Defense on whatever Roger Clemens was injecting. I'm ashamed to admit I spent nearly two hours finishing the first "special" level, after finally figuring out that cannons weren't doing the trick against the spiders. Now that it's 2:58am, I finally had to turn it off.

Nice little game.

It was $7.99 "for a limited time" when I bought it. And I didn't have to pay tax.

It was $7.99 "for a limited time" when I bought it. And I didn't have to pay tax.

Oh, I wasn't doubting anyone's honesty, I was just pointing it out for those that might be interested. I'm not sure why I had to pay tax on it (I'm in Ohio), but I did.

Played the demo. Noticed it had two player co-op. Finished the demo. Bought the game. Played with my nephew.

Turned the game off when we couldn't figure out the 4 tree level. Figured I should get some sleep as I had a busy day coming up. Looked at the clock to see if was 1 or 2AM and was shocked to see it was 4am.

Don't think I've had one of those moments in quite some time. Simple yet addictive gameplay.

I just bought this last night. very addicting little game.

PLEASE RELEASE AN EXPANSION PACK!!!!!!!! I need to trash some monsters!

Just discovered the awesomeness of this game yesterday and am totally hooked. I have a question, though. How do you increase your point totals? I'm assuming the rank they show you is for the score on that particular level and I see scores in the 50,000 range at the top of the board for what I am assuming are single levels. How do you increase your score? What is factored into it? I'm routinely getting around 8,000-10,000 on each level.

This game is fantastic. And Remote Play?!?! SWEET!

I'm awful at this game, and I can't figure out why :(

my only complaint is the game is too addicting.... my g/f and I are trying to rainbow every level, I believe we are on medium 5.

The stupid logo at the bottom of the screen could go away also to avoid burn in issues on my plasma.... especially with a game like this were we can easily play for 2 hours straight.

my only complaint is the game is too addicting.... my g/f and I are trying to rainbow every level, I believe we are on medium 5.

The stupid logo at the bottom of the screen could go away also to avoid burn in issues on my plasma.... especially with a game like this were we can easily play for 2 hours straight.

I think they fixed it in the expansion.

Getting rid of that logo at the bottom is also my only complaint.

I'm awful at this game, and I can't figure out why :(

haha its alright man, just keep playing and you will figure it out. I found it pretty easy but I am used to playing TD games, just pay attention to what each tower does to what sort of monster and dont forget to upgrade the towers

The game is made for two players...its not as fun single player.....grab a buddy and the game is hard tp put down

The game is made for two players...its not as fun single player.....grab a buddy and the game is hard tp put down

It is very fun in a co-op setting. But I still find it just as enjoyable in single player as well.

we can't rainbow the freakin' "monsters have no money" stage to unlock the rest of the game. :(

I'll take a spoiler.

we can't rainbow the freakin' "monsters have no money" stage to unlock the rest of the game. :(

I'll take a spoiler.

Haven't done it yet myself, but this guys got a ton of great videos of almost every level: http://youtube.com/user/Delriach

I've only seen bits and peaces though as not to spoil anything. Maybe you'll find what you're looking for there.

we can't rainbow the freakin' "monsters have no money" stage to unlock the rest of the game. :(

I'll take a spoiler.

I can't remember if I had to change anything in the end, but I do remember how the majority of the level was dealt with.

We only used arrow towers

I can't remember if I had to change anything in the end, but I do remember how the majority of the level was dealt with.

We only used arrow towers

Even with the Stone monsters?

Actually, the trick on getting through the one where they don't have money is similar to the trick to getting high scores -- earn interest. In this level, try not building everything at once - save your money and pocket the interest - this will allow you to build a couple of extra towers that you wouldn't have been able to do otherwise.

In general to rack up high scores, you need to maximize your collection of coins and gems. To get the most coins, you need to spend your gems on interest. at first I thought it would just give me a boost in interest for that round, but it is cumulative. After I figured that out, I've gone back and done most of the levels getting in the top 200 or so.

See their website for details: http://pixeljunk.jp/Monsters/page18.shtml

Actually, the trick on getting through the one where they don't have money is similar to the trick to getting high scores -- earn interest. In this level, try not building everything at once - save your money and pocket the interest - this will allow you to build a couple of extra towers that you wouldn't have been able to do otherwise.

