Crush Your Enemies Review

<p>Strategy games are an odd genre&period; I happen to love them with all my heart&period; However&comma; I will not deny that sometimes they are very&comma; very difficult to access for more casual players&period; Turn Based Strategy games are often like a game of chess&comma; requiring you to think turns in advance to outwit your enemy&period; Real time strategy games require much faster thinking and split second decisions&period; It&&num;8217&semi;s not always something that everyone can really get into&period; Sometimes I&&num;8211&semi;even as the strategy buff I am&&num;8211&semi;have great difficulty getting into certain games&period; But what if there was a strategy game that took away the needless complexities of most games&comma; stripping things down to very basic and easy to understand mechanics&comma; while still maintaining a sizable amount of strategy and planning&quest; Well&comma; that&&num;8217&semi;s where <em>Crush Your Enemies<&sol;em> comes in&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><em>Crush Your Enemies<&sol;em> is a real time strategy game that focuses less on long&comma; thought out plans and more on the idea of &&num;8220&semi;How quickly can I absolutely decimate the opposing force&quest;&&num;8221&semi; Levels are small and are typically over in a matter of a few minutes&comma; and in rare cases&comma; under a minute&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<figure style&equals;"width&colon; 1736px" class&equals;"wp-caption aligncenter"><img src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;i&period;gyazo&period;com&sol;151f40403fbbca827da7e7d2d02a2218&period;jpg" alt&equals;"crush your enemies 1" width&equals;"1736" height&equals;"979" &sol;><figcaption class&equals;"wp-caption-text">&lpar;<em>Crush Your Enemies<&sol;em>&comma; Gambitious Digital Entertainment&rpar;<&sol;figcaption><&sol;figure>&NewLine;<p>The game follows the adventures of a clan of foul mouthed barbarians who seem to be walking <em>Conan<&sol;em> jokes&period; Before even playing you&&num;8217&semi;ll be immediately entertained with the crass and ridiculous writing that mixes medieval and modern cultures&period; 90&percnt; of the game&&num;8217&semi;s humor stems from &&num;8220&semi;What new insult can we make up next&quest;&&num;8221&semi; And that isn&&num;8217&semi;t necessarily a bad thing&period; The game doesn&&num;8217&semi;t have any real story&comma; other than the continuing journey of this clan of oafs destroying everything in their path&period; However&comma; it doesn&&num;8217&semi;t really need one&comma; either&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>The actual game starts you on a map screen&period; Initially you&&num;8217&semi;ll only be able to choose what level you go to next&comma; but as you progress more and more side content begins to open up&period; Levels themselves are very small and often have few obstacles&period; You&&num;8217&semi;ll start with a group of units who you must use to capture buildings and <strong>CRUSH YOUR ENEMIES&excl; <&sol;strong><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Your initial units are very weak&period; They can either be used for combat&comma; or they can be put into a recruitment building to generate more units&comma; and they can be sent to unique buildings to upgrade them into different combat units with stronger abilities&period; Up to 50 units can be in one group&period; Got all that&quest; Well&comma; that&&num;8217&semi;s pretty much everything there is to <em>Crush Your Enemies&period; <&sol;em>Later on you gain access to defense buildings and the ability to use items to buff your units&comma; but other than that&comma; the gameplay is simple&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<figure style&equals;"width&colon; 1741px" class&equals;"wp-caption aligncenter"><img src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;i&period;gyazo&period;com&sol;e0e46b11a8ff52edaf82f5d58082cc80&period;jpg" alt&equals;"crush your enemies 2" width&equals;"1741" height&equals;"978" &sol;><figcaption class&equals;"wp-caption-text">&lpar;<em>Crush Your Enemies<&sol;em>&comma; Gambitious Digital Entertainment&rpar;<&sol;figcaption><&sol;figure>&NewLine;<p>Later on in the game&comma; you&&num;8217&semi;ll start finding villages that you can raid&period; Every village you take over will give you some beer after each successfully beaten main mission&period; This beer can later be used to buy the aforementioned buff items&period; <em>Crush Your Enemies<&sol;em> took me by surprise with how much content it introduces&period; I expected it to be the same process over and over&comma; but variety does indeed present itself rather quickly&period; It makes the game fairly addictive&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Each level contains 3 objectives&comma; the first of which is mandatory while the other two are optional&period; These objectives can range from &&num;8220&semi;Capture all enemy tiles&comma;&&num;8221&semi; to &&num;8220&semi;Survive for 3 minutes&comma;&&num;8221&semi; to &&num;8220&semi;Crush your enemies in 1 minute 30 seconds&period;&&num;8221&semi;  Unfortunately I found some of these objectives to be a bit&comma; well&comma; absurd&period; Not in a funny way&comma; but in an impossibly difficult way&period; I consider myself a perfectionist&comma; so you best believe I&&num;8217&semi;m going to riot if I can&&num;8217&semi;t get a perfect rating on every mission&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Sadly&comma; some of these objectives are just too ridiculous to bother completing&period; It&&num;8217&semi;s mostly the combo of the &&num;8220&semi;Crush your enemies within this time period&&num;8221&semi; and &&num;8220&semi;have this many survivors at the end&&num;8221&semi; objectives that do me in the most&period; Often times it requires less skill and more pure luck than anything&comma; and that&&num;8217&semi;s not what I would call enjoyable&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<figure style&equals;"width&colon; 1743px" class&equals;"wp-caption aligncenter"><img src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;i&period;gyazo&period;com&sol;22800def661116cfb7ef59207248e130&period;jpg" alt&equals;"crush your enemies 3" width&equals;"1743" height&equals;"978" &sol;><figcaption class&equals;"wp-caption-text">&lpar;<em>Crush Your Enemies<&sol;em>&comma; Gambitious Digital Entertainment&rpar;<&sol;figcaption><&sol;figure>&NewLine;<p><em>Crush Your Enemies<&sol;em> is very mobile-centric&period; The aforementioned 3 star rating system is proof of this&comma; as well as the fact that the controls are touch and drag based&period; Unfortunately&comma; these controls do not translate well to PC &lpar;the platform I made the mistake of playing on&rpar; at all&period; The game itself is very&comma; very fun to play&period; However&comma; the controls can hamper it quite a bit due to not being as intuitive for mouse use&period; The gameplay itself can also get stale quickly&comma; and is much more suited towards short bursts &&num;8212&semi; another reason why I would suggest playing this game on Android or iOS&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>So in conclusion&comma;<em> Crush Your Enemies<&sol;em> is definitely an addictive&comma; crude&comma; hilarious&comma; and aesthetically pleasing game &lpar;I love me some pixel art&rpar;&comma; but it&&num;8217&semi;s drawn back a bit by some of its unnecessarily difficult side objectives and its minor inaccessibility on PC as opposed to mobile&period; However&comma; I definitely think it&&num;8217&semi;s worth the price if you&&num;8217&semi;re a fan of real time strategy and you&&num;8217&semi;re looking for something a bit less complicated to try out&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>If you&&num;8217&semi;d like to try the game out before buying it&comma; a demo is <a href&equals;"http&colon;&sol;&sol;store&period;steampowered&period;com&sol;app&sol;406850&sol;">available on Steam&excl;<&sol;a><&sol;p>&NewLine;<hr &sol;>&NewLine;<p style&equals;"text-align&colon; center&semi;"><em><strong>A PC code for Crush your Enemies was provided by Gambitious Digital Entertainment for the purpose of this review<&sol;strong><&sol;em><&sol;p>&NewLine;