Crystal Defenders

Crystal Defenders Review

Don't buy this game.

Purchased from the Android Market for the going rate of 600 Yen (~$7.30), Square Enix's Crystal Defenders seems like it could be a premium app, set to appeal to those who desire a higher quality Android game. Fret not! This port of an iPhone title (...or was it an XBLA title? A WiiWare title? A PSN title? An earlier cell phone's title?) is certainly not a top-tier Android release. In fact, of the handful of gaming apps I've played, it's at the very bottom of the barrel!

Crystal Defenders Review

An enjoyable Final Fantasy Tactics themed tower defense game.

Crystal Defenders is a tower defense game that started life on the iPhone and eventually made its way to WiiWare (as Crystal Defenders R1 and R2), Playstation Network (for both PS3 and PSP), and Xbox Live Arcade. The game uses assets and the soundtrack from Final Fantasy Tactics A2: Grimoire of the Rift. While the game is Final Fantasy themed, the end result is a standard tower defense game with one or two unique attributes.

PixlTalk Episode 7: The Retro Revival

It's the seventh episode of our PixlTalk podcast and this time we're joined by our newest staff member, Lukasz Balicki.

As is the norm, we each take turns discussing what we've been playing for the past week, and this week there was a fair amount to talk about. For a list of what games we talked about, see the details bar to the right of this article. We tried to keep it brief, and to avoid boring you to death, we once again dedicated our second segment to a specific topic.

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Crystal Defenders Review

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