In general to rack up high scores, you need to maximize your collection of coins and gems. To get the most coins, you need to spend your gems on interest. at first I thought it would just give me a boost in interest for that round, but it is cumulative. After I figured that out, I've gone back and done most of the levels getting in the top 200 or so.

See their website for details: http://pixeljunk.jp/Monsters/page18.shtml

Good info. I'm going to have to try this tonight because I spent the last 2 nights trying to rainbow the "Prudence Is Key" level and simply cannot do it. One stone guy always makes it through. And the second time the spiders come through - forget it. Not even a chance.

Yes, very good info. I wasn't entirely sure how this worked until now.

Even with the Stone monsters?

The only monster I'm not 100% sure about is the boss at the end. We might have dumped all the towers for mortar towers at that point. Otherwise, yes.

Just bought it tonight for $5. My 4 year old watched me play for quite awhile, he loved it and so did Dad.

Just bought it tonight for $5. My 4 year old watched me play for quite awhile, he loved it and so did Dad.

my duaghter watched me play for about 30 mins, well watched and heard me yell many four letter words. She slowly started to slither away, kinda like Family guy slithers away from stuff.

She thought it was really cool till i explained what i was doing, she quickly said how is that fun, you look like you aint gonna get anywhere??

Im addicted already, but man its not easy atall, easy # 1, what ??. Only by comparison im sure. :(

I just want to say that I love the Hives..I never knew the powers that it had.

Some bugs in Encore prevents me from giving it a "10".

- In two players, if you hit action buttons at the same time, one (first player, likely) will get cancelled.
- I think they modified the sound in Encore. It sounds scratchy and isn't as clear like the first islands.

Can't wait for the expansion pack.

Hey guys, I picked this up and it is really fun and addicting(but it is challenging!).

What are rainbows?

When you complete a level with none of your clan dying.

Sweeeet, looks like Trophy support for this title is imminent along with some other goodies like difficulty settings.
Free Patch info click here
(http://www.joystiq.com/2008/08/11/pixeljunk-monsters-receiving-difficulty-settings-with-free-patch/)

I'm pretty sure I remember some website quoting Dylan Cuthbert of Q-Games saying players will be spared the agony of re-rainbowing all the levels again for the Trophies. They will be awarded for other tasks.

This game is getting crazy. My son and I hit the wall on the 2nd Medium map called "smile". Well, we ain't smiling. You'll all know what I mean when you get the game. I'm sure its some simple tower combo we haven't tried. The damn game is too addicting. ;)


Smile is TOUGH Cookie... I played with my bro and boyfriend for hours (oh PS3 what price you take on my social life).. before we got the hang of it... you really gotta spread out your defenses... and try having one player start at the front and the next start at the middle/end... the spiders are the killer...

just rainbow'd every level including the expansion....on 2p of course :p

how do you get encore? is it through the game?

Best game for the money on PSN IMHO.

Although folks are talking about Bionic Commando as being great too.

Does anyone else have suggestions on how to rainbow the Prudence is the Key level? I have tried and tried on both single player and two player and I can't do it. I tried the suggestion of all bow and arrows, but the large gorilla looking things tend to make it through. I have also tried to use the least amount of money as possible for each level in order to gain interest, different theories with combinations of cannons, bows, and air guns, saving eggs for a better tower versus using to upgrade existing, etc....no luck with anything I could think of.

Any suggestions?

BTW, both of my kids really enjoy playing this game with me. I highly recommend it.

Bump - Help?

We haven't tried again since I got that tip. Maybe we will fire it up this weekend. I'm now a little worried that we won't make it.

Waiting for trophy update before I really get into this game. It's kind of nice knowing there's such a pretty, quality game just waiting on the HDD for me.

Martez: I know there has been speculation about a trophy update, but if I recall the developer said they were seriously considering it, but didnt say for sure.

I am not so sure that it will come around.

Martez: I know there has been speculation about a trophy update, but if I recall the developer said they were seriously considering it, but didnt say for sure.

I am not so sure that it will come around.

