At the end of each stage’s lanes is a pirate ship that serves as an addition tower, with the added option of changing the direction it fires in at any point. Pirate Legends even succeeds in bringing some new stuff to the table every now and then. The same applies to PLTD’s heroes, who attack from planes that fire upon a designated area every few seconds. The NPC troops that you can summon in KR are here replaced with a cannon-toting turtle that cannot be attacked by enemies and disappears after a while. This is largely due to how the game twists the way some of the above mentioned elements handle in combat. More importantly, PLTD does manage to make the gameplay feel somewhat different than Kingdom Rush in a few ways. I, however, cannot condemn the game for this, because 1) the formula is strong even in another developer’s hands, and 2) you know what they say about imitation being the sincerest form of flattery. Remove the pirate theme and visuals, and you have all of the same gameplay elements: the four basic tower types, the eight advanced towers armed with powerful skills, the special backup abilities, the purchasable NPC helpers, the in-game currency for buying helpful items, the heroes that assist in battle, the eventual swarms of enemies and the option to upgrade towers and skills using theme-appropriate medals. I was playing Kingdom Rush all over again.Īt first glance, Pirate Legends came off as a blatant, almost shameless clone of one of the most popular iOS tower-defenders around. As I played, I was feeling a strange sense of déjà vu, as if I had played the game before I even booted it up for the first time. Within ten minutes after I started Super Hippo Games’ new tower-defense title, Pirate Legends TD, something began to bug me.
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