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Published by: Sony Computer Entertainment |
By Ionascu Alex
Published: June 2, 2008
Print All of the games are like this, taking one resource, while offering a rarer one. Resources have several levels as well, indicating their quality, and the best of the best are really hard to come by. At this point you may be wondering why the resources are so important, aren`t you? The fact is that when you have a tribe of warriors, some of them are bound to die. If your warriors die, then your tribe won`t exactly be a tribe of warriors any more, will it? Now you`re left with two choices, you can either mourn your fallen warriors and retire from the "God-leading-a-tribe" business, or you can grow new ones. Yes, I know "grow" sounds weird, but your warriors seem to grow like plants, using the resources we were talking about earlier. The better the resource, the better the warrior: the basic level 1 resource warriors are black, while the better ones start becoming purple, yellow, and so on. In the end, your tribe will be composed only of elite warrior-eyeballs that will instill fear into the hearts of your enemies.
You have six different type of Pons, each suited to a special task. The Tatepons are your basic melee warriors, holding back the enemy while your Yumipons and Yaripons take them out with arrows and spears, respectively. The Kibapons are your horse riding eyeballs, that aren`t really good when not in Fever mode (I`ll get to this soon enough, hold your horses, little Kibapons). The Dekapon are your big, fat and ugly eye balls, good in melee, and the Megapon are your other ranged troops that fire sound waves at enemies.
With six different kinds of troops, and a very high diversity when it comes to creating this, I think it`s safe to say that the game isn`t as simple as it seems. The diversity comes from the fact that all your troops require two types of resources to create; different resources for each type of warrior. Using one level two meat and a level one branch will not get you the same warrior that a level two branch and a level one meat would. Add to this the fact that you can only use three squads of warriors on any mission, so you`ll have to change them accordingly, and that each squad has up to six units and it may actually seem overwhelming. Oh, did I mention that you can customize each member of your squads with different pieces of armor, shields, and weapons? Hehe, I just did.
Let`s get back to the actual missions and see what your little tribe will have to go up against. Besides the regular hunting missions, aka farming, that you will have to complete from time to time if you want to train new and better warriors, we have two other types of missions. We have the regular mission, that usually has you fighting the evil Zigotons (aka bad eye balls) and the special boss missions. Bosses are a real challenge and a treat for the eye actually. You will fight dragons, robots, crabs, scorpions and even sand worms, and the missions are replayable, each time the boss getting a higher level that translates into a higher difficulty but also better drops.
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