Yeah. My personal impression from what they've written on the PS blog and in the comments sections is that they're doing it, so I'll wait around for definite confirmation. It's already purchased and downloaded, it's not going anywhere :) I don't have the time to play it right now either way.

Hopefully that's right! I havent gotten too far into it, most especially cause I SUCK! But I would love to get frustrated with it with the promise of a trophy if I succeed.

*fingers crossed*

Does anyone else have suggestions on how to rainbow the Prudence is the Key level? I have tried and tried on both single player and two player and I can't do it. I tried the suggestion of all bow and arrows, but the large gorilla looking things tend to make it through. I have also tried to use the least amount of money as possible for each level in order to gain interest, different theories with combinations of cannons, bows, and air guns, saving eggs for a better tower versus using to upgrade existing, etc....no luck with anything I could think of.

Any suggestions?

BTW, both of my kids really enjoy playing this game with me. I highly recommend it.

I was the one who recommended using the least amount of money; in fact l went back and played it last week and got 31st place using that strategy in solo. I even used my first 7 gems to buy interest. Of course, it still took me like 10 times to beat it while trying to minimize expenditures. If you have already earned bombs (and aren't really going for rank), you can save your gems and blow up any guys sneaking past - this takes 5 gems.

I found I had to go back to the right side and add a couple of cannons (in addition to the four I make in the second round) for the large group of the big guys - so, for the last round of the big lumbering guys I think I had 6 cannons on the right side and 5 on the left. I also had to make a couple of extra anti-aircraft for the last wave of flying dudes in addition to making the two I have on the top of the right side purple.

i lvoe it when you open up the third island tom tom something...

great replayability. sucks there aren't more than 20 waves. just when you were getting powerful...

how do you get encore? is it through the game?

bump?

Encore is an add on through the PSN. I think it's like 5 or 6 bucks.

Encore is an add on through the PSN. I think it's like 5 or 6 bucks.
$6 for me.

the speed level on encore was fun. I barely got a rainbow on that one haha

Holy Frigging Cow! What an amazing game! Finally got a round to playing this the other day, and ever since I've been playing it exclusively. My wife saw me playing it on Saturday night, and ended up playing it by herself until 3 am two nights in a row! That's a first for my wife with any game for the PS3. Co-op is even better. The two of us cannot get enough of PixelJunk Monsters. We even find ourself discussing strategies when we're not playing! For the first time, when my wife says I'm a loser for getting addicted to these "stupid video games" she can finally include herself in that category! :p

I think everyone needs to buy this game and play it. It hooks you fast. And before you know it, 5 hours go by!

Holy Frigging Cow! What an amazing game! Finally got a round to playing this the other day, and ever since I've been playing it exclusively. My wife saw me playing it on Saturday night, and ended up playing it by herself until 3 am two nights in a row! That's a first for my wife with any game for the PS3. Co-op is even better. The two of us cannot get enough of PixelJunk Monsters. We even find ourself discussing strategies when we're not playing! For the first time, when my wife says I'm a loser for getting addicted to these "stupid video games" she can finally include herself in that category! :p

I think everyone needs to buy this game and play it. It hooks you fast. And before you know it, 5 hours go by!

+1

This game is amazing and definitely pulls in the "casual" gamers too. This is the only game I've been able to get my wife to play and it is definitely addicting. I haven't gotten Encore yet. I am waiting for the Trophy patch first so I don't have to "redo" anything.

my g/f and I are on the last level... tried it once, and have been too scared to try it again! I assume the level on the far left of the screen becomes available after you beat the last level.

My question has to do with the map indicators... thus far we have rainbowed every level except the last one. Several of ur rainbows also show a white dashed circle around the red circle that indicates a stage. Anyone know what that white dashed circle means?

Also, what are your thoughts on using the remote mines? I hope that isn't considered "cheating" as we have had to use them on a few levels.

Also, what are your thoughts on using the remote mines? I hope that isn't considered "cheating" as we have had to use them on a few levels.

I thought the white dashed circles just meant there was something "special" about that level such as limited amount of money such as the Prudence level.

Also, what are your thoughts on using the remote mines? I hope that isn't considered "cheating" as we have had to use them on a few levels.

It's not cheating. It is just a different strategy.

Anyone know of any future updates to this game after Encore?

There's supposed to be a patch with trophy support coming, but no word as to when.

You guys aren't the only ones. This is most definitely a great game for couples.

Does anyone else have suggestions on how to rainbow the Prudence is the Key level? I have tried and tried on both single player and two player and I can't do it. I tried the suggestion of all bow and arrows, but the large gorilla looking things tend to make it through. I have also tried to use the least amount of money as possible for each level in order to gain interest, different theories with combinations of cannons, bows, and air guns, saving eggs for a better tower versus using to upgrade existing, etc....no luck with anything I could think of.

Frick, my wife and I were going CRAZY last night trying to figure this level out! Man, if this is supposed to be the "easy" level, I don't EVEN wanna think about the hard levels! :p

Dug back a bit in the thread and found this:

Actually, the trick on getting through the one where they don't have money is similar to the trick to getting high scores -- earn interest. In this level, try not building everything at once - save your money and pocket the interest - this will allow you to build a couple of extra towers that you wouldn't have been able to do otherwise.

In general to rack up high scores, you need to maximize your collection of coins and gems. To get the most coins, you need to spend your gems on interest. at first I thought it would just give me a boost in interest for that round, but it is cumulative. After I figured that out, I've gone back and done most of the levels getting in the top 200 or so.

See their website for details: http://pixeljunk.jp/Monsters/page18.shtml

I had no idea that there was paid interest in any level, if you saved some of your coins. Great, so now it's not only a matter of what combinations of towers to put out, it's also important when you put them out. Looks like it's gonna be another late night for me and the wife! :D

We get so close to rainbowing this level. On our last run-through only one spider got through! And he was down to almost zero health, too. Me and my wife were jumping up and down watching him get to the end, egging the towers on like we were at a football game yelling "D-Fence!! D-Fence!! D-Fence!!" And then the defense let us down. And we collapse onto the floor, beaten and exhausted. :p

Tough game. But addictive as hell.

Frick, my wife and I were going CRAZY last night trying to figure this level out! Man, if this is supposed to be the "easy" level, I don't EVEN wanna think about the hard levels! :p



It's a tough level for "easy". I haven't been able to rainbow it yet. I decided to move on and try to get the ability for bombs and then see if I can do it then. I think I have eight levels rainbowed on single player and seven on two player (I rainbowed my first level on hard, single player last night).

I am still enjoying the game, particularly when the kids will play it with me.

I need to dig back into this. A couple of people on my friend's list were playing last night and it brought a smile to my face.

Prudence is Key level

This one is very hard. I think we lucked out. At the top trail we put mostly air to air and arrows on the bottom row of trees but put canons on top row. The canons are only effective pointed down.

On the bottom trail we put some air to air and mostly black canons. That got the rock monsters. Black canons.

Just beat the Prudence level by myself!! :D

I have absolutely no idea how I did it, or what I put where....Basically I let the interest add up as much as I could, dropped down two rows of cannons, three air towers, and put down a couple more arrow towers for the spiders...And somehow I got the rainbow!! Once you kill the last wave of birds, cash out your air towers and turn them into cannons. I think that made a difference, too.

Now the only problem is having to do it again later tonight with the wife. :o

Hazzah!

I just finished my last rainbow of all the levels and all the trophies.

This game took up all my game time (which is limited) for months. Can't remember the last time I inched out every ounce of a game like this one.

I suppose I could go back and do it again jockeying two controllers . . . .

quick question.

on the trophy challenges where you have to rainbow a level, does it record it for the island as well? Also if you rainbow a level I take it it doesn't unlock the said trophy unless your doing the trophy version?

Anyone know what the secret ones are. I have 6/14 of the clear level ones.

No, the trophy rainbow isn't linked to the map.

If you google, you can find a list of the hidden trophies.

I just read in Game Imformer that Pixel Junk Mosters is coming out with a new island for the PSP. Wonder if that means it will be on the PS3 as well.

I just read in Game Imformer that Pixel Junk Mosters is coming out with a new island for the PSP. Wonder if that means it will be on the PS3 as well.

I do hope they port it to the PS3 as DLC but right now it is just for the PSP.